Musical interlude
Faithless feat. Dido - One Step Too Far
October 2011
Ontario’s Back to the Future Election
It was a strange night on Thursday as Ontario re-elected Dalton McGuinty's Liberals to another term at Queen's Park. Much has been made that the majority is over and that…
Ontario’s Back to the Future Election
It was a strange night on Thursday as Ontario re-elected Dalton McGuinty’s Liberals to another term at Queen’s Park. Much has been made that the majority is over and that…
Ontario’s Back to the Future Election
It was a strange night on Thursday as Ontario re-elected Dalton McGuinty's Liberals to another term at Queen's Park. Much has been made that the majority is over and that…
Ontario’s Back to the Future Election
It was a strange night on Thursday as Ontario re-elected Dalton McGuinty’s Liberals to another term at Queen’s Park. Much has been made that the majority is over and that…
4064…Gee She Has Boobs
That would be British Columbian Premier Christy Clark.Miss Clark had the audacity to show a little cleavage in the legislature and CTV reports that the view of what the Dane's…
Ballad of Gordon
RossK is writing a series of posts called Here's to the State of the Golden Era, summing up the legacy of Gordon Campbell. Makes me embarrassed to be a Liberal.
I Do Not Want Canada to be Americanized!
Great commentary from The Globe and my favourite part: "At the same time, voters will have to decide what they make of today’s Americanized Conservatives as represented by Mr. Harper,…
I Do Not Want Canada to be Americanized!
Great commentary from The Globe and my favourite part:“At the same time, voters will have to decide what they make of today’s Americanized Conservatives as represented by Mr. Harper, Mr.…
I Do Not Want Canada to be Americanized!
Great commentary from The Globe and my favourite part:"At the same time, voters will have to decide what they make of today’s Americanized Conservatives as represented by Mr. Harper, Mr.…
I Do Not Want Canada to be Americanized!
Great commentary from The Globe and my favourite part: “At the same time, voters will have to decide what they make of today’s Americanized Conservatives as represented by Mr. Harper,…
And now the server load is back to normal
From what I could tell, it was a series of bots making repeated requests for the wordpress pages of one of my hosting clients. I hardened both the Wordpress site,…
Here’s To The State Of The Golden Era….Verse 2
.Here's to the state of the Era's Henchmen...Privatized our Railway......Basi: ... you can take it and look at it, show it to them. They can ... y'know change some of…
Occupy Wall Street: The Left Advances, at Long Last?
Maybe the Tea Party is meeting its match, maybe the tide is turning toward a more enlightened way of looking at the mess we're in. As Paul Krugman said today:"There’s…
I am a blogger. I am not a journalist.
I am a left-of-centre progressive. I do not pretend to be neutral. I am a blogger. I am not a journalist. I do not take money under the table from…
CPW Book Salon: Taking A Stand: The Evolution of Human Rights
Author: Juan E. Méndez and Marjory Wentworth Palgrave Macmillan, September 2011 ISBN: 978-0-230-11233-9, ISBN10: 0-230-11233-1, 156.000 x 234.000 inches, 256 pages Juan Méndez has experienced human rights abuse first hand.…
Harper Jets snub Harper
Looks like the the new NHL franchise in Winnipeg may not be as friendly to its adoptive 'owner' and his political party as one would think. The club, dubbed the…
The History of Oil
Ever see a stand-up comedy routine about oil wars and oil coups? This Brit does a fantastic job of taking horrible reality and making it hilarious. Without, I might add,…
Canada cannot just change its name like the tar sands did
With the TransCanada debacle now creeping into the headlines, almost exclusively because of the US protests, the word 'Canada' is being batted around like a football. It's being kicked and…
early dispatches from movie season
Last year I mentioned I had never seen a single Pixar movie, including any Toy Story movie. Many wmtc readers recommended I watch all three Toy Story movies, which seemed…