You can take the girl out of Kansas but you can’t take the Kansas out of the girl. Former governor of one of the most backward states in the nation, current Health and Human Services Secretary Katherine Sebilius has vetoed the long-anticipated availability of over-the-counter morning-after pills. Despite the recommendations
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Half Eaten Sandwich Sells for $2
I did it! You can thank me later for upending a longstanding tradition of women only being correct. My wife stated that it was not possible for me to sell a half eaten sandwich on UsedRegina.com, but I did it on Tuesday. It took a couple months, but someone finally
Continue readingTrashy's World: Yup…
December 8 and no snow. Love it!!!! Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Will Durban Climate Talks Leave Us On the Wrong Side of History?
floods-in-kennedy-road.jpg Guest post by Heather Libby of TckTckTck.org, originally published on Huffington Post. Whatever happens, the next 48 hours will change the world. The Durban climate negotiations dance on a wire. Sway but a little, and everything falls. For the past ten days scientists, politicians, faith leaders, health leaders, artists and unions
Continue readingBene Diction Blogs On: ChristianWeek covers Prairie Bible Institute but leaves out the wounded
While Canadian media was part of a blitz of coverage about abuse allegations at Prairie Bible Institute, evangelical media in Canada has been silent, until now. ChristianWeek is finally covering the story. For the most part the coverage is fair, using one of their writers for the main story and
Continue readingVideo: Bill O’Reilly uses umbrella to strike man, walks away with broken umbrella, asks police to arrest victim
Unbelievable. This from a man who specializes in ambush interviews, broadcasting them edited without advising his audience. It’s hilarious watching media elite O’Reilly walking away with a busted weapon over his head, whining to a cop that he should arrest the actual victim for getting in the way of his
Continue readingProgressive Proselytizing: A note on Mitt Romney’s Mormonism
GOP front runner Mitt Romney In the GOP presidential nomination contest, the long standing front-runner, Mitt Romney, has never managed to really break out of the low to mid twenties in national polls, and now faces considerable competition for the nomination from a surging Newt Gingrich. One problem for him
Continue readingMorton's Musings: A talk with Murray Calder
I had a good talk today with Murray Calder, a former Member of Parliament, about the future of the Liberal Party. Murray allowed me to speak directly on the blog about our discussion. We spoke of many things but a central point Murray made was that the median age in
Continue readingAlberta values are not Western values
Globe and Mail columnist John Ibbitson recently gave a talk to a standing-room only crowd of Torontonians about how a set of Western values has captured the country. Ibbitson was, I suspect, making a mistake common to Eastern pundits. He was assuming that what might be called Alberta values form
Continue readingCathiefromCanada: Halleluia Chorus two ways
Quinhagak school 5th grade class in Alaska: Port Orchard school does the Silent Monks
Continue readingPeace, order and good government, eh?: We need to look forward as opposed to looking backwards
Jeff Kaye writes here on the findings of the American Senate Intelligence Committee investigation of the CIA’s involvement in torture. Since I agree with Kaye that there won’t be a lot of reporting on this in the media I’m going to pass on a portion of the quoted remarks of
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Media Culpa On Margaret Wente’s General Crappiness
Migrating quotes, improper attribution, possible borderline plagiarism. Margaret Wente columns have it all.
Continue readingProgressive Proselytizing: Sisterwives reframes the polygamy debate
It is always easier to dispel some characterization when it is given absolutely; not just as a generalization, not just as something that exists for some people, but as something that is always true. In this case, one merely needs to find a single counterexample to disprove the claim. Polygamy is one of those subjects
Continue readingCalgaryGrit: The Value of Female Candidates
The NDP may not believe in using financial incentives to encourage environmentally conscious behaviour, but leadership candidate Paul Dewar has come up with a market solution that incentivizes political parties to run female candidates: OTTAWA—New Democratic leadership candidate Paul Dewar wants to bring back the political subsidy the Conservative government
Continue readingMorton's Musings: Doctrine of Federal Paramountcy
Quebec (Attorney General) v. Canada (Human Resources and Social Development), 2011 SCC 60, released this morning, has a useful discussion of the Doctrine of Federal Paramountcy: [17] In Quebec (Attorney General) v. Canadian Owners and Pilots Association, 2010 SCC 39, [2010] 2
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Climate Denier Marc Morano Praises "George W. Obama" at COP17
marc-morano.jpg If the jury was still out on President Barack Obama's climate policy accolades (a huge "if"), consider the verdict now in, and from a surprising character at that: Marc Morano. Morano jubilantly referred to the President as "George W. Obama" in an interview with Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman at COP17, stating: They [the Obama
Continue reading#RIPHugoChavez = #Twitterfail
Riddle me this: When is a Trending Topic NOT a trending topic? Courtesy of Patria Grande, here comes a wake-up call for all you internauts who love Venezuela, and who want to keep abreast of all the dirty tricks of empire: Today, the Trending Topics of Twitter woke to the
Continue readingPaul Dewar: Equality is a Canadian value
NDP leadership contender Paul Dewar is in trouble with Conservatives again. He must be doing something right. 22.1% of the House of Commons are women, more or less the situation since 1997. Paul has just unveiled a policy piece proposing a practical plan to improve the representation of women in
Continue reading350 or bust: Some Honesty At Durban Climate Conference: Youth Told “No One Is Listening To You”
Willard Metzger is the General Secretary of Mennonite Church Canada and blogs at Church Guy. He is well acquainted with the suffering that climate change is already inflicting on the most vulnerable among us, as the former Director-Church Relation of World Vision Canada and the author of Thanking God With
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