Fuck You, SaskTel. It’s a fucking emergency.
“It’s unfortunate that your elderly grandmother lives in an area where there are no technicians to go and check on her phone line, but we have a ticket written out…
June 2011
3864…Normally I Despise Soccer
Coz it sucks.But.....................................................the WFDS is amped the Africa Cup of Nations soccer tournament in 2013.My buddy Len Berman tells me that the tourney is scheduled for Libya.Party on, Dwayne, party…
Friday night
Going with a Deadmau5 fave this week. If you want new stuff, check out the NXNE music festival going on all over Toronto, lots of variety there. These highlights are…
11th Annual Signal + Noise Media Art Festival – June 23 – 27 in Vancouver
VIVO in Vancouver presents the 11th annual Signal + Noise Media Art Festival. From the press release: The 11th annual Signal + Noise Media Art Festival presents a collision of…
Harper’s Canada™
An odd, perhaps revealing comment about the government’s as-yet secret position on asbestos exports: On the eve of a conference to decide whether to label the substance as a hazardous…
Saturday Photo: A City is a Palimpsest
Once upon a time, the Plateau district of Montreal was on the edge of town, in the country in fact. The house on the left bears witness to that nearly-countrified…
New Music Friday…Sean Kangataran
PlayHardListenHarderVilleSean Kangataran is part of that newly re-minted Dublin diaspora that is taking the musical world by storm.And he's living the life in all sorts of ways, including, according to…
Liberal Extraordinary Convention tomorrow
The details surrounding the Liberal Extraordinary Convention are online. The event is going to be fully open to the public with a live audio stream along with a livechat as…
Women drivers
You go, girls! Driving as a political act. ...
I support the middle path timeline subamendment for the Liberal Party Leadership Vote
I’m away visiting my folks for the weekend (for Father’s Day, the immediate family is getting together), but I decided to interrupt my sojourn and get on here just to…
Friday night Johnny Adams blogging
Johnny Adams started out as a gospel singer but soon switched to secular music. He ended up doing R & B, jazz and blues. All at the same time. This…
Local pols to s**t bricks
Tom Hedderson, Fairity O’Brien and other lame local politicians will likely be re-thinking their political futures soon. CBC announced Friday that Anthony Germain will be hosting the CBC’s flagship morning…
The CRTC wants your input on the future of the CBC
As the public body that regulates and supervises Canadian broadcasting, the CRTC must review and renew licensing of all broadcasting stations, including the CBC. The CRTC is currently holding a…
HuffPost’s shame: Supriya Dwivedi does it again
A week ago HuffPost featured a dishonest post from one Supriya Dwivedi, who began her treatise on Brigette DePape with the usual 'I'm no conservative but...' bit of trickery before…
The System According to Konrad: The Digital Transition, Over-the-top Programming, and the Future of the CRTC
Although I’m relatively new to blogging, I’m quickly learning that a speech by Konrad von Finckenstein makes for an interesting post; of course, von Finckenstein’s most recent presentation to a…
108 Kilometres and 5 Pounds Later (Ottawa River Pathways Hybrid Epic Ride)
Well it has actually been a few years since I have done an Epic (Over 100 kilometre) Hybrid Ride and I have been wanting to find out just how long…
Write like a man
another consideration of the dilemma of the female writer http://ow.ly/5kDSa Filed under: Miscellany
Festive Left Friday Blogging: Happy Birthday Che!
He would have been 83 this week, had he lived…but really, he’s immortal. Hasta siempre, Comandante.
My Observation Of The "Power Panel"
They are completely lost without a relevant Liberal Party.
Lisa Raitt takes on union postal workers: "It’s a sexy issue"
Raitt: "I will not be the next Helena Geurgis. Been down that road." Harper's Labour Minister was resolute this morning while talking to reporters about the postal strike, which Raitt…