Musical interlude
Delerium – Heaven’s Earth (Key South Remix)
January 2012
Greenpeace Calls On SEC To Investigate TransCanada’s Inflated Jobs Claims
keystone_xl_jobs.jpg Greenpeace USA President Phil Radford sent a formal complaint this week to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) calling for an investigation into TransCanada’s use of wildly inflated jobs…
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HUMOUR: MOTIVATION ?:
The environment needs your voice for 2 important public consultations
Friday, January 27, 2012 The record level of public engagement shown in the recent BC government consultations on cosmetic pesticides (8,700 people) shows that democracy is alive and well in…
"Good Bye Charlie Brown"
“Intergenerational tension has yet to erupt into open warfare in Canada, but politicians are keenly aware of the dangers of segmenting the electorate into warring age cohorts. Mention the name…
Love Prevails: Photographs of a Heroic Couple Who Fought Anti-Miscegenation Laws in the US
If discussed Lawrence Hill’s The Book of Negroes with six book clubs now, and one thing that cmes up every time is the astonishment tht marriage between people of African…
Festive Left Friday Blogging: Two million and counting!
Ahem. Make that two and a HALF million… And now, the story from Aporrea: At 10:06 this morning, and three months shy of his second anniversary on Twitter, President Hugo…
Friday night unplugged
It’s a low key, acoustic set this evening. The opening clip is from Peter Seeger’s Rainbow Quest — Brownie McGhee performing solo on Don’t Pity Me. Lyle Lovett takes the…
Friday Night Flicks: The Super List
A surprisingly creepy little film, if you have twelve minutes and thirty seconds to spare. Filed under: Friday Night Flicks Tagged: short films
Harper’s Pension Bomb
Hey, wasn’t it fun learning the other day from a speech Stephen Harper delivered at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland that unspecified “major transformations” are coming to our…
Mr. Prime Minister, We Are ALL Approaching Retirement Age
On Friday, talking points coming from the Prime Minister’s Office stated that any proposed cuts were still several years away, and wouldn’t affect any Canadians currently approaching retirement age. I…
Shorter Father Raymond J. de Souza
“Atheist Christopher Hitchens was a nasty man who currently resides in Hell. Pedophile enabler Joe Paterno is now among the angels, and why did everyone pick on him?” If there…
Abuse Reports Culminate In Hair-Raising Assault By Red Onion State Prison Guards
In the following report, Rashid details a vicious racist attack on his person by guards at Red Onion State Prison, which occurred on December 12, 2011. Since this report was…
Mr.Blue reacts
to 4 days of Obama .gif at top of her pet human’s blog:
Dan Gardner Sees Hitler In The Swirling Clouds Of Rhetoric
Well, here’s the quote. I think Bob Rae was thinking more along these lines–you know, an Alpine perch being a high place from which one might look down upon the…
The old nothing could be further from the truth ploy #nlpoli #cdnpoli
Ed Martin from Nalcor and Chris Huskilson from Emera held a news conference in St. John’s on Friday to announce that they will not have a deal on Muskrat Falls…
Something is wrong. . . .
I don’t think one needs to be particularly intelligent or insightful to know that something is desperately wrong with capitalist democracy. The system is ailing, there is no doubt about…
Historical truth is in the outtakes – Friday Film Pick: A Film Unfinished
A Film Unfinished (2010, Germany-Israel) had so much festival hype that when I couldn’t get my hands on a screener, I feverishly pre-ordered the film from Amazon – a practice…
The old victim ploy #nlpoli #cdnpoli
In a scrum on Friday, Premier Kathy Dunderdale decided to attack the Telegram’s editorial writer. She attacked the paper for things the Friday editorial did not say. For good measure…
Should Representative Plaintiffs Receive More?
A. INTRODUCTION Under the Ontario Class Proceedings Act, 1992 (“CPA”) , the Representative Plaintiff (“RP”) is a member of the class that in most instances commits to a bigger responsibility…