The Curse of Canada’s Asbestos Exports
While I have written previously about Canada's ongoing indefensible export of death, also known as asbestos, a story in today's Star puts this abominable practice back into the public consciousness.Entitled…
August 2011
The mega-rich vs tax breaks
Warren Buffett lends the Democrats a hand: "Stop Coddling the Super-Rich." Twelve members of Congress will soon take on the crucial job of rearranging our country’s finances. They’ve been instructed…
Tim Hudak’s not so hidden agenda
I’ve been posting all summer about Hudak’s record on abortion. (He’s pro-life and has pledged to defund abortions on a petition he first denied signing, then finally ‘fessed up to…
Another neck and neck poll in Ontario
More unsettling polling news for the Ontario PC’s and their leader Tim Hudak: With less than eight weeks to go before Ontarians head to the polls, the race between the…
20 Tips for first-year students: #6- Adapt to Academics at Mount Allison University
In this 6th out of 20 video tips for incoming Mount Allison University students, fourth-year environmental studies student Avery Wheeler returns to discuss the academic transition from high school to…
140 Law – Legal Headlines for August 15, 2011
Here are today's leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter:Regulations proposed under Canada’s new Fighting Internet and Wireless Spam Act - http://t.co/i8vX67TWoman's 29-month wait for ruling 'most regrettable,' court…
Watch: Seattle Mariners, Seahawks, Storm, and Sounders say It Gets Better
Last Thursday, the Seattle Mariners released an "It Gets Better" video against anti-gay bullying to become the fifth Major League Baseball (MLB) team to do so and the first to…
We have technology backwards
I’m not sure HOW we got this totally backwards, but we have. Technology should serve humanity, not the other way around. Alltop is an aggregator we all like to work…
Conservatives pursue asbestos widow
My, Conservatives should be so proud of themselves: "Tories tussle with asbestos widow over use of party logo in ad campaign." There is no other party quite like them in…
Gay-baiting and impolitic suggestions
The Sun chain has shown their gay-baiting ways once again, this time putting the NDP’s associate queer issues critic Dany Morin in their crosshairs. The report was that Morin felt…
Houses as Art
Thanks to Hooked on Houses I just learned that this year is the 25th anniversary of The Heidelberg Project in Detroit. See the photos posted by AgilityNut (and look around…
Another Big Win for the Matriarchy
As you may know, I believe that our hairy ancestors made a catastrophic mistake by letting themselves be seduced by the aggressive, violent, male supremacist chimpanzees.And dating them for soooooooo…
Canada’s lawyers scoff at ‘tough on crime’. When will Canadians wake up?
The solution is not new expensive maxi prisons. But that's the intelligent argument, supported by experts in the field. Just more ammo for the anti-intellectual Conservatives. Plus, you know, mandatory…
¡Feliz Cumpleaño, Fidel!
Just a quick note to highlight the 85th birthday of El Comendante, Fidel Castro Ruiz.:-)The adventures of a Franco Ontarian Viz Min Woman in Ottawa.
Big Steve Wants Your Computer
It's bad enough living in Stephen Harper's Canada. The darkness. The insanity. The double think. Those cold dead eyes that seem to follow you around. Jason Kenney. The horror. The…
Open Letter to Official Conservative Blusterer Dan Hilton
You can understand my surprise upon reading of your attempt to silence an elderly widow of an asbestos-linked cancer victim, Michaela Keyerslingk, using trademark law. The idea that a political…
What Did And Did Not Happen In Abbotsford This Weekend…
RealNewsIsNoMatchForTruePoetryVille According to Mr. Beer 'N Hockey, who lives out that way, this is what happened before the big airshow even began on Friday: "I had not even said Hello…
Life before photoshop
Special effects. Wow. I have to laugh at some of the things that were done in the name of 'enhancing' photographs in the pre-Photoshop era. Sandwiching two slides together. Taking…
History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce: Karl Marx
Could there be a better illustration than the story below? What a ridiculous sideshow! http://bit.ly/mPymgf The Communist Party of Canada is thinking about filing a human rights complaint against…
Pawlenty Out, Perry In!
After Pawlenty's bad showing in the Iowa straw poll Pawlenty is now out of the race for the White house. Tim Pawlenty who was said to have spend an enormous…