The delusional Apps maintains only 8 or 10 people have called for his resignation. Well, I know different. So does he. But the truth never really mattered to Alf Apps. Here’s one from The Sun todayDunn: Apps dooms Grits The inside story of the destruct…
Continue readingEnormous Thriving Plants: Where’s the best place in Saskatoon to enjoy a post-Rapture drink?
Some conservative religious group from the US is apparently putting up billboards all over (including Saskatoon) proclaiming that the “Rapture” is going to occur on May 21st, removing all of “the saved” from the planet and leaving the rest of us to enjoy the universe fundie-free for 5 months before
Continue readingEnormous Thriving Plants: Where’s the best place in Saskatoon to enjoy a post-Rapture drink?
Some conservative religious group from the US is apparently putting up billboards all over (including Saskatoon) proclaiming that the “Rapture” is going to occur on May 21st, removing all of “the saved” from the planet and leaving the rest of us to enjoy the universe fundie-free for 5 months before
Continue readingEnormous Thriving Plants: Where’s the best place in Saskatoon to enjoy a post-Rapture drink?
Some conservative religious group from the US is apparently putting up billboards all over (including Saskatoon) proclaiming that the “Rapture” is going to occur on May 21st, removing all of “the saved” from the planet and leaving the rest of us to enj…
Continue readingBlast Furnace Canada Blog: Splitsville for Ahnold, Shriver
Divorce is never a simple matter. Especially when it involves Arnold Schwarzenegger and his soon to be ex wife Maria Shriver. It is just possible if the truth above his love child came out during the 2003 recall, he might have never been electe…
Continue readinggay persons of color: Phoenix Suns President Rick Welts comes out; players featured in pro-gay PSA
The past few days have been momentous for American professional basketball fans, and, in particular, those of the Phoenix Suns, whose President and CEO Rick Welts bravely came out openly as gay over the weekend. According to a Sunday New York Times art…
Continue readingDavid Climenhaga's Alberta Diary: Two words put the Ruth Ellen Brosseau brouhaha in perspective: ‘Rob Anders’
Above: Ruth Ellen Brosseau in her riding. Below: Rob Anders and Peter Goldring. Need we say more?Since the media has shown such reluctance to let it go, let’s put this whole Ruth Ellen Brosseau brouhaha in perspective.Ms. Brosseau is the young wo…
Continue readingCathiefromCanada: Pushing back creeping G20-ism
“Creeping G20-ism” is my term for the insidious attitude that says its OK for police to do whatever they want to whomever they want because any civilian who gets in their way must just be a thug anyway.A couple of stories in today’s Star Phoenix demons…
Continue readingDavid Climenhaga's Alberta Diary: Hey St. Albert: it’s not too late to enjoy an evening of theatre and music tomorrow
St. Albert readers will be interested in tomorrow’s evening of theatre and music at the Arden Theatre, presented by the Friends of the St. Alberta Public Library.The fund-raising event at 7 p.m. tomorrow features the Roland Majeau Band and its rock, …
Continue readingDriving The Porcelain Bus: Toronto Star attempts a smear-job on Jack and Olivia
MPs lap up free trips courtesy of groups, foreign governments – thestar.comTowards the end of the election campaign, the Toronto Star very grudgingly endorsed the NDP. Before that they usually directly or subtly attacked the NDP. Now, we see they are b…
Continue readingFlood Compensation
We know that without reducing the amount of water flowing through the Assinniboine River, the river would have breached the banks between Elie and Winnipeg causing uncontrolled flooding. Flooding that would wipe out about 850 homes and flood the area that is currently being flooded by cut at the Hoop and Holler bend. We also know […]
I’m Alive
So I figured I’d finally poke my head out of the fox hole I’ve been in and actually say something. It’s unfortunately I didn’t manage to blog as much as James during the campaign but things just took on a version of light speed – law exams, local camp…
Continue readingAll Politics Is Local: Marine Le Pen Fiddles as Europe Burns
Dominique Strauss-Kahn was arrested over the weekend and accused of very serious crimes. Like all people in free countries he is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law and bluntly this isn’t a law blog. This is a politics blog and innocent or guilty M. Strauss-Kahn is dead
Continue readingAll Politics Is Local: Marine Le Pen Fiddles as Europe Burns
Dominique Strauss-Kahn was arrested over the weekend and accused of very serious crimes. Like all people in free countries he is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law and bluntly this isn’t a law blog. This is a politics blog and innocent or…
Continue readingAll Politics Is Local: Marine Le Pen Fiddles as Europe Burns
Dominique Strauss-Kahn was arrested over the weekend and accused of very serious crimes. Like all people in free countries he is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law and bluntly this isn’t a law blog. This is a politics blog and innocent or guilty M. Strauss-Kahn is dead
Continue readingAll Politics Is Local: Democracy Delayed is Democracy Denied
The executive of the Liberal Party of Canada has learned nothing from the crushing electoral defeat endured by the party on May 2nd. They haven’t learned that the leader of a political party should be chosen by the membership of the party without any interference from the executive. The executive
Continue readingAll Politics Is Local: Democracy Delayed is Democracy Denied
The executive of the Liberal Party of Canada has learned nothing from the crushing electoral defeat endured by the party on May 2nd. They haven’t learned that the leader of a political party should be chosen by the membership of the party without any …
Continue readingAll Politics Is Local: Democracy Delayed is Democracy Denied
The executive of the Liberal Party of Canada has learned nothing from the crushing electoral defeat endured by the party on May 2nd. They haven’t learned that the leader of a political party should be chosen by the membership of the party without any interference from the executive. The executive
Continue readingA Canadian Lefty in Occupied Land: Review: <I>Yes Means Yes!</I>
[Jaclyn Friedman and Jessica Valenti, editors. Yes Means Yes! Visions of Female Sexual Power and a World Without Rape. Berkeley, CA: Seal Press, 2008.]The very simple way of reconceptualizing sexual consent at the heart of this book provides a useful t…
Continue readingBlevkog: Cool new site – SkySurvey.org
Check this out: Sky Survey The Photopic Sky Survey is a 5,000 megapixel photograph of the entire night sky stitched together from 37,440 exposures. Large in size and scope, it portrays a world far beyond the one beneath our feet and reveals our familia…
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