This blog is focused on autism disorders, very closely related conditions including intellectual disability and epilepsy. It is about my son and the joy he brings me each day despite his serious disorders and challenges. Occasionally it is …
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Facing Autism in New Brunswick: The Environment Is Of Vital Importance – Next Time Include Elizabeth May
This blog is focused on autism disorders, very closely related conditions including intellectual disability and epilepsy. It is about my son and the joy he brings me each day despite his serious disorders and challenges. Occasionally it is just a celebration via pictures of the pleasure I experience each day
Continue readingMind Bending Politics: Arab Countries Need To Be Doing More On Syrian Refugees
(Arab League Flag) Like many Canadians I had a very heart felt response to the picture of the three year old who laid face down dead after trying to cross the Mediterranean for the EU escaping the Syrian civil war. What I found more disturbing was Immigration Minister Chris Alexander’s cold response to the story […]
Continue readingsomecanuckchick dot com: Canadians don’t expect Canada to solve the world’s problems…
Stephen Harper says, “Canadians don’t expect Canada to solve the world’s problems.” Of course, Canadians don’t expect Canada to solve the world’s problems. Canadians do, however, expect Canada not be part of the problem and Canadians do expect Canada to be part of the solution. Bottom line: Stephen Harper is
Continue readingsomecanuckchick dot com: What’s your favourite show on Netflix?
Apparently, Stephen Harper’s favourite show on Netflix is Breaking Bad… You know, the one about a high school Chemistry teacher w/ a pregnant wife and special needs teenager, struggling to make ends meet, when he is diagnosed w/ cancer and then decides to start making/selling Methamphetamine to secure his family’s
Continue readingMaple-Flavoured Politics: Fantasy Tax
Funny, Stephen Harper released a video telling us how much he loves Netflix and promising us that he would never tax it. Never mind that the monthly bill for my Netflix subscription shows an H.S.T. of $1.04, 40 cents of which goes to the federal government. Who at the Canada
Continue readingMaple-Flavoured Politics: Does Hypocrisy Underlie the Long Writ Period?
It’s official. Stephen Harper went to the Governor General and initiated the official election campaign period, which will be about twice as long as the minimum the Canada Elections Act requires. That Act declares that the date of the election must be at least 36 days after the writs have
Continue readingHarper is not serious about senate reform
Stephen Harper is not serious about senate reform. Despite his announcement last week that he plans to stop filling vacancies in the upper chamber until the senate is reformed, his track record on the issue is very poor. Stephen Harper, cc: pmwebphotos (Flickr.com) Harper was first elected to parliament in 1993
Continue readingsomecanuckchick dot com: Block votes. Buy votes. Scare up votes.
If all else fails… Block votes. Buy votes. Scare up votes.
Continue readingsomecanuckchick dot com: Less than 90 days until #elxn42…
Less than 90 days until #elxn42… At the time this post is published, it is: 87 days, 18 hours and 45 minutes. 😉 Feel free to count the remaining days, hours, minutes, and seconds yourself.
Continue readingA Grumpy Hobbit: Lizzy May Drops the F-Bomb, RWNJs Run For Their Fainting Couches
Lizzy May Drops the F-Bomb, RWNJs Run For Their Fainting Couches We need 5000lbs of smelling salts and a some Fainting Couches STAT!!!! Canadian RWNJs were dropping like flies today when it was found out that Green Party Leader Lizzy May dropped the F-Bomb. Now it is my policy/rule not
Continue readingA Grumpy Hobbit: The Giant TFSA Lie From Harper and the CPC
The Giant TFSA Lie From Harper and the CPC Source : Low income people breathe more than high income people too: Budget 2015 and the TFSA Nuff said, well lets say a little more,… If you are an individual making 60 to 80 thousand a year, only 10% of those
Continue readingA Grumpy Hobbit: So Trudeau is a Pseudo Fascist, Just Like Harper
So Trudeau is a Pseudo Fascist, Just Like Harper To my Liberal friends sorry, but voting and supporting Bill C51 in any way shape or form is a deal breaker for me. Welcoming Ex-Police Chief, Bill Blair into the Party and have him for an MLA in Ottawa shows even
Continue readingA Grumpy Hobbit: The Obligatory Alberta NDP Election Post
The Obligatory Alberta NDP Election Post There were three things you could count on in life, Death, Taxes and Alberta Voting in a Conservative Government,… Well we are down to two things you can count on now, Death and Taxes. A Grumpy Hobbit
Continue readingA Grumpy Hobbit: Watching The Alberta Vote
Watching The Alberta Vote I have never paid much attention to Alberta Politics, but tonight could be just ground shacking not to watch.Yes I am hoping for an NDP Alberta victory, if only to watch RWNJ heads explode across Canada. Harper and Ezra exploding heads will great fun to watchA
Continue readingA Grumpy Hobbit: Canadians have no constitutionally protected right to seek bail when they appeal a conviction
Canadians have no constitutionally protected right to seek bail when they appeal a conviction Canadian Government Lawyers are either lying or they are grossly ignorant and incompetent of the Constitution and Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. First the incredibly stupid Government Lawyers. Story is linkedCanadians have no right to
Continue readingA Grumpy Hobbit: Holding Police Accountable and Knowing Your Legal Rights
Holding Police Accountable and Knowing Your Legal Rights So, with all the BS happening down in the USA with Police being out of control and cracking skulls every chance they get, the questions arises “Do we need to be worried about this here in Canada? What are our rights? What
Continue readingPop The Stack: If an election falls in the forest and nothing changes…ever, is it still a democracy?
I’m an outsider to Alberta politics so I will attempt to refrain from making any statement about who I think should win or what the important issues are in the election. But there are some disturbing, anti-democratic threads in the wave of editorial endorsements for the ruling PC party in Alberta
Continue readingA Grumpy Hobbit: Harpers and CPC Objection to Omar Khar Bail Release Just FAILED!!!
Harpers and CPC Objection to Omar Khadr’s Bail Release Just FAILED!!! The Harper Government and CPC/Government lawyers who oppose Omar Khadr bail release was based on one single objection, that his bail release would jeopardize USA/Canada relations and US/Canadian treaties. THAT’S IT! Not that Omar was at risk of fleeing,
Continue readingA Grumpy Hobbit: And I Am Back
It has been years since I blogged, I have been generally been using FaceBook and the twitters, but I have been finding that these are limited and I need a more organized approached to keep things,… well organized. So I talked to Scott at the Progressive Bloggers about rejoining again
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