Labour Day and the Toronto Sun: An Annotation
Public sector workers are lazy and overpaid parasites sucking at the taxpayer teat. Or something. Please remember to tell us this when we’re doing ACLS on your sorry ass. Happy…
September 2011
Happy Labour (Or Labour) Day!
Never hurts to remember what led to this holiday of the end of summer. A classic version by Pete Seeger.
Smile and learn
Strange Animal with Mike O'Brien - A short but wonderful CBC radio series
Democracy Watch: Duff’s guff #nlpoli
Let’s get it simply stated up front: Democracy Watch is the most inappropriately named organization on the planet, bar none. They don’t watch for one thing. And on the specific…
4015…Ed Broadbent Is Late
St. Edward of Broadbent tells Tim Naumetz of Some Newspaper I clipped on line, The Hill Times I think, that "The Liberal Party of Canada is 'withering away' and its…
The Canadian Manifesto 6: To Every Action There is a Reaction. Cough, Cough!
Isaac Newton may not have had neoconservatism in mind when he wrote his laws of motion, but it seems fitting when discussing the multitude of think tanks and AstroTurf groups…
Labour Day
Where did the summer go???
A Leak Or A "Leak"?
The Libs get a day of decent coverage from the leaked document; a second day from the official one. A fluff-up, or tactics? Like the old line from WKRP: "Don't…
Blueberries and Climate Change
It’s the Labour Day weekend in North America, signalling the end of summer. From here on in, the mornings become crisper and the nights cooler. Children return to school and…
what happens to a child who is hungry?
What happens to a child who is hungry?And here's what I learned: being hungry makes me slow, stupid, and clumsy.It took me about four or five days of not being…
The Shorter Lorne Gunter
Albertans are suckers.
4014…SCTV
Dya remember SCTV? With the shift from tube TVs to flat screens you may have noted that in your town garbage day resembles the open of SCTV albeit on a…
Taking one for the team
It seemed unlikely that Janet was an “anthrax tester” for the Department of Defense, as she claimed. It just didn’t seem possible that she could snort a gram of weaponized…
4013…They Don’t Get It
They are bus drivers. Like there have been several shots online and in newspapers of bus drivers in Ontario and Quebec reading while driving, texting while driving, talking on the…
4012…Happy Labour Day
Too bad everyone doesn't have a job. Nonetheless look for Mara Carfagna, the dog not the Italian Minister of Silly Walks, in the Ottawa Labour Day parade. Doing her part.…
Happy Labour Day
A few child labour images from the past are perhaps useful reminders of the destructive power of unregulated market forces, not to mention where we would likely be without progressive…
Are Canada’s online surveillance laws being drafted in the US?
Professor Michael Geist has brought to light a set of US cables published by Wikileaks that show Canadian officials making efforts to satisfy American demands for the imposition of U.S.-style…
The Politics of Cynicism: even worse than thought edition #nlpoli
If they accidentally accumulate enough credits to a form a government after the next election, the provincial New Democrats will keep taxing small business income at 14%. What the provincial…
Aditi Shankardass Offers Thought Provoking Second Opinion On Autism and Other Learning Disorders
I found this presentation on the use of EEG technology in assessing autism and other learning disorders to be very thought provoking. It is possible such technology will offer more…
Sponsorship questions
The Conservatives, using Labour Day as their backdrop, wrote a letter asking Elections Canada to look into sponsorship by unions for events during the last NDP convention, saying it contravenes…