In Ottawa today, Prime Minister Cowboy Steve named famous football personality Don “Dandy Don” Meredith to a new position in the Canadian Senate. “I am pleased to announce the appointment of Don Meredith to the Senate of Canada,” said Cowboy Steve. “…
Continue readingSenator Elaine McCoy Hullabaloos: Senators: Did You Know?
Prime Minister Harper appointed two more senators today. One is said to be a volunteer pastor of a pentecostal church, and the other has dedicated most of his life to football, although he also apparently served as publisher of the Montreal Gazet…
Continue readingCarbon49 - a blog on sustainability for Canadian businesses: Top Five Posts of 2010
As 2010 draws to a close, I look back at all the blog posts in the first year of Carbon49. Judged by the highest view counts, here are the top five. They cover a range of topics including solar, sustainability as the next big trend, feed-in tariff for renewable energies, greenhouse gas professionals, and investors’ growing concern with climate change risks.
Continue readingPop The Stack: The Future is Full of Moderate Possibilities
So it sounds like Iggy is building up the courage to strike out on his own and risk sending the country to an election in the spring. Well I say, it’s about time. After three years of Conservative disregard for the institutions of democracy, embarrassing delinquency on climate change and international diplomacy, debasing of rational, […]
Monitoring North America
In a way, it is with relief that I find I am not one of the "tinfoil hat" paranoid/conspiracy theorist crowd, yet at the same time feel dismay at being proven right yet again.
Pertaining to what, you ask?
Why, that Big Brother has not only arrived, but that he has been here for quite a while at that.
Case in point, today’s expansive article in the Washington Post by Dana Priest and William M…
Continue readingThe Scott Ross: Christy Clark For BC Premier
“It’s time for new leadership in this province, let’s choose it, let’s lead together.” – Christy ClarkThere’s a uniting force that surpasses the left and the right, the liberal and the conservative, and that is the individual, that is each and every on…
Continue readingBetterParks for Vancouver: Five reasons why Vision Vancouver badmouths Green commissioner Stuart Mackinnon
By Charlie Smith, The Straight Publish Date: December 16, 2010 This week, Vision Vancouver park commissioners ramped up their attacks on the lone elected Green in Vancouver, Stuart M…
Continue readingrepeal of "don’t ask, don’t tell", a big feat in US politics
I would like to commend the United States Senate for voting to repeal the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy. Despite the pain the Democrats went through in losing these stronghold Senate seats, it is great to see Republican Senators like Scott Brown of M…
Continue readingFive of Five: December 18
This is not the type of thing I usually write about, but…This is one the few photos of my dad that I have, standing outside the Alberta Legislature in his RCAF uniform. Hard to say what the year is, or how old he is. I barely had any time with my fat…
Continue readingHerbinator: Savage Review of Alberta Health Care
Enlightened Savage wanted some debate on these points.
Not enough experienced and trained medical professionals, incl. family doctors
Misuse/overuse of the system for non-essential services
Lack of care for the poor
Limited access to non-trauma Urgen…
King of the Shiners: About Time
Finally we might see an end to the political deadzone Canada is in. Iggy is talking about bringing the government down. I have no idea how the next election will play itself out, but I’ve said for awhile that the Liberals simply can’t hope for a wild s…
Continue readingWorld Headlines Review: Russia, Violence and Protest: What it is and what it is not
Reports and video footage of violent demonstration and criminality by ultra-nationalist and racist organisations in Russia this week are forming an interesting juxtaposition to recent political protests in the West. If one is interested in what ‘violent thuggery’ actually looks like, witness this week’s outburst of unrest in Moscow: Rampaging
Continue readingBennie’s Bedazzled . . . .
Check out Bennie’s leer at the 0:56 mark and tell me he’s not having impure thoughts . . . .Recommend this Post at Progressive Bloggers
Continue readingFeminist Mom in Montreal: Personal boundaries
I’m currently teaching my two year old son about personal boundaries. This mostly consists of me chasing him around at public events and shouting, “No, Eliot! We use kleenex, NOT PEOPLE!” It’s never too early to teach them that no means no, right? So I don’t let him pull the
Continue readingFeminist Mom in Montreal: Personal boundaries
I’m currently teaching my two year old son about personal boundaries. This mostly consists of me chasing him around at public events and shouting, “No, Eliot! We use kleenex, NOT PEOPLE!” It’s never too early to teach them that no means no, right? So I…
Continue readingFeminist Mom in Montreal: Personal boundaries
I’m currently teaching my two year old son about personal boundaries. This mostly consists of me chasing him around at public events and shouting, “No, Eliot! We use kleenex, NOT PEOPLE!” It’s never too early to teach them that no means no, right? So I don’t let him pull the
Continue readingCharles McVety, champion of censorship, free speech martyr (huh?)
Shorter Charles McVety: “WAAAHHHHHHH!”: An evangelical minister says his television show’s content will now be “pre-screened and censored” after his remarks about homosexuals drew complaints that were investigated by the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council. […] The Word TV statement released Wednesday also criticized the CBSC’s “heavy hand of censorship” and the way it investigates complaints […]
"These Are Not The Criminals You Are Looking For"
I remain simultaneously amazed and appalled that the cux of the matter of the activities of WikiLeaks is not so much about the contents of what WikiLeaks actually leaks, but rather about WikiLeaks itself, their motives and the terrible, horrible dange…
Continue readingGuns: What the Proponents of Fortress North America Want You to Forget
The Canadian proponents of Fortress North America want you to think about the prospect of speedier passage across the Canada-U.S. border for goods and people. They propose that we “thin” the border between the two countries and “fatten” it aro…
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