Taxpayers enable home movies on the big screen
Drifting across Movie Channel tonight, I noticed "Grown Up Movie Star" a 2009 title offering this one sentence lure: "A 13-year-old gives in to sexual temptation after her mother abandons…
October 2011
Harper government lets the ozone scientist speak
"Scientist surfaces to praise ozone monitoring amidst federal review." But he doesn't speak without buddies on hand! This is a truly memorable picture painted in this report: A senior Environment…
Traffic with leadership and vision #nlpoli
When is “nutbar” an unacceptable term? Who leaked the amalgamation report? The NDP Rise The Dysfunctional Dunderdale Administration Nutbar Factor 6 PPM: The Polls in the 2011 Election Follow the…
Portrait of the wrong queen
Remember that whole issue about ensuring that the Queen’s portrait is hung in our embassies? It seems like that may have been touched off when John Baird was offended that…
The Mohawk Manifesto
MNN_188_Mohawk_Manifesto_sep_9_05 The legal framework that proves by Rule of Law that First Nations are indeed sovereign. This is because Canada is in fraud and treason unto itself as it has…
Support the CBC. Tell Them Not To Give in to Quebecor
The Globe and Mail reported today that Quebecor is demanding an apology and retraction from CBC for the fact check they issues last week, which I am happy to provide…
The Ryan Painter Show Podcast Episode 5
The new episode of The Ryan Painter Show Podcast is up: Occupy Canada and Legislative Advice from Texas. Feel free to leave questions, comments or calls to action. Thanks for…
Flippity flop flip… has Alison Redford’s government ‘jumped the shark’ already?
Alberta Premier Alison Redford, immediately after ‘jumping the shark.’ Alberta politicians may not appear exactly as illustrated. Whaaaaaaaaat?! Below: The quotable LBJ.Is this the worst start ever, or what?Barely sworn…
Paxo & Moore on OCW
Jeremy Paxman talks to Michael Moore on BBC’s Newsnight program yesterday about the embryonic nature of OCW movement and whether a new form of capitalism may possibly arise from it……
Demonizing OCW Effort Gets Derailed
Fox News butt plug Eric Bolling inveighs against OCW for being crazy, anti-American Communists and/or anti-Semitic Nazis – take your pick. With his baseless introductory slander out of the way,…
Scott Muses: Choose Your Saskatchewan
I'm still digesting the NDP platform release, as well as the announcements and headlines that have been made over the past week...I'm also dealing with one hell of a cold…
The Game is Rigged
No, not that game. I mean an actual Game, in this case, CNBC’s trading contest, “Million Dollar Portfolio Challenge”. The Challenge has run up against some challenges, and trading has…
Musical interlude
Lange vs Gareth Emery - Another You Another Me
Bloggers: “Phew!”
By Rick Hiebert. All rights Reserved. Used by Permission. A Supreme Court of Canada decision earlier this week will have an interesting impact on blogging, and on the Internet in…
Festive Left Friday Blogging: Healthy, handsome and back at home
Does this man look to you like he’s only got two years left? Or that he’s already had one ghastly near-death experience, allegedly requiring emergency kidney dialysis? Me neither. Suck…
Saskatchewan Party Candidate Forced To Apologize For Racist Comment Towards First Nations
"A Saskatchewan Party candidate is apologizing after suggesting First Nations people who get "handouts" sometimes spend it on drugs and alcohol.Greg Ottenbreit, who is the party's Yorkton candidate, issued a…
Signs of Hope: Some MPs in the Liberal caucus support the Cullen Plan
In a wide ranging interview by Tim Naumetz in The Hill Times, Nathan Cullen, the innovative young NDP MP who has joined the race to replace Jack Layton as leader…
Good web content is not about writing “punchy”
And in fact, that headline breaks another cardinal rule about web writing. You're supposed to write positively - what things are, what you will do as opposed to what they…
Murray Dobbin Repost: Occupy: What can it teach the left?
Occupy: What can it teach the left? Posted on October 21, 2011 by murraydobbin The occupy movement has been a like a powerful cleansing wind blowing over the political landscape…