After 85 days on a hunger strike against Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s new “Safe Streets and Communities Act” (crime Bill C10), it’s with great pleasure, gratitude and emotion that I announce the end of the protest. I’ll end the protest at 11.59pm today. I made the decision to end the
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Trashy's World: Ottawa radio rankings…
This is interesting. At least I think so… and nice to see that some Ottawans are coming to their senses and tuning out the blathering by the CPC wingnut supporters on CFRA! My own listening habits revolve mostly around CBC Radio with some CHEZ 106 and Live 88.5. Maybe BOB
Continue readingCANADIAN PROGRESSIVE WORLD: Canada Crime Bill C-10 Hunger Strike “Final Push”: Day 2 Update
Today, Wednesday, May 30, 2012, is Day 2 of my “final push” for Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s response to my ongoing hunger strike against Canada’s new draconian crime law, the deceptively christened “Safe Streets and Communities Act”, formerly, crime Bill … Continue reading →
Continue readingCANADIAN PROGRESSIVE WORLD: Unpacking my Canada Crime Bill C10 hunger strike
Today, May 21st is the day 69 of my indefinite hunger strike protesting Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s cruel new crime law, the deceptively christened “Safe Streets and Communities Act”, formerly omnibus crime Bill C10. This potentially-fatal act of peaceful civil … Continue reading →
Continue readingDundonald Park
Photo: Dundonald Park in 1916, from Wikipedia. When my partner and I returned to Ottawa after a decade’s hiatus, we had a shortlist of acceptable neighbourhoods in which to live – all downtown, because why in the world would I flee a narrow-minded place like Prince Edward County only to
Continue readingJames Moore, all your child are belong to us!
Museum’s sex show gets dressing down from feds- Politics – Canoe.ca. I was raised by prudes who never gave me “the talk.” I grew up in an uptight, WASP suburb and traded it in for a redneck farming community. I learned nothing about sex. And I’m gay. I’m pretty damn
Continue readingTrashy's World: Kanata… O the surprises
We dropped our daughter #2 off at a Brownie camp yesterday north of Kanata close to Dunrobin. We took March Road off the Queensway and I completely expected that, shortly after exiting, we’d be zooming past farms and trailer parks as we traveled toward the river. Boy, was I wrong!
Continue readingearthgauge: May is Bike to Work month in Ottawa!
In case you’re looking for additional reasons to jettison your car and haul out the bike, the video below from EnviroCentre Ottawa makes a convincing case. Save money, improve your health, help reduce pollution, the list goes on (and on). May is Bike to Work month so let’s get to
Continue readingCANADIAN PROGRESSIVE WORLD: Canada Crime Bill C10 hunger striker takes protest to Parliament Hill
MEDIA RELEASE OTTAWA, May 6, 2012 – Today marks the 53rd day of my indefinite hunger strike against Canada’s new draconian crime law, the deceptively christened “Safe Streets and Communities Act”, formerly omnibus crime Bill C10. My name is Obert … Continue reading →
Continue readingTrashy's World: I’ve never understood why some…
… peeps think it is somehow cool to vandalize someone else’s property. I did a lot of crazy stuff in my youth but never once did I intentionally wreck or deface something that didn’t belong to me. I just didn’t. And it is quite costly, as reported in this article.
Continue readingCANADIAN PROGRESSIVE WORLD: Obert Madondo’s Canada Crime Bill C-10 Hunger Strike – Senator Vernon White Must Resign
Below is my appeal to newly-appointed Conservative senator and former Ottawa Police chief, Vernon White, to resign. I mailed the letter to the senator on March 14, 2012. On the same day, I started an indefinite hunger strike against the … Continue reading →
Continue readingTrashy's World: Friday miscellany…
… shooters and omnibus bill edition… =================================================================================== You might remember a post I scribbled a little while back about a “new” shooter that is perfect for O-Town right now, given all of the lay-offs and transitions… Well, CBC Ottawa got a hold of this and, well, it kind of led
Continue readingTrashy's World: The Ottawa police have released a sketch…
… of the freak who has been sexually assaulting women in the Alta Vista area. Please feel free to copy and paste into any media where we can get some broad coverage. SOMEONE has to know this freak! Call the cops if you do! Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
Continue readingCalgaryLiberal: A Merger That’ll Never Happen
The left in the province of Alberta will never merge. There are four core reasons for this to be the case. Firstly, the NDP is directly tied, through its organization, its employees (many of whom who work for the federal NDP as well), and other means, cannot get the nod
Continue readingTHE FIFTH COLUMN: South March Highlands Mountain Bikers – Unlikely Trail Heroes
Unlikely, because more often than not the stereotypical view of mountain bikers is more likely to be as trail villains rather than trail heroes. First, we have the well meaning but uninformed view of many who call themselves environmentalists that mountain biking damages trails, when the vast majority of the
Continue readingCANADIAN PROGRESSIVE WORLD: Occupied Ottawa Returns: May 12 2012
Canadian Human Rights Monument, Ottawa
Continue readingTrashy's World: Public service announcement
If you are a high school student in the Alta Vista or Canterbury areas in Ottawa, this might be of interest to you! CANTERBURY COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION’S ANNUAL SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM The annual scholarship program, started in 1996, was developed to recognize students of the community who have demonstrated an ongoing
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: VikiLeaks30: A Little Deserved Contempt
I enjoyed all three of the videos that play in succession on this CTV page. Kady live blogging in the background is amusing. I supposed most people get funny facial expressions while they are writing, I can only imagine mine while I’m blogging. Her crack up at the revelation of
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: ConCalls: Thunder Bay Courage Reveals “Errors” As Crime #RoboCon
The Conservatives are constantly falling back to the next available lie. The Conservative party has denied any knowledge of wrongdoing and suggested there is little evidence outside of the Guelph riding of an orchestrated voter suppression plot. There’s a lot more than a “little evidence outside of the Guelph riding”
Continue readingTrashy's World: The elimination of the ECOPASS program…
… might turn me back to my car as my way to get to work… Flawed logic alert here folks: Termination of the ECOPASS program The introduction of PRESTO will allow former ECOPASS holders to customize their travel experience while providing the convenience and flexibility to purchase as many months
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