Slap Upside The Head: Recent Heritage
Canada’s famous (well, internally famous) Heritage Minutes got a new addition recently. The succinctly titled Canada Gay Marriage may not be an It’s Time in terms of quality, but hey, at least we’re lucky enough to have it depict the past instead of the future!
Continue readingSlap Upside The Head: Like The New Coke, But Slappier
Slap’s got a new format and schedule! Due to persistent interference from Real Life™, regular illustrated posts now happen on everyone’s favourite day of the week: Monday! There’ll also be a bunch of brand new mini Slaps throughout the week featuring smaller stories that may not otherwise get much attention.
Continue readingSlap Upside The Head: Newfoundland Gets GSA Fund
Looks like Ontario may need to go to Newfoundland for some schooling on schooling. Clyde Jackman, Newfoundland’s education minister, just announced MyGSA, a $90,000 fund to help support the establishment of Gay-Straight Alliances. And it’s available to all schools offering grades 7 to 12. Cool stuff! It’s about time tha—Hey, McGuinty! Pay attention!
Continue readinggay persons of color: Aeroflot tells gay flight attendant to marry woman
Pure insanity from Russia. After Maxim Kupreev created an LGBT group within Aeroflot to fight for the protection of the rights of gay employees in June 2011, the airline offered him just two options. From Gaystarnews: According to internal Aeroflot sources reported by GayRussia.eu, 25-year-old flight attendant Maxim Kupreev was
Continue readingStaffroom Confidential: BC Schools: A decade of choice, a decade of decline
Yesterday marked the tenth anniversary of Bills 27 and 28. These two pieces of legislation began a dramatic shift in the framework of BC schooling towards a policy of “choice” – market driven public schooling. The most dramatic impact was on funding and class size and support for students with
Continue readingHalf an Hour: Passwords on gRSShopper
Last night with all the indignation of the morally righteous someone wrote to me and demanded that I do exactly what they say or they would blog about how awful gRSShopper was to the world. Let me beat him to the punch: gRSShopper is awful. I have never denied it,
Continue readingSigns of life in the second NDP debate
There may have been more instances of “violent agreement” with the second official NDP leadership debate, held in Halifax this afternoon, but this particular debate saw a few minutes of actual debate take place – but not until about halfway through the proceedings. The topic at hand was “Giving families
Continue readingknitnut.net: Larry O’Brien steps in it again
Our former mayor, Larry O’Brien, has managed to publicly disgrace himself once again. This time it was by being openly racist on his public Twitter account. David Reevely, of the Ottawa Citizen, blogged the details, including the follow-up exchange with O’Brien. Now Larry has blogged about it, giving himself a
Continue readingMorton's Musings: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg – 1943 (Furtwängler, Bayreuth)
A magnificent recording — now YouTube is allowing long videos there are some wonderful older pieces going up. Four hours and two minutes and worth listening to every second: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAokG9BrvPo&feature=related
Continue readingMorton's Musings: No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear
Edmund Burke
Continue readingThe Left Stuff: Part of the Prologue to ANewHumanity.CA
The End of Cheap Oil will bring unprecedented and mostly unwanted change to the industrialized world. No known combination of alternative energy sources, with the possible exception of nuclear reactors, will produce more than a small percentage of the energy currently used in countries like the USA, Canada, Japan and
Continue readingThe Left Stuff: Part of the Prologue to ANewHumanity.CA
The End of Cheap Oil will bring unprecedented and mostly unwanted change to the industrialized world. No known combination of alternative energy sources, with the possible exception of nuclear reactors, will produce more than a small percentage of the energy currently used in countries like the USA, Canada, Japan and
Continue readingMy, Ahem, OFFICIAL Official Endorsement for #NDPLDR
Well, that time has come. After watching the debates in Halifax tonight, going over the platforms and consulting various tweeps and others within the NDP I made my decision. For the 2012 Leadership Convention of the NDP, to be held March 24th, I will be voting for Member of Parliament
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: A modern corporation
Apple: made in China, untaxed profits kept offshore, David Gewirtz, ZDNet Government: “It’s been a banner week for Apple. With Apple’s announcement of Q1 2012 results, the company is now apparently worth more than Greece. “In the same week, the President of the United States invoked the late Steve Jobs
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Parliament in Review: November 24, 2011
The main topic of debate in the House of Commons on Thursday, November 24 was again copyright – and once more, the Cons couldn’t be bothered to try to defend their own legislation. The Big Issue But that left plenty of time for opposition speakers to raise the level of
Continue readingProgressive Proselytizing: Halifax NDP Federal Leader Debate January 29th Analysis
The following is various reactions and analysis of the Halifax NDP Federal Leader debate on January 27th. Previous NDP debate commentary: Dec 4th Ottawa Debate | January 18th Toronto Debate part 1 | January 18th Toronto Debate part 2 (Issues and Themes). The third English language debate largely followed the themes and
Continue readingJustice: SERVED.
’nuff said.
Continue readingBlunt Objects: ONDP Attacks!
I went on to the Ontario NDP’s website and on to their “Our Team” heading – essentially to see their MPPs, I wanted to look up biographical info on one of them – and my protective Firefox browser had this to say: That’s the webpage at ontariondp.com/en/about/mpps (don’t go there,
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Leadership 2012 Candidate Rankings – January 29, 2012
With one exception, the NDP’s Halifax leadership debate looks largely to have largely reinforced the previous positions of its leadership candidates. But there could be plenty more changes in store if a few developments from the debate hold up in the weeks to come. 1. Thomas Mulcair (1) As the
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