Responding to Martin, who in the comments of this post says “I do worry that this kind of fine hair splitting/navel gazing is ultimately unproductive and offputting.”Martin, I don’t think these issues are fine-hair splitting. They represent, from my pe…
Continue readingdaveberta.ca - Alberta politics blog: doug horner reminds albertans that he is still running for premier.
Alberta Progressive Conservative leadership candidate Doug Horner held a media conference on the steps of the Legislative Assembly building in Edmonton today. The presser was billed as a launch of his “Enhancing Education” policy framework and his plan to “unite the PC Party,” but in reality it was used as an opportunity to remind the […]
Continue readingFacing Autism in New Brunswick: Autism Research Awakening: Environment Plays A Role In Causing Autism
“We have to look also at environmental factors, and from my point of view, the interaction between the genetic factors and the environmental factors … It looks like some shared environmental factors play a role in autism, and the study really poin…
Continue readingBlast Furnace Canada Blog: Another blow for DSK? (And yet another random rant about the double standard)
Just when when Dominque Strauss-Kahn thought he finally got a lucky break, now a French writer by the name of Tristane Banon has filed a complaint that he raped her in 2003. DSK in turn has filed a counter-complaint accusing her of filing a…
Continue readingThe Wingnuterer: Toronto by Bike, Toronto by Night – Canada Day, Gay Pride
Well it was a great long weekend, and even better if you were not stuck in your car trying to get around Caronto, The Ford Nation,… Seriously, didn’t Rob Fraud Ford say he was going to fix this traffic gridlock thingy that was causing all the car drivers major grief? Look don’t get me wrong, […]
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: Zombie Youth and the Canadian Property Rights Research Institute
A CULTURE OF DEFIANCE: History of the Reform-Conservative Party of Canada In November of 2009, the Canadian Press learned that a government program designed to recruit the best and brightest from Canada’s universities, had been politicized for partisan…
Continue readingThe Sixth Estate: Thoughts on the Clement Pic and the Parliament Hill Farce
If you haven’t seen it yet, there is no reason to read about the media’s self-created ridiculous prefab controversy over whether corrupt Treasury Board president Tony Clement should or shouldn’t have snapped a romantic photo of William and Kate watching the Parliament Hill fireworks. Maybe he shouldn’t. But then, maybe he shouldn’t have siphoned tens […]
Continue readingDeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science: France Becomes First Country To Ban Fracking; Gas Drilling Still A Go
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In a major setback for the oil and gas industry, the French Senate last week voted 176 to 151 to ban hydraulic fracturing (a.k.a. fracking), the controversial…
Continue readingeaves.ca: Code for America – Showing how to get it done on Independence Day
My friends over at Code for America have created this awesome twitter visualization for July 4th. It’s a reminder that you’ve got to love what you do, and probably no more so if you are trying to help governments reinvent themselves. Email & Share:
Continue readingRob Ford: It’s Safe to Come Back to Toronto Now
Rob Ford has nothing to fear. Pride 2011 is history. He can slink back to his office at City Hall.I can report to the Mayor that nothing untoward happened at the great Pride Parade. A million plus people packed the streets on a brilliant day to cele…
Continue readingJAMES LAXER: Rob Ford: It’s Safe to Come Back to Toronto Now
Rob Ford has nothing to fear. Pride 2011 is history. He can slink back to his office at City Hall.I can report to the Mayor that nothing untoward happened at the great Pride Parade. A million plus people packed the streets on a brilliant day to celebrate humanity, and diversity.
Continue readingCathiefromCanada: Organ donors-in-waiting
In the story about this year’s Darwin Award Winner in New York state, we also find out that Michigan is trying to become the go-to state for people in need of organ transplants.
Continue readingSomething’s off about lighting fireworks to celebrate the murders, the removals, the swindling and the thefts…
many dispute the bering land bridge theory. but other than that tiny question mark i’m still saying there’s nothing for my fellow settler/occupier neighbours here or to the south to be joyous about on the 1st or 2nd of July…if what you’re reading her…
Continue readingManifest destiny…what a load of shite…
so, i googled manifest destiny and racism…if what you’re reading here grips you, holds you, fascinates you, provokes you, emboldens you, pushes you, galvanizes you, discomfits you, tickles you, enrages you so much that you find yourself returning aga…
Continue readingMore "celebratory" writings…
Independence Day Hypocrisy – by Stephen Lendman All US federal holidays wreak of hypocrisy, representing notions and events other than what they commemorate. Besides Christmas, none perhaps is more celebrated than when America became independent fro…
Continue readingWorld Headlines Review: Greek Sovereign Debt Crisis a Sovereignty Crisis
Greek Parliament, Syntagma Athens – by kouk News outlets around the world have focused heavily on the so-called Greek Sovereign debt crisis this week. The proposed solution–an IMF loan package requiring “austerity measures” and a fire-sale of public assets–has sparked massive unrest in the capital, where people from all walks
Continue readingJames Laxer: Rob Ford: It’s Safe to Come Back to Toronto Now
Rob Ford has nothing to fear. Pride 2011 is history. He can slink back to his office at City Hall.I can report to the Mayor that nothing untoward happened at the great Pride Parade. A million plus people packed the streets on a brilliant day to celebrate humanity, and diversity.
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Geist: What might a competition-focused broadcast policy look like?
By Michael Geist for TheStar.com
As the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission concludes its hearing on the consolidation of the Canadian communications market into a handful of corporate giants (so-called vertical integration) and…
The World Famous Dan Shields: 3900…When In Ohio Be Very Very Polite
Very, very, VERY polite.Stephen Spencer Davis on Slate explains the reason why. “Because nothing goes better than guns and crowded places, Ohio’s Republican Gov. John Kasich signed a bill on Thursday that will allow gun owners to carry concealed fir…
Continue readingEvo talks with TELAM
Video en español. Part 1 of a two-part interview with the TELAM news service of Argentina. Covers a wide range of subjects, but Evo’s quiet intelligence and wicked sense of humor are the real highlights. So’s this key sentence: “We are living a revolutionary change, which has come for the first time in 500 years […]
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