Occupy Bay Street?
The launch of Canada’s “revolution” against the “1 percent” is planned for October 15th. Unfortunately, they can’t even seem to get the URL of the website correct… So, not off…
October 2011
More free trade in oppression: Honduras: The Deadliest Place in the World for a Journalist
On Friday August 12,2011, While on a state visit to Honduras,the first by any leader since the coup, Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced the signing of a free trade deal…
But we mustn’t call it apartheid
Time once again to juxtapose. This is apartheid: South Africa’s Group Areas Act of 1966 consolidated earlier acts aimed at enforcing the policy of racial segregation known as apartheid, and…
Tory Taber channels Sarah Palin. Profiles Candice Hoeppner as Joan of Arc of kaboom!
You can always trust Jane Taber to be the model of journalism. Modern journamalism, that is. You know, anonymous sources, cloying coverage of conservatism, condescending dismissals of everything else, Maureen…
History repeating
In 2008, it was then-cabinet minister Gary Lunn who wound up embroiled in at least a minor scandal over coordinated third-party expenses.And in 2011, there's once again some sign of…
Marijuana’s Key Ingredient May Fight Alzheimer’s Disease
Never thought I'd link to a story from Fox News but this is some good shit. The active ingredient of marijuana could be considerably better at suppressing the abnormal clumping…
Well, I had a great day
I'm sorry so many other people did not. There's 250 more civilians at DND whose jobs will be cut. There's flight attendants at Air Canada who seem poised to go…
New book: Harper had ties to Neo-Nazis
This is interesting but hardly surprising; it goes a long way to explaining how the Conservatives' modern followers are so extreme in their support of the party's authoritarian views, its…
Geography is still working against Ontario Liberals
There is a measure of truth in this article. We don't do as well as we should outside of the urban centres. If we are going to thrive in the…
Shades of Green: Muzzling Science and Scientists
Muzzling science and scientists is ultimately an exercise in futility, an effort that inevitably causes more trouble than the initial discomfort of confronting the reality of evidence. History has shown…
The Mumpsimus Blog – Human rights gone awry
A lot of news stories I read while in England used the term "human rights" to describe some failure of the powers to be to come to terms with the…
Canada’s gun lobby’s election failure reveals NDP gun registry fallacy
Reading today's Postmedia story about labour union spending during the 2011 federal election campaign led this blog to wonder about other third party spending.Reviewing the listing of third parties on…
CRTC Chair Von Finckenstein stepping down in 2012
Laid low with some kind of vicious viral crud for the last 2 weeks, I missed this story. But I think it’s worth commenting on, if only because one teeny-weeny…
Sunday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your long weekend reading.- Bruce Johnstone comments on the real source of Saskatchewan's relative economic success over the past few years - and not surprisingly, it has…
I’ve started a food blog.
Seems as though I'm too happy to write here anymore. Nothing really to complain about, aside from my hammock branch getting cut down. I seem to have hung up the…
Here’s To The State Of The Golden Era….Verse 3
.Here's to the Lies of the Era's Spinners...In the midst of all the plenty....A decade of children going down...And the Seniors who need our help most...Get shuffled round and round...While…
To every action, expect an opposite reaction
The most brazen disdain for democracy in modern times, Simon Jenkins, The Guardian, January 12, 2010 "There will be a tidal wave of rage. Over the next two weeks the…
Andrew Coyne Booted Out Of Conservative Movement!
...Coyne lost his “right” to be the defender of conservatism with his choice of being tight within the liberal media establishment and should stop trying to give advice to us…
Kinsella Agrees With Me
I had argued here that the campaign themes used by all except the Ontario Liberal Party were off the mark. People, in uncertain economic times, don't vote for change. They…
Why Hudak lost: Wedgies are not a Story
Tim Hudak - failed wedgerTim Hudak is now licking his wounds, and considering what he should do differently next time an election rolls around (which might be far sooner than…