A Proposal for a Series of Child Welfare Policy ResolutionsProposed by party member Michele Farrugia, Peterborough OntarioDate: 25/06/2011For consideration for inclusion in the platform at the pre-election Policy Assembly.FOSTER CAREWHEREAS…
Proposal for an Ontario Childhood Obesity StrategyProposed by party member Michele Farrugia, Peterborough OntarioDate: 25/06/2011For consideration for inclusion in the platform at the pre-election Policy Assembly.At SchoolCreate an Ontario Obesity…
BC Stats put out a release yesterday with the headline “Low Income Cut-Offs (LICOs) are a Poor Measure of Poverty” and author Dan Schrier gets in a dirty hit right…
Crappy first weekend of summer, everyone! How’s the weather where you are? Where I’m at, it’s predictably unpredictable with occasional bursts of shitty. But all is not lost. I hear…
As promised, let's dig into La Presse's party fund-raising data to see what we can conclude about where and how Canada's political parties have raised money over the past few…
Right?My Facebook friend from Westmount, Marc Garneau, tells the world that Canada has not added asbestos to the Rotterham list of dangerous stuff.Surely this is an oversight by the Stephen…
As the rhetoric, games, and spin ramp up in the lead up to this fall’s provincial election, am I the only one noticing that Kinsella, who’s purportedly running the McGuinty…
The results of the general election have dramatically shifted Canada’s political orientation. A round-up: What’s good: No more mushy-middle, quasi-conservative-government-in-waiting-politicking by the Grits. What’s bad: Big Blue is stronger than…
Been busy.
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.
No, it really wasn’t a hot make-out session. (Too bad, eh?) Here’s what really happened: If you think the rioters were bad, the cops were WORSE. (Like I often say:…
Turkeys are causing havoc…. HAVOC I tell ya, in the burg of Barrie, Ontario! No, not the kind who you address as Senator or Minister, but the real feathered kind.…
via mostly water...“G20 Land” and the Real CanadaOne Year After the G20 Protests By Megan Kinch; June 25, 2011 - Toronto Media Co-ophttp://toronto.mediacoop.ca/story/%E2%80%9Cg20-land%E2%80%9D... The streetscape of Toronto is overlaid in…
Disclaimers on movies have usually been isolated to ones that warn of 'strong sexual content' or 'violence'. In a new twist, a theatre in Conneticut posted a disclaimer for Terence…
...express your solidarity with Ontario workers isn't the worst thing you could do. But it's the sign of a shoddy campaign.
H/T The Hispanic family and the older guy with his “grandson” in the Dippers platform, all stock photos.
More truth has rarely been spoken. Drop the bill and the workers return.H/T: Everett Coldwell
That's it! The United States has gone terminally FUBAR. Pregnant women who lose babies are actually being charged with murder. This is madness, Christofascist lunacy.Rennie Gibbs is accused of murder,…
For a good cause, of course: A bold group of mothers gave a new meaning to the term ‘flashmob’ when they bared their breasts at a major shopping centre today…
Ottawa Police Constable Shane Henderson is a man who can run through a rainstorm without getting wet. Back in 2004, he was videotaped beating a customer in a Tim Horton’s.…
