4276…Robocalls To 27 Ridings
That is the number. 27. It was in the Sunday Toronto Star today. One of the ridings was Etobicoke Centre where Borys Wrzesnewskyj, a sitting Liberal, lost by a mere…
February 2012
WikiLeaks: Stratfor Just Heating Up #gifiles Israel and Iran
Besides monitoring the Yes Men, Amnesty International, and a swath of international media and activist organizations, Stratfor fancied itself as a superior intelligence agency, better than the FBI anyway. Here’s…
The Feminization of Pinterest
Pinterest, I’ve discovered, is something you learn by doing. And by “doing”, I mean getting sucked in to the site, like Alice going down the rabbit hole, picture-by-picture, pin-by-pin, only…
The Bright Side of the RoboCon Scandal
As the RoboCon scandal grows bigger and bigger. And our country begins to look more and more like a fascist state run by criminals. Even BEFORE they start reading our…
Music for a Sunday: Let’s exchange the experience
Tell me we both matter…don’t we?
A Plan to Strengthen What???!!
Today I was surfing the internet when an advertisement caught my eye. It was an ad for a contest put on by the Manning Center for Building Democracy. (http://manningcentre.ca/conference/?page_id=379) The…
Beatles or the Stones?
Not far from the truth.
The Reagan Legacy, The GOP and Harper. . . .
I very seldom comment on politics in the US. I grew up there and left in 1990 because I just saw no future in the country. It is a dying…
I Googled some guy’s name from the paper, and I shed more light than the newspapers themselves.
Some economists say Ontario should remove the HST exemptions on food and other things! Yes, two of them say it! Jack Mintz and Michael Smart say it! They have prestigious…
Volkmar Says Many Intellectually Disabled May Be Excluded from DSM-5 Autism Spectrum Disorder Diagnosis
When I first pointed out that the DSM-5 New Autism Disorder would exclude intellectually disabled I was ignored by most, insulted and mocked by others. Some were annoyed. When Catherine…
Harper is now in a hurry
“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.” ~ Winston Churchill Harper denies Conservative link to fraudulent…
WikiLeaks: Amp Up The Hype – Stratfor Spy Emails Exposed #gifiles
Now I can hardly wait until Monday (now in the UK), with a series of promotional tweets going up today. And I don’t have to wait any longer! Stratfor emails…
Train drivers and bus drivers
So there are three train engineers dead after their train derailed in Burlington, ON today. It’ll be a year before we know the how and the why of what happened.
Impressions and Analysis from the Winnipeg NDP Leadership Debate
The following is my impressions of the candidates and discussion of various issues raised in the Winnipeg NDP Leadership Debate. Past debate coverage: Ottawa | Toronto | Halifax Brian Topp:…
Dirty Deeds…
Apparently not done dirt cheap. In fact, as the Postmedia reporter indicates, whoever was responsible for attempting to suppress the vote for the benefit of the Conservative candidates in tightly…
Sunday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to close out your weekend. – Erica Alini points out that the effect of the Cons’ lobbying on behalf of the tar sands has been solely to make…
A much feistier debate in Winnipeg
Today’s NDP debate, brought to from Winnipeg, Manitoba, was under the rather vague theme of “connecting people and the regions.” Judging from the questions asked, it was more of a…
New Generation of Thinkers Link Inequality, Innovation and Prosperity
<em>This guest blog was written by Mike Marin and Anouk Dey. It originally appeared in the Toronto Star on February 24. The authors are part of a team that produced…
You Know The Conservatives Are In Trouble When
….they start losing some of their biggest cheerleaders. Recommend this Post
The Good, the Bad and the Meh about the WWE Elimination Chamber PPV
I finally got around to watching the Elimination Chamber PPV and here are my thoughts: The Good…The first elimination chamber match was excellent, despite Chris Jericho getting knocked out too…