Late night
Interesting things happening in drought stricken Texas these days: It was a very bad afternoon rush hour yesterday in the Texas Panhandle. A powerful cold front pushed through the state…
October 2011
Quote: Masculinity
Masculinity has been and continues to be a normative rubric that has policed the sex/gender system. I see very little advantage in recuperating the term masculinity because, as a category,…
Devolution of the Corner Store?
I'm in San Francisco (for BlackBerry DevCon) (and yes I just felt an earthquake - what a cliche - and yes it freaked me out) and I went into a…
I Support You.
Enough said. Great video!
Northern gannets most adversely affected by BP’s oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico
The Northern gannet suffered the most of any birds from the oil spill last year in the Gulf.Due to these migration timetables, most of the northern gannets killed in the…
Occupy Ottawa to Join Air Canada Flight Attendants Rally on Parliament Hill
The General Assembly (GA) of Occupy Ottawa last night resolved to join Air Canada flight attendants’ rally on Parliament Hill at 12:00 noon on Friday, Friday, October 21, 2011. Occupy…
The 1 % responds: We all have lobbyists!
As the CBC bends over backwards to be fair and balanced they gave the top 1% the opportunity to respond to the Occupy Movement. I will not bother with the…
Rats, roaches shut down gourmet grocery store Pusateri’s
Almost all grocery stores have mice. It's just a reality of the business -- not one that's advertised but a reality. http://bit.ly/qdJY11 Brendan Kennedy Staff Reporter  ...
Poor Pierre Karl Peladeau. Playing the victim again. Paranoid, too.
Most likely spurred by the facts presented by the CBC about Quebecor’s welfare habit, the media chain’s chief came out firing today against the ‘state broadcaster’. Problem is, Peladeau came…
John Ivison says the Cullen Plan could take away Stephen Harper’s majority government
Ivison sees trouble ahead for the Harper Tories with the plan launched by NDP MP Nathan Cullen when he announced that he was running for leader of the NDP. Ivison…
One Ford down. Two to go.
Too bad it's the wrong one. Krista Ford quits lingerie football. Now if the other two Fords would just quit their jobs, too.
Where was I?
I saw you there, standing on the corner at rush hour. I thought you were standing with your friends from school. You were all talking, and, I thought, joking around.…
Reflections on Occupy / My experience with Occupy Edmonton
“We Will Lead Every Revolution Against Us” — Theodor Herzl It’s unfortunate I have to write this post as I have been an avid supporter of the Occupy Wall Street…
Hollow, shallow words
I have watched this video a couple of times now, with Conservative members of parliament participating in the It Gets Better Campaign. And the more I watch it, the more…
4109…Time To Step Away From The Buffettttttttttttt
When you fall down going to the bathroom and they have to call in the SWAT Team.Doug Hempstead of the Ottawa Sun has more:OTTAWA — It took high-angle rescue firefighters…
Jim Stanford: Out of Equilibrium: The Implications of CETA
Out of Equilibriam from Jim Sadlemyer on Vimeo.
Conservative MPs tell teens “it gets better” – UPDATED
Like you, it was with deep sadness that I read about Jamie Hubley, the Ottawa teenager who took his life last week because he couldn’t take the bullying anymore. I…
Colonel Panic
One more badass middle-eastern dictator dragged out of the ever-popular Hiding Spot for Badass Middle-Eastern Dictators, a hole in the desert: Muammar Gaddafi was killed by Libyan fighters he once…
Hollow sentiments that It Gets Better
In the spirit of Jamie Hubley and trying to make a difference, a gay former Conservative staffer put together an It Gets Better video that features a number of Conservative…