“Regular Programming in Dufferin Grove Park will be cancelled during the day time hours on Saturday, September 10, 2011 due to an anticipated, large, unpermitted event.” (sic) – Sign posted on a tree in Dufferin Grove Park by Toronto Parks and Recreation, as ordered by Mayor Rob Ford. According to
Continue readingActs of Citizenship: A word about Strategic voting, or “progressives” don’t let progressives vote Liberal
Progressives, by which I mean those concerned with issues of a thriving democracy, the environment, and social and economic justice, are once again not being well served in the coming election. Indeed, the middle of political discourse has shifted so far to the right that Rob Ford appears “reasonable” rather
Continue readingGOP Vagina rules
The GOP has 3 rules. The Vagina rules…
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Nowak: Why the CRTC is trying to keep Canadians happy
By Peter Nowak
The CRTC has been quite busy of late coming to the rescue of the poor, beleaguered consumer. That’s nice, but it prompts a few questions, such as: What happened? Why the change of pace? And why now?
On Wednesday, the broadcast and tele…
Politics and its Discontents: Sometimes You Just Have To Hold Your Nose
I always try to be completely honest in everything that I write for this blog. If I see reason for praise, I acknowledge it, sadly a rare occurrence. Most commonly I am extremely critical of the issues and people that I write about. One of most freq…
Continue readingThis is horrible. 11-year-old disabled Pickering boy commits suicide after bullying.
RIP Mitchell WilsonI can’t fathom the torture this poor kid endured for much of his young life. Words fail.By his 11th birthday, Mitchell Wilson had already endured a lifetime of pain. He was 8 when his mother died of cancer three years ago. …
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Ethics and Religion
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Filed under: Ethics, Religion Tagged: ethics, Morality, Religion
Continue readingReal Change
I am always interested in people who change their views, especially in regards to climate change. I know that you can find people who claim they “believed” in climate change but then changed their minds – although the reasons always…
Continue readingWise Law Blog: 140 Law – Legal Headlines for September 26, 2011
Here are the leading legal headlines from over the weekend via Wise Law on Twitter:
The latest word on the ‘damages formerly known as Wallace’ – Canadian HR Reporter (blog) – http://goo.gl/4xrUv
Tough Sentences Help Prosecutors Push for …
A Novelist's Mind: Lilian Nattel Online: car ads on the Colosseum?
Rome is looking for “sponsors” soon to show their wares on tickets & exterior http://ow.ly/6EM8M Filed under: Miscellany
Tell Leah Costello that Dick Cheney is not welcome in Vancouver
Local right-wing gadfly and embarrassment to the city, Vancouver’s Paris Hilton, Leah Costello, is hosting war criminal Dick Cheney at her very elite, very right wing Bon Mot book club. It is appropriate however that a member of the cocktail wienie set is responsible for inviting such a ‘controversial’ criminal to our country and fair city. Protests are being organized and a healthy turnout is expected.
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Continue readinggay persons of color: Italian bloggers out ten anti-gay politicians
Generally, I think, gay people should be entitled to privacy when it comes to their sexual orientation, but when a gay person is an elected lawmaker who promotes anti-gay policies, then the politician in question and his or her hypocrisy need to be ou…
Continue readingwmtc: wikileaks: mentally ill canadian citizen held in bagram prison for 18 months, and counting
This morning CBC News reports that WikiLeaks has exposed that a Canadian is being held at the notorious Bagram prison, the US-run torture camp and holding tank for Afghans who were either trying to defend their country from foreign invaders or were in …
Continue readingFar and Wide: Topp Heavy
This NDP leadership race is quite fascinating, and I’d submit not well thought out to date. The rush to Brian Topp is very much coronation in tone and purpose, he does seem the “pre-ordained choice of the establishment”. The Topp campaign are orchest…
Continue readingOntario you do have a Positive Choice
You can vote for one of the old line parties or you can vote for real change for people …
Continue readingknitnut.net: Giraffes and eggs
We celebrated my son’s birthday on Saturday night. He came over for a barbecue and birthday cake. We gave him a boy mannequin wearing a giraffe costume for his birthday. (He collects giraffes.) Here’s a picture of James and his birthday present leaving at the end of the evening. I told him he had to […]
Continue readingThe Skwib: The wonderful thing about tautologies
damned freaks in the alley…, a photo by IntangibleArts on Flickr. tautologies After a certain point, the previous night was all a blur. He’d started the usual way: he burst through the door, landing on the nearest (and fattest) person, introduced himself, and then sang the song. (He’d paid the Sherman Brothers a fortune for […]
Continue readingThe Happy Wanderer: Palestinian State doesn’t Help Peace!
My fellow Blogger friend has put up a post saying that a Palestinian state recognized by the UN is the best way to achieve peace. He states that
That’s why they fight against Israel. Because they are living in bad conditions and have no sovereignty.
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What happened to Khaled Samy Abdallah Ismail?
Wikileaks has uncovered a mystery worthy of a Hitchcock film, involving a Canadian, the infamous Bagram prison, schizophrenia and the disappearance of a man into thin air.Khaled Samy Abdallah Ismail is an Canadian-Egyptian mistakenly captured in Kandah…
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Welcome to the Echo Chamber #nlpoli #nlvotes
Pretty simple idea, really. Opinions, beliefs and ideas move around among like minded people in what is an essentially closed space. The effect can be amazingly powerful just as it can be amazingly deceptive and distorting. President Barack O…
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