Christie Blatchford is the ideal Canadian Conservative journalist. She rarely shows compassion. Her game is to game the system to act as stenographer for authoritarians like Stephen Harper and Rob Ford. Most of all, she is not above blaming the victim, One victim’s father has had enough of Blatchford’s poison
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Judge us by our enemies, not our friends, CRTC gods
As you may be aware, I am the House Communist© at Sun News. I write a couple columns for them a week, and I go on their TV network a couple times a week. It’s unlikely you’ve ever seen me on the network, given that it is nestled up near
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Judge us by our enemies, not our friends, CRTC gods
As you may be aware, I am the House Communist© at Sun News. I write a couple columns for them a week, and I go on their TV network a couple times a week. It’s unlikely you’ve ever seen me on the network, given that it is nestled up near
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: Harper Says New Anti-Trudeau Flier Is Part Of “Democratic Debate”
By: Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive: Stephen Harper wants us all to believe that the Conservatives’ new anti-Trudeau household flier is part of “democratic debate.” The Harper Conservatives greeted Justin Trudeau‘s election as Liberal leader with a below-the-belt TV ad rejected by Canadians. This week, the Conservatives launched a tax-payer-funded flyer campaign attacking
Continue readingLeDaro: May there be peace in the world
World needs peace and not wars. When wars and conflicts totally cease, In our world, there shall be peace. People must learn to get along, Not blame others, for being wrong. They fight for control, fight for land, Some just need a helping hand. We must rid ourselves of vanity,
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian home page: Dix Fails to Call Clark on ‘Debt Free BC’ Whopper
On the side of the Christy Clark bus are the words “Debt Free BC”. This statement stands as the all-time whopper in BC history. What is important to know about the debt is that in 2001, when the Liberals took over, each man, woman and child owed a shade over
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian home page: Dix Fails to Call Clark on ‘Debt Free BC’ Whopper
On the side of the Christy Clark bus are the words “Debt Free BC”. This statement stands as the all-time whopper in BC history. What is important to know about the debt is that in 2001, when the Liberals took over, every man, woman and child owed a shade over
Continue readingArt Threat: Fatal fish farms
Salmon Confidential is a new film by Twyla Roscovich on the government cover up of what is killing BC’s wild salmon. It is absolutely shocking to see the lengths the provincial and federal governments are going to in order to not allow the dissemination of information about the role of
Continue readingBryan Crockett: Canadians Deserve Better
Canadians deserve better than the constant attack ads and character assassinations that the Conservatives have perpetrated over the years. Canadians deserve better than the deficits and deregulation of the Conservatives.Canadians deserve a government with a vision, and a priority on national unity. Canadians deserve a new government. A lot of
Continue readingcmkl: Merit Canada wants to keep unions out of politics even as they play politics themselves
The nerve. Chapter one: Terrance Oakey, the spokesmuppet for Merit Contractors Association, a lobby group that wants, among other things, laws passed to require unions to cough up private information on any expense over $5000 to Revenue Canada, legal restrictions on what sorts of issues unions can comment or act
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: Indigenous rights are the best defence against Canada’s resource rush
First Nations people – and the decision of Canadians to stand alongside them – will determine the fate of the planet By: Martin Lukacs | The Guardian (UK), Published on Fri Apr 26, 2013: In a boardroom in a soaring high-rise on Wall Street, Indigenous activist Arthur Manuel is sitting across from one
Continue readingTerahertz: Terahertz Atheist Video Blog
I always have a number of long-term projects in my head. Reaching out via different mediums is one of them, and practice speaking and editing is always important for me. To accomplish this I’ve started an intermittent video blog/podcast supplement to this blog. Only two episodes are up so far
Continue readingTHE CAREGIVERS' LIVING ROOM - A Blog by Donna Thomson: METTA: Loving Kindness – How to Feel It, How to Spread It
I peer at an x-ray of my spine. I’m looking at my neck bones, trying to figure out why my right arm is constantly numb or tingling… why my hand itches and sometimes I feel electric shocks in my shoulder. I know my lower back is shot. Disintegrating discs mean
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Cut & Paste Leadership, the Modern Political Condition
In his thoroughly insightful book, American Fascists, Chris Hedges details how fundamentalists pervert Christianity by willfully excluding anything that doesn’t suit their various ideologies. That is why, according to Hedges, there are hundreds of versions of Jesus in the United States, each tailored to some particular sect or church’s liking.
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Cut & Paste Leadership, the Modern Political Condition
In his thoroughly insightful book, American Fascists, Chris Hedges details how fundamentalists pervert Christianity by willfully excluding anything that doesn’t suit their various ideologies. That is why, according to Hedges, there are hundreds of versions of Jesus in the United States, each tailored to some particular sect or church’s liking.
Continue readingwmtc: what i’m reading, children’s books edition: # 7: two by roddy doyle
Roddy Doyle is one of my favourite authors. I read everything he publishes for adults, but I had never read any of his children’s books before. I recently read two of them, and I’m so glad I did. Wilderness, Roddy Doyle, 2007 In this story, a mother and her two
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 5915…No Show Jones Dead
George Jones, the greatest singer ever, has died today in Nashville aged 81. And if he isn’t the greatest ever he is on the list and the list is short. WFDS
Continue readingBuckdog: BREAKING: RCMP Close to Arrests of Known Sociologists!!
(BLOG POST posted on April 25, 2013 by bernans on Coop Média de Montréal ) When asked about the RCMP arrests made in an alleged terrorist plot, Prime Minister Stephen Harper had a warning for Canadians who would “commit sociology.” *The RCMP has confirmed that it is aware
Continue readingthe reeves report: National Energy Board commenting rules ‘undemocratic’
Enbridge buried pipeline marker – east Toronto. Credit: Adam Scott/Environmental Defence. Federal opposition MPs and environmental groups are crying foul over what they see as the government’s attempt to curtail public comment on Enbridge’s proposed 639-km Line 9 reversal pipeline route through southern Ontario and into Quebec. Tucked away in last spring’s
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