Reading the rambling discourses of the pundits, you would think that the current outcry against the Senate is easy to solve by simply abolishing the place. If it was that simple, we would have been quit of the foolish waste of money in the last century. What all these pundits
Continue readingA Canadian Lefty in Occupied Land: Review: Dirty Wars
[Jeremy Scahill. Dirty Wars: The World is a Battlefield. New York: Nation Books, 2013.] Though the word “Canada” appears only a handful of times in the book and is not even in the index, this is a book about Canada’s wars in the last dozen years. It is a book
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: Piffle About Taxes
Four years ago, Stephen Harper declared: “I don’t believe that any taxes are good taxes.” We’ve come to expect that kind of piffle from the prime minister. But, Devon Black writes, these days all politicians are singing from the same hymnal: The “Read my lips — no new taxes!” approach
Continue readingOPSEU Diablogue: Kingston mental health cuts: things have changed since 1998
When Ontario last drafted a strategic plan for the delivery of comprehensive mental health services, the Mental Health Commission of Canada didn’t even exist. Today we are still implementing mental health recommendations from Ontario’s Health Restructuring Commission issued in 1998. Much … Continue reading →
Continue readingBuckdog: The Canadian Senate – OPEN THE BOOKS … AND JAIL THE CROOKS!!
Canada’s Conservative and Liberal parties have used and abused the Canadian Senate for their own partisan and personal reasons for decades. The New Democratic Party of Canada has long advocated for dissolution of this unelected, undemocratic, untouchable disgrace of an institution. We’ve always been right about this! Abolish the damn
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: My, My, My
The web blurb for Hello Canada! magazine states the following: HELLO! Canada brings you the latest celebrity & royal news from around the world. This is what graces its current cover: Impoverished indeed are we as a nation* if a minister as consistently and profoundly incompetent as Peter MacKay and
Continue readingMiss Vicky's Offhand Remarks: Comings and Goings: LCBO edition
Well haven’t I been negligent lately. So much going on! Time for a long overdue post on the business comings and goings in the ‘hood, and then we’ll try to catch up on other happenings in other posts. And I’ll do one. I promise. But right now I do need
Continue readingMiss Vicky's Offhand Remarks: Comings and Goings: LCBO edition
Well haven’t I been negligent lately. So much going on! Time for a long overdue post on the business comings and goings in the ‘hood, and then we’ll try to catch up on other happenings in other posts.
And I’ll do one. I promise. But right now I …
Continue readingMiss Vicky's Offhand Remarks: Comings and Goings: LCBO edition
Well haven’t I been negligent lately. So much going on! Time for a long overdue post on the business comings and goings in the ‘hood, and then we’ll try to catch up on other happenings in other posts. And I’ll do one. I promise. But right now I do need
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Law Firm Behind Removal of YouTube Tar Sands Satire Fundraiser Tied to Big Oil
DeSmog Canada recently revealed Andy Cobb and Mike Damanskis – two political satirists in the spotlight for their ongoing spoofery of the Alberta tar sands project – had an Indiegogo fundraising promotional video for their upcoming “vacation” to the Alberta tar sands ordered removed from YouTube due to an alleged copyright
Continue readingwmtc: bradley manning’s apology: the triumph of torture
Earlier this week, Bradley Manning’s defense ended its case in Manning’s sentencing hearing. Manning made a statement to the military court: an apology. Reading it, I thought of 1984, when Winston faces the terror of being eaten alive by rats, and he tells his tormentors what they want to hear.
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: News Flash: REAL Women’s Gwen Landolt Does NOT Condone Executing Gays For Being Gay
Sounds like she’s getting soft. The article then goes on to out you know who. PS. About the term “practicing homosexual”. If you have to practice, does this mean you’re not very good at it?
Continue readingTHE CAREGIVERS' LIVING ROOM - A Blog by Donna Thomson: Moms and Caregivers Are Never Sick, Right?
This morning, there is a medical clinic appointment in my diary. It’s not for Nicholas or my Mom – it’s for me. It’s a follow-up to a scope of my esophagus I had a while back – my family and good friends know that sometimes I have trouble swallowing food.
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: August is Money Month #nlpoli
August is polling month for Corporate Research Associates. In the first 15 days of the month, the provincial government announcement machinery has been running in overdrive. Realistically, though, there have only been 10 working days if you pluck out weekends and Regatta Day,when the provincial government head office in St.
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Gwen Landolt: The Hoggy Homophobe Strikes Back
Uh oh. Bacon Bigot Alert. The ghastly homophobic hog Gwen Landolt is honking again.Claiming it was very VERY unfair to criticize her for attacking John Baird for speaking out for gay rights in Russia and Uganda.Because according to her porcine majesty, LGBT people in those countries are not really being persecuted. The Russian law in question concerns itself
Continue readingCathie from Canada: It was 49 years ago today….
Back in August, 1964, my sister and I lined up at 6 am at the Trivoli Theatre to see the first showing of A Hard Day’s Night.I’m the dark haired girl second from the right, and my sister is holding the LIFE magazine on the left.We never ever thought that the
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 6326…Lisa Robin Kelly Is No More
I swear she was my fave on FOX’s That 70’s Show. She was only on it sporadically coz she had a bit of a drinking problem. That drinking problem killed her. Her agent told ET that “Unfortunately Lisa Robin Kelly passed away last evening…Lisa had voluntarily checked herself into a treatment
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 6325…Stephen Harper Making Beeg Mistake
Mandatory sentences. Especially for drugs. Stupid. So says Eric Holder. Who is Eric Holder you may ask? He is the top cop in the States that is who Eric Holder is. Mr. Holder has been all over the media this week telling you that mandatory sentences have been a tool
Continue readingCanadian Trends: Hope for the best, expect the worst
Star Trek DS9 was by far my favorite Star Trek and mostly due to one character in particular, Garak. He had some of the best one-liners in the series. Garak says in response to be called a pessimist that he is in fact an optimist. “I always hope for the
Continue readingEnvironmental Law Alert Blog: Standing Up for Nature and Democracy in Federal Court
Thursday, August 15, 2013 This week, the latest chapter in Canada’s David and Goliath struggle between citizens and Big Oil unfolded as a BC non-profit organization, Forest Ethics Advocacy, launched a constitutional challenge to new requirements in the National Energy Board Act that have the effect of silencing citizens concerned
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