The plea agreement saves the Conservatives from potential embarrassment of conviction after trial and the reduced charges let the Party spin it made an honest mistake. Still, it’s hard to see how the result is a “big win” — unless saying something is …
Continue readingLeDaro: Bangkok floods
The following picture shows the situation at one of the Bangkok airports. It was a devasting storm and flooding.
Continue readingCanada’s climate change policy—drinking the Kool-Aid
The warnings continue. And they are ominous. In its annual World Energy Outlook released November 9th, the International Energy Agency (IEA) reported
that the world will lose the chance to limit global warming if it doesn’t act
now. This isn’t news o…
Art Threat: We must remember war in order to stop it – Friday Film Pick: Come and See
For Remembrance Day watch Klimov’s classic anti-war film COME AND SEE.
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: Old news, aged quickly
Today, media conglomerates are not only influenced by Big Money interests, but they are often themselves Big Money interests.
– Cameron Gaut
I wrote earlier that the Toope Report helps the Liberal Government change the subject from that which makes it …
Montreal Simon: Remembrance Day 2011
I belong to a family, and a clan, with a 300-year military tradition. I have attended more Remembrance Day ceremonies than I can count. And hated them all.I shudder at the sounds of the guns. But the children’s choir always makes me weep. As it did aga…
Continue readingwmtc: human rights activists back in canada, speaking out
Press conference with David Heap and Ehab Lotayef, on their abduction, kidnapping and detention by Israeli forces: here.And a message from the Irish boat:
Continue readingA Canadian Lefty in Occupied Land: Quote: Whiteness and Class
I know people who fit the entire description. I was raised among them — klansmen, gay-bashers, wife-beaters, and child-rapists with a penchant for incest, as well as moonshiners, cardplayers, snake-handlers, and revival preachers. Some are relatives b…
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Nowak: Canada’s embarrassing broadband access problem
By Peter Nowak
I had to take a deep breath before writing today’s post, mostly to get all the four-letter words and other obscenities out of my system. There are few things that make me as ang…
The Disaffected Lib: How America’s Greatest War Correspondent Remembered
From Chris Hedges’ “War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning””When Ernie Pyle, the American war correspondent in World War II, was killed on the Pacific island of Ie Shima in 1945, a rough draft of a column was found on his body. He was preparing it for re…
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: When up is down and down is up
BC Agriculture Minister Don McRae, coordinating with federal agencies, claimed last week there are no confirmed cases of Infectious Salmon Anaemia (ISA) in British Columbia salmon. Mcrae said,
“It is vitally important that we ignore and discredit scien…
DeSmogBlog: Koch Brothers Behind Push To Dismantle EPA
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During last week’s Americans For Prosperity (AFP) event, a common theme kept creeping into the speakers’ presentations: Dismantle the EPA. And as the major funders of…
Continue readingMatt Taibbi is beginning to get it about the Occupy movement
Most political/cultural/populist movements begin in back rooms, in clandestine meetings over a period of years. Many times the resultant movement looks little like the disorderly chaos of the initial gatherings. Unlike past uprisings, the Occupy movem…
Continue readingknitnut.net: I want some bunny to love
Who thinks I should get a baby angora rabbit?
I met a grown-up one at KnitKnackers the other day. Her name is Pandora and I fell head over heels in love with her. I want one just like her. She’s big and soft and she was recently shorn so she’s half-naked with wonderful hairy ears, and […]
Continue readingTough On Crime For Thee, But Not For Me
You’ve gotta hand it to those Harpercons. Really. I mean, only they can declare victory after pleading guilty to avoid trial for Senators Finley and Gerstein. Stephen Harper’s Conservatives have struck a deal with prosecutors to drop embarra…
Continue readingLeDaro: Rick Perry runs into George W. Bush
They’re are both lost as usual. Oops!
Continue readingCalgaryGrit: A Roadmap to Renewal
The Liberal Roadmap to Renewal has been released and can be read here. There are several longer drafts floating around I’ve put on my weekend reading list, but at 80-100 pages, I may just wait for the movie version.While the process feels a little too …
Continue readingThe Equivocator: Veterans vs. OWS
Today is Remembrance day. I would personally like to thank all those who have served and are currently serving in Canada’s military. When I opened the editorial section of the Globe & Mail today, I saw the editorial cartoon (pictured … Continue reading →
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: A Couple of Thoughts on Remembrance Day
On this day I sometimes thumb through my dog-eared copy of Barry Broadfoot’s “Six War Years, Memories of Cahadians at Home and Abroad (1974).” Broadfoot used the same technique as he did for his earlier Depression-era work, “Ten Lost Years.” &nb…
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