Anyone who thinks the governing Conservatives in Newfoundland and Labrador are interested in anything but ramming their megadebt Muskrat Falls deal down the public throat, well, those fine people are just not paying attention. From Friday’s Telegram, public utilities board chairman Andy Wells: "Now we have to have the report
Continue readingThe Year That Was: Canadians Politics in 2011
What a year 2011 was. Who would have thought in January that the Conservatives would, by May, have a majority government? That the Bloc, so long a dominant force in Quebec, would be reduced to numbers not seen since the early 1990′s? That the Liberals would be reduced to third
Continue readingThe Year That Was: Canadians Politics in 2011
What a year 2011 was. Who would have thought in January that the Conservatives would, by May, have a majority government? That the Bloc, so long a dominant force in Quebec, would be reduced to numbers not seen since the early 1990′s? That the Liberals would be reduced to third
Continue readingdaveberta.ca - Alberta politics blog: merry christmas from the author of daveberta.ca.
A December sunset at Alberta's Legislative Assembly Building. Thank you to all the readers who continue to return to this blog each day and new readers who may have found this blog for the first time. I have had a lot of fun writing about the unique world of Alberta
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On sure signs
I’d think Don Martin would have dealt with political actors enough to know when he’s being spun. But since his latest post suggests otherwise, let’s offer up what looks to be a sorely-needed hint. When partisan spinners declare that they can’t lose, it isn’t evidence of cleverness or insight. Instead,
Continue readingA Novelist's Mind: Lilian Nattel Online: Menstruating in India–Radical Change
When Arunachalam Muruganantham hit a wall in his research on creating a sanitary napkin for poor women, he decided to do what most men typically wouldn’t dream of. He wore one himself–for a whole week. Fashioning his own menstruating uterus by filling a bladder with goat’s blood, Muruganantham went about
Continue readingThe Sixth Estate: Inside Ontario’s College of Homeopaths
One of the most surreal medical institutions in our country is surely the College of Homeopaths of Ontario. This agency was set up by the provincial government in 2007 to accomplish a task roughly as useful to the future of humanity as the new Ether Studies Institute which Dalton McGuinty
Continue readingThe Magnificent Seven: Stephen Harper’s seven new Senators leaked
STARRING: Shotgun * Blogging T * * Ezzy * Huffer * Wenthataway * The Poet * Blatched The Conservatives’ new best friend, the Canadian wing of the Huffington Post, has a take on who will be Harper’s new Senators come January. LFR has its own sources. Funnily enough, the new Senators
Continue readingStephen Harper’s seven new Senators leaked
STARRING: Shotgun * Blogging T * Wenthataway * Ezzy * Huffer * The Poet * Blatched The Conservatives’ new best friend, the Canadian wing of the Huffington Post, has a take on who will be Harper’s new Senators come January. LFR has its own sources. Funnily enough, the new Senators are almost all media
Continue readinggay persons of color: Video: Glee – Let it Snow, Blaine (Darren Criss) and Kurt (Chris Colfer)
A nice, toe-tapping spin on the classic holiday tune “Let it Snow” with a vintage black and white touch from our favorite on-screen gay couple from Glee.
Continue readingChristmas spirit and the Catholic Church
A California archbishop shuts down a Christmas service because gay-friendly ministers had been invited to speak. “Inappropriate for the season of Advent,” sniffed George Niederauer, the Archbishop of San Francisco. One of the ministers reacted against the implicit assumption that his ministry was confined to a narrow activism: What…bothered [Rev.
Continue readingbastard.logic: A Giraffe Hunter in a Ditch is Worth Two in the Bush. Or Something.
by matttbastard Newt teh Perfessor outdoes himself on the future of gender in an excerpt from a mid-90s lecture: Traditionally, he said, “if combat means living in a ditch, females have biological problems staying in a ditch for thirty days, because they get infections and they don’t have upper body
Continue readingBuckdog: Merry Christmas !!
Merry Christmas!Best Wishes For Health and Happiness!! from ….Buckdog Politics!!
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: Dickens for the 21st Century
Every year, as Christmas approaches, I think again of A Christmas Carol. The world has always been opposed to the idea of Christmas — unless it can be turned into a money making proposition. If Christmas can serve the ends of business, by all means, it should be celebrated. But,
Continue reading350 or bust: Hallelujah
Posted last December, here is the Hallelujah Chorus brought to you by the 5th grade class of Kuinerrarmiut Elitnaurviat in Quinhagak, Alaska. It was originally intended for an audience of about 200, in the surrounding villages. It has now had over 750,000 views. So, Merry Christmas from Quinhagak, Alaska! *Special
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Santa’s Hit List
Well, here it is, Christmas Eve, and Santa has been rechecking his list, and five have been struck from it. This sad distinction goes to the following, who perhaps can be consoled by the fact that they have something in common: they are devoid of any recognizable morality; they have
Continue readingThe Egyptian morass
Two excellent pieces on the current situation, with lessons for everyone. Thanassis Cambanis: Can persistent revolt eventually beget genuine revolution, like wind carving a valley through granite? I’m of two minds. The women’s marches this week fill me with hope. With determination and creativity, Egyptian women flooded the streets to
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Help Me Defeat Xmas!
…but, as the article goes on to note, it looks like this year, for the very first time, Christmas will fall short vs. porn. And you, dear reader, can help make it happen, by simply doing what you normally do 11 months of the year, but with a bit more gusto. Together,
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