Not quite as serious as my previous postings.
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gay persons of color: Watch: Sean Avery endorses marriage equality with video
“I’m Sean Avery, and I’m a New Yorker for marriage equality. I treat everyone the way I expect to be treated, and that applies to marriage.”After New York Rangers left winger Sean Avery declared his support early in 2011 for any hockey player who m…
Continue readingPample the Moose: Voter engagement. (or Week 2 wrap-up)
Last week, just before the beginning of my second- and third-year Canadian history courses, I played the following Rick Mercer clip: Youth voting has plummetted over the past couple of decades, and falls well below the national average. Indeed, Canadi…
Continue readingTattered Sleeve: Ignatieff: I hear a statesman
This piece by Jane Taber of the Globe and Mail harangues Michael Ignatieff for his lack of specifics, but I think he sounds pretty reasonable here: There was no mention of the hydro mega-project in the Liberal platform, released Sunday. But when asked about it Monday, Mr. Ignatieff spoke about
Continue readingHerbinator: Yeah, but howz your hockey?
Needs work. .
Continue readingThe Global Express: Kaberle The Great
It’s hard enough to see a great player leave your organization for another club, but its even harder to see a great person leave even more. Tomas Kaberle, the long time Maple Leafs defenceman for 12 years is now a member of the Boston Bruins. Kaberle had been rumoured to
Continue readingThe Global Express: The Truth About Fighting in Hockey
Lets break it down into 2 scenarios. 1) You are playing street hockey with a bunch of guys, and all of a sudden a fight breaks out. Fighter A punches fighter B and breaks his jaw. Where does this fight end? In the court room where Fighter A is charged
Continue readingTattered Sleeve: Hosni Mubarak, and the world that matters not to him
With time on my hands, I spent the afternoon flipping between Aljazeera English, CNN, CBC Newsworld and CTV Newsnet in between loads of laundry.
At around 4 pm EST, I watched live footage of a pro-Mubarak bus being driven backwards 50 metres or so int…
Continue readingMore Sports Talk in Quebec Politics
After reading an interesting article over on cbc.ca, it is interesting to note how much sports coverage is taking place at Parliament Hill these days and across many provincial political arenas. Oddly enough there have been a few stories on sports news…
Continue readingPop The Stack: 2010 vs 1972
All agree that yesterday’s gold medal hockey game was on par with the greatest hockey games of all time. Viewer ratings of the big game bare this out. About 80% of Canadians watched at least some of the game and it was the most watched hockey game of any kind in the US since the […]
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