On the left you can see yesterday’s Vancouver Sun cover page the day after more than 60 First Nations annouced they will not allow the Enbridge pipeline through their territories, on the right you can see today’s Vancouver Sun cover page the day after one First Nation annouced they support
Continue reading350 or bust: Take Time To Renew Your Spirit
“Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war.” Martin Luther King, Jr.
Continue readingCanadian Political Viewpoints: Where is Our Anger?
I was trying to embed a video, even though the subject matter isn’t what this post is about, but it seems to be having trouble. As such, just click the link below: Video As we approach the end of the year, we find ourselves in a time of reflection. In
Continue readingStopping All Cons….Invoking The Gilliard Doctrine
DiscussionAndDebateAlone WillNotWinVille Boris had an important post up over at The Beaver a couple of days ago. Essentially, he concluded that the latest from the fine folks from ‘Campaign Research’, in which the ConShop used vile, morally-bankrupt, anti-democratic tactics to denigrate Liberal MP Irwin Cotler in his own riding, should
Continue readingCampaign Research Con cats are out of the bag
> Campaign Research client and House Speaker Andrew Scheer ruled it “reprehensible” while Campaign Research client and Con House Leader Peter Van Loan defended it as “vital free speech”, but Campaign Research cofounder Nick Kouvalis put it best when he described his firm’s now infamous phone calls to Lib MP
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: Vancouver Sun: FAIL!
On the left you can see yesterday’s Vancouver Sun cover page the day after more than 60 First Nations annouced they will not allow the Enbridge pipeline through their territories, on the right you can see today’s Vancouver Sun cover page the day after one First Nation annouced they support
Continue readingwmtc: the daily show, all-american muslim and lowe’s: watch, laugh, and write
The episode of The Daily Show that I mentioned here can be seen here. The part I found hilarious begins at about 6:00. Many thanks to David H for the link! After you enjoy that laugh, please write to Lowe’s. Lowe’s contact form here Email: WeCare@lowes.com Robert A. Niblock, Chairman
Continue readingwmtc: from out of nowhere, beautiful music transforms my night
Tonight on my way home from work, I had no music with me, and was forced to listen to the radio. To think I was once a radio addict; now I find it an annoying wasteland. In my button-pushing frustration, I stumbled on this. I was utterly mesmerized. It wasn’t
Continue readingA CKDA Radio and CHEK TV News Pioneer Passes Away
NewsMyMomAndMyMom-In-Law CanUseVille Andy Stephen was his name. I remember him from when I was a kid, but mostly from the TeeVee though, especially his turns with Dame Ida given that, by the time I was paying attention, CKDA had already become Victoria’s top (ya, top!) Top-40 station on the AM
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian home page: Winning the Salmon PR "War"? Emails Reveal Government Scientists Acting Like Flacks
The second of three extra days of hearings at the Cohen Commission into disappearing Fraser River sockeye yielded more surprises – the biggest of which came in the form of a telling internal email strain between DFO and Canadian Food Inspection Agency staff. The emails were sent following a teleconference
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian home page: Winning the Salmon PR "War"? Emails Reveal Government Scientists Acting Like Flacks
The second of three extra days of hearings at the Cohen Commission into disappearing Fraser River sockeye yielded more surprises – the biggest of which came in the form of a telling internal email strain between DFO and Canadian Food Inspection Agency staff. The emails were sent following a teleconference
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Musical interlude
Parker & Hanson – Aim High Shoot Low
Continue readingScott's DiaTribes: Some folks are dog-gone crazy in Ottawa – and I dont mean the politicians.
I’ll be blunt – I’m not a dog person. I’m a cat person. I normally don’t go out of my way to comment on dog-related matters. I also don’t normally comment on stuff that is not political, but tonight, something has caused me to change gears and do that. My
Continue readingcmkl: And now there’s a tree
And lights on the house. First time ever. We’re uh… really getting into this Christmas thing.
Continue readingRecreating Eden: Saturday Photo: Apples and er, Clementines, Say the Bells of Saint Clemens
This time of year it is the fruit that matured during the long days of summer that bring the sun into our lives. Here are clementines and Cortland apples (the best of the Quebec crop, I think) which make lovely decorations to say nothing of eating over the end of
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Room for progressivity
Yes, I know some commentators are treating the latest from Kevin Milligan et al. as somehow proving a point that raising high-income tax levels won’t accomplish anything. But I’d think one has to strain rather hard to draw such an interpretation from a column that includes the following: What might
Continue readingThe Double E Conservative Candidate in PoMoCo Beats…
. …..No One. First a representative sampling from one of the stenographic proMedia news reports on the ‘event’: COQUITLAM, B.C. – The B.C. Conservatives have taken their first step toward getting a foothold in the provincial legislature by nominating a candidate for a coming byelection in the Metro Vancouver riding
Continue readingWankers of the Week: Third Badvent, and all is hell
Crappy weekend, everyone! Well, it’s that time again, the Most Wonderful Time of the Week…the time we shit-list all the worthiest and most deserving shits who crossed our radars this week. And, in no particular order, they are… 1. Margaret Fucking Wente. If, as she claims, the poor are doing
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