Randall Garrison recaps the fall session
Kicking off my end of session round-up with queer MPs, I spoke with NDP MP Randall Garrison after QP late last week. Q: What was the highlight of the fall…
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My advice to Blatchford: Quit writing, move to Texas and become a cowgirl!
Behold, the latest atrocity by writer Christie Blatchford. After studying for weeks the impacts of macho men who allegedly massacred their daughters and a wife to protect male honour, she’s…
Peter Kent, Harper’s Grand Dissembler
Harper promised that His Canada would punch above her weight on the global scene, and he was right. Oh sure he got us ramped up on a futile, inconclusive foreign…
On Insensitive Douchebags & Swine of the Week Award
Insensitive Douchebaggery was a popular item this week, flying off the shelves like half-price X-Boxes at Walmart on Black Friday (but without the pepper spray, heart attacks and constabulary boots…
Sunday Morning Links
Assorted content for your Sunday reading. – It’s bad enough that what’s passing for climate change discussion is an agreement to keep meeting for years on end that doesn’t really…
Leadership 2012 Candidate Profile – Nathan Cullen
Nathan Cullen was the third candidate to join the NDP’s leadership race. And initially, he figured to be a strong contender to win over soft support within the party as…
Which Axe Of Evil Is Mr. Frum Grinding This Time?
TheUnreasonableSideOf ExtremismVille Well, well, well, it would appear that Mr. David Frum has decided that former Liberal MP Marlene Jennings is the real evil-doer in Gazebo-Gate: “….In 2010, a former…
Music for a Sunday: There’s a moon in my throat
In honor of this recent bit of odd news, I felt this was only fitting.
After six years, Harper has no plan to curb GHG pollution
On the other hand, he’s been marvellously successfully at reducing unwanted scientific and statistical emissions.
"Whose fake park? Our fake park"
No, this is not actually an Onion story, even though the AV Club is on the Onion website: Real Occupy Wall Street occupies Law And Order’s fake Occupy Wall Street…
Thunderbirds still go!
Those who remember the 1960s television series might be surprised to know that an original Lady Penelope marionette from the series sold this past summer at auction in the united…
A Simple Solution for the Deficit that Might Please Both Progressives and Neo-classical Economists
Given the record profits of and incentives paid out in Cdn banks recently, there is no credible argument that says they can’t afford a financial service transaction tax, and, as…
French in the workplace
Many flagship organizations in Montréal have been reported as hiring English-speaking unilingual managers and not leaving enough room for French. Yeah… I know… old news… still, discussions around these reports…
"I’m not a homophobe, but…"
“…it just squicks me when I see straight boys acting like gay ones! Yecch!” Shorter Christie Blatchford. The uncloseted homophobes aren’t fooled, and make the necessary connection: ead the comments…
Your Daily Nazi: So A Neo-Nazi
…uses his CTV moment to advocate violence against immigrants and the only political leader they can find to speak up is Hedy Fry? And this guy (Kyle McKee) recently did…
Does Income change the Outcome?
By now you have allseen the OCED report that says “The richest 1% of Canadians saw their share of total income increase from 8.1% in 1980 to13.3% in 2007”. It…
What’s A Border For?
Perhaps it was inevitable. Historians for a long time now have been predicting Canada’s eventual integration into the American Empire. The agreement which Stephen Harper and Barack Obama signed last…
If you are from Ottawa…
…or from anywhere, for that matter… do a couple of clickety-clicks with your mouse and support this worthy effort. Mary Honeywell Elementary school is located in the Ottawa suburb of…
Take Time To Renew Your Spirit
On this post-COP 17 Sunday, with its indecisive outcome and the sad truth which that outcome reveals about the industrialized world’s myopia and its potentially lethal addiction to fossil fuels,…