The birds have been flocking back to the island as they do every spring. Flying in from south of the lake, on their way north.But this year I'm not as glad to see them, as I usually am.Because this year they can't help reminding me of what's going on in China. Read more »
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: May 5: Brian Mulroney (and us)…..
…and those hundreds of women burned to death in Bangladesh. There can’t be the slightest doubt about it. The owners of garment factories in Bangladesh knew that the chances of a disatrous fire in which hundreds of their workers would die were almost a sure thing. So did the Canadian and US
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I attended the LPC(SK) AGM. The APC(SK) had their AGM at the same time!
Continue readingCalgary Grit: Canada has always been at war with Eurasia
RB Bennett was one of Canada’s most popular Prime Ministers, to the point where average Canadians would name their buggies after him. We found out last week that the Harper Conservatives will be leading a review of the way Canadian history is taught in schools. We don’t yet have word
Continue readingThe Ranting Canadian: Toronto Mayday 2013 – Photo set 1 These pictures are from the…
Toronto Mayday 2013 – Photo set 1 These pictures are from the starting point of the International Workers Day rally in downtown Toronto in the early evening of May 1, 2013. The trees and sunlight in these five photos highlight the other, much older, aspect of Mayday: nature, rebirth and
Continue readingB.C. Policy Perspectives: The Ideal BC Election Result
Last year’s provincial election in Alberta, and the 2011 federal election, show that the science of election polling is a bit like weather forecasting: something that is being knocked backwards by structural changes beyond anyone’s control. In addition to growing voter volatility, technological and demographic change has made the land-line
Continue readingwmtc: we movie to canada: wmtc annual movie awards, 2012-13 edition
It’s time for the wmtc annual movie awards. For my silly rating systems, so far I’ve done:– Canadian musicians and comedians (2006-07 and 2007-08)– my beverage of choice (2008-09)– famous people who died during the past year (2009-10)– where I’d like to be (2009-10)– and last year, vegetables (2010-11). Yes,
Continue readingBuckdog: Here’s Warren Kinsella Doing His Best Imitation Of A Serbian Nationalist ….
When the Harper Conservatives attacked Justin Trudeau, who decried the nastiness of their attacks? Yes.. Mr. Kinsella. But what is this? Mr. Kinsella has decided to adopt the tone of a Harperite … and tear into Mulcair with trumped up charges and phony indignation. You can bet money if there
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Sunday Morning Links
Assorted content for your Sunday reading. – Aviva Shen looks at Monsanto’s history of regulatory capture – with the recent “Monsanto Protection Act” serving as just a minor example in a long list of control over U.S. law: Monsanto insists that its revolving door is in overdrive because Monsanto employees
Continue readingPeace, order and good government, eh?: As I was saying…
Few complete application to reverse Ontario, Quebec pipeline Fewer than 200 interested parties have completed a 10-page application form asking the National Energy Board to accept their written comments about the reversal of a pipeline that would carry diluted Alberta oil sands bitumen across Southern Ontario and into Quebec. That
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: The Harper Government’s Legacy of Death
Checking my blog archive, I found that I have written a total of 22 posts on asbestos. Here is number 23. Two years ago, Canada was the sole nation to oppose adding chrysotile asbestos to the list of hazardous products under the Rotterdam Convention. Such a listing would not have
Continue readingYappa Ding Ding: A classless act of petty personal vindictiveness
“When Joe Clark’s portrait was unveiled in the House of Commons, Prime Minister Stephen Harper skipped the event, a classless act of petty personal vindictiveness.” – Jeffrey Simpson’s column in the Globe yesterday Simpson captured the truth very eloquently with “petty personal vindictiveness”. I tend to think of Harper as
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 5953…Fun, Fellowship, Firearms
Tha’s the sell line of the National Rifle Association, the good people who provide hours of programming to American TV stations and networks.The Columbine Massacre, Aurora Theatre Massacre and Sandy Hook Massacre are but three of the on going epic programs that the NRA helped make possible. Today I learn from
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 5952…59 Dollars A Gallon For Gasoline
Normally “Conventional JP-8 jet fuel costs $3.73 a gallon, according to the Defense Logistics Agency.”The Washington Examiner tells all that even though times are tough financially in the States “… the Pentagon has continued purchasing renewable fuel at $59 per gallon.”They must use the same calculators in D.C. as the Stephen Harpers do here
Continue readingkirbycairo: E.V. Lucas and the Gradual decline of the Book. . . .
One of my very favorite writers is an obscure Englishman named Edward Verrall Lucas, usually known in print simply as E.V. Lucas. Lucas was the author of over a hundred and thirty books, a few of which are novels and biographies, many collections of essays, and quite a few excellent compilations of
Continue readingChadwick's Blog & Commentary: Snow White and the Huntsman reviewed
Take one part Brothers Grimm and one part Malory’s Morte d’Artur, add a dash of Tolkein, a pinch of Joan of Arc, a sprinkling of Robin Hood and a sprig of English folklore; mix it in a bowl with copious … Continue reading →
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: The Resource Curse
In a recent interview with The Globe and Mail, Al Gore referred to something he called The Resource Curse: The so-called resource curse is most often understood in the context of small nations whose revenue streams are dominated by the exploitation of a single resource. It’s a bit more complex
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice – Christian Apologists
It would be easier if the religious would just admit the one fact the lies at the root of their belief system – “facts don’t matter”. Once we shove that sideways down their craw, unravelling the rest of the bullshite will quickly unravel. A good place to start that sort
Continue readingDemocracy Under Fire: Summer Sabbatical
After closely following the decline of our democracy for more more than 4 years and posting over 200 articles at Democracy Under Fire detailing just a few of the ways in which the Harper Regime and others continuously demean and diminish the democratic systems built up over many years I
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