…we should never give up on eliminating violence against women: • Geneviève Bergeron (born 1968), civil engineering student • Hélène Colgan (born 1966), mechanical engineering student • Nathalie Croteau (born 1966), mechanical engineering student • Barbara Daigneault (born 1967), mechanical engineering student • Anne-Marie Edward (born 1968), chemical engineering student
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Warren Kinsella: Mandela music
Many moving tributes to Nelson Mandela this morning, and many of them describing how he was their spark: to oppose racism, to oppose oppression, to oppose totalitarianism. I was involved in anti-racism stuff before I had ever heard Mandela’s name – in the Calgary punk scene, with movements like Rock
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: PMO spox: Harper resignation rumour “absolutely false”
Well, it always is until it isn’t. Not much else Jason can say, really.
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: SFH is number two on CBC Music’s chart!
…well, okay, their ‘Gallery of Songs Inspired by Rob Ford’ chart, that is. But we’re SFH, and we’ll take whatever we can get. Click on the image to see what else they’ve got on their chart! And buy our Ugly Pop 45 when it’s out! (And yes, single girls, that’s
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Teenage Lament: long-lost Hot Nasties track
Also located in last night’s rummaging through a closet. From a gig we played at Calgary’s Union Hall, opening for DOA. Here it is. Download, fold, spindle or mutilate, as you desire. Oh, and the swearing is by, er, Ras Pierre. Shame on him.
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: SFH and Rob Ford-related news
Above: the teenaged lead singer of the Hot Nasties, circa 1977-78. Photo located last night under a pile of old records. Note the rasta handle. SFH’s fate seems inextricably linked, in myriad ways, to Toronto “mayor” Rob Ford. We can’t shake him, as hard as we try. He’s like herpes
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Dear Chief Blair
Dear Chief Blair: Other folks want to canonize you as a saint. I’ve never felt that way, for various reasons. Another reason: your guys had the goods on Rob Ford six ways to Sunday. Schedule One narcotic use and possession (as he’s admitted); extortion (threatening the power of his office
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Toronto needs a mayor who doesn’t do heroin
ROB FORD DOES HEROIN. That would’ve been my headline. Call me crazy, and many do, but it seems to me that that is news. Wow.
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Irene David Cleary
My Aunt Irene passed away on the weekend, another family member felled by cancer. Her funeral is today in Knowlton, in the Eastern Townships, and I couldn’t get there on time. My Mom is there, however. What can I tell you about her? To me – as a kid, as
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: 14,000+
Hey! Somewhere in the past few days, I acquired more than 14,000 Twitter enthusiasts. At the moment, 14,234, to be precise. I have some small distance to go before catching up to a Future Prime Minister and Our New Twitter Overlord, but not much. So, do I get an award
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Lame, lame, lame
Jim Watson calls Gord Brown “Gordie.” Good God! The horror! Oh, wait. I call Gordie “Gordie,” too, because he’s one of my oldest friends. I’m friends with Michael McSweeney, as well. I wish to assure the Citizen’s crack investigative team that I do not, however, call Michael “Mike.” So, let’s
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Chong, preach
I’m no PMO shill, obviously, but I think this Chong bill is a trap. It is dangerous. Among other things, it would render this sort of nightmare – which I lived through, day after day, from 2000 to 2006 – a constitutional crisis. Well-intentioned, but a bad idea. Cure is
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Junior Murvin, rest inna peace
Junior Murvin, a giant of my teenage punk years, died yesterday in Port Antonio. He was in his sixties. No one knows yet what was the cause, apparently. The Clash famously covered Police and Thieves, of course, but Murvin should be remembered for more that one amazing tune. He was
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: You can come if you haven’t smoked crack, bought illegal drugs, drove drunk, or hung with organized crime
Dear Rob Ford: We decided to have a meeting, and limit attendance to people who haven’t committed a number of major crimes. Sorry. Sincerely, Kathleen Wynne and Norm Kelly
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: In Tuesday’s Sun: Paris Ford
Rob Ford went to see a football game on Sunday night. The rest of us got to see what people really, truly feel about him. They flocked to him. They swarmed him. They surrounded him as they tried to get a photograph of themselves with Toronto’s mayor, as he took
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: The greatest early Canadian punk rock singles
I own all but a couple. You?
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Conservatives: deleting emails is “the usual protocol”
Remember how Kooky Kavoukian and the Ontario PCs shrieked and brayed about how the routine deletion of emails was a “crime”? How democracy itself was at risk? Remember all that? Well, take a look at this morning’s papers, and the stories about the metastasizing Senate scandal. Read this bit: “…When
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: In Sunday’s Sun: lies, statistics and polls
Can public opinion polls suppress voter turnout? Of course they can. Do they? Yes, a lot, a lot. If a poll shows the electorate evenly split, turnout typically surges — because people feel energized by the notion they might help to cast a pivotal, deciding vote. On this, studies abound.
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Globe story on Brandon-Souris
Quote: “…For all the potential missteps, Mr. Dinsdale says he’s not looking back. He plans to run in 2015. “In an election, many, many things go your way. Many, many things screw up. We had our share of good fortune, and stepping in puddles. We can’t think that this or
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