On Obama’s rich vs poor framing
Since 2010, Obama has made a very deliberate shift to increase the rhetoric and policies with regards to a rich vs poor framing. It has always been a part of…
January 2012
Saturday Night’s Alright For….
….For Uke (Cover) Fighting! First, the original, which itself is a most fantastic cover of the Michelle Shocked tune called ‘Fogtown’…. And now, the Uke Cover, from Bigger E. and…
Salmon Virus Cover-up About Protecting Markets, Not Fish
The credibility of the Department of Fisheries and Oceans has been compromised by its conflicting mandates of managing wild salmon and promoting salmon farming. Now we discover that the Canadian…
Radionuclides Tied To Shale Gas Fracking Can’t Be Ignored As Possible Health Hazard
minor-radiation-leak.jpg Comic books tell us that it's cool to be a superhero. Sometimes those superheroes started out as everyday citizens that became irradiated and suddenly transformed into epic, superhuman, ninja-fighting…
Just Another Porky Day in Harperland
First comes the crass incompetence. Human Resources Minister Diane Finley is boosting staff at Service Canada to help reduce a mounting backlog in employment insurance claims that is forcing many…
Fifth Sexth Estate Weekly Flack Awards
The Sixth Estate Weekly Flack Awards are a regular series dedicated to recognizing the silliest and the worst in the generally pathetic field of government communications. These awards recognize absurd…
Liberal Change For Innovation
May 2 2011- The Liberal Party had its worst defeat in history. June 18 2011- The Liberal Party holds an extraordinary convention over the phone and online, the first teleconference…
Backlogged by Design?
It is an old tried and tested political trick. If you want to look like a hero, break something while no one is looking… fix it and then take all…
readin’ readin’ readin’
#5 The Sister Brothers by Patrick DeWittNot many reviewers can resist comparing The Sister Brothers to the Cohen Brothers’ version of True Grit and not without reason. The dialogue has…
Leaky toilet: what manner of screw is this?
Some time ago Irene and I noticed this hives-like bubbling of paint on the ceiling near the front door. Uh oh. After getting some advice from the ever helpful Jeff…
Free-Market Deregulation Of Alberta’s Electrical Industry Has Seen Consumer Prices Increase By 100%
I want to point out to Conservatives, Reformers, Sask Party and Right Wing members of the Liberal Party that your blind faith in ‘unfettered free markets’ is NOT in the…
Wealth is wrong.
Nobility, royalty and wealth are all repulsive concepts that our society has been slowly phasing out due to increased humanity and understanding. Wealth is the most accepted concept out of…
What to do when the Minister is a moron?
Well if one works for a Conservative cabinet minister you attempt to hide the evidence that’s what. As Jorge Barrera over at APTN National News tells us that is precisely…
Perhaps a step toward…
…one school system in Ontario? One can only hope. It will likely fail, but will expose the farcical inequities in our education system to those Ontarians who are, at present,…
My fifteen seconds of fame
I’m in an Ottawa Sun weather story dispensing advice on biking on a snowy day.
BC Ferries: Spokesthingy Vs. Sources
ThereIsNo’W’In StenographyVille From one of the many bits of proMedia stenography that took BC Ferries’ word for it, verbatim, on their latest ‘incident’: BC Ferries cancelled eight sailings today on…
A Couple Of Good Names
WK has a few names of possible LPoC leadership potentials. I’ve always heard good things about Cauchon, but I’d love to see Martha Hall-Findlay run again. I’d kill for that…
Who needs Cancon? by Misty Harris
Despite not being held to the same Cancon carriage rules as traditional broadcasters, YouTube reports that Canadian videos are being sought-out and viewed at a rate roughly on par with…
Saturday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your weekend reading. – Trish Hennessy points out that Rob Ford’s contemptuous attack on the idea of secure employment may offer an ideal contrast between the right-wing…
The skinny on the modeling world
I found this column online yesterday, which intrigued me. Back in the day – and I mean back, way back – more than two decades ago, I spent some time…