The folks at UpWorthy have published a photo-perspective showing the faces of soldiers taken before, during and after war. Here’s one example. Follow the link above to see the rest.
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Twitter Outs the Haters
Check this out. It’s a twitter-based map of racism in the United States. A team of geographers from Humboldt State University has developed a map of the United States which plots the intensity of discriminatory speech in social media, including racism, homophobia and ableism. The team — headed up
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Laws for a Country That Holds Itself Above the Law
America has increasingly been turning itself into an outlaw state. It practices indefinite detention without charge or trial. It resorts to torture. It violates foreign sovereignty to kill as it sees fit. It even kills its own citizens on executive whim. It is within this context that we have to
Continue readingRecreating Eden: Wish I Had Friends to Fork out $90,000 Just Like That
It not be illegal, but it sure is fishy: Mike Duffy had his debts paid off by a friend of Stephen Harper’s to the tune of more than $90,000. This is right in the league of the underover payments being revealed by Quebec’s Charbonneau Commission.
Continue readingLisaKirbie.com: More on the Mayor
After I posted about my telephone call with Mayor Rob Ford a few weeks back, I started getting calls from one of the mayor’s aides. He left pleasant messages and we played voicemail tag several times but then he didn’t return my last call. Now I know why – he’s
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: They Have Re-Elected Their "Liberal" Lapdog – Now They’re Coming For Our Coast
It will probably be sooner rather than later before we find out whether Christy Clark will become British Columbia’s Judas Goat to the Northern Gateway and Kinder Morgan pipeline/supertanker fiascos. Steve Harper, Alison Redford and Enbridge just need to buy or coerce Clark’s capitulation, make her sell-out the province and
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: 10 Reasons Canada Needs to Rethink the Tar Sands
As a Canadian it blows my mind that we can have the second largest deposits of oil in the world, but our government remains billions in debt and one in seven Canadian children live in poverty. I feel like we are being played for fools here in Canada, because foreign
Continue readingArt Threat: Gay South Korean film director causes stir in Seoul with wedding announcement
Openly gay South Korean film director Kim Jho Gwang-soo announced he will symbolically marry his partner in a ceremony designed to both celebrate their love and make a statement on LGBTQ rights in the conservative country. “We wanted to convey the message that all sexual minorities should be given rights
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian home page: Rafe: Dix Let Liberals Get Away with Murder
With over two weeks to go in the election, I wrote in thetyee.ca and on this website: “It surprises me that Adrian Dix is playing softball with these issues. This is looking like ’09 all over again. Mr. Dix, your position on the Kinder Morgan tanker port proposal was nice
Continue readingVancouver South Immigration Forum
Paul Hershaw and the team in Vancouver South ran an excellent micro-campaign to put on this Immigration Forum at Langara.
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Telus announces plans to takeover Canada’s largest independent cell phone provider
OpenMedia.ca argues the takeover will encourage more mistreatment of Canadian cell phone customers April 16, 2013 – Telus has formally announced plans to takeover Mobilicity, one of Canada’s largest independent cell phone providers. Grassroots group OpenMedia.ca believes, if allowed to go through, will stifle choice and fair treatment of customers
Continue readingBlunt Objects Blog: Why is Duffy Still a Conservative Senator?
Poor Mike Duffy. The former CTV broadcaster known for his jovial presence has had a real hard time managing his profile ever since he joined Harper’s Conservative Senate. The star fundraiser known for exactly nothing outside of being loud and kind of annoying on TV – I like to consider
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Could You Become a Victim of Car-Hacking?
It’s not carjacking. Nobody with a gun jumping into the driver’s seat and speeding off with your ride. It’s car-hacking. A cyber criminal hacking into a car’s computer systems to wreak havoc. Senate Commerce Committee chairman Jay Rockefeller, a West Virginia Democrat, said while he’s excited about safety improvements through
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Students Against Israeli Apartheid Banned At York University
…for being too noisy. Which sounds like a way of getting rid of them while circumventing the free speech issues a more direct approach might entail. Although this comment from the SAIA York Facebook page gives some credence to the York Admin’s stated rationale: Again, it looks better when you
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: May 16: Sorry to be late, today. I fell asleep….
…while reading section A of the Times and Transcript. Seriously. I mean, how long can one read a section whose front page, feature photo is of a man cutting the grass under the headline, “It’s lawn-mowing season again.” But brighter things were in store. The Newstoday section is, as usual,
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: TPP’s Secretive 17th Round | Weekly News Update from OpenMedia.ca
Hello! Here’s Arielle with your update: Watch Arielle’s video update to hear this week’s news. This week we discuss the 17th round of the TPP’s secretive negotiations in Lima, Peru. Please head to StopTheTrap.net to demand that governments involved in the TPP make the process transparent, accountable, and open to public
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 6001…Need A Loan?
Warren Kinsella has thoughtfully resourced the advert that enticed the esteemed Senator Michael Duffy, Kanata-PEI, to act. Thank goodness for advertising, eh?WFDS
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 6000…I Think Mike Duffy Jumped The Shark
CFRA, which is both the heritage AM in Ottawa and for the last three or five decades the on air home for those who are Conservative, listeners and talkers, has turned on the esteemed Senator Michael Duffy, Kanata-PEI. Jumped the shark or not, Senator Duffy ain’t gonna leave the Senate
Continue readingBuckdog: "Follow the Piggy – He Might Lead You to Sussex Drive" – Guest Blog Post by The Mound of Sound
Buckdog Politics is going to share a great post with you today. (When the time comes for the 2013 Canadian Blog Awards .. I’m voting for this one!) So, let’s run this scenario, Mound’s favourite passtime. How might the timeline of Mike Duffy’s expense woes play out now that we
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Rhyme Of The Duffster
Let’s hear it for Senator Duff/Whose salary wasn’t enuff/He took 90 grand/And when caught redhanded/Just grabbed 90 more from the trough— Trevor Strong (@Trevstrong) May 15, 2013
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