i got marks in my eighties and felt pretty damned comfortable using all different kinds of machinery. then the principal got the intelligent idea that since funds were limited he would let males keep doing industrial arts and shunt us young wimmin into…
Continue readingHappy sperminating patriarchs day?
nah. 🙂 just business as usual in our household. but we did have a pretty activity filled family day out of the house, if that counts. :)if what you’re reading here grips you, holds you, fascinates you, provokes you, emboldens you, pushes you, galvaniz…
Continue readingThe Dominion blogs: Women in Space
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Second Wave feminism sought to address the dearth of women’s presence in the public sphere, particularly in the workforce, recognizing that their bodies were disproportionately tie…
Continue readingThe Dominion blogs: Women in Space
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Second Wave feminism sought to address the dearth of women’s presence in the public sphere, particularly in the workforce, recognizing that their bodies were disproportionately tie…
Continue readingVia karmalised…
these people are our strident lefty warriors literally putting their lives on the line. i support them…Gaza IslandThe Freedom Flotilla 2, with 12+ boats carrying humanitarian aid and 1000+ peace activists, is sailing to Gaza in late June. Alice Walke…
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Root and branch rebuilding: One tool we can use
Liberals have just had a successful teleconferencing convention that 2,700 members of the party subscribed to, and 2,100 members voted to extend the date a permanent leader is to be chosen.In commenting on the task facing us, Bob Rae had this to say:Li…
Continue readingcmkl: I really need to remove some stress from my life
I have two websites to launch this week for work, one freelance project that needs some attention, one volunteer website that needs to launch by the end of this month, meanwhile at home we seem to have adopted this 30,000 litre tank of need also called…
Continue readingThe Dominion blogs: Ansanm Nou Kapab…Together We can
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Summer Trip to Haiti: From July 7th to August 7th, 2010
Dear friends and supporters,
My name is Wadner Pierre. I am a photojournalist and activist from Gonaives, Haiti.
For five yea…
Morton's Musings: New Democrats do not shut door on possible merger with Liberals
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Oddly I suspect a similar view ("to close the door on any future discussion of a merger … is a serious tactical mistake") might find favour with most Liberals. That said, I do not see merger as making sense — unless …
Continue readingThey Call Me "Mr. Sinister": A Sensible Decision
Look, the Conservatives are going to call them socialists anyway, so the NDP may as well embrace the label and make it work for them.
Continue readingCalgaryGrit: Mark Your Calendars
Liberals have voted to pick a new leader sometime between March and June 2013. I was personally hoping for a shorter timeline but my sense from yesterday’s conference call is Liberals are ready to get to work rebuilding the party in the interim. I thin…
Continue readingWise Law Blog: Ontario Employment Law: Disability and Frustration of An Employment Contract
Frustration of an employment contract occurs when, through no fault of either party, an event occurs that makes the contract impossible to perform. Under Ontario law, where an employee is suffering from a permanent disability with no reasonable prospe…
Continue readingBuckdog: Conservative Senator Pamela Wallin IS Elitist And Arrogant
“Every senator in this caucus needs to decide where their loyalty should be and must be. The answer is simple; our loyalty is to the man who brought us here, the man who has wanted Senate reform since he entered politics, the Rt. Hon. Stephen Harper.
Continue readingMy journey with AIDS...and more!: Not pictured
View Full Album I am mindful, on this Father’s Day, that I do not have many photographs of Thomas Arnold (“Arnie”) Chaplin. (The additional ones I do have are wedding party shots with people who might not wish to be published.) However my mem…
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: To thine own self be true
Just a fun post – no serious politico-philosophical stuff here…gotta take a break some time.. And yes, I am an unabashed head-banger… I do love music that gets your energy flowing, including hard rock…along with blues, jazz, cla…
Continue readingA Novelist's Mind: Lilian Nattel Online: looking at nothing and finding infinity
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Continue readingWise Law Blog: This Week At The Ontario Court of Appeal: 11-06-09
Each week Wise Law Blog reviews recent decisions from the Ontario Court of Appeal.Ontario (Labour) v. Black & McDonald Limited. An appeal from an Ontario Court of Justice trial where charges laid under the Occupational Health and Safety Act were dismis…
Continue readingWise Law Blog: When Crime Isn’t Crime (Or It Is)
The comments on this Calgary Sun article about activists who wish to not receive a criminal record for their act of activism (namely draping a protest banner off the Calgary Tower, which is private property) are fairly predictable, because it’s the Sun…
Continue readingmike watkins dot ca: MIA: Federal NDP Constitution
A number of times this year I’ve gone looking for the federal NDP constitution on-line, with no success. During or before the last federal election the party pulled the constitution document from its website – perhaps it was never there. The most recent copy of the document I’ve been able
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian home page: Shades of Green: The Meaning of That Laughter
Moral Ground is a book of environmental essays that contains a chillingly poignant one by Derrick Jensen, “You Choose”, in which he has asked people a simple and fundamental question. “Do you believe that this culture will undergo a voluntary transform…
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