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Continue readingWeiner ordered to treatment for tweets. Dems converge to force his resignation.
Vitter given standing O by GOP after paying for sex and diaper changes. He remains in power, his seedy sexual deviance virtually ignored by media. I won’t mention GOP hypocrisy or dishonesty here but I will mention the Dems are pussies who bend to ever…
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: On Canada’s roaming charges: We could stand to improve
Cross-posted from Mediamorphis
It’s silly season again. The OECD just released another study showing that, on the telecom front, Canada is not doing so well, and continues to slide. This time, the OECD looked at the cost of “international…
gay persons of color: Watch: Lady Gaga does EuroPride proud in Rome
Lady Gaga concluded EuroPride celebrations Saturday in Rome with a call to international governments to defend gay rights, and an acoustic performance of her Born This Way and The Edge of Glory. Whether or not you are a fan of the pop queen, Ms. Gaga, …
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Exciting Crowdsourcing Opportunity!
With some people rightly wondering whether there’s time to conduct a full and proper review of the Cons’ budgetary plans before Parliament rises for the summer, now would figure to be an ideal time for some crowdsourcing work in digging through the Con…
Continue readingAnti-Racist Canada: The ARC Collective: Jeff Hughes Shooting Inquest on July 25
From Doug Christie’s newsletter:
Continue readingCollateral Suicide
What do I have against the “humanitarian intervention” of NATO in Libya? Lots of things. This video contains a clue as to some of them: So, let’s recap: So far, no Gaddafi. Their main target (as declared by NATO) remains strangely elusive, considering all the “smart” weaponry they’ve supposedly deployed against him. All this for […]
Continue readingTreasure hunter in bid to find Bin Laden’s remains
Right wing nutjob Bill Warren will be searching for Bin Laden’s body because, “I do not trust my government or Obama”. Using several ships at a cost of several hundreds of dollars, this appears to be a classic example of a fishing expedition, Breitbart…
Continue readingPample the Moose: Rating the Prime Ministers
Just a quick post to link to this Maclean’s article by Stephen Azzi and Norman Hillmer in which they discuss the results of a poll rating Canada’s Prime Ministers, past and present. Interesting to see Wilfrid Laurier topping the results this time arou…
Continue readingBuckdog: Harper Hypocritical Over Use Of $11,000 Hour Jet For Personal Reasons
“As they pad their expense account and look out the windows of their $11,000 per hour Challenger jet flights, they think that everything is going pretty well. They just don’t get what real life is like for ordinary Canadians.”
— Stephen Harper …
Leftist Jab: Cultural Amuse-Bouche: The Mona Lisa Curse
The world of modern art is inaccessible to many of us. In the documentary The Mona Lisa Curse (2008), Robert Hughes explains why that’s the case. He traces it all the way back to 1962 when Leonardo Da Vinci’s The Mona Lisa painting was lent to mus…
Continue readingA Blog By James Curran: Liberal Party Says "Let Your Voice be Heard"
So let’s do the math shall we. 3000 delegates to a virtual “special meeting”. Length of the call to be 90 minutes to 2 hours. President rambles on for 20 – 30 minutes. people allowed to talk? What, maybe 20. Now that’s REALLY having YOUR voice heard.
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: You may not have noticed, but…
…the first vote on budgetary policy in Canada’s new Parliament took place on Wednesday, with the parties taking their positions on the Libs’ budget subamendment. And it may make for an interesting signal as to who’s willing to work together in provid…
Continue readingDeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science: Post Carbon Institute Debunks False Hope Of Gas As ‘Bridge Fuel’
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Touted by industry as a “clean energy” panacea, unconventional gas is widely heralded as deliverance from air pollution to global warming to foreign energy dependen…
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Hudak’s Chain-Gang Proposal: Camp Run Amok Redux?
“There are ways to manage the risks; there are ways to diminish the risk, but there’s no way to eliminate risk. Will some inmates escape? Will some inmates walk away? It’s possible, and anyone who tells you it’s not is lying.”
Anyone remember Mike Ha…
Continue readingcmkl: Phew. Made it. Only 180 more km to go
Once I got out of town I was fine. I got about 6km lost trying to follow the prescribed route out of town. I was so nervous I skipped over the directions, ignoring a crucial turn. I ate up the time gained by my early (6am) start trying to get back on t…
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Separated at birth: Rosebud edition
The One (above) and The Other (below). But which one was fictional? – srbp –
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On shocking transformations
I suspect it’ll be quite some time before we see an end to stories about how the NDP’s Quebec breakthrough means that it’ll have to radically change direction. But let’s put the spin in perspective.In their first opportunity to introduce bills as Offic…
Continue readingThe power of Brigette DePape
I don’t think I have seen a single soul who has been terrorized Canada’s right wing as much as this 21-year-old woman. Beginning with Evan Solomon’s horribly manipulative interview to the blogging conservatives to the finger wagging of Huffington Post …
Continue readingWise Law Blog: Wise Law Blog Goes Mobile
Thanks to an upgrade from Google’s Blogger platform, a mobile version of Wise Law Blog is now available on your handheld. The mobile version contains our current blogposts only, rather than our sidebar entries, but mobile readers can easily select the…
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