my first days in the library
I love it. I love being in the library. I love being part of the public library, helping to make it work. I’ve been placed in the children’s department of…
November 2011
Propaganda and consumption – Friday Film Pick: Outfoxed & Wal-Town
Best Buy shoppers camp out before Black Friday, proving that certain kinds of occupations are indeed acceptable. This week’s Friday Film Pick is a double bill, commemorating two important moments.…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Dan Garnder rightly points out how too much concentrated power and a refusal to take advice can lead to bad decisions. And sadly,…
Harper Sending Ex-Minister to Europe? Sixth Estate Patronage List Updated
After the May 2011 election, I began keeping the Patronage List: a list of Harper government political appointees who appear to be Conservative Party ex-politicos, donors, and insiders. I’ve made…
Etch A Sketch: My generation’s iPad
The malls are insane. Not sure how Black Friday made its way north of the border.
Tis the season to be
…pepper sprayed??: Twenty people, including children, were injured when a woman at a San Fernando Valley Walmart store used mace against other customers in what authorities referred to as a…
History and the Swing Riots.
Like many bloggers, I have, of late, been commenting on the so-called “Occupy” movement, its significance and importance, and the need to take such movements seriously regardless of the degree…
On building blocks
I left Chantal Hebert’s take on the NDP’s leadership race out of this morning’s roundup since it seems worth addressing in a separate post. And in some other contexts, I’ve…
Tony Gazebo, the Teflon Con
Fresh revelations daily about this corrupt government Minister. But he’s still walking our streets, despite the recent Harper tough-on-crime initiatives. How has he slipped through the net? Clement has been…
Public Bike Share Coming to New York?
It’s no secret that we here at Things Are Good like bikes and bike sharing (we may have even posted about it once or twice…), and now some more good…
Alert! Episode 196
Patrick Bond dissects international climate talks at upcoming COP 17 conference. Vincent Mosco explains the historical significance of the Occupy movement and where it is headed.
How many people does it take
…to raise a chandelier and remove a light fixture? This is not a joke, alas, except on us taxpayers. G8 leaders who came to Toronto for that infamous meeting last…
Tents? Pepper Spray? On Black Friday? Where’s the Public Outrage?
Ken Sanders Photo Photo h/t Queer Thoughts Well, well, well! What do we have here? Occupy Best Buy? In a manner of speaking. All those campers are not there to…
The Lie My Butt Cheeks Tell Me.
SomethingsReallyMatter LedgeClosedAgainVille You may recall that a couple of weeks ago I had to go to the heart of Burnaby’s own Bladerunner set (a.k.a. ‘Metrotown’) to renew my new Driver’s…
Mere failure to fulfill undertakings is insufficient to have action dismissed – prejudice must be shown
Jack v. Gowling, Strathy & Henderson, 2011 ONCA 736 deals with the test to dismiss an action because of a failure to fulfill undertakings given on discovery. The Court accepted…
Conferencing in Halifax while Rome Burns?
Cross-posted on CIC Dispatch Blog Billed as the Davos for Security, the Halifax International Security Forum – funded by the Department of National Defence (DND) – sought and accomplished to…
Another reason to hate Kansas: Kansas Youth in Government and Gov. Sam Brownshirt tattle on teen. Plus, fire Karl Krawitz.
Freedom? In America? As the authoritarian reaction to the Occupy movement has shown, it’s a rare and treasured thing. Republicans hate freedom. Especially freedom of expression from its youth. Look…
the return of Friday music!
A couple of tunes for what appears to have become the second largest national holiday in the U.S. and rapidly in Canada, too. Why celebrate Easter, Diwali or Labour Day…