The title says it all. SF Weekly: A Northern California woman is suing Pipedream Products, which manufactures sex toys, claiming her experience with her dildo was anything but pleasurable. According to the claim filed in Yreka, April Bonjour and her boyfriend were getting frisky and decided to bring out the dildo for some foreplay. But while […]
David Climenhaga's Alberta Diary: Redford’s Rocky Mountain Cabinet Horror Show: We’re doing the time warp again!
Premier Alison Redford and members of her new cabinet in a Transylvanian Tory Time Warp. Ron Liepert is at right. Alberta premiers and their cabinets may not be exactly as illustrated, here or during their campaigns. Below left: Ms. Redford, centre, at…
Continue readingProgressive Proselytizing: The Influence of Green Parties
Green parties so often exist on the fringes of the political spectrum, often without direct political power, and so it is important to periodically remind ourselves of why they are indeed important and have a role to play. The specific mechanism of thi…
Continue readingCathiefromCanada: What’s that smell?
Everything Rupert Murdoch touches turns into sh*t:the [Wall Street] Journal had been channelling money through European companies in order to secretly buy thousands of copies of its own paper at a knock-down rate, misleading readers and advertisers abo…
Continue readingIf Necessary Blogging But Not Necessarily Blogging: What I would have written about Harper’s putative love of hockey
If I could write like Kai Nagata. Read this and be comforted that not every journalist is fooled.
Continue readingAnti-Racist Canada: The ARC Collective: Facts Schmacts! Paulie Continues to Play Fast and Loose With the Truth: Part II
Time for more true facts that are completely accurate and truthful from Paul Fromm:Aside from the fact that Paulie appears to believe that gang rape is a subject that people should humor in (see #2), he does hit on all the areas designed to enforce the…
Continue readingCarbon49 - a blog on sustainability for Canadian businesses: CDP Canada 2011: Key Highlights
Carbon Disclosure Project releases its Canada 2011 report today at the Toronto Stock Exchange. More Canadian companies than ever publicly report their greenhouse gas emissions. Contrary to the common believe that going green slows growth, businesses who take the lead into a low carbon economy deliver twice the financial return compare to their peers.
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 4079…Flying Waiter Strike Avoided
Geez the flying waiters at Air Canada are worse than the NFL players were this summer.They keep playing the “We are going to strike card” and then don’t.Breaking news from CBC tells that “The union representing 6,800 Air Canada flight attendants says i…
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 4078…Happy Hallowe’en From Kraft
They are going to raise the price of peanut butter, one of the staples of all proper diets [the other two being white bread and ketchup] by 40 per cent on October 31.Other companies mentioned in the Associated Press article just released indicate they …
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Saskatchewan Election Roundup
The NDP unveiled its health-care platform today, and learned in short order that the minister currently responsible for our province’s health isn’t so strong in the accuracy department. [Update: Or the admitting one’s own gross error department.] The S…
Continue readingDefining hate speech tough job for Supreme Court of Canada in Bill Whatcott case
I have personally never met Bill Whatcott, nor have I seen him talk in front of a camera, so it would be impossible for me to judge whether Mr. Whatcott is a homophobe and a bigot. I don’t really know whether him distributing anti-gay pamphlets and calling homosexuals sodomizers and child molesters
Continue readingTaliban Amish?
God, how I despise religion.Five Amish men in Ohio were arrested this week for allegedly breaking into the homes of other Amish men and cutting off their hair and beards.The men were charged with aggravated burglary and kidnapping, according to WKYC, r…
Continue readingFree speech? Only for Conservatives.
Just ask Moazzam Begg.Canada. What a crock of hypocrites, liars and thieves we’ve become. Thanks Harper.
Continue readingIt’s not just Blackberry
Blackberry users aren’t the only ones having trouble, at least today. Apple’s servers gave up the ghost today when millions of iPhone users tried to update their phones with the new IOS 5 software: Users on Apple’s help forums have begun reporting that they’re not able to activate iOS 5, noting that Apple’s activation servers […]
The Political Road Map: Stephen Harper’s Canada: History’s Newest Empire?
September 11, 2001: Terrorists hijack American civilian planes and crash them into the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon. America is shaken as the realization that they can become vulnerable to attack becomes reality. 2008: After years of fighting on two fronts, the American military is stretched and American coffers
Continue readingcmkl: The federal labour board ‘reviews’ the situation at Air Canada
Journalism can be so maddeningly vague at times. This business of the federal labour relations board “reviewing” the negotiations at Air Canada and therefore rendering any strike illegal is just one of those times.
Continue readingWell, Lisa, Just How ‘Sexy’ Were You For the Canadian Industrial Relations Board?
Yeah, I know, cheesy title. Save it. Lisa Raitt’s a aging tart, I can’t do anything to change that. Something about her will perhaps turn me into a female center-left version of Don Cherry, with a better taste in clothes–they’re all black. Something about her just brings out the vulgar language out of . . . → Read More: Well, Lisa, Just How ‘Sexy’ Were You For the Canadian Industrial Relations Board?
Continue readingImpolitical: A little more important than the PBO thing
Tonight in Bruce Carson, the prospect of the auditor general taking a look at the use of funds at the school Carson directed, the Canada School of Energy and the Environment, is getting some attention: Industry Canada, which signed the $15-million fund…
Continue readingdaveberta.ca - Alberta politics blog: alison redford appoints gary mar’s cabinet.
Do you think Gary Mar left a draft cabinet list in the Premier’s Office when he was measuring the drapes? Because Premier Alison Redford found it. We were told to expect big changes, that many “household names” would be dropped from cabinet, but as they enter their new jobs, Premier Alison Redford‘s cabinet looks like […]
Continue readingEnvironmental Law Alert Blog: Local governments take a stand on nature and climate strategy
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Several days spent at the end of September at UBCM, the annual gatheri…
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