If you enjoyed the Son Seals performance I posted a few weeks ago, you might like this one too. This is On My Knees, taken from a TV performance in the eighties. Here’s a slow blues by the James Cotton Blues Band. It’s called Easy Lovin’ (and comes with a
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian home page: Gwynne Dyer’s Future Tense Predicts Conflict from Climate Change
Future Tense is the title of one of Gwynne Dyer’s many best-selling books. His expertise has been war, with detailed analyses of the politics, psychology and circumstances that bring humanity to this most crude and unfortunate behaviour. And this book’s title has a ingenious double entendre, suggesting both the future
Continue readingThe Sixth Estate: The Obama Snooping Scandal and the Inevitability of the Surveillance State
As you may have heard, the Obama administration has been outed as ambitiously Big Brother-ish, overseeing a National Security Agency surveillance program which essentially scoops user data from every major online source — Facebook, Google, Skype, even Apple — and puts it into the world’s largest personal information database. (This,
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: Wright’s $90 000 Duffy gift came from a secret $1 million PMO fund
Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s ex-chief of staff Nigel Wright tried to kill the Senate expenses scandal. He cut that $90,000 cheque which paid off Sen. Mike Duffy‘s fraudulent claims. Until now, the Conservatives have insisted that Wright used his own healthy bank account. The money possibly came from a secret $1 million fund in
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: 140 characters on this email “scandal”
If you start criminally investigating every pol who deletes email, you’d better build a lot more jails. They’re gonna fill up fast. #onpoli
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Where’s Wallin(‘s Home)?
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Continue readingArt Threat: Friday Film Pick: Blockadia Rising: Voices of the Tar Sands Blockade
This week’s FFP is a new one-hour documentary by Garrett Graham (in collaboration with the Tar Sands Blockade) about the direct action efforts of activists in Texas, who try to stop construction of the planned Alberta tar sands pipeline. There is some seriously heavy-handed narration at the beginning, but if
Continue readingThe Wingnuterer: #RobFordLooksAtThings – 00005
These clowns will make me look more serious, right? Rob Ford look for new office staff MORE RobFordLooksAtThings
Continue readingLeDaro: Rob Ford: Welcome to Toronto
Harper and Ford will make a great political team.
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: PMO Slush Funds, Defecting Tories, The Prime Prevaricator’s Diction And Deflection Tactics
These are the main topics discussed on last night’s At Issue panel: BTW, Parliament rises in about a week. I hope the weather for Harper and his many enablers continues to be hot and uncomfortable, with heavy storms in the fall. Recommend this Post
Continue readingExcited Delirium: When Will the CPC Wake Up?
When will Conservatives wake up and get rid of their greatest liability: Stephen Harper?
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Canadians deserve to know if U.S. federal agencies are blanket-monitoring their communications
In the aftermath of yesterday’s revelations about the U.S. National Security Agency collecting the phone records of millions of Verizon customers, Canadians want to know if U.S. federal agencies are blanket-monitoring their communications. Without greater transparency, the answer is unclear. We deserve to know. Demand greater transparency: http://openmedia.ca/stand Article by
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 6112…Justin Trudeau Syracuse Fan
Go Orange! Love it! WFDS
Continue reading350 or bust: Ottawa: Buying Ads Is Easier Than Rooting Out CPC Corruption
Power, like a desolating pestilence, Pollutes whate’er it touches. Percy Bysshe Shelley, Queen Mab What a week in “Ottawapiskat”! In Canada’s capital city the embattled government of Stephen Harper is facing one scandal after another, topped yesterday by the very public exit from the CPC caucus of MP Brent Rathgeber.
Continue readingwmtc: healthy slow cooker recipe of the week: thai peanut chicken
In defiance of current internet rules, I am posting this on my own blog instead of on Pinterest – but please feel free to share this on Pinterest if you like. I’m going to post one slow-cooker recipe each week until I run out of ideas. Thai Peanut Chicken, adapted
Continue readingOPSEU Diablogue: Home care – it’s critical we get it right this time
Ontario’s Community Care Access Centres could have been very different had events unfolded differently in the early 1990s. At the beginning of that decade home care was considered to have more of a leg in social services than health care. … Continue reading →
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: In Praise of Political Cartoonists
Where would we be without their pithy insights? Recommend this Post
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: New Documents in West Virginia Coal Lawsuit Shine Light on Judicial Corruption Allegations
“Extreme by any measure.” Those four words were used by the U.S. Supreme Court in a landmark 2009 decision to describe judicial corruption and corporate influence in the West Virginia courts. That opinion by the nation’s highest court famously reversed the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals justices who had
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