Remember this photo? It recently appeared on "The Daily Show" earlier this week. This is Toronto mayor Rob Ford with Jon Latvis, founding member of the racist band RaHoWa with ties to the Heritage Front, Creativity Movement, and violent racists. We found this photo and sent it to Warren Kinsella
Continue readingArt Threat: Controversial Coke advert causes stir in Australia
Without a doubt, Coca-Cola is one of the worst companies on the planet. From its murderous human rights violations stamping out unions in Latin America (especially at Colombian bottling plants) to its marketing to youngsters to its environmental record (especially concerning water), it is hands down a terrible corporation getting
Continue readingwmtc: cantabria, day two
We’ve had another outstanding day of seeing cave paintings, an entirely different experience that complemented the other two cave tours. We left Santillana del Mar early and drove on back-country roads to the town of Puente Viesgo, to see the caves known as El Castillo and Las Monedas. The countryside
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: The Future is Staring Us in the Face. We Must Stop Looking Away.
As a civilization we’re having enormous difficulty coming to grips with climate change in its full dimension and all of its aspects. Part of that is because, while it truly is a global problem, its impacts are not globally uniform and the impetus to deal with it even less so.
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Canada In The News! Canada Long Form Census Makes New York Times
Canada recently replaced its mandatory long-form census with a voluntary survey — and now lives with the sorry results. To try to get an adequate level of response, the voluntary survey was sent to one in three Canadians instead of one in five, which increased costs. The response rate plunged
Continue readingLeft Over: How You Gonna Keep ‘Em Down on the Pharma….?
Nadeem Esmail Director, Health Policy Studies, The Fraser Institute Bulk Buying Pharmaceuticals Isn’t All It’s Cracked Up to Be Posted: 05/24/2013 5:30 pm OOOHHHH….a warning from a minion of the Fraser Institute..couldn’t be his Big Pharma puppeteers steering him into this scary-sounding piffle…now, could it?
Continue readingLeDaro: Charles Darwin on the mystery of life
“The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic.”Charles Darwin On this one I agree with him.
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: May 25: Straight As for the columnists
Belliveau, Norbert, Brent Mazerolle and Gwynne Dyer all did themselves proud today. With the exception of the editorial itself, the editorial and op ed page would do proud to any newspaper. Gwynne Dyer has a chilling but important column on rates of rape in Africa, and in the US army.
Continue readingLet Freedom Rain II: Sheeit. I just can’t help it but Rob Ford’s crack smoking is the first thing I’ve liked about him.
It shows he’s human. It’s a start. Unless of course he and his brother are in league with the drug dealers.
Continue readingCanadian Dimension Feed: Toronto Mayor Rob Ford: A User’s Guide
By now many of you have probably heard of the rather incredible story of Rob Ford, the mayor of Toronto, having a relaxed and rather intimate conversation — and even allegedly appearing to be smoking crack cocaine – with a couple of drug dealers. In the cell phone video, the
Continue readingBuckdog: Saskatchewan Premier Wall No Longer Believes Senate Can Be Reformed
On this site, I give credit where credit is due. “I think it is time to abolish the Senate. I think it is reflective of what Canadians are saying,” “I don’t think reform is possible. I think abolition is also difficult, but it is … more doable than reform. I
Continue readingThe HB-Log : Why 3D-Printed Housing is not a good idea
Like Alastair Parvin in the TED talk below, I’m incredibly excited about the possibilities of 3D printing and decentralized manufacturing. However WikiHouse, which deploys this technology for housing through IKEA-like construction sets, has some glaring issues. Like proponents of vertical farming, this architect has missed important context around his idea. My expertise
Continue readingTHE FIFTH COLUMN: Why I Believe Rob Ford
I believe Rob Ford was telling the truth because of what he did not say. He did not say: I have never used crack cocaine. And he did not say: There is no video of me appearing to use crack cocaine because I have never been in a situation where
Continue readingTHE FIFTH COLUMN: Why I Believe Rob Ford
I believe Rob Ford was telling the truth because of what he did not say.
He did not say:
I have never used crack cocaine.
And he did not say:
There is no video of me appearing to use crack cocaine because I have never been in a situation where I ap…
Continue readingTHE FIFTH COLUMN: Why I Believe Rob Ford
I believe Rob Ford was telling the truth because of what he did not say. He did not say: I have never used crack cocaine. And he did not say: There is no video of me appearing to use crack cocaine because I have never been in a situation where
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Hustle and Ford
The Globe and Mail has published the Ford family’s history with drug dealing.Its like reading a movie script — a beefier Kiefer Sutherland playing the suburban drug dealer with the dysfunctional family who uses his drug profits as the foundation for his more charismatic and electable younger brother’s meteoric political
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: A Democratic Expression of Our Discontent
Oh, this idea I like very much. And the tactic is easily adaptable in situations that could best be described as ‘fluid’: H/t Sylvia Wilson Canadians Rallying To Unseat Stephen Harper Recommend this Post
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: The Fords Hit The Fan
The day after Rob Ford publicly denied using crack cocaine, The Globe and Mail runs a story claiming that his brother Doug used to traffic in hash: Ten people who grew up with Doug Ford – a group that includes two former hashish suppliers, three street-level drug dealers and a
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