Christy Clark outworking and outframing Dix If you relish the nitty-gritty of political campaigns, like reading a well-written journalist post, and want to learn why framing cost the BC NFP a surefire win in the recent provincial election, then study the article headed Anatomy of a Comeback by Gary Mason
Continue readingArt Threat: Syrian president Bashar al-Assad mocked in satirical finger puppet performance
From The Guardian: Anonymous Syrian art group Masasit Mati launched the online finger-puppet show Top Goon: Diaries of a Little Dictator in 2011 to lampoon Bashar al-Assad’s oppressive rule. Amid escalating violence, in January 2013 the group secretly travelled to the town of Manbij, north of Aleppo to perform episodes
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Edward Snowden answers reader questions
Last week, Edward Snowden, the whistleblower behind the biggest intelligence leak in the history of the U.S. National Security Agency, answered questions about the revelations from the public. You want to read what he has to say. As of yesterday, Snowden has been charged with espionage as well as theft
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Manufacturing Food Addictions – How Lovely.
I’m not much for the whole hippy-dippy holistically “natural” nonsense that some people buy into, but the composition of processed foods does make one wonder what the goals of the food producers are. A healthy society? A society based on consuming as much as possible? Some combination of the
Continue readingIn This Corner: Trudeau’s the rubber, Harper the glue.
“I’m rubber, you’re glue. Your words bounce off me and stick to you.” That juvenile little axiom popped into my head today as I contemplated the amazing Rubber Man, Justin Trudeau, and the clumsy attempts by Stephen Harper — the Darth Vader of Canadian politics — to ruin him. Harper
Continue readingMusings on Canadian Politics: Rob Ford you are responsible for the province cutting funding
Ontario’s Liberal government is cutting close to $150 million in transfer payments to the City of Toronto. The payments, which are used to fund social programs, will be cut off in 2016. City bureaucrats and politicians are trying to push back against the provincial Liberals. They argue the province made
Continue readingcartoon life: McLaren Workshop app. Eh.
and Two scribbles out of the NFB’s McLaren Workshop IOS app. I am disappointed that it’s so locked into Vimeo, because for some reason iMovie just spins it’s wheels trying to read the film, which shows up as a long black strip of credits, and the films won’t play
Continue reading350 or bust: Saturday At The Movies
It’s graduation time, so here’s Ellen DeGeneres delivering the 2009 commencement address – and great advice for living a good life – at Tulane University.
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 6174…Gril Guide Cookies For Sale
Courtesy of my cousin Lana Nolan in Perth, Ontario comes this advert for the best cure for over indulging in anti glaucoma medicine. What do you want, good taste or good spelling? WFDS
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Chrystia Freeland writes about the dangers of increased concentration of wealth – particularly when it bears at best a passing relationship to any worthwhile contribution to society at large. And CBC’s report on Peter Sabourin’s investment fraud highlights the fact that the tax
Continue readingChadwick's Blog & Commentary: Not All Words Are Equal, or Used Equally
There’s an economic principle known as the rule of fungibility that states a commodity is equivalent to other units of the same commodity. For example, a litre of gasoline is the same commodity regardless of the brand or source. A … Continue reading →
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: June 22: Why?
the big story, front page special report covers the best part of a whole page. Why? It says almost nothing. This is essentially a feel good story about how the downtown area is just booming., a really exciting people place. It reminds me of the one that appeared just before
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: Babel Backward has an editor?
It came as a surprise when reading all the self-congratulatory stories in the Babel Backward (our name for the Toronto Star’s local grocery-flyer wrap, Barrie Advance). We found out that the credit for exposing the Prime Minister’s Office to the ridicule it deserved is being claimed by the publication’s editor
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Fourniers Lose In Court
I’ve got to be a bit mysterious here, though I doubt my readers can keep straight all of the legal actions FreeD owners Mark and Connie Fournier are caught up in these days. Suffice to say that they’ve lost another round in one of them: You can see it better
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Perhaps Its Time To Stop Talking And Start Acting?
For obvious reasons. Recommend this Post
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: Creative Destruction?
The Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter wrote that capitalism encouraged “creative destruction.” Tom Walkom writes that The Great Recession has been all about destruction: In Canada, we are said to be doing well. The official unemployment statistics show Canadian joblessness at a high but tolerable level of roughly 7 per cent.
Continue readingFacing Autism in New Brunswick: Will New Brunswick Ever Act To Provide Adult Autism Residential Care?
The Campbellton Based Restigouche Psychiatric Hospital is the Only NB Based Residential Care Option for Severely Autistic Adults in New Brunswick June 22, 2013 David Alward, Premier’s Council on Status of Disabled Persons Hugh J Flemming, Minister of Health Madeline Dube, Minister of Social Development Dorothy Shephard, Minister of Healthy and
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Momo the cat
Momo the swimming cat becomes “a symbol of hope” for the Alberta flood: Yeats’s mother, Lori Yeats, said her son was caught off-guard when the truck suddenly went underwater. The windows wouldn’t open, trapping him and his pet inside, and the windshield began to crack.“He couldn’t get out, so he had
Continue readingBuckdog: Extreme Weather Event Causes Massive Flooding In Calgary Alberta …
(Film footage June 21, 2013 courtesy Global Toronto … )
Continue readingdrive-by planet: U.S. arms for Syrian rebels: inflaming Sunni-Shia sectarianism
The Obama administration’s decision to authorize the arming of the Syrian rebels is opposed by a large majority of Americans. A recent Pew poll indicates that 74 percent of independents, 71 percent of Republicans and 66 percent of Democrats are opposed to the U.S. and its allies sending arms to
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