Signs of sanity returning to the US of A!
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Ohio voters turned back a anti-union law and the good folks of Mississippi look to be dumping personhood.
Can we all take a breather?
Continue readingThe Wheatsheaf: Recap: Saskatchewan Election 2011
Watching the twitter feed for #skpoli I was struck by the animosity and venom towards both the NDP and its leader Dwain Lingenfelter. While the partisan in me wants to chalk this up to the over-indulgent no-holds-barred mentality that I have witness Sask. Party/Conservative/Canadian Alliance supporters adopt in the past,
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Packed-up cats.
Continue readingRusty Idols: "just another bad thing that happened in downtown Vancouver
Somebody overdoses decently out of sight in the east end and the response from the Vancouver government, the media and too much of public is a collective shrug. Have it happen 15 blocks to the west and suddenly its an urgent public health and safety crisis. Ashlie Gough was happy
Continue readingkirbycairo: What I Remember on Remembrance Day, The Unpopular Recall. . . . .
I honestly believe that Remembrance Day (or Veteran’s Day as it was in the States when I grew up) does a significant and and lasting disservice to veterans of all wars and to our nations in general, at least in its modern incarnation. One would have to…
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: An impassioned gale
In 1908’s New Worlds for Old, H.G. Wells examined a nascent movement that he supported avidly. He wrote,
“The early Socialist literature teems with rash, suggestive schemes. It has the fertility, the confusion, the hopefulness, the promise of glowing y…
Red Tory v.3.0.3: Zygotes ≠ “Persons”
While it may be argued in the most technically extreme biological sense that “life begins at conception” as devoutly religious people maintain to be the case, it is a complete absurdity to contend that a fertilized egg (aka a zygote) … Continue reading →
Life...A Small Spark Between Two Eternities: Life…A Small Spark Between Two Eternities 2011-11-08 21:14:00
Now Rob Ford, tell us you are not a little jealous.
Continue readingNEW MEDIA AND POLITICS CANADA: The Warmongers Are On The March
Remember the Iraq war? Wasn’t all that murder and torture awesome? Didn’t taking out Saddam make the world a better place, help the economy to hum along smoothly and unite us all in one glorious, orgasmic moment of unity and brotherhood? No? Well get ready boys and girls because the
Continue readingNEW MEDIA AND POLITICS CANADA: The Warmongers Are On The March
Remember the Iraq war? Wasn’t all that murder and torture awesome? Didn’t taking out Saddam make the world a better place, help the economy to hum along smoothly and unite us all in one glorious, orgasmic moment of unity and brotherhood? No? Well get r…
Continue readingNEW MEDIA AND POLITICS CANADA: The Warmongers Are On The March
Remember the Iraq war? Wasn’t all that murder and torture awesome? Didn’t taking out Saddam make the world a better place, help the economy to hum along smoothly and unite us all in one glorious, orgasmic moment of unity and brotherhood? No? Well get ready boys and girls because the
Continue readinggay persons of color: French weekly Charlie Hebdo proposes love not war
This image with the caption L’Amour plus fort que la haine (love is stronger than hate) is on the front page of the latest edition of Charlie Hebdo, the French magazine whose offices were fire-bombed in Paris last week after it was announced that the p…
Continue readingStaffroom Confidential: Pearson-alized learning: Guest commentary on #bcedplan
Today’s guest post is from David Komljenovic, Kamloops teacher After researching more about the origins of the BC Education plan and the proliferation of the 21st century learning mantra, I am more convinced that our message could be “BC Public Education is not for sale“. From the information to
Continue readingToronto Zoo’s gay penguins go viral
By now you’ve surely heard of Buddy and Pedro, the two adorable little African penguins at the Toronto Zoo who’ve struck up an adorable little same-sex pair bond but are being separated in order to mate their “top-notch genes” with those of eligible females? Well, their plight has gone viral, thanks to the famous Taiwanese […]
Continue readingTrashy's World: With flu season…
…. comes moron season.. Why, oh, why do peeps buy into this? Vaccinations are good. Not getting your kids vaccinated is tantamount to child abuse, people. Believe science, not hocus pocus!!!! Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
Continue readingACTION: Support Occupy Regina
Mayor Fiacco’s minions want to shut down Occupy Regina. We can say a loud, No! Anyone can offer support to Regina’s Occupiers by taking part in the actions, below. Background info further down. Reginans can Rally @ City Hall: Noon, Wednesday, November 9. –Bern ACTIONS Write to City Hall through their contact page at, […]
Cowboys for Social Responsibility: Long gun registry helps fight domestic homicide, police chief says
There’s also many cases Sean, that happen daily and right across this country, where the police will go to an incidence of domestic violence where there is concern that if there are firearms in the house that they might be used to commit violence and e…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: And we’re off…
I’ll start looking at the candidates in more detail now that the NDP’s leadership contestants seem to be set in the wake of Niki Ashton’s entry. But before getting to that, I’ll note that while a few of my initial favourite possibilities took a pass, t…
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Sixth Estate On Overseas Spying
One of my blogging faves is back, with this post on the notion that CSIS should become a foreign espionage service:
It’s worth asking exactly why CSIS was prevented from foreign operations in the first place. [John Ivison] describes it as just a bi…
Buckdog: Those Conservatives who assume Canadian farmers can just truck their grain into the United States are living in a dream world
“One of the deeply foolish subtexts of the Parliamentary debate on the Wheat Board is the assumption that without our Wheat Board the US market will open its arms to Canadian grain, and we can send grain south by truck instead of over the mountains by …
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