Bonus points for someone who manages to compliment the Prime Minister for the nice scandals he’s wearing. He’s downtown for the Grey Cup Party, obviously. After the Grey Cup fanfare wears off, it’s going to be a long week for him in Ottawa, as he adjusts to documents last week
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Scripturient: Blog & Commentary: An Indoor Year-Round Rec Facility for Seniors and More
Monday night, I asked for a staff report on covering our lawn bowling rinks, and making it into a year-round facility for Collingwood. This facility would provide recreational opportunities for seniors and older adults. It could include other sports like horseshoes, shuffleboard and croquet. Perhaps badminton and a walking area
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: Toronto Mayor Rob Ford Fired From Beloved Football Coaching Job
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford will no longer derive personal and political capital from his position of head football coach at Etobicoke’s Don Bosco Catholic Secondary School. The Toronto Catholic District School (TCDSB) has fired him from the position. “The Toronto Catholic District School (TCDSB) thanks Mayor Rob Ford for his contribution
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: Canadians overwhelmingly reject Don Cherry’s sexist remarks
By: Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive: Canadians have strongly rejected react to Don Cherry’s suggestion that women aren’t equal with men and that female reporters should be barred from male dressing rooms. The… The post Canadians overwhelmingly reject Don Cherry’s sexist remarks appeared first on The Canadian Progressive.
Continue readingTrashy's World: While I really don’t understand…
… why the Lance Armstrong thing has touched a sensitive chord for so many people, his coming-clean has inspired me to follow his lead and publicly admit to the following: – As far back as the mid 1970′s, I engaged in blood doping activities. While the performance enhancing effects of
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Justin Bieber and Chris Brown
Justin Bieber at the Grey Cup wasn’t the only ‘interesting’ pop music story of yesterday. I’m not a Bieber expert (Belieber), but I did watch his biopic a few months ago, and he’s certainly got some real musical talent. How he is as a human being will probably degrade with his over-worldly fame, but he […]
Continue readingCanadian ProgressiveCanadian Progressive: Toronto Mayor Rob Ford’s Big Fat Fall (VIDEO)
Toronto’s scandal-ridden, Rob Ford, spectacularly falls during a press event supporting Sunday’s Grey Cup final between the Argos and Calgary Stampeders.
Continue readingTrashy's World: Look out Yankees!!
Right on AA! You did done good. Now maybe the Jays can once again contend in the AL East! Woo-hoo (5) Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
Continue readingCanadian Soapbox: Who’s to blame for NHL labour problems? Dumb Canadian fans
We Canadians can be a pretty dense lot at times. Oh we love to complain, to bitch and moan, but then we just roll over, and we never even expect breakfast or a call the next day. Take the latest NHL lockout, the third in less than ten years. How
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Yunel Escobar and the Bigot Moment
With all the scary things happening in the world today, from America to China. And our foul Con regime leading us to disaster. Just about the last thing I felt like writing about today was Yunel Escobar's bigot moment. Because why should I care what a second-rate baseball player, on
Continue readingTrashy's World: I’m a huge Jays fan…
… but what Escobar did was utterly despicable and unexpected. But hey, these undereducated über gazillionairres are used to getting what they want and saying what they wish without consequence, aren’t they? (6) Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
Continue readingCanadian Progressive: Canadians Hang Out With Soccer Superstar Christine Sinclair (VIDEO)
Olympic soccer bronze medalist and national women’ team Christine Sinclair answers some questions from her fans and Sportsnet.ca host Gerry Dobson. After leading the Canadian women’s Olympics soccer team to a historic bronze Olympics medal during the recent London Olympics, Sincliar was chosen to carry the Canadian flag during the closing ceremony. The seven-time Canadian
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Immigration
Working on campus: allowed. Work a shitty job at Walmart for two weeks, and declare the income: deportation. It’s the reality that international students face in Canada. Those students placing their hopes in the hands of Jason Kenney, are going to need that church for a while. Here’s a timely
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: All the F*cks I don’t give about the NHL and the NHLPA
Sadfaced millionaires and sadfaced billionaires are fighting it out right now about how to divide the outrageous plunder made in the National Hockey League. Boo-Frickety-Hoo! The players in the NHL are overpaid. Chasing a rubber disk around a rink should not be multi-millionaire territory. I’m thinking important occupations that improve
Continue readingCanadian Progressive: Canadian Boy, 10, Crowns Dethroned Men’s 4×100 Olympics Relay Team
Elijah Porter of Newfoundland saw Canadian heroism even after the team lost its silver medal, and so he gave the athletes his own Timbits soccer medal.
Continue readingCanadian Progressive World: Christine Sinclair For Canada’s Flagbearer For London Olympics Closing Ceremony
Christine Sinclair, the captain of the bronze-winning Canadian women’s Olympics soccer team, is our choice to carry the flag during the closing ceremony of the London Olympics. That’s the word from Canadians. See the Twitter hashtag #SinclairForFlagBearer. I approve. By making Sinclair flag-bearer, Canada would honour both our gallant women’s soccer
Continue readingIn This Corner: Is the toughest guy in Canadian sports a woman?
In June of last year, I wrote this tribute to Christine Sinclair, Canada’s greatest ever soccer player of either gender. I think, in light of her Olympian performance, it deserves a repeat. Oh, and ignore my thoughts that Canada should go a long way in the Women’s World Cup… didn’t
Continue readingAkaash Maharaj - Practical Idealism: Akaash Maharaj – Globe and Mail: False Flags and True Principles
On the injustice of Tiffany Foster’s disqualification from the London 2012 Olympics. This is more than a fight over the treatment of a single athlete. This is more than a struggle for the future of equestrian sport. This is a battle for the values, the honour, and the very soul
Continue readingTrashy's World: Crazy shit, this….
…apparently, Phelps started doing the dog paddle at the end… sad. (2) Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
Continue readingCanadian Progressive World: London Olympics 2012: Connect with Canada’s athletes
So, you want to send a congratulatory or an inspirational message to Canada’s gallant sporting troops at the London Olympic Games? Here’s the full list of our women and men in athletic uniform, most with clickable Twitter handles, published by the CBC News in June. ARCHERY Crispin Duenas @crispin_duenas Marie-Pier Beaudet BADMINTON
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