In Remembrance
On this particular day, Remembrance Day, I try my best not to get on to other political topics and instead focus on this day as it was meant for –…
November 2011
The Night is Dark, and We are Far From Home
On this Remembrance Day, here’s the choir of Wells Cathedral singing Lead Kindly Light: Lead, kindly Light, amid th’encircling gloom, lead thou me on! The night is dark, and I…
Iran Is Developing Nukes!
It seems that that more needs to be done to stop a Iran from going nuclear. Iran is clearly a threat to peace in the world let alone peace in…
@mtaibbi on How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the #OWS Protests | #Occupy #OccupyTO
This is a visceral, impassioned, deep-seated rejection of the entire direction of our society, a refusal to take even one more step forward into the shallow commercial abyss of phoniness,…
Supporting Women Candidates
The Judy LaMarsh Fund is an essential tool to work towards true gender equity in Canadian politics. But at the moment it is just a line item -- it is…
Five Films for Friday
For Remembrance Day, here are five war movies you might consider checking out.: The Thin Red Line: L’ennemi intime Letters from Iwo Jima 9 Rota (9th Company) Black Hawk Down…
The stinky choices available in New Egonia
You may also find some self-absorbed individuals at alltop. Originally published in November, 2008, when that picture of me was still very old.
Plead guilty and declare victory
The Conservatives plea bargained down charges in the In & Out affair, where they plead guilty to a few lesser charges and paid the maximum fine on the books, in…
Remembrance Day
Remembrance Day is a memorial day observed in Commonwealth countries to remember the members of their armed forces who have died in the line of duty since World War I.Remembrance…
Movie Time
I watched “Tower Heist” which was done in the vein of the Occupy Wall Street and Bernie Madoff scandals. I liked it. Meanwhile a real life OWS situation is underway…
Wreck of the Edmumd Fitzgerald
And Dr Grumpy has a few interesting facts about the wreck.
Before we go spending any more on it, Albertans need to know what the SuperNet has really cost
Nobody here but us chickens … and our $400-million-plus fibre-optic hookup, of course. Alberta Premier Alison Redford says she wants to spend even more money on the Alberta SuperNet –…
Returns to education: from a sure thing to a trip to vegas
Paul Krugman has pointed out, here and here that the meme that most of the inequality we have been experiencing of late has much to do with differences in educational…
Luxury Tax
The Conservatives admit to overspending by $420,000 and are found guilty of breaking election laws.The punishment?A $50,000 fine...or about the amount they'll raise from their next anti-CBC e-mail.Which is kind…
Matt Taibbi is beginning to get it about the Occupy movement
Most political/cultural/populist movements begin in back rooms, in clandestine meetings over a period of years. Many times the resultant movement looks little like the disorderly chaos of the initial gatherings.…
Who Really Commissioned the BC Gov’t Employee Legal Fee Report?
TakeOutTheTrashDayRailGateStillRustingVilleThe Campbell-Clark government released the Toope report today, right before everyone took off for the Remembrance Day long weekend. And it most definitely does NOT deal with the Basi-Virk double-down…