The Vowels: A Ken Burns Film
The Vowels: A Film by Ken Burns from Sam Cherington on Vimeo. Genius parody, via Brain Picker. Alltop makes love to Ashokan Farewell.
June 2011
So Who’s the Elitist Now?
Rhys Kesselman, Canada Research Chair in Public Finance and a professor at Simon Fraser University’s School of Public Policy, has an op-ed in the Globe and Mail discussing the Harper…
Rupert Murdoch Should Listen To His Momma
A group of prominent Australians has published an open letter calling for a price on carbon to help deal with climate change. The letter is signed by four former Australians…
Hate Crime Reporting Improves
More and more hate crimes are being reported across the country, and that’s not necessarily a bad thing. In 2009, the number of hate crime reported in Canada went up…
Building the fishery of the future
To look at the fishery in Newfoundland and Labrador is to see as clear an example as one may find of the fundamental bankruptcy of the sort of old-fashioned politics…
Handing Harper the victory
I suppose it could be considered quite a coup for some, but probably not those who think they scored the points. Jack Layton and the NDP probably think they scored…
Ô Kébèc!
Well... the Société Saint-Jean-Baptiste is at it again. A national anthem for the Québécois? Click below to hear it or click here for a look at the lyrics. I can't…
Canada Post locks out workers nationwide
Just before midnight Tuesday, Canada Post issued a release saying it has locked out employees after 12 days of "increasingly costly and damaging" rotating strikes by the Canadian Union of…
Another financial meltdown in the U.S.?
President Obama is warning of one if the debt ceiling is not lifted. The American government will exceed its legislated debt ceiling of $14.3 trillion in August. Trillion. 14,300,000,000,000. Holy…
Here We Go Again: Citizenship and Immigration Canada Divides Family, Rules Son with Asperger’s and Tourette’s Medically Inadmissible
Here we go again. Nicholas Keung, immigration reporter with the Toronto Star reports that a Toronto family will be ripped apart by a Citizenship and Immigration Canada ruling that University…
Post status
New posts will resume after the summer break.
Canada’s dirty little mineral exploration/exploitation…
from censored news...The World's Dirtiest Oil? - Canada's Tar SandsControversial mining operations threaten the lives and livelihood of Canada's indigenous people, who have organised a global response to take on…
The Business of Cancer
Every year, millions of people around the world run, jog, swim, roller blade, pogo hop and do all matter of other efforts to draw attention to the need to fund…
"Pale Nimbus. White". "Impressive. Very nice. Let’s see Paul Allen’s card"
Kaiser Soze had nothing on Patrick Bateman. Good scripts always kill good concepts.
June Has Not Been a Good Month for Nazis in Calgary
The month of June 2011 began with the arrest of WEB founders Robert Reitmeier and Tyler Sturrup for allegedly murdering a man Crohn's disease. This alone would make June a…
Is the Wildrose Alliance’s loony fringe finally beginning to emerge at nomination meetings?
The Wildrose Alliance waits at the crossing (in the Buick, not the train). Below: Cory Morgan.It’s been said here that the biggest problem Danielle Smith’s Wildrose Alliance would ever have…
Parsons: OpenMedia.ca was the elephant in the room at the 2011 Telecom Summit
Cross-posted from Technology, Thoughts, and Trinkets Each year Canada’s leaders in telecommunications gather at the Canadian Telecommunications Summit to talk about ongoing policy issues, articulate their concerns about Canada’s status…
Former Harper Minister Monte Solberg Calls Layton “The Ax-Weilding Loon Who Lives Below”
The Conservatives, at their recent convention Blue Party, apparently played the “media hates us” card, something the Sixth Estate Media Bias Project conclusively disproved last month. More proof arrived today…
On warped incentives
Chris nicely highlights the Cons' stunningly quick resort to back-to-work legislation after a mere day of Air Canada's CAW strike, at a point where there's been little if any impact…