There has been some behind the scenes upgrades to BDBO, and one up front which I hope will make it easier for those of you who use social media. If you click the share button now appearing at the bottom … Continue reading →
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Rape in the Bible – An easy guide.
Ah, the moral paragon that the bible claims to be, yet not one Commandment such as “thou shall not rape”… Pretty easy for an all knowing, all powerful being to foresee no? Apparently not.
Filed under: Religion Tagged: biblical stup…
Continue readingViews from the lake - eh?: Politics: the art of double-speak
Dalton “Dad” McGuinty announces a special program that will provide a tax credit of $10,000 to employers to hire immigrants who are having difficulty gain Canadian experience and/or credentials. The program is limited to new Canadian citizens who h…
Continue reading350 or bust: What Can Change In A Day?
In the Climate Reality Project, Al Gore answers the question, “What Can Change In a Day?”. A whole lot, it turns out – just ask the people living on the Susquehanna River last week when Tropical Storm Lee hit then and displaced them, …
Continue readinggay persons of color: New Travel Brand Launches with LGBT-Friendly Search Capability
When we leave the comfort of our homes to travel, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) human beings, like everyone else, experience the thrills of being in a new environment and the joys of discovering a fresh perspective of the world. Unlike…
Continue readingFar and Wide: Fluid
Before the Ontario election campaign began in earnest, the Progressive Conservatives enjoyed a double digit lead, many basically declared the Liberals dead and that was that. Trouble was, we still actually had to go through the motions of a pesky camp…
Continue readingPample the Moose: Canadian Political History Conference at York University
I’ve noticed that a number of people have landed at my site because many months ago I posted a call for papers for a Political History Conference at York University. The program for the conference “Transformation: State, Nation and Citizenship in a Ne…
Continue readingImpolitical: Listening to the farmers on the Wheat Board
The results of the plebiscite are in: Tens of thousands of Western Canadian farmers have sent a clear message to Ottawa, demanding the CWB single-desk marketing system be retained.Results of the CWB’s plebiscite, released today, show a strong majority …
Continue readingMorton's Musings: Calculus behind polls
The recent provincial polls show a snapshot. The numbers aren’t as important as the trend they disclose — and that trend is in favour of the Liberals. All that said, the election is a long way off and there’s a debate coming — so there remains much w…
Continue readingMorton's Musings: Calculus behind polls
The recent provincial polls show a snapshot. The numbers aren't as important as the trend they disclose — and that trend is in favour of the Liberals. All that said, the election is a long way off and there's a debate coming — so there remain…
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: Tim Hudak’s Troubled Geometry
The Ontario election is in full swing, and the Conservative party’s campaign is guided by a platform booklet called the “changebook.” It’s an audacious manifesto for significant change in the policy and the philosophy of government in the province, mapping out a long agenda of measures to cut taxes, balance the budget, privatize government assets […]
Continue readingThe Skwib: Pirate Therapy
Laurence arrived a few minutes late for his regular Thursday morning session, but his therapist usually ran late, so he wasn’t worried. From behind the door of his therapist’s office, he heard a blood-curdling scream, and then a thump. A door opened somewhere, and Laurence heard a strange sound, almost as though something heavy was […]
Continue readingThe Happy Wanderer: Ontario Could Stay Red.
threehundredeight.com has a new projection in the province of Ontario. It predicts that Ontario will be an even split. 44 Liberals, 44 Tories and 19 NDP. Which means a split government that would probably give Mcguinty another term in office. It seems …
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Your Daily Hillier: Tim Gives Randy A Few Extra Strikes
Key Gray on Randy’s issues with the CRA:So OK. Taxes aren’t being paid in the household. There’s a strike. Hillier misread the form. There’s a strike. Hillier neglected to tell the integrity commissioner. Strike three. You’re out. Resign.But of…
Continue readingTrashy's World: This is good news…
… for my MPP…
Not so good for Hudak and Hillier and their merry band of tax evaders!
Let’s hope that the momentum carries into next month… and it likely will if the PC’s (minus the “progressive” part) insist on…
The Sir Robert Bond Papers: To you with affection from Danny #nlpoli #cdnpoli
Anybody who is even vaguely aware of Danny Williams’ attitude to the CBC during his term as Premier will realise what an amazing thing it was for him to sit for 10 minutes on Monday and discuss his nomination of Elizabeth Matthews to sit on the offsh…
Continue readingTopp and the inner circle
As you may have heard by now, Brian Topp
has declared that he will run for NDP leader. Now that this fact has been
established, I have a few questions about what will happen next. What will
become of Brad Lavigne and Anne McGrath – fe…
Northern Insights / Perceptivity: Credibility: M.I.A.
In another liberal surge of empathy, Sun pundit Vaughn Palmer described the “post-HST fiscal triple whammy” faced by “action man” Kevin Falcon.
He described the aggravation of replacing HST with PST, a task that involves major efforts apparently not…
Continue readingGOP debate: the ugly face of conservatism. Also, never fly on 9/11 if your skin is brown.
The horror continues. Here are two items that bring the American psyche post-9/11 into instant, ugly focus.At the GOP debate tonight, the crowd loudly cheered a suggestion that society should let uninsured man die. Alan Grayson: “It’s sadism”.The crowd…
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