Author: Rick Barnes

This song comes from Jacks words in his letter to Canadians.

Jack died 22 hours ago.  Like many I was stunned.  I thought I had prepared for the news I knew in my heart it would likely come soon.I had my fingers crossed, I guess I wanted him back soon

He was an original. He was there for all of us. A man who …

If you feel the Government of Canada’s support for exporting Asbestos is wrong, and you support the work of Michaela Keyserlingk. She is the widow who lost her husband to Cancer caused by Asbestos. Go here and get a badge like I have at the top of my …

Flower power got two gay men released from jail in 1968.  The Los Angeles police vice squad arrested two men in the Wilmington Gay bar in August 1968.  The police witnessed a patron slap another patron on the rear end. Apparently this was against the…

Look out tea party homophobes!  This could happen to you .

A German group has taken new tech printing on t-shirts to a new level.  The group handed out free t-shirts to a gathering of 600 skinheads.  The t-shirts had a shull and crossbones image and the wording "Rebels Forever."

The t-shirts when washed saw the image fade and a new message appear.  The new message, "What happened to your

Wisconsin voters go to the polls Tuesday to recall six Republican state Senators.

The Wisconsin State AFL-CIO lists some of the dirty tricks perpetrated by the right wing and allies of Gov Scott Walker and his rich buddies the KOCH Brothers1

Am…

A canadian blogger was recently successfully sued for libel. You can read all about the case here.  Now you know it had to be bad when you see what has been written on blogs across the country.  Still, Patrick Ross has run for cover, likely hiding ou…

It was 1976
– A British Columbia Court dismisses the appeal of the Vancouver Sun
against a decision of the Canadian Human Rights Commission’s board of
inquiry that found the paper discriminated by not publishing an ad from
Gay rights group GATE.

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This is a riot. This is fabulous a “recruitment mockumentary, for Toronto’s Gay Muddy York rugby team.  If you ever felt you didn’t fit in, then this is for you.  If you ever felt you missed the gay fashion sense gene this is for you, can’t dance, …

It makes sense. You tell kids they can’t do something, they will try to find a way to do it.  The trouble with the sex negative and abstinence-only education is that kids think of sex as bad and evil.  Its nasty and something to hide.  When they ha…

Has your ballot arrived in the mail?

If not, you might not be on the voters list.

The Liberals’ strategy is focused on reducing voter turn-out. Each and every vote is going to be vital to defeating the HST – your vote could mean the differen…

Canadian Blood Services has an ad in the Village (Jarvis & Wellesley), Toronto’s Gay Village that is.  Are these people that inept.  Its offensive at best to place this ad in the village.  

Perhaps when they allow gay men to donate blood they could think about asking us too.   I suspect if they let us donate they would see a huge increase in the blood supply. 

This ad rubs salt in the wound.

It was shocking to read at first.  Spray your clothes with vodka to take the odour out.  No chemicals and less damage to the environment.  Well, at $23.50 for the cheapest 750 bottle of vodka in Ontario, I think I will stick to drinking it and maybe…

Last night I had some friends over for dinner. I did well with the mix of people, from 24 to 64, we sang songs from Broadway. It was to borrow an old fashioned term a hoot! It went on past the midnight hour finally succumbing to our bodies need for s…

Sober second thought, of what…

A globe editorial said even though Bill C-6, A Bill to force the resumption of postal Services sailed through the upper chamber, the bill received considerable airing.  Let me tell you what happened in the Senate…

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Many of us look forward to four years of fights with the Stephen Harper Government.  They have in the first session so far signaled that they will do what it takes to curb the rights of workers.  They will have many opportunities to do more of this i…

Have you been following the Afghanistan Detainee fiasco in Parliament?  If so the Harper Conservative government today released some 4,000 documents to the media.  MACLeans Magazine is making them available on the web.
They (documents) will be posted…

“They are going to create a monster here, because you will have at the end of the day … an elected body that may or may not be elected, that the Prime Minister may or may not accept the recommendations that come out of an election. It’s going to …

North Carolina man robs store for a dollar so he can get health care in prison for medical problem
"The pain was beyond the tolerance that I could accept," he told the Gaston Gazette. "I kind of hit a brick wall with everything."  With little money to his name and many medical problems, including a growth on his chest, two ruptured disks and an unidentified problem with his left foot, he said the