July 2011
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content for your Canada Day reading.- Oh, how nice it would be to be able to take pride in Dan Gardner's message about Canada's true identity:The level of civility…
Climate Change Denialist Outed – (along with Exxon)
Willie Soon is a darling of the climate change denialist community. He's a very rare commodity indeed - a genuine scientist with peer-reviewed studies who stoutly disputes the entire theory…
Decolonizing Trans As Allies
I’ve mentioned alliance when dissecting the problems with umbrella thinking in transsexual and gender diverse activism, in “The Death of the ‘Transgender’ Umbrella” and “Why The Umbrella Failed.” It’s easy…
New Documents: A Record of Abandoned Promises: Election Platforms Since 2000
This week’s Sixth Estate Document Collection update is a record of futile and abandoned promises: the major political parties’ election platforms of the past ten years. Election platforms are not,…
Festive Left Friday Blogging: Canadian, Please!
Julia Bentley and Andrew Gunadie bring it on: How to become Canadian: “Step 1 — Lose the gun. Step 2 — Buy a canoe. Step 3 — Live multiculturally. Step…
Ex-IMF Head May Have Been Set Up
I detected a smell in the air when the former head of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Khan, was arrested for supposedly sexually assaulting a hotel chamber maid in New…
Apply Canada Day
This has become my annual Canada Day post. I thought about creating a new one, last year and again briefly this week, but it seems that I will spend this…
Canada’s largest mental health institutions: Prisons
Decades ago recognizing that the institutionalisation of the mentally ill was cruel,unjust and counter productive, we started closing these facilities and embarked on a policy of community care.Well it appears…
Enough with the uniform fetish already
"Wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross" indeed.Didn't thousands of brave Canadians die in World War Two just so we could avoid exactly this kind of creeping militarism and…
red sox "it gets better" video
"Once you make it through the hard parts, the rest of life is so much more fantastic than anything you can imagine." I agree. The hard parts don't go away,…
Fraser Institute Editorial Advisory Board Largely Dead
I have noticed this in a previously with other right-wing think tanks, but as the gentleman at The 6th Estate has noted on several occasions, several people on the The…
Extreme Weather Events: Brought To Us By Big Oil & Gas
Happy Canada Day! What a week it’s been on the climate/weather front. Here in northwestern Ontario we’ve been experiencing a lovely June, although firefighters say it’s the driest summer in…
OpenMedia.ca at the Canadian Telecom Summit: It Takes Three to Dance the Telecom Tango
It’s been just over a month since this year’s Canadian Telecommunications Summit — the invitation-only event for Canada’s leaders in telecommunications — and already its influence can be seen in…
To Vote Or Not To Vote
Next to Stephen Harper achieving a majority government, for me the deepest disappointment in the recent federal election was the relatively poor voter turnout. Despite some really creative efforts to…
Stupid Quote of the Day
This gem comes from an interview with Robert Finch, Dominion Chairman of the Monarchist League of Canada in today's New York Times: “The fact that the queen can’t change her…
Stupid Quote of the Day
This gem comes from an interview with Robert Finch, Dominion Chairman of the Monarchist League of Canada in today’s New York Times: “The fact that the queen can’t change her…
Stupid Quote of the Day
This gem comes from an interview with Robert Finch, Dominion Chairman of the Monarchist League of Canada in today's New York Times:“The fact that the queen can’t change her hairstyle…
Stupid Quote of the Day
This gem comes from an interview with Robert Finch, Dominion Chairman of the Monarchist League of Canada in today’s New York Times: “The fact that the queen can’t change her…
Stupid Quote of the Day
This gem comes from an interview with Robert Finch, Dominion Chairman of the Monarchist League of Canada in today’s New York Times: “The fact that the queen can’t change her…