“If you see me in the street”
A spoken-word poem worth taking to heart about just how unpleasant it is to be a woman in public. (And yes, I can vouch for just about everything she says,…
August 2011
Behind The Scenes At En Famille With Candidate For Liberal Party President Ron Hartling
On July 27, I published a story regarding the Liberal online forum En Famille. In it I quoted Ron Hartling who's running for President of the Liberal Party of Canada.…
British Columbia’s Liberal Gov’t Fails To Protect Victims Of Pedophilia Practiced By Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints In Bountiful B.C.
"More than three years after government officials were first notified about at least one under-aged Bountiful girl in Texas, there has still been no move to repatriate or protect any…
Monday Morning ‘Rider Blogging
Once again, the 'Riders' latest loss was more a story of missed opportunities than poor play overall - particularly in the third quarter, when Saskatchewan's near-total dominance on both sides…
Tar Sands: Celebrate now and pay the price later
Oil companies and promoters. Even China is eying it. Greed and temptation of money-making. Price: Environmental disaster of the worst kind - a deadly kind. The video below shows one…
I need some help from the Ottawa Twitter and Facebook communities…
… in trying to track down some scumbags who defiled Pleasant Park School (OCDSB: JK -> 6… yeah, little kids) with some truly disgusting graffiti at some point over the…
A Letter to a Younger Colleague
Dear Colleague You are fairly new to our Emergency Department, you have done your Emergency Nursing courses and you now have collected a slew of certification initials: ACLS, PALS, TNCC,…
the katz group proves that all the money in the world can buy some pretty bad political advice.
In their effort to secure more than $225 million in public funding for their proposed Katz Downtown Arena, local billionaire Daryl Katz‘s company, the Katz Group, has proven that even…
When "Free Trade" ain’t free
In the absence of any long term prospect for a Free Trade Area of the Americas, Canada has decided to go it alone and try for bilateral agreements. This started…
If a bankster falls in the forest…
…it makes the odd news headlines: “Shark in a boat” seems so last month. Now it’s “shark in the forest.” A call to police reporting an unusual odor on Thursday…
Stephen Harper’s Economic Policy
Harper spelled it out at G8 meeting in France: “Let them eat cake.”
Tim Hudak Gets The Wedge
Ontario Libs always seem to fight a little harder than their Federal counterparts.
Shades of Green – Don’t worry, Be Happy
"Don't worry, be happy" is the refuge of the deceived and the oblivious, the attitude that people assume when they fail to recognize the reality of their situation. "Trust us,"…
Michele "Crazy Eyes" Bachmann makes cover of Newsweek. Wingnuts not pleased.
Click to embiggen to crazy big size Have to admit this week's cover of Newsweek featuring a crazed-looking Michele Bachmann is not exactly flattering. But it is an accurate portrait.…
The Importance of "Legacy" Media in Telling It How It Is: The Case of The New York Times
" On of the pleasures of being back in an almost-settled house is that we have more time to intersting things. Friends called yesterday to ask if we'd like to…
WI tea party CHEERS being blamed for causing S&P downgrade
It takes a special person to be proud of being the brunt of the blame from S&P downgrade, but the members of the Wisconsin tea party are such special people.…
Vancouver Sun: One-fifth of Canadians would turn down a million dollars to stay online
By Amy Chung for Postmedia News One-fifth of Canadians polled in a new survey said they would turn down a million dollars in order to keep their Internet access -…
Facts vs. Narrative, Utoya Edition
by matttbastard Norwegian journalist Magnus Nome was in the good ol’ US of A when self-styled counterjihadist crusader Anders Breivik decided to escalate his murderous fantasies about Eurabian conquest from…
Capitalism vs Democracy
This article in the Globe & Mail about the ongoing debt crisis in the USA and Europe caught my attention. Not because it offered any interesting or unique insight into…