Today’s the 30th anniversary of the formal adoption of the 1982 Constitution Act and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. A lot of ink has been recently devoted to the Harper government’s non-observance of this day. I could add to this, but instead I’d like to draw your attention to
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Pample the Moose: Happy Charter Day! And the importance of an "s"
Today’s the 30th anniversary of the formal adoption of the 1982 Constitution Act and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. A lot of ink has been recently devoted to the Harper government’s non-observance of this day. I could add to this, but instead I’d like to draw your attention to
Continue readingOn Wrestling, Politics and Other Musings of the Mind's Eye: You Don’t Say… April 15, 2012
I’m not saying the Daulton McGuinty and his minority Liberal government should pack up and go home right now, but he can kiss his long-term political future goodbye if he picks a fight with teachers and doctors. These two groups have strong, militant unions and don’t like being threatened with,
Continue readingOn Wrestling, Politics and Other Musings of the Mind's Eye: Making the Grade: Monday Night Raw, April 9, 2012
It’s time for the weekly Raw review and opinions, but I have decided to change the title and the format. I have discovered that other blogs use the “Good, Bad and Meh” idea, so I’m going for the title “Making the Grade”. Other blogs also use letter and number grades,
Continue readingOn Wrestling, Politics and Other Musings of the Mind's Eye: On Abortion
After reading the post entitled “Why the Abortion Debate is Polarized” on The Scott Ross’s blog ( http://thescottross.blogspot.ca/2012/04/why-abortion-debate-is-polarized.html?showComment=1334114759988 ) and reading the subsequent comments, I got to thinking about my own views on abortion. I consider myself a pro-choice person for the most part and a progressive and I want
Continue readingOn Wrestling, Politics and Other Musings of the Mind's Eye: You Don’t Say… April 10, 2012
I’m not saying that Peter MacKay is a weasel-faced weasel, but if the shoe fits…he admitted over the weekend that he KNEW about the extra $10 billion that the F-35 fighter jets would cost Canadians 2 YEARS AGO!! His excuse? That the extra 10 bill is the fuel/maintanance/crew costs associated with
Continue readingOn Wrestling, Politics and Other Musings of the Mind's Eye: On Recent Conservative Blunders and a good week for the Liberal Party
So, in the last week the Harper Gover…nope, can’t do it…the deceitful big C Conservatives have taken two massive missteps. And after all the bad press over Robogate, these blunders couldn’t have come at a worse time.First of all, it was leaked recently, by Conservative government offices no less, that the
Continue readingPample the Moose: Resign! Or not…
I got rather frustrated yesterday by series of articles reporting on Liberal leader Bob Rae’s demand that Stephen Harper resign over the F-35 issue. My frustration wasn’t specifically aimed at Rae or the Liberal party, but more broadly at our political culture where the first instinct of all of our
Continue readingPample the Moose: Resign! Or not…
I got rather frustrated yesterday by series of articles reporting on Liberal leader Bob Rae’s demand that Stephen Harper resign over the F-35 issue. My frustration wasn’t specifically aimed at Rae or the Liberal party, but more broadly at our political culture where the first instinct of all of our
Continue readingPample the Moose: Resign! Or not…
I got rather frustrated yesterday by series of articles reporting on Liberal leader Bob Rae’s demand that Stephen Harper resign over the F-35 issue. My frustration wasn’t specifically aimed at Rae or the Liberal party, but more broadly at our politica…
Continue readingOn Wrestling, Politics and Other Musings of the Mind's Eye: The Good, the Bad and the Meh on WRESTLEMANIA XXVIII
Wrestlemania 28 Highlights Wrestlemania is the granddaddy of all WWE pay-per-views, so I am going to give it proper treatment. I am going to review each segment and match in order and give it a rating of ‘Good’, ‘Bad’ or ‘Meh’. At the end of my review I will give
Continue readingOn Wrestling, Politics and Other Musings of the Mind's Eye: You Don’t Say… On the Federal Budget 2012
I’m not saying that the federal government alone is responsible for stimulating Canada’s economy, but putting the majority of the burden on businesses is economic suicide. How are companies who are quick to outsource jobs and to make employees “part time” so as to not have to pay them benefits
Continue readingOn Wrestling, Politics and Other Musings of the Mind's Eye: The Good, the Bad and the Meh on Monday Night Raw: March 26, 2012
So, I’ve finally got around to watching Raw from Monday. It was a busy week, but I wanted to watch and review this show since it is the last one before Wrestlemania on Sunday. Here we go: The Good:Daniel Bryan and Kane beat Sheamus and Randy Orton in a very
Continue readingOn Wrestling, Politics and Other Musings of the Mind's Eye: Music Break
This week I am going to bring a voice from the underground to the surface. I’m speaking of the industrial/electronic/metal/punk band KMFDM. They have been around for more than 25 years and have a fanatical following. Wherever there is injustice and political intrigue, this band will be there to voice
Continue readingOn Wrestling, Politics and Other Musings of the Mind's Eye: you Don’t Say… March 23, 2012
I’m not saying that Mayor Ford needs a pacifier, but he sure is acting like a crybaby about this whole LRT vs. Subway thing. First, he threw together some 11th-hour parking fee proposal to try to generate revenue to build and sustain more subway stops. Then he postponed the vote
Continue readingOn Wrestling, Politics and Other Musings of the Mind's Eye: The Good, the Bad and the Meh on Monday Night Raw: March 19, 2012
WWE Raw: March 19, 2012 Apologies for not reviewing the last couple of Raws. Personal matters kept me tied up. Anyway, I’m trying to get this one done in a timely manner. By the way, a link to the entire show is at the top of this post so that
Continue readingOn Wrestling, Politics and Other Musings of the Mind's Eye: You Don’t Say… March 19, 2012
I’m not saying my generation is all talk and a badge, but according to a study in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology Generation Y (people born between 1982 and 2000) talk about politics ad nauseum without actually getting involved. Let this be a lesson to all you bloggers
Continue readingPample the Moose: Robocalls and Voter identification – Department of the Bleeding Obivous
My Facebook and Twitter feeds are filled with variants of this CBC story noting that the people robocalled on election day as part of the effort to misdirect voters to phony polling stations were people who had previously received calls from Conservative campaigns in which they identified themselves as non-Conservative
Continue readingPample the Moose: Robocalls and Voter identification – Department of the Bleeding Obivous
My Facebook and Twitter feeds are filled with variants of this CBC story noting that the people robocalled on election day as part of the effort to misdirect voters to phony polling stations were people who had previously received calls from Conservative campaigns in which they identified themselves as non-Conservative
Continue readingPample the Moose: Robocalls and Voter identification – Department of the Bleeding Obivous
My Facebook and Twitter feeds are filled with variants of this CBC story noting that the people robocalled on election day as part of the effort to misdirect voters to phony polling stations were people who had previously received calls from Conservati…
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