Friday night
An easy pick this week, Kaskade was in Victoria and Vancouver a few months ago, how can you not like that? Big flag and all... Have a good night.
July 2011
Festive Left Friday Blogging: A friendly visit from Ollanta
Guess who was in Venezuela today: Yup, Ollanta was in the house today. He met with vice-president Elías Jaua in this video, and gave a short press conference in which…
help protect tpl from ford’s privatization rampage
Mayor Rob Ford is out to privatize the living daylights out of Toronto. Privatization is a great deal for the corporations that pick up lucrative contracts, and a very bad…
Support the California Prisoners’ Hunger Strike!
In the months before summer 2011, news spread that between 50 and 100 prisoners at Pelican Bay State Prison in the Security Housing Unit (SHU), Corridor D, were going on…
The US debt crisis
Perhaps there is method in this madness? If the US defaults the US Dollar falls. And that means US manufacturing becomes cheaper for foreigners and foreign goods (read China and…
Jesus freaks, jew-haters & Guinea pig savers – Friday Film Pick: David Modell – A Passion for Faith, Death and Freedom
Christian born agains, radical animal rights activists and neo nazis - sound like the USA? Nope, it's the land of lovely cups o' tea, Great Britain.
Friday night
JJ Cale's going to kick things off with Mama Don't Allow....
Rupe, Thou Protesteth Too Much
There's one thing about ritual sacrifice. Do too much of it and you'll look scared, maybe even guilty of something. Rupe Murdoch has been shamelessly abusing the rite of sacrificial…
Kurds Feel Sharp End Of Turkish Democracy
When the floodgates opened and the Arab Spring swept the Middle East earlier this year, the phrase I kept seeing over and over in the media was "The Turkish Model".…
More NDP hypocrisy on guns
When guns are killing people in foreign places, the NDP has a clear position, Canada should do whatever we can to stop it.When they're killing vulnerable women and children in…
Never Mind The Five Million….What Are The PAB-Bots Actually Doing?
ShutOutOnlineAnti-SocialMediaConsultVilleSean Holman, through an FOI request, came up with some interesting traffic stats on the HSTinBC.ca (mis?) information website.In case you missed it, all the trumpeting of said (mis?) information…
Jumping on the Hudak Abortion Defunding Bandwagon
Because statements never meant to be seen by the general voting public are just oodles of fun to show: Incidentally, one wonders what Hudak would say to this document while…
The Mumpsimus Blog – The last train
A chapter in local history was written, and closed, this week. The last freight train left Collingwood on July 14, 2011, ending more than 160 years of rail service to…
In response to Bissonette: Shaw’s movie service is still problematic, and Bell’s isn’t better
The net neutrality violation that never was OpenMedia.ca put out a press release this morning in response to comments Shaw president Peter Bissonnette provided to the Calgary Herald last night.…
Another Murdoch Lieutenant Falls
The day began with the announcement that News International CEO Rebekah Moores had resigned. Now she's followed by her predecessor and Rupe Murdoch's handpicked publisher of The Wall Street Journal…
King Coal Australia Plans to Price Carbon
coal ships.JPG SO Australia’s carbon price cards are finally on the table.From July next year, the Federal Government will look to price greenhouse gas emissions at $23 per tonne rising…
Maybe We Should Have Gone in 2009
I've been thinking aloud recently about whether or not the Liberal Party would have been put into a better position post-election if said election was held during the fall of…
Question Of The Day
A question which, incidentally, has no good answer. And, by the way, defunding abortion is not a decades old position, as Hudak staffer Jacob Bloom has suggested (in a tweet…
Ford’s consultants: Miller was right
The Grid TO | Ford's consultants: Miller was rightLook wait-and-give-him-a-chance people and Ford followers: even the consultants, who Ford wasted a lot of money on, agree with David Miller, 1/3…
Bristol Palin on abstinance
"It sucks". On a slightly more serious front, here's the dancer's reasoning for her mom's media detractors.Do you feel like your mother has experienced extra media scrutiny? Yeah, I think…