With all the polls closed a result of 44,761 votes wasn’t enough for re-election. I have had three wonderful years as a Park Board commissioner and have no regrets. I stood up for what I believed and did the good work I thought needed doing. My congratulations to the winners
Continue readingAnti-Racist Canada: The ARC Collective: Anniversary of the Nuremberg Trials: November 20 1945 – October 1, 1946
Disturbing, but important, footage of some of the camps here. As for the trial…
Continue readingBig Changes In Van City…
Our Top Five… 1) West End Bob elects Adriane Carr in the 135th poll (of 135). 2) COPE may be dead. 2a) Ghost of Harry Rankin planning David Cadman resurrection on Monday at 9am. 3) NSV took a whole lotta votes from somebody. 4) Sandy G. beat K. Potvin for
Continue readingMy Canada Includes Justice: Police forces, I’d like to introduce you to YouTube…
With the G20 debacle fresh in our minds, many Torontonians are shaking their heads at the efforts of American city authorities and police forces to break up Occupy protests. Police in some cities have been witnessed beating peaceful protesters, kettling groups, and using tear gas and rubber bullets. Police forces
Continue readingMy Canada Includes Justice: Police forces, I’d like to introduce you to YouTube…
With the G20 debacle fresh in our minds, many Torontonians are shaking their heads at the efforts of American city authorities and police forces to break up Occupy protests. Police in some cities have been witnessed beating peaceful protesters, kettli…
Continue readingMy Canada Includes Justice: Police forces, I’d like to introduce you to YouTube…
With the G20 debacle fresh in our minds, many Torontonians are shaking their heads at the efforts of American city authorities and police forces to break up Occupy protests. Police in some cities have been witnessed beating peaceful protesters, kettling groups, and using tear gas and rubber bullets. Police forces
Continue readingMind of Dan: Site upgrades and changes
It has been a long time since the look and feel of Mind of Dan was updated, and frankly the site as it is now is kind of ugly. That will change very soon. Also since I launched Irregular Climate and especially since Planet3.0 launched, much of what I write
Continue readingBene Diction Blogs On: The pro-life meme, which may challenge Mr. Harper, comes with spin?
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used By Permission Did you think that Mr. Harper had the final word during the election when he said that a Tory government would not make any changes to the legal status of abortion in Canada? Think again, as some in Canada’s pro-life movement
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Occupy Canada: Why You Can’t Evict a Movement
As I was saying last night, they can arrest us. They can tear down our humble campsites. They can insult us. They can beat us. They can pepper spray peaceful protesters… The pig bastards. But theywill NEVER stop our movement from continuing to spread all over the world, developing in new
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: Liveblog – BC Civic Election Returms
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Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: Yes minister, BC edition
Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis star in BBC Radio 4 program “The Now Show.” It is British oriented political satire but still one of my favourites. You can listen to current programs on the BBC IPlayer or download programs by podcast. This is one of the features of the weekly
Continue readingcmkl: Mallory plays ‘Sailing’
Not the Christopher Cross version. Note to self: iPhone videos work better in horizontal mode. Note also to self: say something about those bloody cops in UC Davis. Will they get fired after getting videoed doing something awful?
Continue readingMorton's Musings: Sad news
Justice Douglas Coo has died. He was a model judge and a true gentleman. While he was careful and thorough he was never afraid to make decisions. He was a leader in Divisional Court and his work on the Consent and Capacity Board and the Ontario Review Board is well
Continue readingImpolitical: Saturday night
To make up for having missed music posting time last night. Going with another Deadmau5 because funnily enough, my mother emailed me after I last posted one of his tracks to say that she really liked it. My mother the hipster! She was sick this week with the flu so
Continue readingWankers of the Week: A keg of vintage swine
Crappy weekend, everyone! Last week it was slops; this week it’s hawg-butcherin’ time, and we’ve got a fat lot of pigs to get through. So here they are, with no further ado and in no particular order… 1. Mohammad Fucking Shafia. How ironic is it that his idea of “maintaining”
Continue readingThey Call Me "Mr. Sinister": The Empire Strikes Back
The oligarchy is worried, as they should be. They are losing the middle class.
Continue readingThey Call Me "Mr. Sinister": The Empire Strikes Back
The oligarchy is worried, as they should be. They are losing the middle class.
Continue readingThey Call Me "Mr. Sinister": The Empire Strikes Back
The oligarchy is worried, as they should be. They are losing the middle class.
Continue readingBuckdog: Saskatchewan’s New Democrats Select Interim Leader
November 19, 2011NDP Selects Acting Leader The Saskatchewan NDP has elected John Nilson to serve as Acting Leader of the NDP until such time as a new Leader is chosen in a leadership race. In a meeting today at Tommy Douglas House in Regina, the Provincial Council and elected NDP
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian home page: Shades of Green: Pleading Guilty – "By their deeds shall ye know them"
Perspective is an illuminating rarity that can take years to occur. Disparate pieces drift in an incoherent jumble until they begin to coalesce into a understandable pattern. Then clarity reveals connections and relationships. Insight comes out of confusion. Order replaces chaos. The pieces cohere into a meaningful whole. The design
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