You may have heard of the latest anti-woman denail of basic human rights to make international news. A few months back there was Savita Halappanavar, who died in Ireland when she was denied a life-saving, medically necessary abortion. Now there is a woman known as “Beatriz” (not her real name)
Continue readingThe Sixth Estate: Inside Canada’s Basketcase, Charity-Dependent Inspection System
Recently evidence surfaced, quietly and unobtrusively, of the ways in which other inspection regimes suffer from the same sort of lackadaisical approach that the Harper government has applied to food plants — under which the XL foods E. coli outbreak and the Maple Leaf Foods listeriosis outbreak have occurred, with
Continue readingAlberta Diary: Alberta Tories respond to protests by disabled citizens with instinctive diversionary attack
An Albertan protests the Redford Government’s cuts to “persons with developmental disabilities” at the Legislature in Edmonton on Friday. Below: Associate Minister of Services for Persons with Disabilities Frank Oberle. The optics of a government like Alberta’s Progressive Conservatives cutting $42 million from programs designed to help the province’s most
Continue readingMusings on Canadian Politics: Rob Ford’s nine lives will get him to the next election
By all accounts Rob Ford should not have any public support. He has spent the last fourteen years showing contempt for basic social and legal norms. He was charged with driving under the influence in Florida. He was accused of blowing past offloading streetcars in his van. He has been
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Marijuana is the New ‘Gay Marriage’ -Bill Maher-Video
Here is Bill Maher’s take on Pot Bill Maher-inhaled At the close of Saturday’s “Real Time,” Bill Maher made the case for legalizing marijuana to be the next big civil rights issue, following in the footsteps of gay marriage. As Maher explained, proponents of legalization have to demand that it
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 6089…Death Warrant For Harper’s Brand
That, word for word, is the headline of Rex Murphy’s article in The National Post this day. I call bullsh*t. Problem with Mr. Murphy and virtually all the anglo journalists [I don’t read french newspapers unless I am in deepest darkest La Belle, Les Promenades in Gatineau for example, and
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Check out the Privacy Commissioner’s report on what Bill C-30 could have meant for your privacy
We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again – You were right, Canada! Check out the Privacy Commissioner’s report on what your IP address can reveal about you. Thank you for standing up against Bill C-30; but the fight is not yet over. It’s time for some serious privacy
Continue readingBetterParks for Vancouver: Corner Stores: thoughts on Frances Bula’s article on the return of the ubiquitous green grocer
Frances Bula wrote a lovely article about the return of the corner store for the Globe and Mail and then commented on it on her blog, This is my reply to her article: Ah…the good old days. Growing up near 41st and Dunbar in the ’60′s we had Mr. Pyatt’s
Continue readingdaveberta.ca - Alberta politics: Edmonton election heats up in early summer months
TweetAmarjeet Sohi opts out for mayor. Scott McKeen rumoured in Ward 6. Amarjeet Sohi announced this week that he will not jump into Edmonton’s open mayoral race. The two-term councillor, who had been pondering a run for mayor, will instead run for re-election in his south side Ward 12, where he
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: QotD on ’empowerment’
Reblogged from Anti-Porn Feminists: The buzz word in popular feminism today is empowerment. When I became a feminist many years ago, the word we used was liberation. Unlike empowerment, liberation is a collective concept which means that even if my life is all rosy and “empowered,” it doesn’t mean shit
Continue readingRecreating Eden: Saturday Photo: June Flowers are Here!
I’m not a systematic gardener, I don’t keep notes about what blooms when or even a list of what I need to get for next year. But I do know roughly what order things bloom in. The snow drops start, of course, and then come the other bulb plants. Now
Continue readingLeDaro: A tribute to Mike Duffy
He made P.E.I so famous. His heart is in P.E.I. Enjoy!!!
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian home page: Why the Electric Automobile is for Real this Time
What people must not lose sight of, is that electric vehicle technology is in its infancy. What the Tesla Motors story shows us, is that there are power structures in place that do not wish to see alternatives succeed. The creation of new clean technologies is critical to the success
Continue readingLisaKirbie.com: More on David Price, and the Toronto Star
The Star delved a bit more into David Price’s background today. If you’re not familiar with Price, he’s Rob Ford’s former football coach turned best friend turned “director of operations.” After I posted this, I started getting calls from Price. Given that Ford had already called me back – which didn’t
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: For Your Further Saturday Viewing Pleasure
I found this highly entertaining, but apparently the Bank of Canada did not: Recommend this Post
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Would you tune in to a TV show called Bayou Eskimos?
A PBS station in New York is running a series of subway posters to satirize all of the bizarre reality TV shows on the air lately.Oh, well, at least Honey Boo Boo has had her 15 minutes, I hope.
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Fortune 500 Nightmare: Revolutionary WikiBuycott will put power in our hands
The Revolution starts here! There is a nightmare hovering over large and small corporations. It is the shifting of the power balance, away from the companies that produce goods and services, into the hands of millions of consumers. The nightmare for company CEOs is a new product that will soon
Continue readingBuckdog: CTV’s Don Martin BLASTS Conservative Senator Mike Duffy As a FAKER …..
Don Martin took to his show on CTV News Channel Friday and delivered a withering critique of Senator Mike Duffy’s conduct in Ottawa — a segment that may have proved too hot for the network. The Power Play host repeatedly called Duffy a “faker” and took him to task for
Continue readingLeDaro: Mike Duffy is about to explode
Would he take Harper with him?
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