December 9, 2011: Angered by the UN-caused cholera epidemic that has claimed thousands, Haitians rallied at the UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) Base at St. Marc. Photo: from a video produced by Nick Stratton, Bureau des Avocats Internationaux. Watch it at http://ijdh.org/archives/24340. Two years after an earthquake killed 158,000,
Continue readingThe Scott Ross: The Defamiliarization of a Saturday Morning
This morning, with a brightening glow from my right I looked up from my newspaper to see a fog of falling snow across the yard, neighbouring street, and rooftops below. The unplanned and surprising sight had taken me back, contrasted all the more by the warm mug in my hand
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CANADIAN LABOUR: SOLIDARITY WITH TORONTO CIVIC WORKERS: The following appeal for solidarity with civic workers in Toronto Ontario is from the Toronto based Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP). *********************** Don’t be a STRIKEBREAKER for Rob Ford!Sent: January-27-12 5:46:26 PM ~A Message from the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty~ Rob Ford and
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 4157…The Cultural Capital Of Metro Detroit…
…and Canada’s second sleaziest city, Windsor, is holding a dwarf tossing competition tonight. I personally have no problem with that, this particular dwarf has to make a living, eh? And getting tossed in the air by drunks may not be your dream job but I bet it beats working a
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 4156…Cheap B*stard
That would be Outremont MP and NDP leadership front runner Thomas Muclair. The Ottawa Citizen’s front page reveals such. Mr. Muclair has given Z E R O dollars to the Dippers since forever. Perhaps he is not aware of the 75 per cent tax credit. Or he is a cheap
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TODAY IN HISTORY: CUBAN REVOLUTIONARY JOSE MARTI BORN: On this day in 1853 Cuban revolutionary José Marti was born. An early advocate of both independence from Spain and resistance to the imperialist designs of the USA, Marti advocated a socialism that while still statist was considerably more libertarian than what
Continue readingThe Pension Plan fiasco. Who cares? There are few jobs for someone 60, let alone 65 or 67.
I’ve been watching bemusedly – and with no little horror – the arguments waged between elite media types, celebrated authors and lowly bloggers over Stephen Harper’s hint about raising the qualification for old age pension from 65 to 67. It’s all academic, literally. What’s not being considered in these finely-wrought debates
Continue readingCathiefromCanada: Saturday cartoon (Oscar edition)
I’m out of it today with a cold, but this is the NFB Oscar-nominated short “Wild Life” about a remittance man in the Canadian old west, with the sound done by Twisted Pair of Regina:
Continue reading350 or bust: Saturday At The Movies
It’s the weekend; hopefully you, dear reader, can kick back and relax with family and friends and recharge your batteries (in an environmentally-friendly way, of course). Here’s the Saturday short, a cat who scratches its itch in a curiously human-like manner: *And remember, today is Twitter Blackout Day, in response
Continue readingIt All Makes Sense To Me Now…
WhoNeedsPhrenology WhenYou’veGotMurrayVille Because if, according to Charles ‘Coloured’s Is Dumb’ Murray, somewhat popular American Basset Hound Blogger T-Bogg is actually Cornel West. Well… I guess you will not be surprised to learn that, according Mr. Murray’s ‘How Thick Is Your (NotReallyRacist,Honest) Bubble Test’ , this here Whiter than Whitebread Left
Continue readingQueer-liberal: Ontario’s Catholic schools quandary…
This article today by Chris Selley is the latest to clearly signal the increasingly irreconcilable conflict between the public sphere in Ontario and one of its two publicly funded education systems, namely the Catholic school system. While the provincial government has been working hard to combat the biggest threat to
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: CBC taking bite out of … Apple?! by Ezra Levant
Columnist says the CBC is a failure at what it does now, and should not be taking on Apple with a new online music store.
Continue readingOccupy Ottawa: A Whistleblower’s Open Letter to the Citizens of Canada
Prime Minister’s Office Tries to Silence Pipeline Critics; Labels Environmental Group “Enemy of the Government of Canada” and “Enemy of the people of Canada.” My name is Andrew Frank. I grew up in a small …Read More
Continue readingPeace, order and good government, eh?: Just wondering
What would make Stephen Harper think it’s a good idea to go to Davos and tell other countries what he intends to do to us before he told us?
Continue readingThose Emergency Blues: Voices For Amanda Trujillo
Each of them eloquently speaks to the heart of what we do as nurses — and why nurses find how Amanda Trujillo was fired and subsequently reported to the Arizona State Board of Nursing so troubling. (Via The Innovative Nurse.) The first is from Andrew Lopez (Twitter: @nursefriendly.) Kevin Ross
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: About that "Secret Agenda"
L’il Steve Harper has spent the past six or more years assuring Canadians at every opportunity that he really doesn’t harbour any “secret agenda.” Then he goes all the way to Switzerland, drops his pants, and announces that he’s got “major transformations” in store for his small folk at home.
Continue readingmark a rayner | scribblings, squibs & sundry monkey joys: A Bottle and a Friend
There’s nane that’s blest of human kind, But the cheerful and the gay, man, Fal, la, la, etc. Here’s a bottle and an honest friend! What wad ye wish for mair, man? Wha kens, before his life may end, What … Continue reading →
Continue readingHarper vs. Harper: Elijah tackles Stephen’s Daddy State
Truer words have rarely been spoken. First Nation chief from Manitoba Elijah Harper says what needed to be said, that ‘the federal Indian Act treats aboriginals like children and chains them to the government for their entire lives’. Asked about his seminal moment in history, Harper said he opposed the
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On unequalization
As usual, the Cons’ latest attack on social programs – this time the Old Age Security which has played a key role in lifting Canadian seniors out of poverty – is supposedly based on some inescapable lack of fiscal capacity to provide a reasonable standard of living. But the truth
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