George Jones arguably Country Musics all time greatest singer died in a Nashville Hospital yesterday. I have included a You Tube video of George singing his tear jerker “He stopped loving her today.”
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Harper Cons Are "Neanderthals" – James Hansen
Take that, Joe Oliver. Retired NASA Goddard Space Laboratory director James Hansen says Harper and his underlings are lashing out at him because they’re getting very worried. Pipeline Minister A (Oliver) recently attacked Hansen, accusing him of making “exaggerated comments” and “crying wolf.” Oliver said Hansen should be ashamed. “I
Continue readingBene Diction Blogs On: A sign of the times at the New York Times
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission A brief correction notice in the New York Times shows that our world is changing. Several others have already noticed a correction to the Times’ story on the Margaret Thatcher funeral service, towards the end of the online story here. It
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: April 27: This is the blog….
….I knew I would have to write some day. The dispute between hothead Hemming and the province’s medical system is only a small part of a much, much bigger crisis we are going through. This is part of nothing less than a revolution and, like most revolutions, one hell of a
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Fracking Our National Parks: America’s Best Idea Threatened By Oil and Gas Addiction
Teddy Roosevelt must be rolling over in his grave. Elkhorn Ranch, where the great Republican conservationist sat on his porch overlooking the Little Missouri River and conceived his then-progressive theories of conservation, is at risk of being despoiled by fracking. Now sitting in Theodore Roosevelt National Park, you’d assume that
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Fox Snooze: Global Warming Name Game Debunked By Media Matters (Again)
Media Matters put out a video this past week with clips of all the recent FOX News mentions of a global warming name conspiracy. The Fox ‘conspiracy’ is that ‘liberals’ stopped calling it global warming and started calling it climate change. Little did they realize, apparently, that the man responsible
Continue readingwmtc: rtod
Revolutionary thought of the day: I can’t stop looking at Rue, smaller than ever, a baby animal curled up in a nest of netting. I can’t bring myself to leave her like this. Past harm, but seeming utterly defenseless. To hate the boy from District 1, who also appears so
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – David Olive writes that the dangerous effects of long-term unemployment (caused in no small part by gratuitous austerity) are just as much a problem in Canada as in the U.S.: With our persistent high levels of long-term unemployment, Canada is at risk of
Continue readingChadwick's Blog & Commentary: Shakespeare’s Lost Plays
Shakespeare’s canon, as it is known today, is incomplete. The Bard is known to have written several plays that were not, for various reasons, included in the First Folio printed shortly after his death. Other plays, several included in the … Continue reading →
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: Signifying Nothing
Michael Harris writes that the Canadian Bar Association does not support Bill S7, the Harper government’s recently passed anti terrorism legislation: The CBA makes the point that the legislation does not give investigators new tools, but merely duplicates, with a few new wrinkles, laws that already exist. So why would
Continue readingA BCer in Toronto: Painful media scrum for Adrian Dix on his Kinder Surprise
After a BC election radio leaders debate, NDP leader Adrian Dix faced the press, and questions on his Kinder Surprise. And it wasn’t pretty. Between back-dating memos and forward-dating decisions, Dix’s messaging is more difficult to follow than the plot of Inception.
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: A Classy Apology
Regular readers of this blog may be aware of my almost boundless enthusiasm for The Toronto Star. I deeply admire its progressive mission, and I find its roster of excellent columnists informative and thought-provoking. I have come to regard it as a trusted source of news and opinion. It was
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Standing Up Against the Systemic Misogyny in our Culture – Anita Sarkeesian at TEDxWomen 2012
Anita Sarkeesian at TEDxWomen 2012 lets the world see that there are people willing to stand up and fight against the misogynistic status-quo. Filed under: Feminism Tagged: Anita Sakeesian, Feminism, Patriarchal Backlash, Video Games
Continue readingMorton's Musings: Repulse Bay
(This is the one in China – not Nunavut)
Continue readingMorton's Musings: "a contract for services by an independent contractor can be terminated at will and without notice"
McCready v. De Dwa Dehs Neys, 2013 ONSC 2425 holds: [46] It is clear from judgments across the country that a true independent contractor like the Plaintiff, who is free to pursue other contracts during the course of his retainer, is treated differently upon termination than an employee. Whereas an
Continue reading350 or bust: Saturday At The Movies
LOL – tough love from some of our “relations”:
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper’s Disastrous Bout With Justin Trudeau
Well afterwards the experts did agree on one thing eh? It wasn't exactly the bout of the century, but it was both horribly revealing, and deeply disturbing.For there was Big Boy Harper rushing out of his corner to accuse Justin Trudeau of being a girly man.Only to lead with his belly, trip on his thong,
Continue readingBlunt Objects Blog: More on Quebec
Teddy here with some expansion on an earlier post about Quebec. The poll taken, as outlined in that article, had Federal and Provincial questions asked. Since the poll used the same respondents, and, produced results in identical regions, we can create this data from it: I should note as a disclaimer; the QS
Continue readingCathie from Canada: It was always Paul for me
We got tickets today for Paul McCartney in Regina in August — as teenagers growing up in Saskatchewan, we never thought we would get to see him in person. We’re just a wee bit older now, of course, but I can hardly wait.
Continue readingBryan Crockett: Which leader would you choose?
Which of these makes more sense to you? Stephen Harper, Conservative Leader A leader who says that this is no time to “commit sociology“, and believes that the root cause of terrorism is terrorism? Or a leader who understands that finding the reasoning behind terrorism is important to preventing terrorism.
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