The media seems to be obsessed with the Forum Research polls, the new guru of the polling industry.However, I received a call from them on the Ontario election and phoned them back, as they said I could, but never received a rely, as they promised I wo…
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Power Workers Union Rethinking "Social Media" Campaign?
oth their fake blogs, Enviralment and Envirogy are “undergoing scheduled maintenance”. We’ll see for how long, and what comes out the other side.Background here.h/t Scott in the comments.
Continue readingTerahertz: Troofer is no Gandhi
I subscribe to a lot of blogs and news feeds and read a lot in a day. Out of all of these words that cross my eyes, some are worth sharing, and appear on my Google+ or Facebook streams. Some annoy me a bit more and I feel like writing about them. Sometimes I have […]
Continue readingDumbasses on parade.
Courtesy of the Globe and Mail.
The "report on business" reporter Michael Babad is fulfilling his purpose , deriding the #OccupyWallStreet protests happening in Vancouver, because it will be at the Art Gallery. Oh, he says he gets this who…
Continue readingLoss of party subsidy is loss for democracy
Democracy is about political equality. To be democratic, a political system must in essence belong to all the people equally, and if it is to belong to all the people equally, all the people must fund it equally. One person/one dollar may not be as imp…
Continue readingLeDaro: Obama Kentucky Fried Burger
Available in China only. Sounds crazy to me. Read the story here.
Continue readingHalf an Hour: Undercutting Industry
Stephen H. Foerster write, on OER-forum: > The logic is that it’s inappropriate for governmentto undercut private industry. There are many cases where it is appropriate forgovernment to, as you say, ‘undercut indu…
Continue readingMiami New Times fails again
Christ, what is it with news sources out of Miami? They may be close to the Caribbean, but for all their proximity, they still can’t report on Latin America for shit. Case in point: this silly puff piece from the Miami New Times… Even in death, Carlos Andres Perez managed to ruffle his nemesis Hugo […]
Continue readingthe woodshed: saving summer in a jar
We took my visiting in-laws to the farmers market last week and bought a bushel of sweet red peppers. My mother-in-law couldn’t figure what the heck I was going to do with them all or how we could eat a whole bushel before they spoiled. Fortunately, I …
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Debunking Toews: Warrantless online spying is anything but "balanced"
Pro-Internet community member Valerie Vuillemot recently wrote to Public Safety Minister Vic Toews and Industry Minister Christian Paradis, expressing concerns about usage-based billing (Internet metering) and the impending “Lawful Access” (online spyi…
Continue readinggritchik: Hudak supports homophobic flyer, doesn’t support choice
Kind of tells you everything you need to know about Tim Hudak.
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: Private Member Bill on Union Financial Disclosure
Conservative MP Russ Hiebert tabled his private member bill in the Commons yesterday, calling for changes to the Income Tax Act to require unions (which are income-tax-exempt under the Act … duh! since they are, after all, non-profit organizations) to publicly disclose their financial statements. Here are a few quick points that came to mind in […]
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: Perry Down – Protesters Up
Rick Perry is now dropping in the polls, with Mitt Romney taking the lead.I guess having a ranch named “Niggerhead” didn’t win him any points. The Tea Partiers would have loved it, but the Republican leader has to be able to win over more than the…
Continue readingHeroes for Today: Jesse LaGreca nails FUX Snooze
This was making the rounds on Facebook yesterday:
FUX didn’t air this. Gee, I wonder why…
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: Neo Liberal Globalization Kills Good Jobs
Well, you’ve heard that kind of line from labour and the left, but now the IMF seems to have been pretty much won over to the argument that global supply chains and technological change are killing more good jobs than they create. In a distinctly gloomy Box starting on p.41 in the latest World Economic […]
Continue readingSketchy
I’m indebted to Globe & Mail columnist Doug Saunders for this. I’d like to know what the follow-up is. Until then, I’m withholding judgement on the #fail part. Incidentally, this isn’t the only example of the possible intrusion of news…
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Thomas Mulcair: You need a Story
Welcome to the race for the leadership of the federal NDP.And before you launch into your campaign, you would do well to ponder the campaign strategies devised for two recent success stories in Alberta by Stephen Carter.This is a summary of his w…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: The Older I Get, The Less I Like Old People
“Most men die at 27, we just bury them at 72”- Mark Twain It’s interesting living in the human equivalent of the fabled “elephant graveyard.” My town is a place where the climate is, by any Canadian standard, idyllic. It’s as though there w…
Continue readingRecreating Eden: Red Hair: A Drug on the Market or Sign of Fertility?
Vivaldi was a red head, so were Napoleon , Galileo, Eric the Red and Thomas Jefferson. A rather distinguished group, don’t you think? But apparently, the sperm from red heads is not moving at an international sperm bank, and they have announced they’…
Continue readingCities—the provincial option
The possibility of Toronto becoming a province has popped up in the news again. The idea has floated around for years, supported by a variety of civic thinkers including the urban guru Jane Jacobs.The idea has considerable merit and not only for Toront…
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