Things Are Good: Community Canoes to Help Bees and Butterflies
A new initiative in Toronto is trying to help the local ecosystem and bring people closer to nature through canoes. Not by paddling, but by bringing bees and butterflies to the canoes. The core idea is to help pollinators in the city survive by creating little sanctuaries on land using
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Cynical Today? Maybe just a bit.
Light posting week, driving fourteen hours has effectively turned off my synapses. 🙂 Filed under: Politics Tagged: things that vex me
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: Pipelines And Pipe Dreams
Barack Obama has been signalling that the Keystone Pipeline is not all it’s cracked up to be. In a recent interview in the New York Times, he said that the argument that Keystone will be a big job creator is a myth. In reality, it may only produce 2,000 immediate
Continue readingScott's DiaTribes: Byelection Day in Ontario – grading the pollsters polls
Interested political observers and partisans will be looking at today’s by-elections here in Ontario to see what message the voters will be sending the Ontario Liberal government of Kathleen Wynne. I’ll be interested in the results for more then one reason. We have had 2 polling companies – Forum, and
Continue readingmark a rayner | scribblings, squibs & sundry monkey joys: Pallas Athena, Goddess of Wisdom and Nerds
She sprang from the cranium of Zeus himself, a divine thought found form, and a blessing unto the Gods, the philosophers of men, and the City of Athens. She was the goddess of civilization, wisdom, strength, strategy, wit, craft, raffia-worked … Continue reading →
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Sammy Yatim and the City of the Dead
I've now seen all I need to see about the police execution of Sammy Yatim. Almost more than I can bear to watch. And like Rosie DiManno, more than enough to sicken me. I am sickened that a teenager with a small knife, who’d done nothing more hostile than shout profanities,
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Sun Media Shutters Another
Bye Bye Dresden-Bothwell Leader-Spirit! Sun Media needs the money it saves from closing you down to fund the antics of The Monkey King: .@montesolberg and I posing in our swimsuits in preparation for the FreedomCruise.ca #spanx pic.twitter.com/K7qDxaQBmA— Ezra Levant (@ezralevant) August 1, 2013 Apparently they ship out in a couple
Continue readingNorthern Insight: Pushing back on the pushback
Anonymous reader argued through earlier comments that comparisons between BC Investment Management Corporation and Washington State Investment Board are inappropriate “apples and oranges.” The person attempted to justify huge increases in executive compensation because “Much of the compensation is based on results over the past 4 years.” This question was
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Liberal Leadership Videos #nlpoli
Two Liberal leadership candidates are using youtube videos as a way of getting their message out. Paul Antle has a professionally produced introductory video that is also the basis for the first television spot of the campaign. It turned up on Wednesday during the supper hour news. Danny Dumaresque is
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper’s Ugly War on Diplomacy
If you want a simple illustration of where Stephen Harper's sinister Con regime is taking us, all you have to do is contrast two pictures.This picture of Bruno Saccomani, Harper's former chief bodyguard.Who now has his own limo, and somebody to open the door for him, as our new/nouveau ambassador to
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Compare and contrast
The contrast could not be greater.Montreal police spend a full day dealing with a demonstrably-violent mentally ill man who shot at them from a house with 180 guns; they finally subdue him with rubber bullets.A Toronto police officer spends less than five minutes yelling at a potentially-violent mentally disturbed teenager armed with a
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Apology and retraction by Robert MacBain
In Mr. MacBain’s own words, here:
Continue readingTHE CAREGIVERS' LIVING ROOM - A Blog by Donna Thomson: Aiding and Abetting Guilty Pleasures
Tomorrow morning, I’ll wake up early to go see my Mom. I am at our lake house for two weeks of holiday with my husband and I feel badly leaving him here while I go see Mom. It’s going to rain tomorrow and he’ll be at the cottage with no
Continue readingSudbury Steve May: Adding My Voice to the Growing International Call for a Boycott of the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic & Paralympic Games
Vladimir Putin’s Russia has been making grim international headlines lately. Never the sort of bastion of freedom of expression which many in the West hoped it might become after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Soviet “Evil Empire”, Russia nevertheless had taken some tentative steps
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: A Kid With a Utility Knife Gets Mowed Down. In Montreal, a Guy With 182 Firearms Who Shoots at Cops Gets a Non-Lethal Rubber Bullet.
Isidore Havis is a lucky man. He’s especially lucky that he lives in the Montreal burbs, not in Toronto. 71-year old Havis is in a Montreal hospital with a possible broken bone received when Quebec police decided to take him down with rubber bullets. 18-year old Sammy Yatim lies in
Continue readingDefending Public Healthcare: Patent transfer recommendations remains secret
The provincial Ombudsman has followed up on his damning report on the privatized, non-ambulance patient transfer industry. The Mike Harris Progressive Conservative government privatized the patient transfer industry at the turn of the century, moving the work over from Emergency Medical Services (ambulance services). Two years ago, however,
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: The Amazing Big Telecom! Able to flip-flop in a single newspaper!
It’s a bird… It’s a plane… It’s Big Telecom flip-flopping on Canadian policy! In response to Telus taking the government to court to fight rules that would help independent cell phone companies access crucial resources, telecom expert Michael Geist has come out with a new piece revealing the big telecom
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Define "Democratic Reform"
You knew when Harper appointed Pierre Pepperpot to his cabinet as minister for democratic reform, something remarkably undemocratic was bound to follow. And so it has. Pipsqueak Pollivre has struck, opining that the very provinces that forged our confederation need not approve of the most undemocratic government in Canada’s history’s
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