Recreating Eden: Croissants: Now, That’s the Way to Start the Day
Looks like a missed something delicious on the weekend: a dozen bakeries in the Montreal area were celebrating the croissant. The lovely, light bun was one of my first discovery in Montreal, because when we came here, croissants were just about unknown on the West Coast. Now you can find
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: OpenMedia.ca talks to CBC’s The Current about our broken cell phone market
Check it out as Lindsey talks on CBC Radio: The Current about our broken cell phone market and some measures that must be taken in order to increase choice for Canadians. “When we’re looking at a situation where the wireless market becomes less affordable and less accessible, we’re looking at
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: Great Divergence or Financialized recovery ?
The IMF’s latest delivery of the World Economic outlook contains an interesting analysis of the current “non” recovery in terms of a divergence between fiscal and monetary policy, the first between restrictive and procyclical in nature and the second being accommodating and reinforcing a financial expansion. As argued here by
Continue readingEnvironmental Law Alert Blog: No one should have to worry about their children playing in the grass
Monday, April 22, 2013 We’re asking all political parties to support banning the use, sale and retail display of cosmetic pesticides used on public and private lands – something only the provincial government has the power to do. How can you help? Spread the word, share this blog post with
Continue readingEnvironmental Law Alert Blog: No one should have to worry about their children playing in the grass
Monday, April 22, 2013 We’re asking all political parties to support banning the use, sale and retail display of cosmetic pesticides used on public and private lands – something only the provincial government has the power to do. How can you help? Spread the word, share this blog post with
Continue readingCanadian Dimension Feed: Blood Along the Border
Saul Reyes Salazar is a man who understands loss. In January 2010, his sister Josefina was shot in the head, following a botched kidnapping in their hometown of Guadalupe los Bravos, across the border bridge from Tornillo, Texas. She was, at the time, one of the best-known activists in the
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: The End Of The Canadian Jewish News
With great sadness, I have to announce that The Canadian Jewish News will cease publishing its printed newspaper with its June 20 edition. I never dreamed that I would be writing this. No nightmare of mine envisioned it. For some time, we have known of the ravages that printed newspapers
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian home page: BC Liberal Legacy: A Huge Debt Burden
As we head into a provincial election on May 14, in which economic policy and fiscal acumen will be a central focus, independent economist Erik Andersen and Dr. Sandra Hoffman offer this financial report card on the reigning BC Liberal Party’s record. After promising “responsible, accountable management of your public
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: When Big Money Flows from Taps
“If you can find ways to invest in water, you will be extremely rich because we do have a serious water problem in many parts of the world like India, China, the southwestern part of the U.S., and west of the Red Sea.“ Jim Rogers, 18 April, 2013 Jim
Continue readingDISSTEMPER: Prime Minister Stephen Harper addresses The Canadian Chamber of Commerce
My fellow corporate citizens, I want to begin by thanking you for standing by me and the Government of Harper Canada. There seem to be fewer of you every day. We’re here today to talk about our nation’s dismal economic prospects. Jim Flaherty tells me we’ve run out of
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: April 22: Let’s be controversial….
… but we won’t do it in Section A. This is a real, nothing section. The big story, “Riverview poised for growth”, is even a bigger yawn than one might expect. The map of the growth looks like 1950 all over again. Obviously, Riverview has even less of a growth
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Finding The Light Amidst Despair
During my teaching days, in the aftermath of 9/11 a student came to see me to discuss her feelings of helplessness and despair in the face of such monumental evil. While I had no special wisdom to offer her, I did say that although I had been witness to some
Continue readingLisaKirbie.com: On Air Jitters
Everyone has them. This poor fellow had them worst than most. But, as you can see from his tweet below, he had a sense of humour about it. (FYI, NSFW). H/T
Continue readingLisaKirbie.com: On Air Jitters
Everyone has them. This poor fellow had them worst than most. But, as you can see from his tweet below, he had a sense of humour about it. (FYI, NSFW). H/T
Continue readingcentre of the universe: They’re coming to take me away
Okay. Let’s see if I can do this. Two days before the American gun control bill was introduced for voting, an attack was made by [then] unknown individuals on civilians at the Boston Marathon, arguably one of the biggest, most well-known marathons in North America. For days, in fear, people
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 5898…Guns Versus Terrorists
All rational beings with access to the ‘net know that empirically speaking guns cause far more damage in the US of A than terrorism does. To the power of. Yet for some reason Americans [and Canucks too] are more worried about getting blown up by a terrorist than getting shot even
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 5897…Stephen Harper Is A Bully
Pretty obvious that our beloved Prime Minister Stephen Harper is a bully. Nothing proves it more than his stupid yet, as Warren Kinsella pointed out in the Suns yesterday, effective slandering of his successor Justin Trudeau. The above cartoon, fresh from the Halifax Herald via Facebook, says it all. As
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Did Joe Oliver Just Declare War on British Columbia?
A solid and steadily growing majority of British Columbians want nothing to do with Alberta’s bitumen pipelines crossing our province to our coast. Fewer of us still want bitumen-laden supertankers plying our pristine northern coastal waters or Vancouver’s inner harbour. According to our federal government’s reptilian industry minister, Joe Oliver,
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 5896…Government Sanctioned F-Bomb Broadcast
Len Berman from Len Berman’s That’s Sports picks up the story: David Ortiz of the Red Sox addressed the crowd before Saturday’s game in Boston. He went uncensored proclaiming loudly “This is our F***ing City and nobody going to dictate our freedom.” OK, it wasn’t quite “Give me liberty or
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