AllTheDeservingWhoFit ManganatorVille Because Juno Has Not Heard This One Before… From noted music critic Charlie Smith in the GStraight: Vancouver heartthrob Dan Mangan has officially become a member of Canada’s music establishment. That’s because the indie songwriter picked up two Juno Awards this weekend in Ottawa—New Artist of the Year
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 4425…The Whole World Loves UK
I, on the other hand, love KU. WFDS
Continue readingRed Tory v.3.0.3: Parliamentary Fight Club
Irrespective of the supposedly worthy fundraising cause involved, what an utterly bizarre and unseemly event this past weekend’s charity boxing match was. Hard to believe that we’ve actually sunk lower by a quantum measure of absurdity in comparison to our American friends – can you imagine two members of Congress
Continue readingGeoff at Mount Allison: Registered my first domain
Hey everybody, I’ve got a lot to do the next few weeks but I managed to steal five minutes to register a domain for my life after Mount Allison. It’s a little tough and non-sensical to rename everything so I’ve decided to start anew. The new, blank website is http://geoffcampbell.me/. Once
Continue readingGeoff Campbell: Registered my first domain
Hey everybody, I’ve got a lot to do the next few weeks but I managed to steal five minutes to register a domain for my life after Mount Allison. It’s a little tough and non-sensical to rename everything so I’ve decided to start anew. The new, blank website is http://geoffcampbell.me/. Once
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Dennis Gruending On The Sale Of The Saskatchewan Wheat Pool
Farmers fought long and hard to create the Saskatchewan Wheat Pool in 1924, but 88 years later the company, now known as Viterra, is being sold to a Swiss-based multinational called Glencore for $6.1 billion. This is a sad story, a kind of morality tale about the gradual destruction of
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 4424…Sexual Healing
The anniversary of Marvin Gaye’s birth is today. He would be 73 if he had not be felled by his father a day before his 45th birthday in 1984. Say a prayer; light a candle. WFDS
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 4423…Good News For Ian Morrison
Ian Morrison is not only the head of he is Friends of Canadian Broadcasting. The headline in his post Harper budget email painfully [and by painfully I mean gleefully] announces at least one more year of begging er fundraising er fearmongering for Mr. Morrison and Friends of Canadian Broadcasting. CBC
Continue readingSketchy Thoughts: Granting No Quarter: A Call for the Disavowal of the Racism and Antisemitism of Gilad Atzmon
As a follow-up to the last post, which was a public statement endorsed by over a hundred anti-imperialists, condemning the views of Gilad Atzmon, i am also re-posting this statement by 23 Palestinian activists, “Granting No Quarter: A Call for the Disavowal of the Racism and Antisemitism of Gilad Atzmon”.
Continue readingMorton's Musings: Direct or indirect tax
Out-Of-Home v. Toronto (City), 2012 ONCA 212 today cites John Stuart Mill as an authority for the definition of indirect or direct tax! The Court writes: [11] In my view, the application judge correctly rejected this submission. The courts have consistently adopted John Stuart Mill's classic distinction between a direct and an indirect
Continue readingScott's DiaTribes: Humour on the Trudeau- Brazeau fight
Liberal MP Roger Cuzner – with a lot of smiling Liberal MP’s around him: It might be accurate to say this has been the single biggest boost of Liberal morale since… oh.. 2004? I’m not exactly sure if that’s a good thing. I’ve also heard some facetiously say that this
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: Social Justice and Democracy Activists Fool their Foes on April Fools
Long time social justice and democracy activists fooled their foes on April Fools this year giving the world a double victory with Aung San Suu Kyi and George Galloway winning by-elections to restore voices for reason in the world. Suu Kyi, a long time political prisoner, won her first election
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: #TellDaveEverything: Brits follow suit in protesting Internet surveillance legislation
Next month, U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron plans to unveil a new law that would grant their police greater online surveillance capabilities. The bill is strangely reminiscent of Canada’s hotly contested online spying legislation, Bill C-30. The British government is proposing to force ISPs to install a new data retention
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Con War on Information Continues
In most countries a budget is a tool to control expenses. In Great Robot Leader’s Canada it’s a weapon to control information. Exhibit A: Stats Canada. Statistics Canada, the national statistics agency, informed its staff late last week that it has been ordered to chop $33.9-million from its planned spending
Continue readingDumb and Dumber 2 announced
Word is it will be a Canadian production. From Montreal Simon
Continue readingLeDaro: Sugar is toxic for you
Pretty well every food includes some sugar. What is left to eat??? 🙂 Source: CBS
Continue readingA New Progressive Narrative: What Could Be Part Of It, And What Should Not
In the last couple of years, various Canadian commentators have remarked on the new conservative narrative of Canada that Stephen Harper and the federal Conservatives have been creating. Much of this narrative centres around a new form of patriotism that emphasizes support for the military, the Canadian North, hockey and
Continue readingNorthern Insight: Wingnut alert!
REPLAY: First published Oct 22, 2010, this small piece, with minor updates, remains apropos. BC Liberals Keith “Fore!” Baldrey and Bill “That’s an old story” Good, with Mr. “I’ve Seen No Evidence” Palmer, said on Corus Radio that bloggers are anonymous “wingnuts” writing “things they don’t know.” I might be
Continue readingThe Liberal Scarf: Conservative attacks on eco groups should give LPC an opportunity to reach out
A lot has been written about the attacks on environmental groups in the recent Conservative budget, most of it negative, such as this Globe and Mail editorial: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/editorials/budgets-new-rules-unfairly-target-environmental-groups/article2387590/ While the Conservatives are wasting your tax dollars to go after legitimate environmental groups (full disclosure: I am currently working part time
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 4422…Cool April Fool’s 2012 Joke
JUPITER, Fla. — A lucky fan was about to win a truck, and Adam Wainwright thought it was pretty cool. Until the St. Louis Cardinals pitcher realized it was his white pickup being driven onto the field. Cardinals teammates Lance Berkman and Skip Schumaker pulled off an April Fools’ Day
Continue reading