Blue meanies
They’re nothing but a bunch of blue meanies.The Harper Conservatives are bound and determined to make Walmart greeters, drugstore cashiers, and cleaning ladies work for an extra two years. Now…
February 2012
Late night
It’s not all electronic around here. Amazing version. (h/t)
More Light Shed On Origin And Veracity Of Heartland Documents
Dr. Peter Gleick is the co-founder and president of the Pacific Institute in Oakland, California. His bio states that he is a hydroclimatologist by training, with a B.S. from Yale…
Thank you, Lorne Calvert
Thanks for the Family Day holiday — we really enjoyed it.
The Silo Strategy – Part Two
On January 31, in “The Silo Strategy: Part One,” I wrote about the exclusion of the for-profit laboratories from Ontario’s regional health authorities, the LHINs, and the negative effects of…
Vic Toews and the Wikipedia Mystery
About a week ago I wrote a post in which I casually mentioned that Vic Toews was born in Filadelfia, a Mennonite colony in the Paraguayan jungle. I got the…
Cotidie damnatur qui semper timet
One who is constantly in fear is every day condemned: Publius Syrus
Requiem For A Heavyweight…
LouisvilleKentucky’sSecondFavouriteSon WasBothDecadentAndDepravedVille Hunter S. Thompson has now, officially, been dead for seven years. And, despite this fact, I do not think I made myself clear in my last post. Because….…
Cinema re-opens in divided East Jerusalem – After 25 years, a welcome revival of Palestinian arts & culture
After 25 years in shuttered silence, the Al Quds cinema has reopened its doors in East Jerusalem. And it’s opening schedule was no blockbuster wasteland. Under the banner of “Freedom…
Full day kindergarten or… pointless tax breaks for profitable corporations
Economist Erin Weir digs up an interesting nugget about the results of the McGuinty government’s changes to corporate tax structure in the Drummond Report. The government claimed that adding HST…
Radio Topics, February 20th
Happy Tuesday, Family Day edition. Adam is back for the week, so tune in for some fine banter, puns, and discussion on some of the following: It’s all Drummond, all…
Evo, the ladykiller?
It may be carnival time (and thus, the silly season) in Bolivia, but apparently some don’t find anything funny about it…or at least, not the way the president comported himself…
Molly’sBlog 2012-02-20 20:26:00
CANADIAN ANARCHIST MOVEMENT: DEADLINE FOR MONTRÉAL ANARCHIST BOOKFAIR EXTENDED: It’s coming up, the largest event of its kind in North America, the Montréal Anarchist Bookfair. As per what follows the…
Air cat
Filed under: art, digital, drawing, iPad Tagged: 100 cats, Cat, zen brush
US Christian tv shows fail in the help phone department
Televangelists in the US who encourage people to call in, aren’t doing a very good job of answering a salvation question, let alone even staffing their phone lines. A US…
Bill C-30 – What is it actually?
Let me make this clear from the outset: I do not support Bill C-30, officially entitled the “Investigating and Preventing Criminal Electronic Communications Act,” because I feel it is a…
La semaine de la mode a Ottawa : le « blackface » sur scène
La semaine de mode Ottawa est un événement annuel qui prend de plus en plus d’envergure dans la région d’Ottawa-Gatineau, en créant une occasion unique de promouvoir le talent canadien…
Will the BC government agree to mediation to resolve teacher bargaining?
Today the BCTF made a request for the Labour Relations Board to appoint a mediator to help resolve teacher bargaining. Not only the LRB, but also the Minister can call…
Henrique Capriles Radonski: Neither victim nor victor
Remember this picture? The lamestream media up here don’t want you to. According to them, this silly poser, who pretended to be a Communist while in China for the Beijing…