Source: We want to apologize to the American public for recent decisions that cast doubt upon our commitment to our mission of saving women’s lives. “We misspoke ourselves. Let us make things perfectly clear.” The events of this week have been deeply unsettling for our supporters, partners and friends and
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: That’s the best he’s got #nlpoli
As a rule when you start attacking the other guy’s character or attributing motives to him, you’ve admitted you don’t have much of an argument of your own Natural resources minister Jerome Kennedy went back to the line on Wednesday that critics of the Muskrat Falls project are “politically motivated”
Continue readingsamupress: The cat book ebook
An iBooks 2 version of the cat book is now up on iTunes at: http://itunes.apple.com/ca/book/cat/id499745919?mt=11. Its a free download. Signed print versions are still available.
Continue readingsamupress: The cat book ebook
An iBooks 2 version of the cat book is now up on iTunes at: http://itunes.apple.com/ca/book/cat/id499745919?mt=11. Its a free download. Signed print versions are still available.
Continue readingPolitics and Entertainment: Overlapping Agendas and Neoliberal Markers
This is a brief addendum to my last post. Of course four other obvious neoliberal markers that precede the four mentioned in that post are TFSAs, proposed PRPPs – both of which serve the financialization of the economy, a major global neoliberal project – a series of corporate tax cuts, and
Continue readingMorton's Musings: The judge didn’t find the accused was remorseful
The judge wrote: "[96] Mr. Kaziuk would rip-off the wings of all the angels in heaven and sell them to the devil for his own gain if he could." R. v. Kaziuk, 2012 ONCJ 34 The accused got ten years jail for fraud and theft.
Continue readingTrashy's World: Friday miscellany….
picture edition…. Apologies to any vegetarians out there… (naw, not really…) IN THE BEGINNING, there was bacon… =================================================================================== There is an interesting poll in the Montréal Gazette this morning: _____________________________________________________________________________________________ On this day… Canadian football and American football parted ways… 1912 – In the U.S., professional football set some new
Continue readingA Novelist's Mind: Lilian Nattel Online: Excellent Women by Barbara Pym
Another blogger recommended this book, and as usual I can’t remember who it was! So please remind me in the comments. I wanted to re-read your review after I finished it. Excellent Women, written in the early 50′s, is almost excellent and certainly very good. The narrator, Mildred Lathbury, is
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: F-35 For Australia and Canada
It’s amazing how expensive a stealth fighter jet can be. And it just gets more and more expensive the longer Canada contemplates actually forking over cash for the fictional fighter planes. I was 14 when I last thought that fighter jets were the coolest things ever. I guess Harper never
Continue readingCanadian Dimension Feed: The Uranium Controversy in Baker Lake
Baker Lake is a small and mostly Inuit community. The only inland community in Nunavut, it is located west of Hudson Bay, near the geographic centre of Canada. Its Inuktitut name is Qamani’tuaq (“where the river widens”). Baker Lake is in what is referred to today as the Kivalliq region,
Continue readingKomen Caves! Switches decision on Planned Parenthood. Ezra Klein: not so fast.
Wow. This kind of switch rarely happens. Note that such about faces are rarely for altruistic purposes. They usually reveal an untenable position that can no longer be held (aka too many lies to cover up). Brinker was caught in a lie. Only time will tell if Komen can ever recover
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: I’m Back – Nothing’s Changed, Just Getting Worse
After a week out of the country with limited access to the Internet and Canadian news, I see things keep getting worse. First thing I read this morning was how the Harper regime faked a Citizenship ceremony staged on Sun TV, the ever-faithful tool (and I mean that in the
Continue readingcartoon life: The cat book ebook
An iBooks 2 version of the cat book is now up on iTunes at: http://itunes.apple.com/ca/book/cat/id499745919?mt=11. Its a free download. Signed print versions are still available. Filed under: art, book, digital, iPad Tagged: art, Cat, cats, digital, illustration, iPad, painting
Continue readingROAR!: Call Robert Ghiz up in front of the class!
Paul Dewar, NDP Leadership hopeful has released his plan to bring Women’s rights and women’s participation in government front and centre. NDP LEADERSHIP: Dewar reveals women’s rights plan in wake of debate attack. Apparently he was given a hard time for not naming a woman as his second officer, but
Continue readingCanadian Dimension Feed: We have a different understanding
At the January 23rd summit meeting between First Nations Chiefs and the Prime Minister of the rest of Canada, the two solitudes talked past one another. Grand Chief Shawn Atleo spoke of another kind of relationship, one informed by an Aboriginal understanding of things. He even brought the wampum agreements
Continue readingRedBedHead: Every Revolution Has Its Road
I was reading about the terrible, terrible tragedy in Egypt last night and today – 74 dead at a soccer match – and the ensuing mass protests and national explosion of anger. And I was struck by how the battle is unfolding in Egypt, the way that the military dictatorship
Continue readingcmkl: Electro-Motive plans to close its London plant
So a handsomely profitable corporation buys a London Ontario locomotive factory in June 2010 and promptly tells the 465 or so members of the CAW local there that they’ll have to cut their wages in half and give up their pension plan to keep their jobs. Things lead to things
Continue readingThe ever shifting winds at the Susan G. Komen foundation
You can usually tell a guilty person by the way that person shifts the excuses for a crime. The more the excuses change and evolve, the guiltier the person appears. The Susan G. Komen foundation is in big trouble. Not so much money-wise – it’s raking in the cash from
Continue readingThings Are Good: How to be Happier at Work (and beyond)
Here’s a fun TED Talk on happiness and how we can better achieve at as individuals and as a society.
Continue readingCanadian Dimension Feed: Secret documents expose Ottawa’s tar sands enemies list
As the Harper government works with oil companies to slander and discredit opponents of tar sands, will the supposedly impartial regulator be trusted? (Greenpeace Canada, January 26, 2012) As controversy increases over the Harper government’s attacks on environmental groups, Greenpeace Canada today released internal government documents obtained under Access to
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