… and it didn’t cost me a dime. – Johnny Cash I went to the latest Design Regina public forum Tuesday night, at Artesian on 13th Ave. That building is quite impressive inside, including a clever use of bathroom space downstairs. Check it out sometime. Anyway, at the meeting the
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Sodoku and Mathematics
Every wonder how many clues you needed to uniquely solve a Sudoku puzzle? Watch and find out Filed under: Science Tagged: Mathematics, Sodoku
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: The Ontario Budget: Andrea Horwath’s Dilemma
Being the leader of an opposition party in Ontario just got a lot more difficult for one person yesterday. No, I’m not referring to young Tim (not ready for prime-time politics) Hudak, whose response to the Ontario’s austerity budget was both swift and predictable: “It fails to address the job
Continue readingFalse positive: private profit in Canada's health care: US Health Insurance Truths Emerge
As the American government slithers through the mud with the health insurance industry towards universal health coverage certain truths about private insurance that supporters of public health care know, and remarkably, pro-market advocates continue to deny, are emerging. Mark Bertolini, CEO Aetna Insurance, one of America’s largest health insurance companies,
Continue readingRed Tory v.3.0.3: Subliminal Frames
If you’ve watched Santorum’s “Obamaville” web advert once or twice, it’s easy to miss a number of what can only be described as “subliminal” images as they appear for only a fraction of a second and often in rapid succession. Whether or not that advertising tactic actually works is highly
Continue readinggritchik: Ontario Election 2012
Seems unlikely, right? You’d think so yet just months after the last election Tim Hudak was on CBC radio this morning huffing and puffing about the McGuinty budget. I’d call it a liberal budget but it wasn’t. Not really. It was probably the most conservative budget since the Harris era.
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: BREAKING: Tim DeChristopher Moved To Isolated Confinement
TimDeChristopher.png According to a press release sent from Tim DeChristopher's organization, Peaceful Uprising, Tim was recently moved from the minimum security camp at Federal Correctional Institute Herlong in California to Herlong's "special housing unit" which, in the parlance of our times, equals "the hole." Sources report that DeChristopher was moved there
Continue readingHalf an Hour: Code for Repression
Responding to James Morton: You say “Judges shouldn’t be making social policy.” I respond that the policy was already made by legislators, and that judges are merely enforcing it. The policy was created when the Constitution Act was passed in 1982. This was not an act of the judiciary, but
Continue readingNOM: ‘Seeking glamorous, non-intellectual celebrities’
The National Organization for Marriage has been in the news lately for its efforts to force a wedge between blacks and gays. As if to lighten the mood, NOM has unintentionally also come under scrutiny for this Onion-worthy ad.
Continue readingmark a rayner | scribblings, squibs & sundry monkey joys: Clown Apocalypse: Beach Happies
Of course, many people had been going about their day-to-day business when they were afflicted by the Bozo Virus. Some were at work, some at home, but some had been on holiday when the plague struck. They showed all the … Continue reading →
Continue readingScott's DiaTribes: Why do this if you aren’t trying to hide something?
This action by the Conservatives is about as likely it being coincidental as the chances of me voting Conservative are: Canada’s chief electoral officer is being called before MPs to speak about the robo-calls controversy dogging the Harper government on the same day Finance Minister Jim Flaherty delivers his budget.
Continue reading350 or bust: I ♥ Climate Scientists
A fun video from Granada, Spain, in honour of World Meteorological Day last week. What could be better than sending some love to hardworking climate scientists, with the Alhambra in the background? Support Climate Scientists in their struggle against denialist propaganda and disinformation and in their suffering from constant cyberbullying,
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Coulda, woulda, shoulda: the Labrador hydro version #nlpoli
Sometimes completely separate events come together in a striking way. Your humble e-scribbler and Jerome Kennedy, the provincial natural resources minister exchanged a couple of tweets on Tuesday. The minister had called it an error that the 1969 Churchill Falls power contract included a clause that said the contract would
Continue readingRobocall court challenges
The Council of Canadians is backing court challenges of the electoral results in seven ridings based on evidence of misleading robocalls and other voter suppression techniques. It’s not enough to overturn the majority, and it seems to be jumping the gun since Elections Canada hasn’t completed their investigation, and I have to
Continue readingMorton's Musings: Judges shouldn’t be making social policy
"Since the 1980s our biggest social questions have been decided by judges. Abortion, gay marriage, medical marijuana, Canada's obligations to citizens imprisoned abroad and now prostitution are all highly contentious matters that were not resolved by Parliament but rather by judges. Once an issue gets to the courts, the legislature
Continue readingAnti-Racist Canada: The ARC Collective: The Vilification of Trayvon Martin
Our friend Dr. Dawg has referred in the past to "conservative" as not being politics, but a diagnosis. And certainly in the demonization of Trayvon Martin on the right, we are loathed to disagree with him. Smears such as the faked photos depicting Martin as a "gang banger", accusations (unfounded)
Continue readingBlunt Objects: Visualizing Alberta
A quick graphic by Teddy
Continue readingNorthern Insight: Stop hangin’ those picket signs on our trees!
Rocky Mountaineer sorry for illegally cut trees in Vancouver, Bob Mackin, Vancouver Courier, March 15, 2012 “The upscale tourist railway that sells rides through what it calls unspoiled scenery is pledging to compensate the City of Vancouver after trees outside its False Creek Flats station were illegally cut. “Rocky Mountaineer
Continue readingDavid Climenhaga's Alberta Diary: Where’s Ed Stelmach now that Alberta’s Tories really need him?
Ed Stelmach, back when he was still the premier of Alberta, looks ahead to a day when he wouldn’t have to put up with all the nonsense. Now that day has come, and it’s likely many of his Progressive Conservative caucus mates today view his time in office fondly! Below:
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