More of Those Classic “Abortion is Murder” Images
Once again, pro-life demonstrators display lack of common decency and decide to parade with a bunch of Genocide Awareness Project photographs, this time in Ottawa Valley: A group called Show…
2011
pearl calahasen backs doug horner. verlyn olsen, dave hancock, fred horne endorse gary mar.
I have updated the list of Progressive Conservative MLAs endorsing leadership candidates to reflect four recent endorsements. Only days after leadership candidates Gary Mar and Alison Redford got into a…
QOTD: On national security
Glenn Greenwald Murtaza Hussain, posting at Glenn Greenwald's blog, reflects on the riots of the last few days in England and then looks closer to home. When considering the actual…
NY university names David Miller a city-building fellow
CTV Toronto - NY university names Miller a city-building fellow - CTV NewsFrom One Toronto:Rob Ford, a Mayor without VisionToronto residents should be proud to have our former mayor, David…
Privately-owned maxi prisons. What we have to look forward to.
This is the kind of thing that privatization breeds, especially when it comes to prisons built to incarcerate victimless criminals. You know, the kind of 'criminal' Stephen Harper is planning…
Stupid Sex Tricks: Tampons Ate My Virginity
My gawd, it sounds like a campy horror flick, doesn’t it? But yes, there are still adults dumb enough to worry about their daughters using internal absorbents to mop up…
My My
Aren't we turning into a junior league imperialist power? Sending troops to Jamaica and cops to Costa Rica. Soon we will have people burning Harper in effigy all over the…
ARSENAL!
Am I ever PUMPED for this season! Here’s hoping that Cesc and Nasri both stick around for the season and that Arsene has the sense to pick up another quality…
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How to Fix Everything – At Least In My Opinion
How did it all get so scary that it became painful even to write about it? How did it all go so wrong?We're confronted by a bucketful of challenges today,…
Did Campbell Clark Government Spend $100K To Get Its YouTube Hits Over The Magical 2K Mark?
Kinda/SortaOpenGovernmentClosedBidsVille Sean Holman, as a result of yet another FOI request, has discovered that the Campbell/Clark government recently spent $100,000 updating its Public Relations website. Not surprisingly, Mr Holman got…
The Porky Media and the Separatist Scare
I don't know who writes the editorials at the Globe. But I suspect they vibrate sympathetically to the squeals of their porky corporate masters. Because this is absolute hogwash.Mr. Lebel,…
“_Capitalism is the Crisis: Radical Politics in the Age of Austerity_”
One of the most despicable aspects of the McGuinty Liberal government, among many others, was its handling of security at the G20 Summit last summer in Toronto. Dalton McGuinty oversaw…
Permit to Pollute: Dodging New Law, Agency Approves Alberta Coal Plant
coal.jpg In Alberta, coal was first mined near Edmonton as early as 1850, and commercial coal operations took off in 1874. After the coal rush where hundreds of mines popped…
What Rob Ford, the tea party and the Conservatives should learn from the British riots
But they won't.The last time Britain saw widespread rioting, in the 1980s, street violence came after a long and failed political struggle against the Conservative government of Margaret Thatcher, which…
When Privilege Becomes Indefensible
Lately there has been a spate of reports about the rich flocking to high end shops and indulging in the sort of luxuries reminiscent of the days before the Great…
Montreal police dragging feet on investigating infamous Christianist Twitter troll ‘David Mabus’?
I’ve read the name ‘David Mabus’ a few times on Twitter, mostly in tweets from PZ Myers. Montrealer Mabus (real name: Dennis Marcuze) has made a name for himself by…
Nearly three-quarters of Americans doubt Washington can repair the economy
Talk about a loss of confidence!! A new Washington Post poll underscores the damage caused to President Obama and both political parties by the long standoff over the debt…
US Investments and great guitar
Over the past few days I’ve been contemplating the medium-term view of US stocks and whether I should reduce exposure to them. It seems difficult to be very bullish on…
"Corporations are people too, my friend" – why Mitt Romney will never be president
He's just not that bright.UPDATE: Almost as fast as the tweet appeared for this post, I received this reply via Twitter from @rustlongwood:For federal tax purposes, you are considered a…