Whenever the topic of female genital mutilation or circumcision is brought up, most people experience a poignant and visceral reaction at the mere thought of such atrocity. Almost everything to do with female circumcision is to be strongly rejected, bu…
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: The Slightly Shorter Farber
…on Hudak’s promise to put crooks in your parks:Ontario has long been a province of tough, practical people. The Ontario way is to ask: “what works?” and make decisions based on reality, not ideology. But ideology, rather than reality, is behind Pete…
Continue reading@AntoniaZ, @SusannaKelley, @marcusbgee, and the Rob Ford ascendancy | #TOpoli
Wonderful thing, the Tweeter. Keeps things lively, and keeps you on your toes.So apparently there’s some question over what I wrote about the Globe’s ideologically reliable urban affairs curmudgeon and his role in helping propel Mayor Stupid into the C…
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: Concordia’s “Culture of Contempt”
In June of this year, a report was released on governance at Concordia University. The 39-page report was written by the External Governance Review Committee, a three-person committee chaired by none other than Bernard J. Shapiro (Canada’s first Ethics Commissioner). The report paints a picture of a rogue Board of Governors that ignored its own […]
Continue readingCoren is a moron
…that much was clear long before his rancid race-baiting rant about the Tottenham riots, projectile-vomited at anyone who happened to be dozing, bored to tears, in front of a TV tuned to Brian Lilley’s show on Sun News last week. Stand back! Incoming! Hoho. Black-berries, Black-thuggies. Cute. Many found Coren’s stinky little diatribe offensive in […]
Buckdog: When Prominent ‘Liberal’s’ Go ‘Tory’ (OR) Warren Kinsella bows at the altar of Conservatism ..
Who’s Tory now??? It’s bad enough that he writes for the SUN. Oh well … once again we see the truth in the old prairie axiom … “Liberal/Tory. Same old story.” Have a nice day Mr. Kinsella.-Winnipeg Sun: Warren Kinsella bows at the altar of conserva…
Continue readingMiss Vicky's Offhand Remarks: Comings and goings and foodie news
Lots of changes in the ‘hood! I’ve been meaning to write an update for a while but it seems that a staycation with two kids under five does not make for much time for reflection and writing. Go figure.
If you’ve spent any time around the Stirling/…
Continue readingLeDaro: George W. Bush about to catch flies
No one told George W. Bush that:
“A closed mouth catches no flies”
Photo source: MSNBC
Continue readingActs of Citizenship: Ontario Liberals insinuate ONDP hates babies, or when will Ontarians tire of cynical, disingenuous, and negative politics???
As a constituent of what must be one of Ontario’s most progressive ridings, Parkdale-High Park, I was dismayed and disappointed by the first piece of Liberal campaign literature that showed up in my mailbox. In a riding where the Conservative candidate, by all accounts very worthy, is an extreme long
Continue readingAnd Now For Some Real HST/PST News….
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Did Cookie-Maker Guy just diss the Birdman?
Why, yes, it would appear that is indeed so, based on an unbylined* story in The Province:
If the anti-HST side wins the referendum, and B.C. returns to the old provi…
Anti-Racist Canada: The ARC Collective: Putting the Lie to the London Race Riot Myth
When the London riots began, we waited for the inevitable reaction from the usual suspects who would, once again, try to claim this as an example of (pick any one or combination of the following):
1.The failures of multiculturalism.
2.The inherent inf…
Back away slowly, Canada…
Potential next President of the USA: CrazyEyes, come on down! Yes. It’s true. And amidst the squirming-like-a-toad insanity that’s been holding the collective USian brain in its grip lately, it could happen… a lot more easily than we probably think. Saner people are already making a mad dash for the exits, raising the Batshit Index […]
UK riots: collateral damage
Restoring order, UK style. Yup, that’s a rifle pointed at a prone 15-year-old boy: Each of the boys had their names and addresses taken and police tore open one of their rucksacks which appeared to contain boxes of smarties…
Continue readingMorton's Musings: Small errors matter
On the weekend I was reading an e-book on early Christianity and the Second Temple. The author is a professor at Princeton and I assumed the book, though popular, had sound scholarship.
Until I noticed a curious reference to someone accusing Jesus of…
Continue readingCo2 Art: German Nuclear Shutdown Will Cost 9,000-11,000 Jobs, New Dangers of Nuclear
Is the world already too dependent on nuclear power?
Germany’s decision to shut down nuclear power generation years early, following the earthquake and nuclear disaster in Japan this March, will result in up to 11,000 job losses at E.ON, the country’s…
Continue readingLeDaro: Michele Bachmann about to eat Ronald Reagan
Bachmann looks at a cake commemorating the 100th birthday of former U.S. president Ronald Reagan at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington in February 2011. (Joshua Roberts / Reuters)
Continue readingMusic for a Sunday: Never mind the bollocks
What could be better than this song for Merry Old England right now?
Okay, maybe this one:
And after all this, won’t you give me a smile?
Continue readingLaw is Cool: Constructive dismissal
Recently, I consulted a client who was in a conflict with a few co-workers. Let’s call him Jack. My client told me they did not like him. Jack received emails accusing him of poor communication skills and mistakes in the performance of his work duties. Jack convinced me that the accusations were groundless. He believed […]
Montreal Simon: Rick Perry and the United States of Jebeesus
Glory Hallybubbah !!! The Lord has spoken. Just as I prophesied the other day, he has directed his cowboy servant Rick Perry to become God’s President. And kick the heathen negro out of the White House.And all Canadians need to know about him…
Continue readingStevie Harper’s Conservatives Show Just How Spiteful They Are As They Go After a Widow Of an Asbestos Victim
Yep, no holds barred with this gang of miscreants. That asbestos lobby is just so damned important to them that they won’t let a widow of a man who died of asbestos related mesothelioma get in the way of their agenda. They’re going after her for the use of their contempt party logo.
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