Quebec’s Just Looking For Love
Sadly, in all the wrong places.As the above graphic shows, the swings in provincial politics in Quebec are absolutely amazing. Given the option of Francoise Legault or Gilles Duceppe, Quebecois…
October 2011
All Nurses Are Not Equal
My best friend Reid made an interesting point the other day. “I have,” she said, “an alphabet soup of certifications. I have ACLS. I have BCLS. I have TNCC. I…
DiManno: #OccupyCorporateMediaInc
Is Rosie DiManno a journalistic Luddite? I don’t usually have serious differences with my comrade-in-arms mattt bastard. But he’s Twittering critically about her column this morning, and I think he’s…
Just in time for accusations in his past of sexual harrassment, Herman Cain complains of Clarence Thomas treatment
"Life is like a 12-inch pizza. You never know what you're gonna get." The victimization of the right continues. Not missing a beat, GOP presidential contender Herman Cain whined to…
Occupy Montreal: a lesson in dealing with itinerants and homeless
As the Occupy movement rolls on, it must deal with those who come not so much to share in the communal building of a new form of alternative resistance…
Three Day Holiday for School Bully
Out gay student gets beaten by another student in Ohio. Luckily for the young out gay boy someone did get it on video. The attack portions of the video have…
UforChange: Culture for a Better World
UforChange is all about using art and culture to make the world a better place! They focus on St. Jamestown in Toronto and have had great success engaging their community…
Is There a Bias Asymmetry Between Democrats and Republicans?
democrat_and_republican_symbols.jpg There’s a must read item today at the Huffington Post by Jonathan Weiler, co-author of the excellent book Authoritarianism and Polarization in American P...
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Tim Harper wonders what's next for the Occupy movement, but rightly notes that state crackdowns are completely unwarranted. And Jacqueline Kennelly highlights the value…
“Now we can confidently say there is trend in favour of Bob Rae at the current time”
Lol, what?“Nycole Turmel hasn’t really caught the imagination of voters. ... She is there minding the shop but her personal numbers are not necessarily moving.” This means, however, that Mr.…
Tulloch ‘Tebows’ Teabaggin’ Tebow
Good to see other NFL football players making a little fun of the Broncos' resident religious fanatic Tim Tebow, in effect 'teabagging' the showboating in-yo-face Christian. For his part, Tulloch…
Austerity Kills: Conservative cure worst thing for what ails the economy says Stiglitz
Governments around the world are heading down a path to economic suicide. So said Nobel Prize-winning former chief economist of the World Bank, Joseph Stiglitz, to hundreds of well-heeled financiers…
The Ballerina and the Bull
From a spontaneous outpouring of critical energy and anger triggered by an enigmatic image in Vancouver’s Adbusters magazine, the Occupy Wall Street protest has grown over a period of several…
If the Conservatives really feel it SHOULD get better
I was waiting to give the Harper Conservatives a pat on the back for making the "'it gets better' video. I would like too - I can't. There is nothing…
Firearms registry saves lives
Heather Imming is a domestic violence surviver who credits the firearms registry with saving her life after her violent, estranged husband’s guns were taken away from him. So now that…
Slow week…
So why not pick on Rick Perry?"Rick Perry is going to go down in history for the all-time train wreck beginning. Because private polling in Iowa 40 days ago had…
Halloween: Obesity Versus the Occasional Splurge
This year it seems like Halloween has gone on forever. Today's the day, and I expect not much is getting done in schools all across North America as kids parade…
You Are My Only by Beth Kephart
You Are My Only is a gorgeously written YA novel. That’s the first thing I want you to know about it. The second thing is that I couldn’t put it…
Steve Jobs’ eulogy
It’s simply beautiful. “I grew up as an only child, with a single mother. Because we were poor and because I knew my father had emigrated from Syria, I imagined…