On the left, the stock photo as it appears in the NDP platform. On the right, as you can purchase them, too.
All style, zero substance.
Vancouver riots: Revealing video shows what’s behind the “kiss” photo
No, it really wasn’t a hot make-out session. (Too bad, eh?) Here’s what really happened: If you think the rioters were bad, the cops were WORSE. (Like I often say: It’s never a riot till the cops show up.) They knocked down two people who had the bad luck to be just passing through, and […]
Continue readingTrashy's World: Turkeys! Lots of turkeys!
Turkeys are causing havoc…. HAVOC I tell ya, in the burg of Barrie, Ontario!
No, not the kind who you address as Senator or Minister, but the real feathered kind.
The yummy ones.
We in O-town also have wild turkeys that you see from time to time* but I would hardly call them havoc-makers.
Though a colleague was telling […]
"Tactics of police violence used during the G20 are used everyday in poor and racialized communities across Toronto"…
via mostly water…“G20 Land” and the Real CanadaOne Year After the G20 Protests By Megan Kinch; June 25, 2011 – Toronto Media Co-ophttp://toronto.mediacoop.ca/story/%E2%80%9Cg20-land%E2%80%9D… The streetscape of Toronto is overlaid in our minds …
Continue readingState of America: theatre forced to put disclaimer on film because it may be too ‘philosophical’ and ‘challenging’
Disclaimers on movies have usually been isolated to ones that warn of ‘strong sexual content’ or ‘violence’. In a new twist, a theatre in Conneticut posted a disclaimer for Terence Malick’s new film “Tree of Life” due to audience complaints. The discla…
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Using U.S. Stock Photos Over CanCon To
…express your solidarity with Ontario workers isn’t the worst thing you could do. But it’s the sign of a shoddy campaign.
Continue readinggritchik: Andrea Horwath’s NDP: all style, no substance
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The Hispanic family and the older guy with his “grandson” in the Dippers platform, all stock photos.
Peggy Nash: Postal workers could be back at work Monday
More truth has rarely been spoken. Drop the bill and the workers return.H/T: Everett Coldwell
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: America the Mad
That’s it! The United States has gone terminally FUBAR. Pregnant women who lose babies are actually being charged with murder. This is madness, Christofascist lunacy.Rennie Gibbs is accused of murder, but the crime she is allege…
Continue readingThose Emergency Blues: Flash Mob Bares Breasts, Somewhere Prudes are Moaning
For a good cause, of course: A bold group of mothers gave a new meaning to the term ‘flashmob’ when they bared their breasts at a major shopping centre today to raise awareness of breastfeeding. More than a hundred mothers of all ages – some accompanied by their partners – descended on the Trafford Centre […]
Ottawa police: the beat goes on
Ottawa Police Constable Shane Henderson is a man who can run through a rainstorm without getting wet. Back in 2004, he was videotaped beating a customer in a Tim Horton’s. Not knowing that the tape was rolling, he and his…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: More Rancid Rightwing Ideology
Florida nursing home operators must have a powerful lobby. State Republicans turned down federal grants to help remove patients from nursing homes and provide the same level of care to them in their own homes.The free federal funding, about…
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian home page: Shades of Green: Mechanisms for Making Mistakes
The strange behaviour of the sub-atomic world caused a few physicists to worry that we might be able to invent a particle collider powerful enough to generate a black hole of sufficient mass that it would drag our entire Earth over its “event horizon”,…
Continue readingAdding more nuanced info re poly to my okc dating profile…
this was a long time coming. in a city like toronto where so many people tend to use the “well let’s see how/where things go approach to negotiating and crafting poly relationships”, i definitely don’t see me getting a lot of positive feedback for writ…
Continue readingThis is drenched in classism and nationalism but has salient points, regardless…
labouring under no such delusion, i find it so odd that he ever had such a vaulted opinion of what a middle-class miseducated (white?) amerikkkan should have been able to understand…If You Want to Understand What’s Really Going on in the World, Sto…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Who Knew? Apparently We Won in Afghanistan.
It was just weeks ago that Steve Harper declared Canada’s mission to Afghanistan a “great success.” Actually he couched it by saying we had to “consider” our military excursion a great success. But any doubt was dispelled today by PostMedia…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On unlikely donations
Since I haven’t seen much follow-up on La Presse’s fund-raising map and database, I’ll be taking a stroll through the data over the weekend – with a particular focus on how Canadian political donations break down geographically. But before I get into t…
Continue readingMorton's Musings: The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it.
My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept.- D. H. Lawrence
Continue readingBene Diction Blogs On: Confusing Brad Wall with St. Paul?
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used By Permission. A Saskatchewan church is promoting a conference this fall. If Tommy Douglas has internet in heaven, he, for one, would read their notice, and sigh. I, for one, was unaware that … Continue reading →
Continue readingdaveberta.ca - Alberta politics blog: a look at the alberta liberal leadership candidates.
You might be forgiven if you have not paid much attention to the Alberta Liberal Party leadership contest, which is currently underway. The Liberal contest is not as exciting as the Progressive Conservative’s leadership contest, as flashy as the Wildrose (now minus the Alliance), or intriguing as the new Alberta Party, but it is important […]
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