Now we get to play catch the subtext… 🙂 Filed under: Feminism Tagged: Contraception, Feminism, Hard RIght Logic in Action, Rape, Rape Culture
Continue readingDefending Public Healthcare: Chemo fiasco – – the real perils of secrecy
Martin Regg Cohn, Queen’s Park columnist for the Toronto Star, expressed his outrage at some length today over the College of Pharmacists not answering media questions quickly enough about the diluted chemotherapy drug scandal. But he says nothing of the response from the private corporation that actually mixed the chemotherapy
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Speaking of Political Integrity …
See if you can detect even a modicum of it in Kellie Leitch, who starts talking at about the 9-minute mark of this video dealing with the massive abuses in the Temporary Foreign Workers Program: Somehow, I don’t think this is what Judith Timson meant when she talked about authenticity.
Continue readingBlunt Objects Blog: Rehtaeh Parsons, Anonymous and "Justice"
I’ve really tried to avoid commenting on the big issue that is crowding out HuffPo’s headline space over the past week, and that is the tragic case of Rehtaeh Parsons, a Nova Scotia teenager whose life ended last Sunday due to suicide. I’m sure everyone knows the details by now,
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Calling all federal Liberals for a favour
Son One, age fourteen, has the political bug. He was a proud Pupatello delegate in January, and wants to come with me to the convention in Ottawa on Sunday, where the new leader will be announced. Dad – who will be doing pro-Liberal media, and is old and forgetful –
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian home page: Ten Oil Spills in Two Weeks
Last week I published a story titled “Five Oil Spills in One Week: ‘Accidents’ or Business as Usual”. Within an hour of publication came the news of a sixth spill from a CP derailment in nothern Ontario. As the story made the rounds on social media in the ensuing days,
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 5845…Today’s Reason To Drink
It is happy birthday to the New York Mets!!! My buddy Len Berman from Len Berman’s That’s Sports tells all that “On this date in 1962 the Mets were born. They lost in St. Louis 11-4. Casey Stengel was the manager, Roger Craig the losing pitcher, Charlie Neal and Gil
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 5844…We Got The Gay Thing Down In Canada
Americans not so much. BTW he is n o t the Richard Dawson from Family Feud. That Richard Dawson is in heaven. WFDS
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 5843…Women Hate Sandy Sharkey
Sandy Sharkey is the erswhile morning host on BOB FM; they blew her out earlier this year. She is also a former contestant on The Wheel of Fortune. But wait it gets better/worse. Oprah, that Oprah, was in Ottawa last night and, according to Ms. Sharkey, her shoes were too
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian home page: Logging BC’s Coastal Treasures
Exasperation is the tone of the full page ad placed in a March edition of Victoria’s Times-Colonist newspaper by the Discovery Islands Marine Tourism Group, a coalition of businesses associated with an ecotourism industry employing over 1,200 people and generating $45 million for the local economy. Their problem is logging,
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: More Reflections on Leadership
The other day, in my post on political leadership, I chose Toronto Mayor Rob Ford as the figure to contrast what I consider to be the much more mature and thoughtful approach of Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne. My exclusion of the more obvious figure of comparison, Progressive Conservative Leader Tim
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Should Anonymous Identify Rehtaeh Parsons’ Tormentors?
WK ignited a crap storm yesterday when he tasked the hackivist group Anonymous with finding the identity of four male teens who allegedly assaulted Miss. Parsons. Anon now claims to have done just that. Furthermore, they have threatened to name names should it become apparent that the Nova Scotia authorities intend to do
Continue readingBuckdog: North Korea Appears To Be Behind Cyber Attack On South Korean Computers …
“An official investigation into a major cyber attack on South Korean banks and broadcasters last month has determined that North Korea’s military intelligence agency was responsible. An investigation into access records and the malware used in the attack pointed to the North’s military Reconnaissance General Bureau as the source, the
Continue readingMorton's Musings: An appeal court can intervene only if it is satisfied the trial judge erred in law or made a palpable and overriding error in findings of fact or mixed law and fact
Savoury v. Nova Scotia (Attorney General), 2013 NSCA 36 is a convenient source for the standard of review on appeal: [33] The parties acknowledge the limits of appellate review. An appeal court can intervene only if it is satisfied the trial judge erred in law or made a palpable and
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: ‘Idle No More’ Inspires Canada’s First Nations
Via Aljazeera / YouTube: An aboriginal protest movement in Canada has captivated the country and gained supporters around the world. But can Idle No More and the rest of Canada’s indigenous community come together and force the government to act? Guests: Grand Chief Derek Nepinak, Pamela Palmater, and Tim Powers.
Continue readingThe Sixth Estate: Peter Penashue Plumbs New Depths in Conservative Corruption
Well, at least we have it confirmed for us. The reason that Vic Toews is a Cabinet minister despite being convicted of election fraud, the reason that Peter Penashue is allowed to stand as a Conservative candidate despite being responsible for similar violations of the law, the reason Peter Van
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: #mtlqc13 Priority Resolution – Governance
One of the most obvious sources of cynicism in politics – which the NDP should be seeking to combat at every turn – is the presence of issues where opposition promises turn into government inaction or even abuse. And the Cons have sadly offered a case in point when it
Continue readingRedBedHead: Marxism & Religion: Part 2 – From Hatred to Brotherhood
Marxism is a child of the Enlightenment. It was born of the revolutions in politics, philosophy and economy that shook Europe and America from the 17th Century through to the 19th Century. As such it was tempered in part in the polemics and struggles against religious authority. After all, religion
Continue readingRedBedHead: Marxism & Religion: Part 2 – From Hatred to Brotherhood
Marxism is a child of the Enlightenment. It was born of the revolutions in politics, philosophy and economy that shook Europe and America from the 17th Century through to the 19th Century. As such it was tempered in part in the polemics and struggles a…
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