Sunday Morning ‘Rider Blogging
Yesterday's win over Hamilton has raised at least a few questions as to where that 'Riders team has been all year. But I'm not sure there's much difference between what…
October 2011
Jerry Seinfeld on Halloween
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Friendly Giant I and Friendly Giant II
Friendly Giant I We’re not exactly looking for a dog just yet. We’re pre-looking. We’re familiarizing ourselves with local shelters and rescues. So yesterday we went to the Friendly Giants…
Where Breasts Meet Art
Breast casts of various celebrities customized and tarted up by artists (more breasts here) to be auctioned and proceeds going to the Keep-a-Breast Foundation, a charity which promotes breast cancer…
Michael Coren on the CBC
No, no, not actually on the CBC: he’s been blacklisted, he says, according to sources he won’t name. Apparently that “old fraud” Peter Gzowski had something to do with it,…
Sunday Music: CBC Two/ Espace Musique Play an All-Day Concert of Serious Music
This is what the two services of the public broadcaster should be playing all the time: the very best in serious music by Canadian performers. Concert in CanadaandEspace Musique Why…
guerrilla librianship meets the occupied wall street journal
From the Occupied Wall Street Journal #3:Howard Zinn is here. Dominick Dunne and Tom Wolfe, too. Ernest Hemingway and Barbara Ehrenreich and Dr. Who and Beowulf: All here, and all…
The landscape exhibition #7
Filed under: art, design, digital, painting Tagged: art, collage, digital, iPad, landscape, painting
Christian Groups to Protect #OccupyLondon At Saint Paul’s Cathedral
April Reign Normally I agree with this quote from Gandhi, “I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. They are so unlike your Christ.” However a number of…
Blessed Are The Peacemakers
Chantal Hebert writes in today's Toronto Star that, while the growing list of NDP candidates "has all the makings of a decent future NDP cabinet, it has few of the…
Seattle Police and the OWS Movement
Many thanks to Roxy Katt for her post and link to a story and video showing Seattle Police arresting a woman for opening up an umbrella while on the ground…
Take Time To Renew Your Spirit
There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest. ~Elie Wiesel
Letting Go of the Urban Legends
I attended an event yesterday for Ron Hartling, who is running as president of the Liberal Party of Canada. Speakers included Peter Milliken and Liberal MP Ted Hsu.However, I learned…
So Rob Effing Ford is the worst person in the world?
Um, I dunno about that. There are worse. Yet Keith Olbermann thinks REF takes the gateau. The U.S. television personality and political pundit mocked Mr. Ford on the “Worst Person…
infographic: the u.s. should be ashamed, but canada has little to brag about
I found this telling infographic in a column by Charles Blow in the New York Times called "America's Exploding Pipe Dream". If you can't read it here, go here and…
That’s It @PnP_CBC, I’ve Put You On Notice!!!
I nearly fell over the other day listening to the CBC’s Power and Politics (yes I know I said I would stop listening to this show but lord knows it’s…
That’s It @PnP_CBC, I’ve Put You On Notice!!!
I nearly fell over the other day listening to the CBC’s Power and Politics (yes I know I said I would stop listening to this show but lord knows it’s…
BEST study challenged by ‘crank’
Who knows who to believe in the climate science game. I put my lot in with the majority who believe, especially with the publication of the recent Koch brothers' funded…
That’s It @PnP_CBC, I’ve Put You On Notice!!!
I nearly fell over the other day listening to the CBC’s Power and Politics (yes I know I said I would stop listening to this show but lord knows it’s…