Things are looking all right, for me
I don't know about the rest of the planet, though.London is burning from violence. The Earth's climate continues to change and effect every weather pattern on our globe. Wars continue,…
August 2011
Where does he live – in a hole somewhere? Norman Jewison on Doug Ford
Toronto News: Norman Jewison wades into Ford-Atwood spat - thestar.comExcerpt:Acclaimed Canadian director Norman Jewison says he was “shocked” by Doug Ford’s dismissive comments on Margaret Atwood, accusing the city councillor…
Harper bears down to close the EU deal
I love bathroom humor.
Maybe We’ll Read about It Tomorrow
Found on Bourque. Who knows? Maybe the poor guy in cuffs caught Mr. Harper on the john. He's sensitive that way.
Deep thought
Anybody who sees the need to treat Amnesty International as an "adversary" has every reason to take a much closer look at whether they're on the right side.
Will Canada take advantage of the digital switch to surf the Super Wi-Fi wave?
Super fast and super strong, Super Wi-Fi (a name coined by the Federal Communications Commission in the US) is wireless high-speed Internet with long range capabilities. Though technologically brand-new, it's…
More of Those Classic “Abortion is Murder” Images
Once again, pro-life demonstrators display lack of common decency and decide to parade with a bunch of Genocide Awareness Project photographs, this time in Ottawa Valley: A group called Show…
pearl calahasen backs doug horner. verlyn olsen, dave hancock, fred horne endorse gary mar.
I have updated the list of Progressive Conservative MLAs endorsing leadership candidates to reflect four recent endorsements. Only days after leadership candidates Gary Mar and Alison Redford got into a…
QOTD: On national security
Glenn Greenwald Murtaza Hussain, posting at Glenn Greenwald's blog, reflects on the riots of the last few days in England and then looks closer to home. When considering the actual…
NY university names David Miller a city-building fellow
CTV Toronto - NY university names Miller a city-building fellow - CTV NewsFrom One Toronto:Rob Ford, a Mayor without VisionToronto residents should be proud to have our former mayor, David…
Privately-owned maxi prisons. What we have to look forward to.
This is the kind of thing that privatization breeds, especially when it comes to prisons built to incarcerate victimless criminals. You know, the kind of 'criminal' Stephen Harper is planning…
Stupid Sex Tricks: Tampons Ate My Virginity
My gawd, it sounds like a campy horror flick, doesn’t it? But yes, there are still adults dumb enough to worry about their daughters using internal absorbents to mop up…
My My
Aren't we turning into a junior league imperialist power? Sending troops to Jamaica and cops to Costa Rica. Soon we will have people burning Harper in effigy all over the…
ARSENAL!
Am I ever PUMPED for this season! Here’s hoping that Cesc and Nasri both stick around for the season and that Arsene has the sense to pick up another quality…
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How to Fix Everything – At Least In My Opinion
How did it all get so scary that it became painful even to write about it? How did it all go so wrong?We're confronted by a bucketful of challenges today,…
Did Campbell Clark Government Spend $100K To Get Its YouTube Hits Over The Magical 2K Mark?
Kinda/SortaOpenGovernmentClosedBidsVille Sean Holman, as a result of yet another FOI request, has discovered that the Campbell/Clark government recently spent $100,000 updating its Public Relations website. Not surprisingly, Mr Holman got…
The Porky Media and the Separatist Scare
I don't know who writes the editorials at the Globe. But I suspect they vibrate sympathetically to the squeals of their porky corporate masters. Because this is absolute hogwash.Mr. Lebel,…
“_Capitalism is the Crisis: Radical Politics in the Age of Austerity_”
One of the most despicable aspects of the McGuinty Liberal government, among many others, was its handling of security at the G20 Summit last summer in Toronto. Dalton McGuinty oversaw…
Permit to Pollute: Dodging New Law, Agency Approves Alberta Coal Plant
coal.jpg In Alberta, coal was first mined near Edmonton as early as 1850, and commercial coal operations took off in 1874. After the coal rush where hundreds of mines popped…