What Canadians Need to Know About Canada Canada is a country the world can be proud of. This is despite our numerous shortcomings and mistakes over our 144 years of history as a nation of many co-operative nations. Not everyone in the world is impressed with Canada, some because they don’t know the first thing […]
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Slap Upside The Head: Toronto Councillor Tapes Parade, Tries To De-Fund Pride
I hope all my friends in Toronto partied it up at Pride over the weekend, because it could be seriously jeopardized if a Toronto city councillor gets his way! Giorgio Mammoliti—along with his bestest friend in the whole-wide-world, mayor Rob Ford—wants to take Toronto Pride off the books and into the gutter. I guess he’s […]
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Wedding and Honeymoon
The weather was perfect on July 2nd, just like I told people it would be. It was less perfect today, but still awesome. The hail stones that were half the size of golf balls were problematic, at least one hitting my car in an apparently non-damaging way. Now April and I head off into our […]
gritchik: Leaving the rat race behind
We decided to get out of town for few days – traffic was brutal yesterday but side roads helped – for some R & R. And we must’ve needed it, too: I slept for 11 hours last night. It was the Best Sleep Ever. Whether it was the fresh country air or the beer, I […]
gritchik: The NDP’s mea culpa
The NDP admits to using American stock photos in its platform, says it was a mistake and it won’t happen again.
Continue readingSlap Upside The Head: Gay Man’s Bank Card Cancelled Because Of His Voice
A gay man found that his bank card was cancelled last week for a very unusual reason: His voice has a higher than normal pitch. Jeffrey Hare phoned TD Bank to get some information about his bank account when the agent on the other end decided that he was an impostor. “This [agent] decided that […]
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: Health Notes: Pesticides shown to cause Parkinson’s – as well as other diseases
Go organic, eat well and take your anti-oxidants! A new study from the University of Missouri School of Medicine shows that pesticides are a major cause of neurological degenerative diseases, such as Parkinson’s. The basic finding is that toxins …
Continue readinggritchik: Landlord wars
So, I’m having a bit of a tussle with my landlord. Some background: I rent a house in Toronto (in a fantastic neighbourhood) from a landlord who lives out of province. The backyard is essentially unsafe. I’m not exaggerating – they tore down the dilapidated garage last summer and left the rotting floorboards and much […]
Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: WikiLeaks: Banking Blockade
You’ll probably want to watch this short ad about WikiLeaks. It’s “priceless”.
What Does it Cost to Change the World? from WikiLeaks on Vimeo.
Continue readingBlevkog: My theme for this week
After reading many ill-informed posts and comments about the postal strike (and nary a whisper about the Air Canada strike), I’ve decided that this will be my theme for the week: Petty jealousy is no reason to deny workers the right to strike whe…
Continue readinggritchik: Oops, the NDP did it again
The cover of the NDP platform, also a stock photo. But from an American company this time. They did some work on this one, but here it is in all it’s photoshopped glory.
Check it out. And thanks to the super sleuth who passed it along.
gritchik: Convicted liar
Disgraced former governor faces up to 300 years in prison.
What a jackass.
Slap Upside The Head: And Now, A Warning From Canada
So, I hear that New York State has finally legalized same-sex marriage. That’s fantastic news! Throughout the debate, however, many people were wondering aloud about the consequences—both direct and indirect—that should be expected. Some of the predictions are downright dire. I think I can chime in here. The first legal same-sex marriages in Canada happened […]
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Party Hardly
I hardly did any partying this weekend, fewer than 10 hours were devoted to such an activity.
-We actually get along quite well, this is staged for the camera. Really!
– I’m more 3 dimensional than Richard here
– Later that night, I probably …
Continue readinggritchik: Just because you say it was funny, doesn’t make it so
Yesterday, when NDP leader Andrea Horwath made the crack about how women “know better than to give it up all at once,” I, a liberal, middle-aged feminist, was stunned. So were the other women sitting with me. ”What the fuck was she thinking,” we asked each other. One woman suggested that it was just a […]
gritchik: The NDP platform: Not made in Ontario
On the left, the stock photo as it appears in the NDP platform. On the right, as you can purchase them, too.
All style, zero substance.
gritchik: Andrea Horwath’s NDP: all style, no substance
H/T
The Hispanic family and the older guy with his “grandson” in the Dippers platform, all stock photos.
Report: WI judge David Prosser assaulted female judge prior to union bill decision
The Wisconsin State Journal is reporting that, in the height of the contentous decision on the union busting bill in in that state, WI Supreme Court Justice David Prosser grabbed fellow justice Ann Walsh Bradley by the throat ‘with both hands’.
They say an argument that occurred before the court’s . . . → Read More: Report: WI judge David Prosser assaulted female judge prior to union bill decision
Continue readingExcited Delirium: The Ultimate 2012 US Ticket
Imagine towards the end of this year the following ticket: Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich.
Ron Paul is a Republican that is actually a Libertarian. For years, he has been advocating the elimination of the Fed because it’s run by Goldman Sachs and…