R. v. Cunningham, 2011 ONCA 543 was released today. The decision largely holds that a lengthy delay between a decision and reasons may be a basis for an appeal: [26] On May 4, 2011, the d…
Continue readingDriving The Porcelain Bus: How to stop Ford Nation
How do we stop the cuts to core services and the wasteful spending by Rob Ford and his supporters on city council?Talk to the councillors.Now, we know that there are basically 3 groups of councillors politically:1 – Right Wing – Ford Nation – these cou…
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Oh, the Bible says homosexuality is wrong! – Now it makes sense…
Your musty christian tome says a lot of neat stuff. Let’s see, if we did not get to cherry pick the morality that suits us, what we would have to do. But then again, consistency is not really a big part of belief now is it? Thank you to Dammit Janet for the video […]
Driving The Porcelain Bus: The transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich and how this affects Toronto
Toronto at a crossroads: Will Ford’s austerity agenda be derailed? | rabble.caExcerpts: Lost in the rhetoric is the fact that there actually is a “revenue” problem, a problem that is deeply connected to the larger austerity agenda.The city’s budget is …
Continue readingWhat Is Christy Clark Really Ducking….
AllTheStay(Away!)cationsThatFitConvictionlessCourageVille….With Her Well-Timed Vacation?According to Lotusland’s proMedia herd, whose stampede this time was led by Mike Smyth with The Dean bringing up the rear, it had something to do with avoiding la…
Continue readingknitnut.net: Lost dogs: Baloo and Solo
I’ve been looking for Baloo, a half-groomed lost dog this week. He’s a rescue dog. The Rescue had him at the groomer’s to get his matts cut out. Poor little guy ran off from the groomer, just as a customer was opening the door. He scooted out the door and he’s been missing ever since. […]
Continue readingCo2 Art: When Society Progresses in the Reverse Direction
When I saw this post, it reminded me of how I met up with a friend from elementary school last summer and, over the course of our conversations, we realized something unsettling was at work in the country.
I don’t really know what this phenomenon is c…
Continue readingPaul S. Graham: Winnipeg Lanterns for Peace
On Monday, August 6, 1945, at 8:15 a.m., the nuclear bomb “Little Boy” was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan by an American B-29 bomber, the Enola Gay. An estimated 130,000 people were killed. On August 9, 1945, Nagasaki was the target of America’s second atomic bomb attack. At 11:02 a.m., the north of the city was […]
Scott Brison talks about the committee hearing that wasn’t
Seeing as we never had a chance to chat at
the end of the abbreviated spring session, I caught up with Liberal MP Scott Brison
yesterday by phone.
Q: How were those three weeks back in the House?
A: We have an important job to do with a
governmen…
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Fair and balanced Brian Lilley in CTV News segment
Ottawa Citizen reporter Glen McGregor writes about Brian Lilley’s wife and family taking centre stage on CTV in 2005 endorsing the Conservatives move to scrap the national child care program. Read the whole post; there’s much, much more – Commies, Fox News North and how Lilley’s . . . → Read More: Our liberal media part XXVVX
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Proof that Prayer Does Not Work
My apologies for a video heavy week, but…
Filed under: Religion Tagged: Prayer, Religion, The Power of Prayer
Continue readingAnti-Racist Canada: The ARC Collective: Jason Kenny Responds to B&H Propaganda
Okay, on the one hand we hate giving McKee and his, as our friend Daryle describes them on OPP, mall rats any publicity. Add to this we generally think Jason Kenney is at best a schmuck and at worst not a hell of a lot better on some issues than many o…
Continue readingSecret Revolutions.
How much is the press reporting when it comes to the protests that are sweeping the globe?
They covered Egypt, they covered Iran. Syria. Libya. Tunisia.
But they are people who are protesting Islamic regimes and full out dictators. They started out …
Anti-Racist Canada: The ARC Collective: September 2011 Bits and Bites: Blasts From the Distant Past, the Recent Past, and Current News Sandwiched in the Middle
Sometimes we like to revisit some older stories, some of which are so old they predate this blog by close to four decades.
For example, here’s a name we haven’t heard about in years:
Well, it’s not entirely true that you were the provincial Socred l…
Continue readingSomething fishy about this Toronto Sun article by David Menzies
Sometimes the Islamophobic Toronto Sun goes so far over the edge, it opens itself to open ridicule. This bit of flimsy from the Sun takes the edge and moves it a little farther out there. The story according to Menzies is that he was struck by a Muslim…
Continue readingThings Are Good: Nissan Cars May Power Your Home
Nissan has built a car that can charge on the road then use the excess charge it holds to power a home. This car can then be used to power a home in the case of a blackout or an emergency.
The system works by linking the car via a quick charging port to the […]
The food insecure amongst us
Every year the UN-OCHA (Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs) says that 3-4 million (always different) subsistence farmers and pastoralists in a variety of different regions in Ethiopia are food insecure, and thus in need of food aid (ou…
Continue readingThey Call Me "Mr. Sinister": Yup
Turmell is much more fun than that boring old economy.
Continue readingPaper Dynamite Online: Nycole Turmel: Naive Or Lying?
Don MacPherson makes an interesting point in today’s Montreal Gazette:Another [basic rule of politics] is that not even the subtleties of politics in Quebec allow you to be a member of two competing federal parties […] at the same time.In fact, despite being on the New Democratic Party’s federal council in the 1990’s, Turmel was apparently unaware that "holding more than one membership in a
Continue readingScott's DiaTribes: We’ve seen this movie before..
A day or so ago, Harper came out at the Mayor of Toronto’s private picnic calling for a defeat of the Ontario Liberal government, which was published on Youtube. Some folks are a bit perturbed at Harper’s intervention into provincial politics, but it’s not like he hasn’t done it before. He issued the same call 4 years ago in a more public show of support for then PC leader John Tory, so his partisanship isn’t exactly (or shouldn’t be) surprising. I’d have been shocked if he hadn’t, quite frankly.
I’m more surprised the Youtube video was quickly taken down (still is down the last I had looked earlier this […]
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