Finally, someone is paying attention to one of the main problems of the 2008 financial meltdown: the rating agencies. Asleep at the switch, these agencies were caught napping when a whole industry – the US subprime industry – imploded under its own rickety structure, dragging down the world’s banking system.
Continue readingGrey Cup Day Update…The Roof No Longer Matters!
NextTimeSlotsInTheSeatBacks! UpperDeckVille Organizers of the 99th Grey Cup (no French, please) are breathing a sigh of relief with just four more hours to go before game time. Why? Because the wind has died and the rain has stopped. Thus, the official Day-Game Propsmakers at SportsAction.con (sponsored by Paragon Casinos and
Continue readingGeoff at Mount Allison: Amnesty International campaigner visits campus
Last Thursday, Amnesty International Mount Allison Hosted Craig Benjamin, Amnesty International Canada’s Human Rights Campaigner for Aboriginal Peoples. I organized the visit and the Centre for International Studies provided much appreciated funding. I think it was an important event so I wrote about it for the Argosy. Below is a
Continue readingProgressive Proselytizing: Lessons from the ancient Greek island of Delos
I had the chance to visit the amazing archeological site that consists of the entire Greek island of Delos. Beyond the aesthetic appeal of such a large, ancient, and naturally preserved city full of history, I was struck by how, despite the over two thousand year gap between their civilization
Continue readingEdmonton-Leduc NDP: PUBLIC ROUND TABLE ON INCOME INEQUALITY: IS THERE A REMEDY?
Saturday February 11th from 2 to 4 pm at the Riverbend Library (Rabbit Hill Road and Terwillegar Drive) Income inequality is a very old issue, but the problem is that it is only becoming worse. Since the 1970s, the top 10% of Canadians by personal wealth at least doubled their share
Continue readingEdmonton-Leduc NDP: PUBLIC ROUND TABLE ON INCOME INEQUALITY: IS THERE A REMEDY?
Saturday February 11th from 2 to 4 pm at the Riverbend Library (Rabbit Hill Road and Terwillegar Drive)
Income inequality is a very old issue, but the problem is that it is only becoming worse. Since the 1970s, the top 10% of Canadians by personal wealth at least doubled their share of all wealth. In the same period, the income of most Canadians has remained practically the same, or even shrunk, leading to an increase in the level of poverty in our communities: 10% of all Canadians today live in poverty. This is not simply a statistic. This is the everyday reality for millions of people in our country. Do you have anything to say about this? Would you like to hear other people’s opinions on ways Canada can resolve the gap between the wealthy few and the struggling many? Please join us for our first Round Table of 2012!
Facebook event: http://www.facebook.com/events/127077167403320/
Edmonton-Leduc NDP: PUBLIC ROUND TABLE ON INCOME INEQUALITY: IS THERE A REMEDY?
Saturday February 11th from 2 to 4 pm at the Riverbend Library (Rabbit Hill Road and Terwillegar Drive) Income inequality is a very old issue, but the problem is that it is only becoming worse. Since the 1970s, the top 10% of Canadians by personal wealth at least doubled their share
Continue readingBlack Friday and other deadly things.
How stupid, gullible and greedy can people get? A man was reportedly detained for resisting arrest after a fight at the jewellery counter in the early hours at a Walmart in Kissimmee, Florida Police are looking for two suspects after gunfire erupted early on Friday at a shopping centre in
Continue readingcartoon life: A queue of Qs in London
Some folks have started a media and Twitter campaign to bring the CBC show Q, and radio host Jian Gomeshi to London to do a broadcast. I thought I would make a bunch of Qs on my iPad and post them to the #jianinldnont twitter stream. I had intended that
Continue readingShame on us: 600,000 Canadian kids live in poverty
I wonder what happened to the pledge to eliminate child poverty by the year 2000? While the goal of eliminating child poverty was likely never achievable, it isn’t unfair to expect that at least we could have made some significant gains to that end. Instead while the percentage of children
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Disservice – Boom! Headshot! – god’s kill count by the Numbers!
The god of justice, compassion and eternal fiery torment for us atheist types gives us proof of his love in his most revered book… I’m thinking with a kill streak like that god probably has an *aimbot. (* For those unfamiliar with FPS computer gaming – an aimbot is
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Emily Dee takes a first look at what may be a highly important story about the Cons’ use of the notorious right-wing push-poller Responsive Media Group: I had been conducting some research into the last federal election campaign, which was probably the
Continue readingbastard.logic: The Troubling Truth About Naomi Wolf’s DHS/OWS Hype
by matttbastard It’s total bullshit (not to mention batshit). AlterNet’s Josh Holland for teh Fisk: Wolf …offers a classic example of trying to shoe-horn reality into a theory with no factual basis. She set out to write a column indicting Congress for a nationwide crack-down that hasn’t actually been unearthed
Continue readingMusic for a Sunday: I still dream of Organon…
Kate Bush’s poignant classic. Based on Peter Reich’s story of his father’s arrest for building a device that, so it’s said, actually DID make rain. (And yes, that IS the always-awesome Donald Sutherland, playing Wilhelm Reich.)
Continue readingGrey Cup Day Update…The Sky Is No Longer Falling!
RaindropsKeepFallingOffTheirHead Lotusland At least that is the latest according to the man on the ground from PavCo: …Preparation for the Grey Cup hit a snag late Saturday when crews discovered water dripping from the roof of the newly renovated B.C. Place stadium. Howard Crosley, B.C. Place’s general manager, said the
Continue readingthe reeves report: Is Bob Rae the Liberals next Keith Davey?
Senator Keith Davey chats with Prime Minister and Pierre Trudeau in this 1976 photo. Peter C. Newman’s latest book When the Gods Changed: The Death of Liberal Canada was supposed to be the book that chronicled Michael Ignatieff’s rise to political power in Canada. Plucked from the wilderness – question
Continue readingGrey Cup conundrum: woke up sick as a dog
From my seats But damned if that’s going to stop me from going to the Grey Cup this afternoon. First time I’ve been sick in years. Coughing and shivers all night and this morning downed four big glasses of water. Normally, I wouldn’t put everyone I come into contact with in
Continue readingEthical asbestos
A child’s plea to Stephen Harper obtains the expected result. Cavanagh Matmor has a message for Prime Minister Stephen Harper: The sixth-grader didn’t appreciate Harper’s “cut-and-paste reply” to her emotional letter pleading with him to end the government’s support for the asbestos industry. … “They don’t know how it feels
Continue readingknitnut.net: Effexor Discontinuation Syndrome: brain whack
Remember about a year and a half ago I got depressed and started taking the anti-depressant Effexor? Well, after a little while I didn’t feel depressed anymore, but I couldn’t tell whether the depression was really and truly gone or Effexor was just masking it. I kept taking it, even
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