“Listen, don’t take this the wrong way, but you sound like a leftwing nutbar.” Kevin O’Leary to Chris Hedges on The Lang & O’Leary Exchange October 6, 2011 I’ve not watched this show, the day this interview took place, Diane … Continue reading →
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Evening Links
This and that for your weekend reading.- Alice provides the definitive overview of the NDP’s leadership campaign, including the right perspective on who will decide the race:It is entirely possible – and the probability can only increase with time
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On survival strategies
For all the talk about whether Canada’s Liberal Party is dying, let’s note that one of the most important determinants of its future is the question of how its supporters are prepared to survive.After all, there are two radically different paths availa…
Continue readingRedBedHead: Occupy Toronto: The Beginning Of A Much Needed Revolt
When the New York City cops went in hammer and tongs – or rather, truncheons and pepper spray – to try and drive out the Occupy Wall Street protesters a few weeks back, they probably weren’t thinking that they were about to help spark a glob…
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 4092…Michael Coren Be Slow
As in retarded. Oooops, canna call people retarded anymore. Apologies. The SUN TV slap head is special. Like the Olympics. The Special Olympics.Check him out in the Sun Saturday. Old baldilocks pontificated on the Occupy Wall Street movement, a m…
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 4091…Weaving His Magic Again
Joe Paopao.Mr. Paopao is the worst coach in the history of professional coaching and continues to weave his magic. The man who killed a team, the Ottawa Renegades, a league, the XFL and a college program, the Waterloo Warriors is back as offensive coo…
Continue readingWankers of the Week: Banksters, gangsters and other wanksters
Crappy weekend, everyone! Well, how are we liking our crapitalism today? Not at all? Not a surprise! Considering how it’s costing everyone more and more to derive less and less benefit, unless you’re a 1%er, that’s only to be expected. And equally predictable, all the wanking coming from this week’s wankers, in no particular order: […]
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 4090…Occupy Ottawa A Dud
I don’t know how it will play out on the news but I live downtown in your capital, work downtown in yout capital and play downtown in your capital and if they say that the city was in chaos they would be leas than correct.It seemed like just another ac…
Continue readingkirbycairo: For the Benefit of All . . . . .
I have spent years studying the complex, so-called neo-modern, continental philosophies which, in recent years, have blown away a great deal of traditional rational, teleological, analytical, meta-theoretical ideas. And I have a great deal of respect f…
Continue readingBuckdog: Brad Wall Says ‘Overestimation’ Of Revenues Was His Biggest Mistake – Yet He Continues To Drag Flawed Estimates Into The Election Debate!
“Asked what was has been the most regrettable mistake of his first term, Wall quickly responded “that we didn’t build more caution in ’09 budget” that overestimated potash revenues by a massive $2 billion. He admits the massive economic boom in…
Continue readingPaul S. Graham: Occupy Winnipeg Scrapbook
Winnipeggers took to the streets October 15, 2011 as part of the international outcry against corporate greed that began with Occupy Wall Street. The Flaming Trolleys provided just the right musical foundation, and, as usual, I took my video camera al…
Continue readingAnti-Racist Canada: The ARC Collective: Occupy Canada
If any of our readers have attended any of the Occupy events that have been taking place in Canadian cities would like to share their pictures, we would be more than pleased to post them on this blog. We would ask that you include the name of the city …
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Occupy Toronto
Well, I had the opportunity to attend the Occupy Toronto march to St. James Park, and I was impressed by the age range of those in attendance, as well as the calm orderliness that prevailed. I really hope the movement, as it spreads throughout the wo…
Continue readingRed Tory v.3.0.3: Jeffress on Real Time
Dr. Robert Jeffress, current head of the Southern Baptist Convention, in a surprisingly delightful feature interview on this week’s edition of Real Time With Bill Maher discussing some of his controversial comments about Mormonism and other issues… p.s. You can … Continue reading →
Continue readingRecreating Eden: Saturday Photo: The Wilds of the Plateau
Tiny front ylard gardens are a feature of Montreal’s densely settled neighborhoods. People spend a great deal of time and effort claiming the little bit of green they offer for themselves. But sometimes, the efforts are pure whimsy.The bathtub says…
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: Screw us and we multiply
Susan Heyes says, “Best sign I saw today…..Thanks to Geoff Olson!”
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: Double standards, professional courtesies
Drinking led to officer’s merit badge being stripped, CBC, July 27, 2010
[In 2006, RCMP St. Warren] Gherasim and a fellow police officer, both off-duty at the time, were enjoying an evening of drinks at a golf club in the Cutknife [SK] area.
There was…
Continue readingMorton's Musings: Nova Scotia Liberals
The Liberal Party has a strong Federal base in Nova Scotia. And it is a base that comes from a mix of urban and non-urban Ridings. And it is a base that is a sensible mix of fiscal responsibility and social progress. Perhaps it is my fondness for Nova …
Continue readingAmerika: "Hypocrisy has its own elegant symmetry"
This video is too good for words. So let me simply offer credits, staring with the inimitable Alison who points to the Canadian origins of the Occupy movement; and to Boris via deBeauxOs. Keep this thing going. One of…
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