Here’s a quick lesson on the human microphone. Because voice amplification in public spaces is banned in New York, where Occupy Wall Street (#ows) began, the large crowds attending have adapted by breaking speeches into short phrases, which those near the speaker repeat loudly, then those further away, and so on, so that the words
Continue readingCathiefromCanada: Ridiculous
Sorry, but regardless of what some professors say and what Quebecor thinks, Toronto mayor Rob Ford looked ridiculous running away from Mary Walsh.
Continue readingWhy Iceland isn’t in the news nowadays
Michael Hudson has some hints: More at The Real News Basically, it has a lot to do with fucking those who have fucked you, and using a splintery broomstick to do it. Yeah, Icelanders got up on their hind legs and raised a ruckus. And the banks backed down. Iceland has made a rather dramatic […]
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: War of words heats up between CBC, Quebecor by Chantaie Allick
CBC is accusing Quebecor of “using its newspapers and more recently its Sun News Network TV licence to pursue a campaign against CBC/Radio-Canada” and distorting the truth in that reporting.
Continue readingA dislike of Islam and muslims most prominent among conservatives?
I have to begin by saying that I have no conclusive evidence that shows that disike of Islam and muslims in general runs highest among conservative ranks. That people on the right of the political spectrum somehow protest against Islam more than those on the left or in the center. But
Continue readingTories conclude that gun licensing is unnecessary in its entirety
As Bill C-19 is slated for an inevitable approval in Parliament due to the Tory majority Harper has achieved in the last federal election, Conservatives are now arguing that firearms registration is in itself a waste of time and resources. A National Post column today made the point that according
Continue readingMorton's Musings: The lawsuit over the Canadian Wheat Board
The claim is that s. 47.1 of the Canadian Wheat Board Act bars the abolition of the Board without approval from farmers.
I think such approval ought to be obtained — but legally I don't see it is necessary. By my reading of the section approval …
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Canada and the Bully Nation
I don’t know why Canada is such a bully nation. What I do know is that it infects our country like syphilis, from our Parliament, to our hockey rinks, to our schools.A 15-year-old hockey player in Manitoba was forced to parade around the dressing room …
Continue readingcmkl: It’s so the cops know what’s on the other side of the door
…when they respond to the domestic violence call.
Continue readingPaper Dynamite Online: Did Thomas Mulcair Lie To The Globe & Mail?
Take a look at this:In an interview with The Globe, [Thomas Mulcair] recounted how he informed the Canadian national director of the Steelworkers, Ken Neumann, that he opposed a reserved voting block for unions at the NDP leadership convention in March…
Continue readingMorton's Musings: Any idiot can face a crisis; it’s the day-to-day living that wears one out.
~ Anton Chekhov
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: Isolation in the midst of a crowd
Campbell and David McLean
The bubble of power mentioned in the preceding story suffocated Gordon Campbell. Gradually, he became isolated, surrounded chiefly by people desperate to please. Track his administration from 2001; it began with positive so…
Continue readingkirbycairo: NDP Blogging site goes Offline. . . .
I was very sorry to see the NDP Bloggers site go off line. It seems odd that at a time when the NDP has never been stronger, their primary online voice has been silenced. If I were a conspiracy minded person I would say that insiders at the NDP, such a…
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Capitalism Tries To Turn Occupy Wall Street Into A Commercial Venture
In what can only be regarded as a perversion of the Occupy Movement, a couple in Long Island, New York has paid a $975 patent application fee to turn the phrase “Occupy Wall Street” into a brand for a line of coffee mugs, T-shirts, bumper stickers …
Continue readingConservative ethics: an oxymoron, with an assist
Several Conservative MPs. planning to vote the Canadian Wheat Board into nonexistence, have boasted that they will make money by doing so. Obviously unethical, right? Surely the parliamentary ethics watchdog will bark? Both the NDP and Liberals had asked [Ethics…
Continue readingBlast Furnace Canada Blog: CBC v Quebecor — at least wrastling’s fake
The ongoing between Quebecor Media and the CBC has gotten really intense this week, if the Toronto Star is to be believed. I agree that the CBC has some issues with transparency and that it would be wise to answer at least some, if not nece…
Continue readingBuckdog: Transcript Of Racist Comments Made By Saskatchewan Party Candidate During Debate In Yorkton
An interesting observation in the matter of Sask Party candidate,Greg Ottenbriet’s use of racist comments at a Yorkton ‘All candidates’ debate. The question that prompted the comments almost appears to be a ‘softball’ question thrown by a Sask Party su…
Continue readingHarper Conservatives: stupid on crime, redux | via rabble.ca
Stepping out of a cold, windy Toronto Wednesday night and into the Church of the Redeemer on Bloor street, I’m a little shocked as the warmth of the standing room only crowd hits me. Hundreds of people are here to listen to a panel…
A Different Point of View....: Journalists, community groups need to act to develop independent Canadian media
Editor’s Note: This is the second of a two-part series. Part 1 was published on October 18 entitled Corporate-owned media manipulation threatens Canadian democracy. It is shocking that – in the 21st Century – we still have a system under w…
Continue readingImpolitical: Ritz protests too much
“Tories slams Canadian Wheat Board legal challenge.” Methinks Ritz’s language is quite animated, not conveying the confidence of a majority government. Maybe they’re worried about the legal challenge. Or the public blow back that might be on its way. G…
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