http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpX47QJmu2s&feature=youtu.beCulture and confusion meet on a Brooklyn street, in this hilariously charming tale of similarities amid diversity. Film directed by Gordon Grinberg.
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: “Letter perfect”? Guess again.
Municipal affairs minister Kevin “Fairity” O’Brien thinks that his government’s response to last year’s Hurricane Igor disaster was absolutely correct in every respect. In fact, he is so convinced of the rightness of what he and his colleagu…
Continue readingSocialism and the new NDP
As NDP delegates gather in Vancouver, many having flown in by Westjet, compromise is in the air. Fifty years after its founding, the party finds itself the Official Opposition. So closely does this bind the NDP to mainstream politics-as-usual that…
Continue readingMorton's Musings: Syria death toll 16, Aleppo sees first killing-group
(Reuters) – Security forces shot dead 16 protesters at several demonstrations across Syria on Friday demanding the removal of President Bashar al-Assad, a main activists’ group coordinating protests said.The deaths included the first protester to be ki…
Continue readingTrashy's World: Friday miscellany – schools, Pink Floyd and a moron in a bad suit…
The Ontario government announced the other day that 4 new schools will be built in Ottawa and a 6 room addition will be tacked onto an existing school.
On Wednesday morning, Education Minister Leona Dombrowsky visited Ecole Laurier-Carrière, a French Catholic elementary school in Nepean, to announce it will receive a six-classroom addition […]
The Smart Alliance Phone Poll…A Push? A Pull? Or Just Voter ID?
YouThinkYou’reImmuneButICanSellYouAnythingVilleThe other day we had some discussion around here about the consortium of British Columbia businesses, all of whom directly benefit financially from the HST (as opposed to you and I who do not, regardless w…
Continue readingMichele Bachmann gains in GOP presidential candidate field
How could such a crazy lady rebound after all the dumb shit she has spouted the last few years? Simple. Her campaign manager has forbidden her from lying. Will this bump last for long? Can Michele resist telling whoppers forever?
When Bachmann hired E…
Continue readingMorton's Musings: Damned if you do, damned if you don’t: Vancouver police
All sorts of media are repeating the mantra 'where were the police during the Vancouver riot?' It seems they stood aside (to a degree) when property was being trashed. But imagine if they had used tear gas and rubber bullets and horse charges …
Continue readingMorton's Musings: Hockey Violence
Fifty-eight years ago a rookie teen-aged defenceman died after a vicious hit from behind launched him head first into the boards. Just hours late his heartsick mother said: “It’s murder on ice.”The death of Bob Gillies led to a sensational trial in 195…
Continue readingkirbycairo: Syria. . . . we are all in the same oppressive boat. . . . .
I must admit that I am tired of the feigned nobility and ridiculous superiority voiced by many Canadians, particularly men like John Baird, concerning the various protests in countries like Libya and Syria. People are so quick to condemn the …
Continue readingSenator Elaine McCoy Hullabaloos: I couldn’t have said it better myself ….
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Scott's DiaTribes: Watching the Ontario election campaign
Yes, that has already started. You know an election campaign has started when political ads attacking other parties or promoting your own come along on the television. In the federal Conservative Party’s case, they were in seemingly permanent campaign mode for years while they had a minority. Here in Ontario though, we have a fixed date election – one that the government actually sticks to. The opening salvo of that appears to have been during Game 7 of the Stanley Cup finals back on Wednesday, when Tim Hudak’s Progressive Conservatives let loose an ad on the unsuspecting populace.
It will be interesting to see when the Ontario Liberals […]
Continue readingA BCer in Toronto: Liberals: Let’s not wait until 2013 to pick our leader
I’ve been informed that my sub-amendment on leadership timing has been accepted and will be debated during the Liberal extraordinary convention tomorrow. Thanks to everyone who pledged their support to help get it onto the agenda.I’ll have a chance to …
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: Passion Over Reason
Rick Salutin — who fortunately has landed at the Toronto Star, after being dumped by the Globe and Mail — has an interesting take on the Vancouver riot:Humans are emotional beings, but you can also think of us as symbolic. We invest our lives with me…
Continue readingcartoon life: Wind in clouds again
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Continue readingOn the Canucks Riot, Protest, and Division : Politics, Re-Spun
On the Canucks Riot, Protest, and Division : Politics, Re-SpunAnd more.Good lord, someone’s actually pointing out the class dimension inherent in the Vancouver riot, and drawing the connection between that and the corporatist power structure’s nasty li…
Continue readingThe Sixth Estate » When You Don’t Know Your History, You’re Bound to Make Up S@@t
The Sixth Estate » When You Don’t Know Your History, You’re Bound to Make Up S@@tAnd again. Either the Vancouver Police and the corporate media are taking stupid pills, or they’re serving some agenda. Now let’s think about this: who benefits from …
Continue readingMorton's Musings: Ontario Court finds police fabricated evidence to secure conviction
R v Salmon, 2011 ONSC 3654:
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[143] On a balance of probabilities, it is more likely than not that Constable W and one or more police officers fabricated evidence to make it appear that the false identificatio…
Continue readingArt Threat: Cancel your concerts in Israel – Friday Film Pick: Gaza Island
A musical parody drawing attention to Gaza, riffing on Gilligan’s Island.
Continue readingPorcupine blog: Explaining Conservative Support Among “Ordinary People”.
Porcupine blog: Explaining Conservative Support Among “Ordinary People”.I can’t believe I haven’t seen this until now.
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