Dead Wild Roses: Canada Day – We still have so far to go.
Canada needs to bring all of her peoples into the light. Respect and remember the past and try to fix the wrongs of our brief history since we now have the capacity to do so. Filed under: Canada Tagged: Canada, Canada Day
Continue readingRecreating Eden: Happy Canada Day, Happy Moving Day
While everyone else relaxes today in the rest of Canada, in Queebec more than a million households will move. Any beer and pizza that gets eaten is likely to be eaten standing up because there are too many boxes to sit down. And if there’s a barbecue, it could very
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Deadly Insecticides Kill Over 30 Million Bees in Elmwood, Ontario, Canada
Richard Hub Hughes-Political Blogger All right this is enough of the death dealing from our chemical companies. In Elmwood, Ontario- Canada, the devastation is frightening in its impacts. Recently in Oregon there was an estimated 25 to 50 thousand bees found dead in a parking lot. Bees are threatened worldwide
Continue readingLet Freedom Rain II: UPDATED! Cast announced for "Being Erica" spinoff" starring Mia Wasikowski as Erica Meekes
The much heralded yet ignored “Being Erica” series, re-tooled to feature the exploits of hapless Harper agent,Erica Meekes is set to debut this fall. Besides Mia Wasikowska, Johnny Depp has been signed to play Justin Trudeau. Jeff Garlin, upon release from jail, has been cast as Stephen Harper. In a brief
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: Juuly 1: awful, awful, awful….
A sample of awfulness is the big international news, “Syrian fighting has cost billions”. Gee! I thought it was being paid for by trading baseball cards. The big, front-page story, so important is was written by Craig Babstock himself, is “RCMP vehicle fleet evolves”. Yessir. Occasionally, the RCMP cars, like
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: Why Don’t People Respect Canada Anymore? Reason #766, Egypt
A huge crowd of protesters stretched along an avenue near the presidential palace in Cairo on Sunday evening If you ever wondered why Canada is losing international respect, here’s a shining example, #766 in fact. The “Harper Government” [sic] is fully addicted to neoliberal economic 1%-ism. Egypt, as we’ve seen
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 6199…Christian Values
This applies on both sides of the border. WFDS
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 6198…God Has A 50K Ask
The helicopter needs rotors. The Dailykos.com tells the WFDS that “Bishop I.V. Hilliard of the New Light Christian Church has his Texas congregation talking after he sent out a newsletter asking his congregation to donate $50,000. Was he starting a food pantry? Working with disadvantaged families? Moving people out of
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: On Canada Day
On this Canada Day, I could write about all of the reasons I am very thankful for having been born and raised in this country. Instead, I will ask whoever reads this to check out The Star’s Tim Hapur, who has a very sound suggestion on how we can best
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Please God, please make Bargnani go away
Is that so much to ask on Canada Day?
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: The Great War and Newfoundland Nationalism #nlpoli
This is a revised version of post that originally appeared on July 4, 2012. ___________________________________ Mark Humphries is an historian at Memorial University. He spoke with CBC’s Chris O’Neill-Yates on July 1, 2012 about the impact of Beaumont Hamel on Newfoundland and Labrador. Humphries does an interesting job of putting
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: July 1, 2013, Canada is 410 years young.
From that first explorer’s trip against the current of the St. Lawrence River, Canada began the transition to a country. And our ancestors came to build it. We were the detritus of Europe, the scoundrels of Asia, the displaced of Africa and we created a new north for the Americas.
Continue readingknitnut.net: Wedding countdown
My sister Deb came into town this weekend to help me shop for something to wear to my wedding (which is only 12 days away, tick tock tick tock). Unlike me, Deb’s a veteran shopper. There are some things I can buy on my own (jeans, for example, and t-shirts),
Continue readingCalgary Grit: Canada Day Quiz
We all know him as “Justin Trudeau’s father” today, but there was a time when Pierre was just a lowly Justice Minister, needing 4 ballots to win the party’s leadership. Test your political skills with this 10-question quiz about the present – and the past – of Canadian politics. 1.
Continue readingwmtc: happy canada day, a/k/a national stop harper day
This week, pollster Nik Nanos revealed that 51.5% of Canadian voters would not consider voting for the Conservative party, compared to 36.4% only seven months ago. I don’t play the national pastime – election prediction – so I won’t speculate about if or how this poll will translate on the
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: Keep The Militarism Out Of It
It’s traditional to look back at our history on Canada Day. And on this Canada Day — our 146th — the Harper government has decided to review whether we teach our history the “right” way. Specifically, it feels that not enough emphasis is placed on our military prowess. Tom Walkom
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Your Daily Nazi: McCorkell Collection Update
This clip from CBC brings the latest, in particular that the University of Ottawa, which got some of McCorkell’s artifacts after he moved East from Saskatchewan , is willing to let the collection be sold off to private collectors:As for me, I was most interested in the few glimpses of
Continue readingThe Skinny: Happy Google Canada Day 2013
(2013) Here’s a list of automatic Google searches when one presses the first letter. (Note: I do clear my browsing history before I do the Google alphabet.) · Air Canada · Best Buy · Canadian Tire · Dropbox · eBay · Facebook · Google · Hotmail · Ikea · Job
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