EDIT: The concert was unbelievable last night! The Murphys played material from all of their albums and were on fire. The crowd was freakin’ mental, too!My only complaint was that the sound was jacked up way too high. Cudos to local bands Class Assassins and Creepshow for tearing it up
Continue readingMorton's Musings: Ash Wednesday
Today is Ash Wednesday. According to the canonical gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke, Jesus spent 40 days fasting in the desert before the beginning of his public ministry, during which he endured temptation by Satan. Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of this 40-day liturgical period of prayer and fasting.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Science and the Conservative Party of Canada? Yeah Right…
This is a repost from askepticrtn.com it is important concisely written work that needs to be shared and amplified in the Canadian Blogosphere. Another Resignation at Statistics Canada February 12, 2012 in General Science by askeptic On February 01, Philip Cross, Chief Economic Adviser at Statistics Canada announced his leaving the agency. He
Continue readingFar and Wide: Weed As A Winning Wedge
From my perspective, there was a lot of misguided “scoffing” when the Liberals emerged from their Convention advocating marijuana be legalized. The passage was extrapolated into an indictment of not having compelling polices on issues that “really matter”, instead left to champion some quirky side issue that is clearly not
Continue readingwmtc: love a librarian: keep toronto public library public
Tell Mayor Ford you want a free, public Toronto Public Library. Go here.
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Thomas Walkom points out that the McGuinty Libs’ choice to emphasize austerity rather than stabilizing Ontario’s economy may lead down exactly the same destructive path travelled by Greece and other countries: (T)he crises in Spain, Portugal and Greece occurred because government spending cuts
Continue readingknitnut.net: Bowls I love
I love this bowl, too. Chandler Swain, my favourite potter, made it. I haven’t actually used it, since it hangs on a wall, but I’m pretty sure my Shreddies would taste great in there. Here it is with my Chandler Swain fruit bowl, which I also love. There’s a William
Continue readingAmerican law enforcement officials: “U.S. is becoming ‘more progressive’ than Canada”
"Hey, this is some good reefer. I just saw the future. It's just like the 30's in Canada only worse!" Harper tells them to buzz off. He is determined to send Canada back a century, if not the middle ages. But the Harper government remains unswayed. In a statement Tuesday, a
Continue readingScott's DiaTribes: When you’ve lost the National Post..
Actually, it’s not quite the National Post, despite some saying that. It’s actually one of their op-eds calling for the resignation. Still, I think that’s the first call I’ve seen for it, and the major surprise is it didn’t come first from the Star or even one of their writers:
Continue readingImpolitical: On the NDP numbers and race
The NDP leadership race membership numbers rolled in yesterday, accumulating to about 128,000 members, so I thought I’d do a rare blog post on their race. I have been watching but like many others on the outside, have found it very hard to gauge. They don’t do things the way
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: The Others, a.k.a the Ghost and Mrs. Dunderdale #nlpoli
Regardless of any change in the cost of other forms of energy,… we will have stability in this province that few parts of the world could depend on with the same reliability. Did Premier Kathy Dunderdale say that? During the provincial election last fall, she told The Scope that Muskrat
Continue readingAmerican law enforcement officials: "U.S. is becoming ‘more progressive’ than Canada"
“Hey, this is some good reefer. I just saw the future. It’s just like the 30’s in Canada only worse!” Harper tells them to buzz off. He is determined to send Canada back a century, if not the middle ages. But the Harper government remains unswayed. In a statement Tuesday, a
Continue readingThe membership numbers are in
The NDP membership numbers are now final in the lead-up to the leadership vote, and they have some 128,351 paid-up memberships going into the vote. While these may be record numbers for the NDP, it should be noted that unlike any other federal party, the NDP counts includes provincial party memberships with
Continue readingDid Paul McCartney’s right-wing wife stop him smoking pot?
I found the reason Paul McCartney stopped smoking pot ‘to be a better parent’ to be a laughable excuse. He’s been smoking pot for at least 48 years, through three marriages and five children, and the family situation has never bothered his pot habits before now. Looking at his current
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Northern Gateway Alternate Route Also Going Nowhere
… because: “A spill outside of Prince Rupert would be just as damaging as it would be outside of Hartley Bay” Exactly. Meanwhile, Barbara Yaffe asks Ezra if Ethical Oil gets dough from Enbridge: I put the question to Ethical Oil creator Ezra Levant, a right leaning political activist who kindly
Continue readingThe Sixth Estate: Beware the Cardus Blowhards
Following hard on the heels of the Prime Minister’s ridiculous endorsement of the crank claim that a long-dead Mohawk woman holds the key to curing flesh-eating disease (but only sometimes), the Globe & Mail has printed a column by Robert Joustra of the Cardus institute, a Christian right think tank,
Continue readingGonzo Week Cont’d…Wild Hunter’s Circus Story, Vol. 1
Louisville, KentuckyThe Athaeneum Club What kind of crazed hillbilly who ran away from home not to join one, but instead to build his own circus would move heaven and earth to have his ashes shot out of a cannon after his death? Probably the same one that would say this
Continue readingCalgaryLiberal: Where has Vincent been?
Everywhere, that’s where this one blogger has been. Last month’s convention in Ottawa was a roaring success–with the open primary system that the Alberta Liberal championed and now the federal Liberals have chosen to adopt the next leader in 2013–that I supported and fought for on the convention floor for
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Me, Vic, and the Internet Snooping Bill
Oh boy. Sometimes it’s not easy to be a blogger in the growing darkness of Stephen Harper’s Canada. You can feel the fear in the air. My computer is humming like a toaster, and I don’t know whether it’s the sinister operatives from the PMO, or the Russian hackers. Or
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