1. Allegro con brio Tempo: = 144 The first movement is in sonata form, but with an added orchestral exposition, a cadenza, and a coda. It has a main theme repeated many times, and there are several subordinate themes. The orchestral exposition changes keys many times, but the second exposition is mainly in G major. […]
BigCityLib Strikes Back: Does Alykhan Velshi Work For TAF
…or does TAF work for him? After several hundred words of the same old, same old, ex Tar Sands shill Alykhan Velshi slaps this at the end of his Huff Post piece:Alykhan Velshi is on the Board of Directors of the Toronto Atmospheric Fund, …
Continue readingwmtc: amnesty calls on canada to arrest george w. bush
I posted this in comments on the protest Dick Cheney thread, but it may have gotten buried. From the Department of If Only, cross-referenced under After The Revolution. Amnesty International is calling on Canada to arrest and either prosecute or extrad…
Continue readingMorton's Musings: "Bargaining becomes meaningless without the right to strike"
If the airlines are, in fact, essential services (and that is possible) then the existing labour structure should be changed to reflect this. Ad hoc blocking of strikes, whether constitutional or not, creates uncertainty and is not fair:
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Continue readingCBC – not loved by government
Want to protect CBC. You can sign Bob Rae’s petition if it will make you feel good. It can’t hurt, it won’t help either. Look at the facts as presented by David Akin’s recent column. Neither the Liberals nor the Conservatives have been kind to our beloved CBC.
In 1993 the Liberal’s infamous red book said this, "A Liberal government will be committed to stable multi-year financing for national
Continue readingwmtc: occupy wall street protesters not evicted from zuccotti park
The flood of calls and emails, and a steady stream of supporters joining the protesters in Zuccotti Park early this morning, caused New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg to re-think his plan to “clean” Zuccotti Park. Civil disobedience was planned for …
Continue readinggay persons of color: Video: RIP Frank Kameny, May 21, 1925 – October 11, 2011
Frank Kameny was sacked from his American government job as an astronomer in 1957 for being gay. He protested his firing and argued the case to the United States Supreme Court in 1961. Although the court denied his petition, Kameny’s case was the first…
Continue readingFar and Wide: We Might Be Dead
Plenty of ink spilled this week on the death of the Liberal Party. The latest from Susan Delacourt, offers another fair but sober description, well worth a read. These prognosis I’ve read are instructive for Liberals, because they don’t represent some …
Continue readingHalf an Hour: DRN: Downes RDF Notation
The usual disclaimers apply: although I’m creating this myself, it’s probably not unique to me, someone else probably thought of it first, and I don’t expect anyone in the world to actually use this, though if it is in fact new, when it’s reinvented by…
Continue readingMorton's Musings: Cloud and I-Phone
This is more a question than a customary post. The radio says the new I-Phone will be storing all its data in the Cloud. Is this true? If so, does that mean the I-Phone does not work if it's out of EDGE or 3/4 G service range?
Continue readingThe Adventures of Diva Rachel: Cher, cockroaches and the Liberal Party’s death
After Chantal Hébert noted that the Liberals’ days may be numbered, and Susan Delacourt also stuck her fork in the Party, now CBC is doing a special on the death. Is it kind of like Detroit’s “urban decay” tours? In some ways, the Liberals are like t…
Continue reading350 or bust: Time For The 99% To Occupy Wall Street, And For Wall Street To Stop Occupying Our Atmosphere
Powerful words from Bill McKibbon and 350.org on Occupy Wall Street: This morning, the folks standing up for the rest of us, and for a just and sustainable system, may be evicted from Zuccoti Square by a Canadian company, Brookfield Real Estate. Avaaz….
Continue readingThe Happy Wanderer: Rick Mercer Thank You
Rick Mercer has outdone himself now. He ranted about the money the Finance minister is spending to try and cut government spending. 20 million dollars to find out how to cut spending. 90,000 dollars a day!
Rick Mercer is right …
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Interesting Timing
The PWU winds up its stealth social media campaign–employing Flogs and fake citizens–against the Green Energy Act, and a week later John LaForet resigns as president of Wind Concerns Ontario.
Continue readingImpolitical: Seat allocation is only as hard as you want it to be
If what Ibbitson is saying today is correct, that federal seat reallocation legislation is going to be too late to add new seats by the time of the 2015 election, that will be a major failing on the part of the Harper government. It’s been clearly iden…
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: She can’t handle the truth #nlpoli
Premier Kathy Dunderdale is like her benefactor, Danny Williams. neither liked the province’s legislature where they could be held to public account for their actions. So they have treated the legislature – and by extension the people of…
Continue readingSlap Upside The Head: Give A Damn Campaign Targets Unfit Parents
Cyndi Lauper has been promoting an important anti-homophobia campaign with a new message aimed squarely at parents who harm and discriminate against their own children. It’s a sad statistic that gay, lesbian, and trans youth are disproportionately represented among all homeless youth in North America, falling between 20 and 40 percent of the total homeless […]
Continue readingMindful of the importance of process
CBC radio’s The Current had an interview yesterday afternoon that every single
person in this country needs to stop and listen to. And yes, I’m being totally
serious. They spoke to retired senator Lowell Murray about the challen…
The Progressive Economics Forum: Roubini on the Instability of Inequality
Business-school professor and economist Nouriel Roubini earned his nickname Dr. Doom by repeatedly predicting the chain of events that would cause the global economic house of cards to fall down. Yesterday he laid out the economic dilemmas that are triggering a global Occupy movement and concludes: “Any economic model that does not properly address inequality […]
Continue readingDouble-barreled irony
The future isn’t looking too bright for the controversial Long Gun Registry, currently whiling away its final weeks on Bad Legislation Death Row, smoking rollies and using the ashes to scratch “LOVE/HATE” tattoos into its knuckles as it waits for a CPC government Termination Technician to put it to sleep: The long gun registry is […]