http://bit.ly/wNcPwC "So the first lesson of the London massacre: Ottawa must be vigilant about vetting foreign investment and retaining jobs, but also mindful of valuing — and anchoring — our homegrown intellectual property. Why underwrite our companies if we willingly sell off our embedded brainpower to foreign bidders who leave
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: Smug Stupidity
Jeffrey Simpson wrote in yesterday’s Globe and Mail that: Under the Harper government, Canada lost its bid for a Security Council seat – the first time it had ever been defeated. Were a vote held today, chances are Canada would get even fewer votes. Consider Canada’s performance on the world
Continue readingDemocracy Under Fire: Representation & Depression
With parliament onceagain back in session I am again fighting depression, its not thatthe attack on our democracy increases any more during these time butthat it receives greater attention and is far more obvious. We haveseen the statements by Minister Oliver and by PM Harper regarding theneed to ‘streamline’ environmental
Continue reading350 or bust: Take Time To Renew Your Spirit
“To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Disservice – Religion poisons everything. Never fails.
Sometimes I get asked by the faithful as to why I advocate so strongly against religion. It is hard to know where to start sometimes, but sadly incidents like what is happening in Minnesota at Anoka High School makes it all to easy. Religion promotes intolerance, hatred and bigotry.
Continue readingCanada II: OilGate: Selling our Sovereignty
Harper’s government is guilty of projection if nothing else. Yesterday’s article in the Ottawa Citizen clearly points out how foreign interests have taken ownership of the oilsands from the inside: Defenceless: Canada has no idea what foreign activity… But what Harper and Oliver inadvertently opened up was a nasty and troubling
Continue readingCanada II: OilGate: Selling our Sovereignty
Harper’s government is guilty of projection if nothing else.
Yesterday’s article in the Ottawa Citizen clearly points out how foreign interests have taken ownership of the oilsands from the inside:
Defenceless: Canada has no idea what foreign activ…
Continue readingCanada II: OilGate: Selling our Sovereignty
Harper’s government is guilty of projection if nothing else. Yesterday’s article in the Ottawa Citizen clearly points out how foreign interests have taken ownership of the oilsands from the inside: Defenceless: Canada has no idea what foreign activity… But what Harper and Oliver inadvertently opened up was a nasty and troubling
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: The Lost Boys of Neverland Have Been Discovered
In March of 2001, Rahim Jaffer, an Alliance MP, got into a bit of trouble when a hoax he had helped to perpetrate, blew up in his face. Jaffer then owned a string of coffee shops in Edmonton, one of them set to open on the very day that he
Continue readingExcited Delirium: The Unspoken Holocaust
American wars have resulted in the deaths of millions of civilians. Why are we not hearing more about this?
Continue readingRoss Douthat brings out the last refuge of a scoundrel defense. Blames media for Komen scandal.
Ross Douthat is the New York Times angry young evangelical blogger, brought in to balance the Washington Post’s progressive blogging voices, Greg Sargent and Ezra Klein. Running out of cogent arguments against the grass roots uprising the Susan G. Komen foundation’s slip into politics and selective misogyny, the right wing has
Continue readingDrive-by Planet: Brock U study: right-wingers less intelligent, more prejudiced?
A Brock University study on intelligence has come up with findings guaranteed to ignite a few fires on the net. Put in the most basic terms the research finds that people who are prejudiced towards gays and races other than their own are likely to be less intelligent and attracted
Continue readingSaturday Night’s Alright For…
….For Uke (Cover) Fighting! First, the very original original from Lisa Hannigan and friends…. And now, the cover from ‘Busker Rhymes’… ______ A YouTubian fansite of all things Ms. Hannigan has popped up with some pretty interesting bits and pieces on it, including uploading stuff done with Mic Christopher, here….
Continue readingOccupy Ottawa: Harper Conservatives’ budget 2012 cuts: An Occupy Ottawa activist’s lamentation
The Conservative government’s “austerity” budget cuts, they’re coming. Huge cuts to social programs and services. Cuts so deep they’ll alter the quality of life of thousands of Canadians. Especially through massive job losses in the …Read More
Continue readingcmkl: Clip ‘n’ climb
Mallory was at her friend F’s birthday party today. F’s parents held the party at the kiddie part of Altitude Gym called Clip ‘n’ Climb. It was brilliant. There’s kids. There’s climbing walls galore. There’s these automatic belay things that let you down.
Continue readingWankers of the Week: Corporate welfare bums (and other asses deserving to be kicked)
Crappy weekend, everyone! Oh, what a week it’s been…me under the weather, and yet the wanks and the wanking wankers who wank them just keep on coming. This week’s list is a little abbreviated as a result of my miserable, rotten, mostly-head cold, but as you can see, it’s still
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Parliament in Review: November 30, 2011
After the previous day’s debacle in which government-sponsored amendments to the Cons’ dumb-on-crime bill were ruled out of order, one might have expected at least some acknowledgment of fallibility on the part of the Harper Cons. The Big Issue But Wednesday, November 30 saw nothing of the sort, even when
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Fox News North and the Fake Porn Scandal
I suppose I should thank James Moore, for putting some bimbo from Fox News North in her place. After she tried to claim that the CBC was a porn network. According to Sun TV, CBC is producing “state broadcaster smut.” They sent a reporter to Parliament Hill this week
Continue readinggay persons of color: Gay writer and U.S. Army veteran offers CNN readers some perspective
It’s nice to see that a mainstream media source has published an insightful article about some of the issues that enter the minds of those of us who are both gay and of color. For CNN’s In America blog, Rob Smith, a black writer, lecturer, and openly gay U.S. Army
Continue readingCanadian Progressive World: An Occupy Ottawa activist laments Harper Conservatives’ budget cuts
The Conservative government’s “austerity” budget cuts, they’re coming. Huge cuts to social programs and services. Cuts so deep they’ll alter the quality of life of thousands of Canadians. Especially through massive job losses in the …Read More
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