November 2011
Some Truth About The Tar Sands
There has been an unending stream of propaganda coming from the people in big-oil about the tar sands. In particular a group that calls themselves CAPP (Canadian Association of Petroleum…
Some Truth About The Tar Sands
There has been an unending stream of propaganda coming from the people in big-oil about the tar sands. In particular a group that calls themselves CAPP (Canadian Association of Petroleum…
Some Truth About The Tar Sands
There has been an unending stream of propaganda coming from the people in big-oil about the tar sands. In particular a group that calls themselves CAPP (Canadian Association of Petroleum…
It’s “Bank Transfer Day”
…the day fed-up, fucked-over bank customers tell their banks to fuck off. This is the day bank customers have been encouraged to “Move Money” out of Too Big To Fail…
Scott Walker gets mic checked!
From the estimable Brad Blog, I find this video from a speech by Wisconsin governor Scott Walker at a Chicago engagement both amusing and important. We need more of this.
Canada’s aging prison population
First off I'd like to offer kudos to Howard Sapers, the Correctional Investigator of Canada, a true gem within our civil service .In his latest report Sapers highlights the aging…
4142…Bob Rae Is Going To Be Calling Me
Sunday.At 5.During the New England/Giants rematch.So mute the sound already.It is about rebuilding the number 3, omg, yes, number 3 party in Canada.And that is that.WFDS
Movember: donate and I’ll write you a ditty
During the month of November, vanity will take a backseat while I grow a moustache for Movember to raise awareness and and a few bucks to fight prostate cancer. And…
Capitulating to The Man – Romeo Saganash Flip Flops on Secession
For a moment there, I thought that all the horror stories about Nycole Turmel and Alexandre Boulerice and the one to two dozen Quebec Dippers who have in the past…
Did former Israeli security chiefs rat out Netanyahu?
Meir Dagan, former head of Mossad, Israel's foreign intelligence service, is no admirer of Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu. He has accused Netanyahu of being "irresponsible and reckless" and feels…
Adventures in Depression
I swear Allie Brosh has channelled everyone who has ever suffered depression in this brilliant webcomic. Including me. Check it out by clicking on the graphic or the link. Filed…
Rob Ford to defeated team: "Take the high road, leave the low road to me"
"Take the high road," muttered a teary-eyed Rob Ford to his losing football team, the Don Bosco Eagles. Too bad Toronto's mayor knows nothing of the high road. The ethics-challenged…
Cherry picking: military school pulls award to HNIC talking head
Don Cherry's statement paints himself as the victim, of course. But the reality is not so kind to the puffed up bigot of Hockey Night in Canada. Expect Conservatives to…
Mark Bourrie and the curious silence of the Speech Warriors™
Deliciously ironic: Big City Lib is all over the story of Mark Bourrie, an Ottawa author who has written a book on censorship, and has now been effectively censored himself…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading.- Dan Gardner highlights how Stephen Harper is imposing exactly the kind of costly, top-down policies on Canada's provinces that he once railed against:This week,…
Harper’s apology to Aboriginals revisited
How does one measure the worth of Stephen Harper’s apology to Canada’s Aboriginal peoples for Canada’s shameful residential school episode? Genuine apologies are followed by positive attempts to undo or…
Poem for a Saturday
I am really pleased to offer another poem by Michèle Katrina Thorsen. I have a couple more to offer over the next while. my dreams of your recovery died…
You Turned Out OK?
Scott McLeod wrote,Here's a statement that I'm getting really tired of hearing: "We didn't have computers when I was in school and I turned out okay. There's no reason why…
Yesterday in Gutter Politics
As reported here at the CBC, a veteran public servant has tendered his resignation in protest. Michel Dorais, a member of the audit committee that oversees the Office of the…