Finally, after more than a quarter of a century, a Roman Catholic bishop in North America may finally be held to account in the courts — the legal courts, not the canonical ones. The sex abuse scandal that has plagued the Catholic Church has had a rel…
Continue readingTory Taber, fresh off Hoeppner tribute, soars the friendly skies with Lisa Raitt
Jasmine honey, get the fuck out of the way. I’ve got a new assistant. Hi, Jane!It never ends with our little Jane Taber. Her job as she knows it is to do one thing: shill her ass off for the Conservative party. Her assignment this month it seems is to …
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: An excess of chutzpah: pollster attacks colleagues over methods, accuracy #nlpoli
Corporate Research Associates president Don Mills is criticising his professional colleagues for their use of online surveys to conduct opinion polling. CRA uses telephone surveys. In two election polls released in September, MQO reportedly used a comb…
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Subnormality – Emperor of the Universe
Don’t you wish you could be that important? :> A Subnormality comic. Filed under: Humour Tagged: Humour, Subnormality, The Universe
knitnut.net: Happy Birthday to Me!
Here are a few things you can do to celebrate my birthday today!
The Fabric Flea Market – at the Glebe Community Centre from 10:00 to 2:00. All proceeds go to Cambridge Public School. Admission $2. Lots of bargains on fabric, yarn, patterns, buttons and other needlework supplies.
Grand opening of the Daily Grind Art […]
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: The Report of the Liberals Death Was Greatly Exaggerated
“The report of my death was an exaggeration” – Mark TwainEveryone loves that Mark Twain quote in all of its variations. It was prompted by the visit of a reporter, sent by his paper to investigate whether or not Twain (Samuel Clemens) had died af…
Continue reading350 or bust: A Saturday Break From The Usual Garbage
It’s Saturday and we’re going to take a break from the usual petroleum lobby garbage that we discuss on this blog, and take a look at another kind: Have a great Saturday!
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: CBC Apologizes Privately for O’Leary
The following has been reported in The Globe with regard to Kevin O’Leary’s boorish and abusive recent interview with Chris Hedges:CBC’s ombudsman says Kevin O’Leary’s heated remarks during an interview with author Chris Hedges violated the publi…
Continue readingNDP Leadership Contest
My good friend but alas political adversary over at IMPOLITICAL takes comfort from a column by Don MacPherson in the Montreal Gazette, Quebec’s conservative english language newspaper. Mac it seems thinks that Brian Topp was trying to build up so muc…
Continue readingImpolitical: Tom the Bomb
Shorter NDP race thus far by Don Macpherson:Brian Topp has acted as though he is afraid to run against Thomas Mulcair. And with nearly six months to go until the party’s members elect their next leader, Mulcair has already been making excuses for losin…
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Election Week Traffic #nlpoli
The ballots are in and counted. People are still trying to grasp the enormity of what happened Next week, SRBP will have a series on polls during the election. We’ll look at the polls themselves, compare their findings with the actual …
Continue readingTotally not ideological cuts
The Canadian Environmental Network has had
to close its doors after losing its government funding. Try to look surprised.
Also, cuts are coming to Veterans Affairs, and cut the funding for an important criminology journal &nd…
Northern Insights / Perceptivity: Demonstrators and police should be unmasked
The BC Civil Liberties Association, now in its sixth decade, has done important and principled work in our province while advocating for individual rights, freedom and law reform. Their good work continues this week organizing and training observers …
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Occupy Canada: Now It’s Our Turn
As the Occupy Wall Street Movement goes global.Protesters worldwide geared up for a cry of rage on Saturday against bankers, financiers and politicians they accuse of ruining global economies and condemning millions to poverty and hardship through…
Continue readingDavid Climenhaga's Alberta Diary: Redford Tories have good news and bad news for government union’s president
AUPE President Guy Smith with some of the approximately 1,000 demonstrators who gathered at the Alberta Legislature yesterday afternoon to protest against privatization talk by Premier Alison Redford. Below: Former AUPE President Dan MacLennan talking …
Continue readingArt Threat: Happy Birthday Nietzche & Foucault!
There’s only a little to say about this – Michel Foucault was born October 15, 1926, and by weird coincidence, Friedrich Nietzsche was born on the same day 82 years earlier- October 15, 1844. Big thinkers in the canon of Dead White Men. So what, you might be asking — and what does that have […]
Continue readingALTAVISTAGOOGLE: With an iPhone 4S, No More Writing About Your Dog!
King Chung Huang (@kinghuang) 10/14/11 11:52 PMDictation works! pic.twitter.com/dHCjWxlS Via iPad
Continue readingTrashy's World: Thinking about this…
…would make a social conservative’s head explode! Share and Enjoy: Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
Continue readingAnti-Racist Canada: The ARC Collective: Ernst Zundel Fire Revisited
On May 8, 1995, Holocaust denier Ernst Zundel was the victim of an arson attack on his Carlton Street home (known as, “the Bunker”) which resulted in substantial damage. The only group to claim responsibility for the arson was an extremist group that h…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Musical interlude
Probspot – Blueberry
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