…but it’s really not my home:
For me, this is the song that started a lot: my love for the music (and social justice activism) of Tom Cochrane, and oh yeah: my interest in Neruda, for whom the album that this song came from was named. A st…
Continue readingNice to see the United States and Canada united at last — in our hatred of the Miami Heat and our joy at the Mavericks win!
Continue readingPerhaps we'll get some details of the crime legislation? As I have said before a detailed review of the legislation as proposed may be very helpful — but the actual proposals need to be available first:MINISTER OF JUSTICE TO DISCUSS CRIMINAL JUST…
Continue readingWhen I started in business I would get, on a normal day, ten or more letters. People communicated by telephone and, if there was a need to make a permanent record of a communication, by letter mailed through the post. Today I get virtually no letters b…
Continue readingThe 89-year-old radio evangelist and president of the Oakland nonprofit Family Radio was taken by ambulance from his house Thursday night, a neighbor said, but his well-known, gravelly voice that led many believers to donate millions of dollars to his … Continue reading →
Continue readingI’m not much for books (most blog posts are too long for my attention span). But this proposed expose on the House of Commons by former Liberal MP Michelle Simson is sure to be at the top of my reading list.
OTTAWA — The House of Commons is deeply …
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Hello,
My name’s Omri and in addition to being one of the new interns at the Dominion I’m also really into Permaculture.
What is Permaculture you ask? Permaculture is a c…
Here's what I don't understand about outsourcing. Perhaps you can help me. I understand there is a whole world of people that will spend long hours in factories for much less money than North Americans will. I understand that holding down labou…
Continue readingAn external expert review of the Muskrat Falls project warned Nalcor and the provincial government that the project’s schedule is unrealistic, according to documents obtained by Canadian Press. As Canadian Press reported on Sunday: Provincial Cr…
Continue readingWow! Six? Holy!
Continue readingAllTheDivingThatFitsWavingFingersVilleA couple of days ago the Globe’s M. Sekeres helped fan the flames of this ‘Everyone Hates The Canucks’ meme by dropping logs like the following into the non-stop chat show fire:…On the Jim Rome radio show, form…
Continue readingIn the theme of today’s Vancouver Canucks posts, here’s The Dirty Dozen NHL fans across Canada and the United States love to hate. Go Canucks!
Note to Cathal Kelly of The Star: your breitbarting of the Canucks in headline after headline is full of old…
Continue readingSo I’m back. Rideau Lakes is over. Sniff. There were minutes today, however where I would not have been so sentimental. The moonscape loosely termed ‘road’ between Meryln Wilson Road and Century Road East, for example. The point where the crosswind sta…
Continue readingI wonder why the folks from the Canadian Centre for Bio-Ethical Reform (CCBR) are so shocked (shocked!) to discover that they are not welcome to shove their medieval beliefs down students’ throats outside of high schools in Calgary. Stephanie Gra…
Continue readingSpirit has taken a dirt nap on Mars, years after it was expected to fail. If only Microsoft, Apple, or Garmin could build devices half as reliable as a Martian rover, I wouldn’t have to make so many blasted RMA claims on or off warranty. If only we put a higher priority on space travel […]
June 12, 2011, Moncton, demonstration in support of the Maeng family, who had earlier been required to return to Korea because Immigration Canada had deemed that their son would pose too much of a burden on the health care system – this after they h…
Continue readingDon Drummond has an op-ed in today’s Toronto Star concluding: Federal and provincial governments and the Canadian business sector should [establish] monitoring mechanisms that will permit regular reports to Canadians on whether the Canadian corporate tax revolution is producing benefits for them. As an advocate of corporate tax cuts, he believes that such benefits exist. […]
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Tomorrow the appeal of the decision that struck down some law relating to prostitution is being heard by the Court of Appeal for Ontario. The argument will take a week and the decision is likely months away.
One point to reme…
Continue readingThis is getting insane!
The Dufferin-Peel Catholic School Board has effectively banned the use of rainbows at school functions because, get this, of the association of rainbows with gays!
I read this for a while thinking it was satire! Why would or could something this silly happen in the 21st century!
I am not making this up!
Leanne Iskander, […]
Who says Canada is losing face around the world? It just picked up three Fossil awards!
First Place Fossil is awarded to Canada. Guess what sector is Canada’s fastest-growing source of greenhouse gas emissions? That would be the tar sands, where emi…
