The Pier 21 Immigration museum in Halifax commissioned a Toronto production firm to collect about 100 immigrant stories. This is my son’s. Tweet The Rev. Paperboy Feed
Continue readingLeDaro: Stephen Harper: Give back flood victims’ guns in Alberta.
“Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s office is urging the RCMP in High River, Alta., to focus on “more important” tasks and to return the guns officers took from homes while searching for victims in the evacuated flood zone. Harper’s office issued a statement Friday morning in quick reaction to the
Continue readingPostArctica: Before there was Photoshop… Surreal Landscapes by Jerry Uelsmann
Reblogged from ⓔMORFES: Long before the invention of Photoshop, artists were creating trippy fake images. The techniques used to create these images include multiple exposure on a single negative, and printing a single print from multiple negatives. In the 1960s, Jerry Uelsmann revolutionized the art of photography by manually blending
Continue readingChadwick's Blog & Commentary: The Game of the Book of Thrones
No, it’s not about that heavyweight book series by George Martin, or the TV series based on it (or even about how you really need to read the books to understand anything that is happening in the TV series). It’s … Continue reading →
Continue readingPostArctica: Google Maps Street View of Battleship Island
Perhaps the only time capsule the future will need is Google’s documentation of our world, the rest just contains too much embarrassing material. Well, maybe the complete works of Shakespeare would help explain a thing or two….
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: June 29: ..a story that wasn’t important enough to make the Times and Transcript….
The kids I went to school with were a mixed lot, all from the crowded, jammed together housing of north end Montreal. There were us English-speaking kids of mixed French and British. descent. There were the Italians who lived in a Little Italy just east of the school, where the Italian-Catholic church had
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Pork Bullets. Or, Watch the Xenophobia run WILD!
My cynical atheist soul just went a few shades darker because of this. “The advertising pitch says it all: “Put some Ham in MoHAMed.” Jihawg Ammunition, based in Dalton Gardens, Idaho, has recently begun selling bullets laced with a pork coating, promising “patriot” gun owners that the bullets “will strike
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Andrew Jackson rightly questions Greg Mankiw’s faith-based assertion that increasing wealth accumulation is based solely on merit and contribution to society rather than hoarding and rent-seeking. And Martin Lobel highlights a few of the distortionary policies that have served to exacerbate inequality in
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: Big Brother blows the bitumen bugle.
When you live in a country where most of the news media is controlled by friends of the government, do you think you should believe all the news? Do you believe that Big Brother loves you? Do you believe that the managed media are on your side? Do you believe
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: The Age of the Disposable Worker
On this blog I frequently lament the fact that we live in the age of the fungible worker, the one who is easily exchanged for another should his or her expectations of decent wages and working conditions threaten to impede the flow of easy profits accruing to corporate coffers. It
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: He’s Losing His Grip
Lawrence Martin writes that the cracks are spreading at Fortress Harper. First it was those ornery backbenchers who refused to shut up. Then one of them, Brent Rathgeber, resigned. And, last week, sixteen Conservative senators joined with their Liberal colleagues to gut a Harper supported private member’s bill which would
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: SFH at the movies
Hollywood, here we come! SFH’s tuneful genius is to be found in Julie Pacino’s (yes, daughter of) latest flick, Billy Bates. It’s being released in the Fall in LA and NYC. The Kardashians have asked us to take them down the red carpet at the star-studded premiere, but we said
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Sun Media Shuts Down Three More
The Lac du Bonnet Leader, The Beausejour Review, and The Meadow Lake Progress. The market cannot support and yada yada yada. Its always that. Its never: “We up here in management couldn’t find our ass with both hands”.
Continue readingTHE CAREGIVERS' LIVING ROOM - A Blog by Donna Thomson: Guest Post: How A Battle With Cancer Made Us Stronger
Cameron Von St. James is a husband, father and caregiver. In this guest post, Cameron shares his family story of caring for his wife Heather through her cancer diagnosis and treatment. Thank you, Cameron and here’s to all the husbands, fathers and sons giving care today. How a battle with
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Did his nose just grow… again? #nlpoli
According to Nalcor boss Ed Martin, the absence of a mere $15 million of old-fashioned 2D seismic was an obstacle to multi-billion dollar global corporations doing business offshore Newfoundland and Labrador. “The strategic investments we are making in our geoscience program in offshore Newfoundland and Labrador is laying the foundation,
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Commander Harper and the Guns of June
Well he's been acting a little strangely lately. The stress of watching the flood waters AND the opposition advancing, has clearly driven him over the edge.He's been dressing up in a military uniform and pretending to be Great Commander Leader.But while his pathetic phony photo-ops are hilarious, this is the absolute limit. Read more »
Continue readingThe Sixth Estate: Union Bill Debacle Shows Why The Senate Should Not Be Elected
I’m intrigued by the battle lines drawn over the Senate’s recent decision to reject a terrible and churlish piece of legislation which would attempt to impose an improper and hypocritical set of financial disclosure regulations onto unions — only unions — that don’t apply to charities, corporations, political parties, or even
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Musical interlude
Ashley Wallbridge – Vision
Continue readingLet Freedom Rain II: No Vancouver Sun, BC residents are NOT split on twinning the Kinder Morgan pipeline
Whenever I see a headline in a newspaper describing a poll, I take it with a grain of tar. For example, a recent Mustel poll about support for twinning the Kinder Morgan pipeline showed that 46.2 oppose the pipeline while 44.4 support it. Close, eh? But here’s the real story:
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 6193…Argonauts Be Clever
That would be the Grey Cup Champion Toronto Argonauts. Their mascot’s name is Jason. That rings a bell, eh? WFDS
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