The Ottawa-Carleton District School Board will be marching in the Capital Pride Parade for the first time this weekend. It’s a great way to send a message to all the board’s GLBT students and staff that it takes their unique issues seriously, but not everyone is happy with the gesture. Amidst a load of the […]
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Slap Upside The Head: Czech President Condemns Canada Over Gay Support
Vaclav Klaus, the president of The Czech Republic lashed out at Canada and twelve other countries for having taken the “unprecedented step” of signing an open letter in support of the country’s first gay pride festival. The letter, which was signed by diplomats from Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Estonia, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, […]
Continue readingVirtual Town Hall – What we learned
Well that was a bit of fun, wasn’t it?
Later this week I will post some more information and feedback I’ve received from Saturday’s Virtual Town Hall. Some is purely anecdotal, some is just raw data. From early reaction it sounds as though the Executi…
Continue readingNewfoundland & Labrador Liberal Leadership Town Hall
Stay by the phone. It will call you just before 2pm in Newfoundland and the southern tip of Labrador (NDT) or 1:30pm in most of Labrador (Atlantic Time Zone).
Continue readingSlap Upside The Head: Pride Break
It’s Pride Week here in Montréal—the second GLBT festival of the summer—so I’m taking a short break to enjoy the festivities. A quick thanks goes to my awesome husband for preparing the above picture so that I could take it ea…
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Continue readingLiberal Leadership Town Hall
On Sunday, the Executive Board of the Newfoundland & Labrador Liberal Party will meet to select a new Leader. Given the competing demands of its constitution on the one hand, and a fast-approaching election on the other, the Board vote is the only …
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If you are:
(a) a regular reader of this blog from Newfoundland & Labrador; or
(b) have been following the Liberal leadership race these past few days; or
(c) are actively involved in said Leadership race, or you want to be,
You should keep your Satu…
Continue readingYvonne Jones
Six months ago, in the dead of a winter which blanketed Corner Brook with six-and-eight foot snowdrifts, and on the tail end of receiving chemotherapy treatments for her cancer, Yvonne Jones tried twice to make it to Humber West to hit the campaign tra…
Continue readingSlap Upside The Head: Catholic Sect Threatens Children Over Tolerance Policy
The Coptic Orthodox Church has threatened to somehow withdraw 5000 schoolchildren from the Toronto Catholic District School Board unless the board scraps its plans to implement the government’s required tolerance and anti-homophobia policies. Jeremiah Attaalla, a spokesperson for the sect, explained the bizarre hostage tactics to the press. ”In these young grades, we don’t want teachers […]
Continue readingSlap Upside The Head: Brazil Ponders Heterosexual Pride Parade
The city of São Paulo approved legislation last week that would bring a heterosexual pride day to the city, if the Mayor approves it. Carlos Apolinario, the bill’s sponsor, said the legislation was “not anti-gay,” but rather ”a protest against the privileges the gay community enjoys.” “I have no trouble coexisting with gays as long as […]
Continue readingSlap Upside The Head: Gay Archie Character Gets His Own Series
When I heard that Archie Comics was getting its first openly gay character last autumn, I was floored… that Archie Comics was still around. Not that I have anything against the series, mind you; I just assumed, somehow, that it was like Bazooka Joe, wherein the publishers continually reprint issues created sometime in the 1920s. […]
Continue readingSlap Upside The Head: PR Campaign Uses Gays To Clean Up Tar Sands Image
Well, here’s a very special way to have your struggle for equality used by large corporations! The Alberta tar sands, condemned internationally as one of the most harmful environmental projects in human history, is having some understandable difficulties with its public image. Presenting the sands as an environmentally responsible project or merely downplaying its harm is […]
Continue readingThe Skwib: Hamster Naming Guide, 2008 Protocols
HamsterNamingGuide2009, a photo by lunchbreath on Flickr. I don’t have 2009 or 2010 protocols available to share, but for those of you naming hamsters in 2011: Obvious: Hammy Portly: Kirstie Good: Buddha (also could be used for Portly, if male) Evil: Gehenna Skinny: Imogen Obscure: Thangador I would love to know some of the other […]
Continue readingPlatform pieces
I haven’t even read this yet, so I’ll save substantive commentary until after my yard work is done. But there is a bit of chatter about it on twitter (check #nlpoli). Here’s a copy of the document at the heart of the Liberal platform announcement from earlier this morning:
The Skwib: Efficacy
Efficacy, a photo by lunchbreath on Flickr.
Continue readingSlap Upside The Head: Gay Teens More Likely To Be Homeless
One in four GLBT high school students in Massachusetts are classified as homeless, according to a new study from the Children’s Hospital Boston, published in the American Journal of Public Health last week. Students who identified as GLBT accounted for only five percent of all respondents, but nineteen percent of homelessness. That’s a full 25% of the GLBT-identified sample, […]
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I read all the papers this morning so you wouldn’t have to.1. The National Post of all places, provides a pretty good rebuttal to all those right wing commentators eager to dismiss the tragedy in Norway as the random acts of a madman:His target was als…
Continue readingSlap Upside The Head: Better Late Than Never: Gay Group Gets UN Accreditation
The International Gay and Lesbian Association, one of the world’s oldest GLBT equal rights organisations, has finally won consultive status to the UN Economic and Social Council, after years of trying. The group had actually gained consultative status back in 1993, only to have it taken away in 1994. A bit of a tease, really, but then […]
Continue readingThe Skwib: The 7th Royal Jedburgh Thespian Reivers
The 7th Royal Jedburgh Thespian Reivers, a photo by crowolf on Flickr. In their December 1918 performance of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”, it was generally agreed amongst the 7th Royal Jedburgh Thespian Reivers that the American cavalryman that had bravely volunteered to play the role of Nick Bottom was the cat’s pajama’s but Ned’s stunning […]
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