A few days ago, I was shopping around for a good fax service. Besides receiving faxes by email and a few other musts, I needed a stable fax number. Who can afford to lose a number after spending thousands on advertising? There is goodwill in your number. Sometimes it is catchy and easy to remember. […]
wmtc: the only good bargaining is collective bargaining
From time to time, I sell things on Craigslist and Kijiji. I’ve given away scads of things on Freecycle, including, when we were packing up to move to Canada, a huge air conditioner, bedroom furniture, a couch, and other items considered gems by Freecy…
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: REAL Women, Promise Keepers and the Promotion of Violence
I Burned my Bra For This? REAL Women of Canada and the Men Behind ThemIt is a massive masculine shadow, in a hall or crowded room, lifting something indistinct up into the resonating night.ROBERT BLY, “FIFTY MALES SITTING TOGETHER”Robert Bly is an Amer…
Continue readingExponential Book: Time for a change ?
It is a warm mid-Summer weekend. Instead of relaxing and enjoying the outdoors, the fresh air, the company of friends, the ferocious northern mosquitoes and all the joys that the season brings, I am in my home office, cursing the new Apple operating sy…
Continue readingCo2 Art: African Famine Blamed on Land Grab – But the People Need Water – Not Land
There has been a sudden rush to blame the famine in the horn of Africa on the “African Land Grab”.
News sources as diverse as The Local (Germany), Al Jazeera and the Montreal Gazette (online link to the July 30 article supressed or unavailable) have j…
Continue readingThings North American Corporate Media Would be Sure To Suppress But Would Be Crazy Enough To Work
Not to mention, no doubt, things to drive American Homeland Security Batty and drive the McCarthyist Tea-bagger paranoid types off to the fainting couches. Norway’s response to the recent terror attacks, quite different from Dubya Bush’s “We’ll smoke ‘em out!” vengeance speeches following 9/11 or those crazy security measures like airport body scanners . . . → Read More: Things North American Corporate Media Would be Sure To Suppress But Would Be Crazy Enough To Work
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Sunday Morning ‘Rider Blogging
It’s disappointing enough for the ‘Riders to lose to Calgary at home. But it’s doubly so to manage the feat while playing about as well as could possibly be expected in two phases of the game – leaving huge questions about an offensive unit which was s…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: When You Don’t Know Who to Blame – You’re an American
You can’t hope to change much when control of the narrative is what really matters. In the United States today, it’s not actions but perceptions upon which elections are won. Many Americans, enough to shift control of one or bot…
Continue readingDriving The Porcelain Bus: Closing food banks dumb idea
Closing food banks dumb idea | Comment | London Free PressYes, as I said in my previous post, closing food banks is a bad idea with nothing in place to provide alternate support.The food bank world was suddenly hit with a broadside this week with the E…
Continue readingkirbycairo: Rightwing haters. . . .
Frankly it is nice that the Right-wing is slowly being exposed for what they really are, mean-spirited and incompetent. The events in Norway are unspeakable and tragic beyond imagination, but they are a very direct result of the rightwing ide…
Continue readingThose Emergency Blues: So When Does This Become a Crisis?
I walked into the Emergency Department one hot morning a couple of weeks ago and found every last stretcher — twenty-five beds, including the two we try to reserve for trauma or codes — was filled with admitted patients; furthermore, five additional patients were waiting for consultants and likely admission. We were operating at 120% […]
"Load of crap". More Conservative muzzling. NDP locked out of NL airbase.
It never stops. In fact it’s getting worse. Disagree publicly with Harper? Put a muzzle on it.The control the Conservatives have over this country is scary. It was once just the messaging, now it’s spread to the attempted silencing of scientists, publi…
Continue readingLeDaro: Samosas Banned in Somalia
Samosas have been banned in much of Somalia because they have three corners, supposedly hinting at the Christian Trinity. Will fundamentalists get any more ridiculous and stupid? Especially when there’s such a serious famine in Somalia.I understand sam…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Indian Women Push Back with Slutwalk.
It’s often called the ‘biggest democracy on earth’ and it is, sort of, but India remains one of the five worst countries in which to be a woman – right alongside Pakistan, Afghanistan, the Congo and Somalia. In India, a woman’s lot often leads to…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: "An Extraordinarily Dangerous Place" – Iraq on Eve of American Pullout
Washington’s Iraq Special Inspector General for Reconstruction, Stuart Bowen, has taken the measure of Iraq today and laments the deterioration of security in the country.”Iraq remains an extraordinarily dangerous place to work. It is less safe, in my …
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Sunday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your long weekend.- I’ll agree with pogge that Tabatha Southey’s latest is well worth a read. But while it’s worth recognizing the differences between the respective priorities involved in managing a country as opposed to a f…
Continue readingThe Skinny: Racist comments from Toronto Sun readers
Here is a sample of several racist comments and replies that come from readers of the Toronto Sun based on this story: 1 fatally shot, 2 wounded at carnival Showing 1-20 of 266 comments 0 new comment was just posted. Show Only_in_Canada 38 …
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: Tea Party Time
Amid reports that Democratic and Republican leaders have reached a budget deal, Jeffrey Simpson’s analysis of American politics, in today’s Globe and Mail, offers some valuable perspective. The reasons for the problem are well known:The U.S. spen…
Continue readingCanadian Press whitewashes Harper’s incestuous relationship with media
Joan Brydon (CP) bends over backwards to show how Canadian journalism could never go the way of the Murdoch scandal by slanting her reporting to make sure we know that Stephen Harper would never be influenced by the media. She adds Harper’s antagonism …
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