One of the oddest things about death is that there’s no way to reach that person by their usual phone number. We can call people in Antarctica, in space, in Tehran, on the toilet, or flying through the air. We can’t call people on the phone after they are passed
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Pressing Politics: Water Management and Adverse Effects: Nalcor’s Bennett Addresses JM’s Comments
Yesterday’s blog responded to Geoff Meeker’s most recent posting, where he criticized the Newfoundland and Labrador media while misunderstanding the water management issue.. Today’s blog addresses some of the great comments that were …
Continue readingPressing Politics: Meeker on Media and Churchill River Water Management
So I just read another piece from Geoff Meeker who, once again, decided to defecate on the reporting by the Newfoundland and Labrador media on Muskrat Falls. Specifically, he seems to think the Nova Scotia media “scooped” the Newfoundland m…
Continue readingLisaKirbie.com: Wake the F*ck Up (NSFW)
You know that children’s book, Go the F*ck to Sleep? This is a take off on that, narrated by Samuel L. Jackson. It’s laugh-out-loud funny and it’s funded by the Jewish Council for Education and Research. Well done! WTFU2012.com Four more sleeps until E-day.
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Passion
Why is there such passionate debate over climate change? It’s not like many global problems tend to inflame heated debate all too often at a local level, but climate change is different because it’s such an old and unresolved serious problem. When acid rain was destroying forests, swifter action was
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: Mens sana in corpore sano: a sound mind in a healthy body
Mens sana in corpore sano: a sound mind in a healthy body – a very good motto that is. The saying comes from the Roman Juvenal, and it applies as much today as it did two thousand years ago, of course. I’ve alternated, myself, between being a certified bon vivant,
Continue readingLisaKirbie.com: That “rape thing”
Another Republican – male, natch – talks about being against abortion and, you know, that “rape thing.” Here.
Continue readingLisaKirbie.com: Sun News twice today
This morning I went on Krista Erickson’s show to talk about Ontario MPP severance packages. I pointed out that MPPs haven’t received pensions since 1996 and rules guiding severance packages were brought in my former conservative Premier Mike Harris. Tonight Brian Lilley and I talked about polls and the state
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: ConCalls: Moving #RoboCon Along
It’s a national disgrace that 18 months after the criminal phonecalls that ruined the 2011 election, there have been 0 people charged with the fraud of misdirecting voters to fake polling locations. The urgency to solve this just isn’t there in Elections Canada or the RCMP, even though we know
Continue readingOPSEU Diablogue: Ontario Shores’ activists win awards from Durham Labour Council
The Durham Labour Council has honoured OPSEU’s campaign for workplace safety at Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences with two awards. Local 331 President Yvonne Lewis has won the Council’s health and safety award for her tireless advocacy on … Continue reading →
Continue readingOPSEU Diablogue: CBS: Deb Matthews’ indifference costing quality jobs in northern Ontario
Health Minister Deb Matthews is often regarded by the media as one of the front runners to replace Dalton McGuinty as Ontario Premier – a surprise given the intense scrutiny the Minister has been under for her role in the ORNGE air … Continue reading →
Continue readingOPSEU Diablogue: Ontario Shores: Pushing worker mental illness back into the closet
Recently the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) posted bus shelter ads that noted two of three individuals with mental illness suffer in silence. The stigma of mental illness is often linked to various forms of discrimination, including barriers … Continue reading →
Continue readingPressing Politics: Government Releases DG3 and a Natural Gas Teaser
Today the government released the Decision-Gate 3 numbers, the key analysis before sanction of the Muskrat Falls mega-project. While we’ve all been looking forward to these numbers for a long time, they really change nothing when it comes to the …
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Sandy Wind Blows
The largest hurricane recorded is underway, and it’s hitting the US and Canada. Is it because of climate change? The short answer is, yes. If you’re asking that question because you’re wondering if climate change is real, the answer is, yes it is real and we have to make a
Continue readingGeoff Campbell: Geoff Campbell, storified
Hey, So if you’re familiar with my experience you may know I’ve been using this cool social media curation service called Storify. I’ve used it to collect reactions to the 20 tips for first-year students video project I worked on at Mount Allison University. I also put together a little story around
Continue readingLisaKirbie.com: Newt Gingrich defends Mourdock, says women need to “get over it”
Again, it never ceases to amaze me how much men like to talk about abortion, and limiting – or, eliminating – women’s access to it. And there’s no shortage of them. First, Todd Akin, a congressman running for the U.S Senate, who said, said rape survivors don’t need abortions because “if
Continue readingSlap Upside The Head: Russian Anti-Gay Lobby Warns About Gay Milk
Other countries take note. If you enact crazy anti-gay laws forbidding any positive portrayals of homosexuality, here’s what you can expect to happen: A popular brand of milk is being accused of illegally promoting homosexuality in St-Petersburg, Russia. The milk, a PepsiCo-owned brand, features a jolly dairy farmer, standing in a lovely
Continue readingLisaKirbie.com: Salt Lake City Tribune endorses Obama
That’s right, Obama. Utah, home of America’s largest Mormon community – of which Mitt Romney is one – endorses the non-Mormon Democrat, President Barack Obama. Here’s what the Salt Lake City Tribune had to say: The Republican nominee’s political and religious pedigrees, his adeptly bipartisan governorship of a Democratic state, and his head
Continue readingLisaKirbie.com: GOP “full of racists”
Colin Powell’s former chief of staff says the Republican party is “full of racists.” Exactly no one is surprised.
Continue readingLeft Over: Greed is Driving a Steak Through My Heart…..
Canadians ‘need to know’ about mechanically tenderized meat – in CBC online October 26,2012 Warning!!! Vegetarians, this posting contains suggestive references to meat…. Once again, greed trumps safety… Since I grew up as an omnivore, I make no apologies for the fact that I love meat, a good, thick
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