Not His Honorable Member
That's what PCPO candidate George Lepp is saying now. Yesterday, his story seemed different: Lepp claimed that he had indeed accidentally shot his dick, after which time someone had stolen…
May 2011
Lightning Storm in Toronto
The CN tower seems to attract the lightning, it was a loud and colourful show last night as a storm swept over Lake Ontario through Toronto last evening. This picture…
LGBT Lanark
Some of you know we have a place in Lanark county. It's farn but that farm hasn't been a real working farm in 40 years. Its a great place of…
NDP support continues to grow after the election
Lack of buyer’s remorse over Tories and NDP bodes ill for Liberals and Bloc - The Globe and Mail Results from the latest Harris-Decima poll: Conservatives: 38% (down 1.6%) NDP:…
Radio Without Boundaries: Breaking free of format and formula – Interview with Public Radio Remix founder Roman Mars
Public Radio Remix is an experimental sound stream hosted by the Public Radio Exchange to showcase pieces from the PRX archive and to develop new approaches to radio.
Dog on Santorum
Another doomed Repubican aspirant (a much more appropriate word than “hopeful” I think). Speaking to a small group of supporters in Florida last week, Santorum said that throughout his political…
The Worst Outcome of G20 Policing
As awful as it has been for those whose lives have been turned upside down, the worst outcome of the deplorable, authoritarian policing at last year’s G20 summit in Toronto…
Are the Liberals Progressive?
I've seen this question pop up now and then, mostly from the glorified forces of the NDP, who tend to get on their high horse these days, the one we…
Right to Exist: An Inflated Conflict
If one follows the negotiation process over the years between Israel and Palestine, one finds an asymmetry between the issues raised and argued for in the negotiation process and the…
SADI Workshop
SADI stands for Semantic Automated Discovery and Integration (something you won't find on the SADI Framework website no matter how hard you look) and is a relatively lightweight way to…
Pap The Republican
The news that forty Republican senators have announced their support for Paul Ryan's budget plan is not surprising. But, when you review what passes for the usual Republican boilerplate these…
I have GC’s permission to blog about his penis
The half-marathon was, in many ways, not what I was expecting. Knowing that the route had changed, and that we’d be winding our way through Chinatown and Hintonburg and Westboro…
Liberals screaming Fire, but is anyone listening?
Its fun to watch the Liberals scream FIRE over the NDP and Jack Layton's comments on the constitution. It seems the Liberals' have no plan or any intention of working…
Just in case anyone in Ottawa is busy drafting a new message…
"I told you so" doesn't seem to be polling well. Just saying. Even if voters believed, correctly, that an increase in support for the NDP favours a Conservative majority, they…
Star Editorial Recommendation
I really have nothing new to add to the continuing saga of the Toronto Police Service's obstruction of efforts to get at the ugly truth behind the G20 security debacle.…
wildrose alliance loses its third candidate in six months.
The conservative Wildrose Alliance has lost its third candidate since it began its nomination process late last year. Calgary-Fort candidate Bob McInnis will no longer carry his party’s banner against…
Once More With Senate Reform
They're at it again, so I will say it again:1) All I've heard suggests that the provinces will be asked elect a Senate candidate who the PM promises to then…
Pelican Bay Prisoners Set to Hunger Strike July 1
On July 1, 2011, between 50 and 100 prisoners at Pelican Bay State Prison in the Security Housing Unit (SHU), Corridor D, are going on an indefinite hunger strike. The…
"Moran" Monday*: Pam Geller just can’t let go of birtherism.
Obama is an illegitimate child, which disqualifies him to be president. Who knew? …Teabagger brilliance, in all it’s rabid, racist, xenophobic glory. *We’re devoting space each Monday to documenting Teabagger…
"Moran" Monday*: Pam Geller just can’t let go of birtherism.
Obama is an illegitimate child, which disqualifies him to be president. Who knew?...Teabagger brilliance, in all it's rabid, racist, xenophobic glory.*We're devoting space each Monday to documenting Teabagger idiocy. Stay…