I thought I would share today’s Star editorial cartoon. Enjoy: Recommend this Post
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: April 7:…Staring at the pages….wondering….
what can I say?..there is nothing in this paper. The lead story is that municipal labour costs have gone up. But so have revenues and values, so it makes no never mind. Duh – then why is this a news story?Brent Mazerolle reports, for anybody who can’t read the for
Continue readingBlevkog: The end of one career and the start of the next…
“The second point is that all monies have been recovered. The taxpayers are not on the hook for a single dime. That is exactly how our government should act in the circumstances.” The article linked to this quote is about a Conservative staffer to minister Christian Paradis by the name
Continue readingAkaash Maharaj - Practical Idealism: TVO’s The Agenda: The Raj, the Reich, and the Good Fight – Akaash Maharaj Videocast
Gandhi and Bose were brothers in the hunger for justice, and both had followers who were willing to die for freedom rather than live as slaves. But one group was so blinded by passion for its cause, that it was willing to join hands with regimes whose very names have
Continue readingAkaash Maharaj - Practical Idealism: TVO’s The Agenda: The Raj, the Reich, and the Good Fight – Akaash Maharaj Videocast
Gandhi and Bose were brothers in the hunger for justice, and both had followers who were willing to die for freedom rather than live as slaves. But one group was so blinded by passion for its cause, that it was willing to join hands with regimes whose very names have
Continue readingBlast Furnace Canada Blog: More problems with Ornge
This week it was learned that there could be a nasty side effect (no pun intended) to the scandals that have plagued Ornge, the air ambulance service. Hamilton could lose on staff air traffic control. Why? It seems that the company that was contracted to do air ambulance services, and
Continue readingCo2 Art: Quebec Total Ban on Fracking as USGS Links it to Earthquakes
Last Tuesday the Quebec environment minister announced an absolute ban on fracking while the process is studied. That move is looking like a stroke of genius today, as the U.S. Geological Survey is releasing a report showing an unprecedented increase in earthquakes occurring in the U.S. heartland. The study identifies
Continue readingCo2 Art: Quebec Total Ban on Fracking as USGS Links it to Earthquakes
Last Tuesday the Quebec environment minister announced an absolute ban on fracking while the process is studied. That move is looking like a stroke of genius today, as the U.S. Geological Survey is releasing a report showing an unprecedented increase in earthquakes occurring in the U.S. heartland. The study identifies
Continue readingCo2 Art: Quebec Total Ban on Fracking as USGS Links it to Earthquakes
Last Tuesday the Quebec environment minister announced an absolute ban on fracking while the process is studied.That move is looking like a stroke of genius today, as the U.S. Geological Survey is releasing a report showing an unprecedented increase in…
Continue readingFrom Orangutan: Dear Peter MacKay,
In this video, Rex Murphy nicely summarizes the current folly of the Canadian federal government, but I still can’t figure out who you really are, Mr. MacKay. I checked Wikipedia, and I know that you serve as Minister of National Defence. I know that you are a Libra, born in
Continue readingThe bravest sponsor to drop Rush Limbaugh of them all: Arby’s
Roast beef Derbyshire sandwich, please! When Arby’s announced on Twitter Wednesday it was no longer advertising on Limbaugh’s show, the wingnutosphere went nuts. Forget all those other sponsors who cancelled on Limbaugh; Arby’s is serious business. Arby’s is no mere product. To the right wing, it is the food of
Continue readingA Novelist's Mind: Lilian Nattel Online: Not From Another Era: Jalutavad / Walking
Jalutavad / Walking – Landscape & Rural Photos – Vaido’s Photoblog. Filed under: Beautiful Tagged: rural photography
Continue readingBlast Furnace Canada Blog: Guest Post: New Progressive Narrative
Today, I’m please to allow fellow progressive Jared Milne write a guest post about how the progressive movement should change the course of the debate between progressives and the right to make moderate policies appealing to the masses in Canada once more. ***** In the last couple of years, various Canadian commentators have
Continue readingdaveberta.ca - Alberta politics blog: alberta election: the leaders’ debate will matter.
In a typical provincial election in Alberta, the televised Leaders’ debate is a mere formality in a process that would inevitably lead to the election of another massive Progressive Conservative majority government. Even when the perceived winner of the debate is from an opposition party, the effects only . In
Continue readingRecreating Eden: Saturday Photo: The Results of the Natural Easter Egg Challenge
Mrs. Ikvilds’ eggs are the best. I couldn’t believe how lovely the mottled red colour was. She says she sometimes puts celery leaves on hers, so the dye doesn’t enter the leaf-protected part. That sounds really nice, but even with my experimental attempt, I got a subtle flower pattern on
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: On Mulcair’s Hair
Hair to a politician is like a ninja’s sword, the essence of their very being. OF COURSE the MSM should be debating Mulcair’s beard. I would be worried for our democracy if they didn’t. Personally, I’m not sold on it yet. I’m also a little surprised no one has mentioned the man’s
Continue readingLeDaro: George Zimmerman’s lawyers propose a bizarre defence
Now Zimmerman’s lawyers are claiming that Trayvon Martin shook Zimmerman’s head so hard that he got shaken -baby syndrome and as a result of that he didn’t know what he was doing when he shot the teenager. A 28 years old man, 180lb, given shaken baby syndrome by 150lb teenager
Continue readingThe Derbyshire debacle
Ah, the pleasing sound of another mask dropping. In fairness, John Derbyshire is not new at this, but he’s never been quite so…unvarnished before. Derbyshire is the man who in 2001 called for the killing of Clinton. That’s Chelsea Clinton, daughter of Bill and Hillary, at the time not even
Continue readingThose Emergency Blues: Favourite Poems LI
Easter in Pittsburgh Even on Easter Sunday jungle of lilies and ferns fat Uncle Paul who loved his liquor so would pound away with both fists on the when the church was a stone pulpit shouting sin sin sin and the fiery fires of hell and I cried all after-
Continue readingLarry Hubich's Blog: Court Decision Upholds Working People’s Rights
Workers in Saskatchewan, and across Canada, won a significant legal victory on February 6, 2012. Justice Dennis Ball ruled that the right to strike is a protected freedom for all workers under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. He also found that the right to strike is protected by
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