Murray Mandryk is concerned there may be no “real opposition” in the coming legislature. I’m not surprised that there won’t be. The Green Party of Sask. has been campaigning on that expression, and that has probably not been noted in Mandryk’s paper or elsewhere in the SK media. The fiction presented to the SK people […]
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Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Dream No Small Dreams – End Poverty
Should we eliminate poverty? It’s a ridiculous question made serious by people who have lost sight of their dreams in a wasteland of practicality and concession; They’re practical, to the point of inactivity where it counts the most. When a man has his feet nailed to the floor, do we stop the bleeding, but leave […]
Excited Delirium: Another Gentle Coup …
Rumour has it that Greece leader Papandreou’s days may be numbered. Is it because he believes in democracy or because he doesn’t want to cave to lenders?
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: Occupying the Lange and O’Leary Exchange
Starting today I will be on a regular weekly biz panel for the Lang and O’Leary show, every Thursday night. The panel will take on two six minute segments to discuss the big economic stories of the day. Today’s proposed topics – the Eurozone mess, whither Canada’s GDP, is Occupy a media invention/will it hold […]
Continue readingWith The Right Pressure, We Can Turn The Tide
I read this morning that Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty has sided with Quebec Premier Jean Charest against Bill C-10, the Omnibus Crime Bill. Both Premiers have committed to not paying for a single cent of the new bill. If you are reading this in B…
Continue readingExcited Delirium: Why Greece?
The Greek economic situation has bankers terrified. This article explains why.
Continue readinggritchik: More post-election analysis
I read, with interest, this article today. As you may have figured out, I knew a little something about what was going on in the Grit campaign (c’mon, you didn’t really think I was taking all those pictures myself, did you?). So, a few things in Sears’ account have me puzzled. One, has already been […]
Slap Upside The Head: U.S. University Requires Staff To Pledge Their Heterosexuality
Shorter University, a small university in Rome, Georgia that you’ve likely never heard of before today, has announced that it will now be requiring each of its employees sign a “pledge of personal lifestyle.” The pledge is an assertion that the employee is not gay, and does not “engage in all sexuality not in agreement […]
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Pile of Carp – RBE’s plan to close schools
It shouldn’t take a genius to figure out that kids are better off when they are able to walk or bike to school, and don’t have to get onto school/city buses each day. Sadly, there are few geniuses at the Regina Board of Education. They want to take away more schools, in growing neighbourhoods, so […]
gritchik: When political campaign ads go wrong
This one’s right up there with the Christine O’Donnell “I’m not a witch” ad.
Meet Herman Cain.
And a spoof here.
The Progressive Economics Forum: Families, Time and Well-Being
Inequality of well-being among families with children is increasing at an even faster rate than income inequality, according to a new study by Peter Burton and Shelley Phipps, “Families, Time, and Well-Being in Canada”. They find that total family working hours have increased for most families, but not for those at the top of the […]
Continue readinggritchik: Firearms registry saves lives
Heather Imming is a domestic violence surviver who credits the firearms registry with saving her life after her violent, estranged husband’s guns were taken away from him.
So now that the Tories are scrapping the registry, what happens when the n…
gritchik: Steve Jobs’ eulogy
It’s simply beautiful. “I grew up as an only child, with a single mother. Because we were poor and because I knew my father had emigrated from Syria, I imagined he looked like Omar Sharif. I hoped he would be rich and kind and would come into our lives (and our not yet furnished apartment) […]
Critical Brain Candy: Chad VanGaalen: Diaper Island
I got Chad VanGaalen’s new album Diaper Island when it was released a couple months ago and I’m still listening to it as often as when I first bought it. It’s his best album yet, which is refreshing for me after being disappointed by several new releases this year by bands I really like. Here’s […]
Continue readingSlap Upside The Head: Saying It Gets Better Isn’t Enough
Canada’s own Rick Mercer posted a particularly good Rick Mercer Rant last week, prompted in part by the Conservative Party’s ill-thought-out and poorly timed contribution to the It Gets Better project. The rant quickly gained viral status online with its simple message: It’s not enough to just say “It gets better” and leave it at […]
Continue readingThose Emergency Blues: Page 23
A cool take down of the consumerism and the scarcely vocalized passions lurking in every IKEA catalogue.
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Those Emergency Blues: Where Breasts Meet Art
Breast casts of various celebrities customized and tarted up by artists (more breasts here) to be auctioned and proceeds going to the Keep-a-Breast Foundation, a charity which promotes breast cancer awareness. The charity has been in the news lately because assorted fuddy-duddies principals and school boards have banned students wearing the charity’s “I ♥ Boobies” bracelets as a […]
gritchik: To the Tory brain trust who thought up those homophobic campaign flyers…
Egale Canada now has more money to keep fighting against ignorant jerks like you.
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Design Regina – Shooting the Shit… Literally
“Don’t shit or piss in the park.” It’s not the first thing you’d expect to hear from a city Councillor in an informal chat about Occupy Regina. It’s not even on the top ten. But it was what I remember hearing first from Councillor Clipsham. Perhaps that’s because he repeated it several times. I asked […]
Press horror in Venezuela! Film at 11!
Oh. Oh. Oh my gawd. This is simply terrible! Scathing UN, OAS report gets quick results as Venezuela announces federal government will start investigating press crimes By Tania Lara/ZD A commission formed by the Venezuelan National Assembly approved the federal government to investigate crimes against journalists with the cases to be tried in local courts, […]
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