September 2011
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Murray Dobbin points out the utter failure of an economic system built on suppressing wages for the general populace in the name of…
Debate Watch
The all important debate in Ontario is ready to go. Polls only highlight the importance, tonight's exchange will likely decide the election, particularly because of the late timing in the…
Bonus ‘Rider Blogging
Since even the Saskatchewan Roughriders' most reliable boosters seem to be declaring the 2011 season over, let's provide a bonus 'Riders post to point out that there's still plenty to…
Huffington Post: Canada’s Internet speeds are below average
Canada's Internet is below average, according to this report, not even close to being the fastest. The Big Telecom cartel is slowing our digital competitiveness and Internet affordability, and they're…
Cook a Pot of Curry Day: Sounds Delicious
I woke up this morning to talk of a curry war in Singapore. As I lay in bed listening to a contributor from there on Radio-Can, I remembered the absolutely…
No More Bull Fighting in Catalonia
Bull fighting is animal cruelty that has some legitimacy in Spain, but that has started to change. For many years animal rights activists have been championing the safety and good-treatment…
The Petroleum Trigger Point #nlpoli #nlvotes
West Texas Intermediate crude is hovering around a price that some analysts say puts some oil sands in doubt. Meanwhile, North Sea Brent crude - the price used to benchmark…
I’m so bored with blogging, I can’t even be bothered to come up with a title…
OK, so it’s not so much that blogging is, like, so 2008, but that I’ve been tremendously busy between work, paddling, and working out. But now that paddling is pretty…
Mick Jagger as the new millennium Citizen Kane?
This could be interesting. It could also turn out to be a whitewash, knowing Mick Jagger's aging propensity for people of wealth and taste. But I'll keep my mind open.…
It’s Here! Earth Overshoot Day has Arrived.
Nothing to celebrate, actually. Today is estimated to be the day on which mankind has consumed the entire stocks of renewable resources our planet will generate this year. Today is…
An Interview With NDP Leadership Candidate Romeo Saganash
I'll have more on the New Democratic Party's leadership race - or lack thereof - later. But for now, here's an interview with candidate Romeo Saganash posted on the McGill…
Party with the plutocrats
From Sister Sage's Musings "Local right-wing gadfly and embarrassment to the city, Vancouver’s Paris Hilton, Leah Costello, is hosting war criminal Dick Cheney at her very elite, very right wing…
Marching Backward
When it comes to foreign policy, Canada has traveled a great distance since Stephen Harper became Prime Minister. Lester Pearson would not recognize his country.There was no greater supporter of…
Will That Be One Smirk Or Two?
Watching the news last night, I was reminded once more of how personally repugnant my decision to vote for the McGuinty government is. I cited the reasons for my shift…
140 Law – Legal Headlines for September 27, 2011
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter: Supreme Court could rule by next spring on constitutionality of health care reform - http://t.co/GtuNDcHs Conrad Murray/Michael Jackson Trial…
Clinton: Climate Deniers Make U.S. Look Like a Joke
Via Think Progress, Bill Clinton, speaking at the Clinton Global Initiative annual meeting, blasting the Republican Party for supporting denial of climate science: “The best thing you could do is…
The Vancouver Club, Dick Cheney and pedophilia
When socialite Leah Costello announced that Dick Cheney was to speak at the Vancouver Club, I thought nothing more of the venue, concentrating on the horror of a war criminal…
A writer writes
april 26 grading blues, a photo by dewberry1964 on Flickr. Ignatius was working. That was the first rule for writers. It wasn’t about the tools, his teachers had said, way…