I get emails. Most often from angry far-right lunatics who generally suggest that I’m either a lesbian (but that’s not the word they use) or so ugly that I could never get a man (much, of course, to the amusement of my male partner). Or, graphic sexual slurs in general land in my inbox. Today’s […]
Continue readingRed Tory v.3.0.3: Big Red Machine Beatdown!
Come to PEI, and travel back to a simpler time…
Here’s a fun fact about PEI. If Ontario had the same ratio of MLAs to population, its provincial legislature would consist of 2,492 representatives!
Continue readingRedBedHead: Tories $20 Million Auditors Are Serial Fraudsters
If you’re the government and you want to find “gravy” – to pick a random metaphor – that you can eliminate in the provision of services in order to reduce the deficit, what do you do? Why, you hire an auditor of course. An auditor has specially traine…
Continue readingcentre of the universe: Deeper
There was vibration a gentle buzz from head to toe when I heard your voice when I felt your arms around me It was at once more than lust and less than love of a different sort I don’t remember … Continue reading →
Continue readingThe Adventures of Diva Rachel: Immigration and its Discontents | The Agenda
2 quotes from RD.http://theagenda.tvo.org/blog/agenda-blog/immigration-and-its-discontentsThe adventures of a Franco Ontarian Viz Min Woman in Ottawa.
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: Trade Unions Urge G20 Action on Jobs
I am attending the G20 labour ministers meeting next week, which is being held against the background of high unemployment in the advanced economies, and the prospect – highlighted by the IMF yesterday – for unemployment to increase even further in the months ahead. A key union demand – that the G20 establish an ongoing […]
Continue reading14 months later
Kathy Dunderdale, last year:”New buyer has eyes on mill” – CBCKathy Dunderdale, yesterday:”It’d be something of a miracle in the present climate” – CBCWe’ve never been stronger.
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Northern Reflections: A Just Society?
The phrase was Pierre Trudeau’s, and it caught on. Canadians like to think of themselves as citizens of a Just Society. Certainly, they believe, things are better here than in the United States. But, Carol Goar wrote recently, we have been emulating ou…
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Unions’ Self-Inflicted Problems
Allow me to be unequivocal from the start: I am a strong believer in unions as virtually the only effective means of countering the depredations that employers would inflict upon their workers if given the opportunity. However, I also believe that in …
Continue readingWise Law Blog: 140 Law – Leading Legal Headlines for September 21, 2011
Here are today’s leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter:
New York’s Chief Judge Seeks New System for Juvenile Defendants – NYTimes.com – http://goo.gl/5hGtQ
Lawyers as Social Media Influencers – http://goo.gl/ZT0FN
Japan: No kn…
Accidental Deliberations: Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Munir Sheikh writes (PDF) about good data and intelligent government. I’ll add the subtitle, “and other perceived threats to the Harper Conservatives”.- Aside from the occasional expose on working cond…
Continue readingBREAKING. Fox News North quotes Margaret Atwood: “Libaries (sic) cause cancer”
Well, not the real Sun News Network. But 22 Minutes’ Geri Hall does a bang-on impression of a Krista Erickson Fox News North type host ‘quizzing’ Margaret Atwood. It goes something like this:
Host: “Don’t libaries (sic) cause cancer”?
Atwood: “Of course not”.
Host “Oh, I didn’t realize you were a medical doctor? . . . → Read More: BREAKING. Fox News North quotes Margaret Atwood: “Libaries (sic) cause cancer”
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Schrödinger’s Rapist – A guide for the Men.
This is a compete repost of what guest blogger Starling on Shapely Prose, says about our rape culture and how it works for the people who have no choice but to live within its confines. This is a “S2″ moment, as in Sit the frack down and Shut the frack up. This is how […]
Continue readingDavid Climenhaga's Alberta Diary: Why those drat blamed cowboy poets make me so darned ornery
Your blogger, centre, at the June 1994 gathering of cowboy poets in Pincher Creek, wondering why they reckoned him for a city slicker. Online Alberta political commentators may not have appeared exactly as illustrated. Below: A couple of actual Alberta…
Continue readingMost likely he’s Black or of colour and they’re so scared the city’s gonna burn…
It’s not like the old days when they could kill and get away with it. A new precedent has been set. Now they have to step lightly and make sure to make full use of the corporate news media machine.aHEM…and I quote…SIU called in after MAN was shot b…
Continue readingFourteen Defining Characteristics Of Fascism
Rense.com lists 14 points identifying fascism. How many can you identify as those belonging to Harper’s Conservatives?Dr. Lawrence Britt has examined the fascist regimes of Hitler (Germany), Mussolini (Italy), Franco (Spain), Suharto (Indones…
Continue readingFar and Wide: Bold Is Beautiful
Part of the new Liberal equation, is coming to terms with the true realities that face us. From my perspective, elements of denial and “fresh coat of paint” mentalities still exist, and a few clues to date suggest no revolutionary thinking is taking p…
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: Look Out! Tim Hudak is Running With Scissors
If there are three words that will warm the blood of the New Right and their corporate pals, they are “cutting red tape”.The picture to the left was published on June 3, 2003, with the caption:Determined to cut red tape and reduce the regulatory b…
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