I have never understood why the Cons hate the CBC so much. Why the grotesque teabaggers at Fox News North spend so much time hissing and spitting at it.Or why senior Con operatives use CBC hate to whip up their rabid supporters, and sque…
Continue readingcmkl: Whirlwind visit to Alton
So I got a call from the car repair place. The car was ready. So I beetled home threw some stuff in a bag and hit the road. And I’ll do it all again the other way tomorrow. With any luck there will still be time to help dad cope with the transiti…
Continue readingThe Duration of Life
Life is an endless struggle full of frustrations and challenges, but eventually you find a hair stylist you like. ~Author Unknown By the Brother’s Grimm When God created the world and was about to fix the length of each creature’s life, the ass c…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Musical interlude
Sixma & Klauss Goulart Feat. Outono Em Marte – Want To Fly (M6 Remix)
Continue readingCanadian Political Viewpoints: Come Fly With Me…
Source: CBC News: Challenger Jets’ True Cost RevealedSource: CBC News: MacKay took Military jet to Lobster FestSource: CBC News: Challenger Logs Show Low-Security Officials Taking FlightsSo, about a week ago we were all aghast when it was revealed that…
Continue readingBetterParks for Vancouver: Could’ve Told You Before I Met You – John Martyn
Forgive this bit of indulgence but I just had to share this song. John Martyn has been one of my constant companions for more than 35 years. His music has seen me through some of my most exciting experiences and some of my darkest moments. Whether i…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Parliament In Review: September 22, 2011
Thursday was another fairly short day of debate in the House of Commons due to the visit by UK Prime Minister David Cameron. But that doesn’t mean there was any lack of perfectly telling content as MPs continued to debate the Cons’ omnibus crime bill.T…
Continue readingFestive Left Friday Blogging: The hikers are home…
…and who do you suppose brokered their release from Iran? Yup, that evil villainous democratically-elected “strongman”, “dictator”, and whatever other stupid epithet you care to fling at his chemo-bald head. He’s a hero yet again. He did this for a couple of complete strangers in the midst of his treatment for cancer. And he got […]
Continue readingImpolitical: Friday night
Buy the sky and sell the sky and tell the sky and tell the sky…what is it up in the air for…it’s over, it’s over…Yep, still on R.E.M. nostalgia kick given the news this week! Two more faves. If you are looking for the usual progressive house fix,…
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Six degrees of separation, telephone hacking and Murdoch’s News of the World
Deep Throat says it’s unreal what is starting to happen right now in this ongoing saga of the missteps taken by the people at the News of the World!Check this site for a bigger picture of who has links to whom:And check this article about Murdoch’s mil…
Continue readingProgressive Proselytizing: My deflating optimism about the NDP leadership race
For a while, I was feeling very energized about the NDP leadership race. We on the left were going to get six months or so to have a real and refreshing discussion of values and policies about where to go from here. With a relatively new One Member One…
Continue readingBene Diction Blogs On: 6 million dollar class action launched against Redeemer University College
This seems to have been a week where posts have focused on Christian education. Tyndale University, College and Seminary being the first focus, I’ll end this BDBO impromptu education week pointing out a $6 million dollar class action suit. Just down … Continue reading →
Continue readingCuriosityCat: How long before Quebeckers start feeling unloved by the NDP?
We seem to be witnessing the parade of the emperor without any clothes, as the leadership campaign to replace Jack Layton gets underway. If you are inside the NDP, it seems that you see the emperor garbed in shining gold cloth, with a crown reflecting …
Continue readingCanadian health care system up close and personal
A few nights of agony during an otherwise pleasing trip to Montreal with a close friend convinced me to avail myself of Ottawa medicare last night. My lower back would not stop aching, making sleep fitful, and I had developed…
Continue readingLiberal smear on Full Day Kindergarten – They made it up
The McGuinty Liberals have been running a large smear campaign, attacking the Ontario NDP record and misinforming voters. Here is a classic example of that effort. The Liberals have set up websites that look like they were created by third party gr…
Continue readingImpolitical: The fight for Ontario in Parkdale-High Park
Parkdale-High Park Liberals have come out with a reality check this evening on some of the many claims made by sitting NDP MPP Cheri di Novo during the debates of the past week or so. I sat and watched two and lived the frustration that the piece refer…
Continue readingFor GOP’s sake, Chris Christie must run
Last night’s GOP debate was probably the worst political debate I’ve ever witnessed. I’m not alone. Most of the reaction from the right has been brutal. They hated it. They’ve been moaning all day for some depth from the field. D’uh.That’s why Chris Ch…
Continue readingLiberal incumbent for Kitchener-center, John Milloy, shines in local all candidates debate
The Waterloo Record, our local newspaper, hosted an all candidates debate for the Kitchener, Waterloo, Conestoga and Cambridge voting districts this past week. Yesterday, it was the candidates from Kitchener-Center that participated, answering questions from the audience and sparing amongst themselves on several controversial and wedge topics that have been
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: By way of comparison
Tim Naumetz points out what strikes me as a surprising trend of potential NDP leadership candidates expressing concern about the cost of participating in the race:“Money is a big deal,” Nova Scotia NDP MP Robert Chisholm (Dartmouth-Cole Harbor, N.S…
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