The veritable "penny in the poop"--a genuine contribution to political discourse from Free Dominion. Because Rob Nicholson will tell the wing-nuts there what he won't tell us normal folk. Not…
Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever…
Only today I learned of the death of Justice Randy Echlin, a judge of the Ontario Superior Court. He had been fighting cancer for nearly two years and when I…
Hmmm... what's this ?... the city of Burlington, Vermont, just passed a resolution to heighten the presence of French?... interesting... Turns out one of the municipal councilors thought that it…
On August 6, Stephane Dion received the 2011 Couchiching Award for Leadership in Public Policy. The following is an excerpt from the speech Mr. Dion delivered at the event. Fighting…
Craig Westcott confirmed Monday he’ll be leaving the opposition office and returning to run his newspapers. Here’s the statement he released: Yvonne and I have agreed that my position will…
http://www.justicedenied.org/false.htm http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=when-an-innocent-confesses-to-a-cri-09-01-27 http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/14/us/14confess.html http://www.innocenceproject.org...
The RCMP: The Mounties have dropped their preliminary probe of a former Tory aide who was cited for political interference in an access-to-information request. An RCMP spokeswoman said Monday there…
America In Decline By Noam Chomsky “It is a common theme” that the United States, which “only a few years ago was hailed to stride the world as a colossus…
Inspired by this story: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2011/08/15/pol-canadian-forces-names.html
ThatThingNotQuiteRealizedPresqueVooDooVille _______ Astroturfing is a form of advocacy often in support of a political or corporate agenda designed to give the appearance of a "grassroots" movement. The goal of such…
I’ve always had my suspicions about a certain crappy “news” outlet pretentiously calling itself the “Latin American Herald Tribune”. I never did trust it; there was something of a rightist…
While the McGuinty Liberals may have survived Collegate during the last election campaign, they must, nevertheless, still get a little nervous every time they see “slush fund” in the headlines.…
Symbols matter. Traditions can be invented. Nationalism is the product of collective will to create an imagined community. All of these concepts (which are debatable, of course) are vitally important…
Last Monday I had a 10-minute Skype chat with Eugene Woo, the founder of start-up tech company Vizualize.Me, a service/app/website that turns your LinkedIn data and turns it into a…
Omar Offendum almost his train of thought when he saw a video post on his Facebook wall, mid Skype interview, of his song #Jan25 being played in Tahrir Square. It…
Tea Party presidential wannabe Michelle Bachman from the cover of Newsweek. Provincial Conservative natural resources minister Shawn Skinner. - srbp -
An election issue that was overlooked by the electorate was the G8 spending by Tony Clement, a minister in Harper’s cabinet. Tony is very active on Twitter, he’s practically the…
Medicare for Autism Now! has released the film Medicare's Orphans second trailer. In this trailer Wesley Romey and his mother Laurie Guerra tell Wesley's story. It is the story of…
We know that Hugh McFadyen’s personal ideology would compel him to balance the Budget on a year-over basis. Though Hugh has been trying to run away from this for the…
