EnvironmAnt Canada job cuts raise concerns
Inspired by this story: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2011/08/04/pol-environment-job-cuts.html
2011
Last Word On The Turmel Fiasco
To the MSM, give your collective heads a shake. You have been played. You chased after the shiny rather than using your heads (or whatever the hell Rob Silver uses…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- No, we shouldn't be surprised that Clark-era PCs disagree with the Harper Cons given that their leader long since jumped ship as well.…
Science versus Photo Ops
I was watching the cbc news this morning. I find it very sad to witness the decline of that once proud public broadcaster. The cbc used to provide some fine…
The Right Wing Commentariat is getting Desperate
JuysTerence Corcoran Just go read Terence Corcoran’s latest in the National Post. Never mind that the world was plunged into economic crisis by unregulated financial institutions; and near fully captured…
Denial Down Under With The Galileo Movement
galileo.jpg THERE'S a new climate denial lobby group on the block - bravely regurgitating previously debunked pseudo-science and making wild unsubstantiated claims that climate scientists are all...
Lengthy delay in granting reasons may be basis for an appeal
R. v. Cunningham, 2011 ONCA 543 was released today. The decision largely holds that a lengthy delay between a decision and reasons may be a basis for an appeal: On May 4,…
On equalization
One more note on today's fund-raising news which is best seen in Alice's historical quarterly data.For 2011 Q2, total fund-raising for the NDP, Libs, Bloc and Greens was $7,918,876.12 -…
How to stop Ford Nation
How do we stop the cuts to core services and the wasteful spending by Rob Ford and his supporters on city council?Talk to the councillors.Now, we know that there are…
The transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich and how this affects Toronto
Toronto at a crossroads: Will Ford's austerity agenda be derailed? | rabble.caExcerpts: Lost in the rhetoric is the fact that there actually is a "revenue" problem, a problem that is…
What Is Christy Clark Really Ducking….
AllTheStay(Away!)cationsThatFitConvictionlessCourageVille....With Her Well-Timed Vacation?According to Lotusland's proMedia herd, whose stampede this time was led by Mike Smyth with The Dean bringing up the rear, it had something to do with…
Lost dogs: Baloo and Solo
I’ve been looking for Baloo, a half-groomed lost dog this week. He’s a rescue dog. The Rescue had him at the groomer’s to get his matts cut out. Poor little…
When Society Progresses in the Reverse Direction
When I saw this post, it reminded me of how I met up with a friend from elementary school last summer and, over the course of our conversations, we realized…
Winnipeg Lanterns for Peace
On Monday, August 6, 1945, at 8:15 a.m., the nuclear bomb “Little Boy” was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan by an American B-29 bomber, the Enola Gay. An estimated 130,000 people…
Scott Brison talks about the committee hearing that wasn’t
Seeing as we never had a chance to chat at the end of the abbreviated spring session, I caught up with Liberal MP Scott Brison yesterday by phone. Q: How…
Our liberal media part XXVVX
Fair and balanced Brian Lilley in CTV News segment Ottawa Citizen reporter Glen McGregor writes about Brian Lilley’s wife and family taking centre stage on CTV in 2005 endorsing the…
Jason Kenny Responds to B&H Propaganda
Okay, on the one hand we hate giving McKee and his, as our friend Daryle describes them on OPP, mall rats any publicity. Add to this we generally think Jason…
Secret Revolutions.
How much is the press reporting when it comes to the protests that are sweeping the globe? They covered Egypt, they covered Iran. Syria. Libya. Tunisia. But they are people…
September 2011 Bits and Bites: Blasts From the Distant Past, the Recent Past, and Current News Sandwiched in the Middle
Sometimes we like to revisit some older stories, some of which are so old they predate this blog by close to four decades. For example, here's a name we haven't…
Something fishy about this Toronto Sun article by David Menzies
Sometimes the Islamophobic Toronto Sun goes so far over the edge, it opens itself to open ridicule. This bit of flimsy from the Sun takes the edge and moves it…