Perhaps we’re reading a bit much into this. Fromm and Lemire at the “George Orwell”Awards the year Mark and ConnieFournier won. Perhaps not. Paul Fromm and Marc Lemire have a relationship that goes back to at least the mid 1990s when Lemire hosted Paulie’s websites on his own Freedom-Site (along
Continue readingAnti-Racist Canada: The ARC Collective: Jewish Teen Atttacked in Winnipeg
Attack on Jewish teen ‘shocking’ Hair burned with lighter by fellow student By: Gabrielle Giroday and Mike McIntyre Posted: 12/3/2011 8:58 AM A POLICE probe is underway into an incident at a Winnipeg high school involving a student with Nazi links who reportedly used a lighter to burn the hair
Continue readingBlast Furnace Canada Blog: Harper’s "Office for Relgious Freedom": Another Newspeak front?
Dubya got into a lot of hot water in many circles with his so-called “faith based initiative” (which President Obama has actually continued and broadened to include people of faith who are LGBT) and now Harper appears to want to go down the same path with something called the “Office
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…to counter Conservative spin and popular ignorance. Some useful Saturday reading. Briefly, successive governments put the Attawapiskat people where they are, invented rules, regulations and prohibitions to keep them there, and are now blaming them for being snared in the trap we built. The Conservative government is sending in an
Continue readinggay persons of color: Video: Thousands march in Sydney after ALP votes to support marriage equality
While the marriage equality movement is still in its early stages in Australia, it certainly took a big step forward with the ruling Australian Labor Party (ALP) decision Saturday to support gay marriage. This came after a conscience vote on the issue (called by the country’s anti-gay marriage leader, Prime
Continue readingMorton's Musings: "Those communities really shouldn’t exist"
So reads the headline on a two-page story in the Post which talks about 'voluntary relocation' for remote First Nations and Inuit communities. A comment noted in bold in the editorial section suggested stopping the 'gravy train' and said (this part was in bold) "If native populations choose not to
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: The Anti-Trudeau
Stephen Harper despised Pierre Trudeau. He was nine years old when Trudeau became prime minister, and twenty-five when Trudeau retired. Watching Harper pontificate and react, one gets the impression that Mr. Trudeau was the bogeyman who haunted Stephen Harper’s childhood nightmares. Indeed, it’s not too much of a stretch to
Continue readingConservative war on the CBC: a succinct response
A CBC veteran explains for the hard of thinking why the CBC is not like other broadcasters, and how it is being hung out to dry by its competitor Quebecor via Conservative puppets in the House of Commons. Go read. [H/t OakBayBoy, via deBeauxOs]
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: A Half a Century Later and We are Losing Half a Century
The Canadian Manifesto: How the American Neoconservatives Stole My Country In researching the conservative movement on both sides of the border, one thing becomes clear. In the U.S. they don’t like to be referred to as Republican any more than Stephen Harper likes to be called a Tory. They are CONSERVATIVE,
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Me, Uncle Ben’s, And Fox News North: Will Uncle Ben’s Pull Its Advertising?
As a few people have noted elsewhere, Sun TV has been running gay-bashing/transphobic ads from McVety’s gang at the Institute for Canadian Values, and this has spawned a campaign on to boycott Fox News North advertisers. Having watched the ads a couple of times (sorry, though, no link–SDMatt, the source of
Continue readingPample the Moose: Publications!
Just a quick post today to announce two new publications that I’m excited about. The first is my new edited collection, Contemporary Quebec: Selected Readings and Commentaries, which I co-edited with Michael Behiels at the University of Ottawa. We’ve been working on this book for the last six years (yikes!)
Continue readingThe Happy Wanderer: Democrats are Dreaming
In a somewhat strange turn of events it seems the Democrats who contiguous talk themselves as being the party that will save Social Security is now the party that quite frankly is giving it lip service. The Payroll tax (the tax that generates a lot of income for Social Security) is at
Continue reading350 or bust: For The Children, Let’s Turn This World Around
With Raffi, the Gettin Higher Choir, vocalist Kim Willoughby and Kid Power! (conducted by Shivon Robinsong):
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: An Anonymous Conservative Speaks Out Re Peter Mackay
If it was one of Chretien’s lackeys caught doing this BS on the public dime, I doubt very much that any one of us would cut them any slack for it, so why should we do so when it happens to be someone that we voted for? The overwhelming reason
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Traffic for the start of December #nlpoli
How do you know Peter MacKay lied about the helicopter flight? When PMSH stepped in to defend him he said nothing about the “training flight” story MacKay started with. Stupid politicians and their staffers Offshore board slags CBC Habeas corpus for kids Adult conversation Muskrat Falls plot points More of
Continue readingDiane Finley (hearts) Christmas!
Because it’s that time of year, “War on Christmas” silliness has begun, with Liberal and NDP MPs complaining that a Service Canada office in Quebec forbade Christmas trees. Diane Finely insists there was no such national directive, and then (at the end of the video) went out to the Foyer to
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Has the War on Bullying Finally Begun?
It’s taken a lot of dead Canadian kids. Kids like Marjorie Raymond. “I have a hard time leaving this world,” she wrote her suicide letter, “but I think it will be for a better world.” But it looks as if the Great War on Bullying has finally begun. McGuinty said school
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Friday Night Drumming
Keith Moon. “The Ox.” The video can’t keep up with him. Not even close. And don’t you just wish you had been there on this night?
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