The Ontario Ministry of Education has long recommended that all schools offer student-run Gay Straight Alliances. GSAs intend to improve the lives of GLBT students, giving them positive role models,…
The province’s public utilities board is concerned about the impact Nalcor’s capital works programs will have on consumer rates even without taking Muskrat Falls into account or considering any increase…
Harper is back from China, and it’s all talk about possible future free trade agreements and pandas. Not that everyone is convinced by just how much success was had with…
Each Week Wise Blog reviews recent decisions from the Ontario Court of Appeal. Perron v. Perron The Respondent sought security for costs in an appeal from a judgment granting the…
WhoNeedsBlazingSaddlesWhenYou’veGot TheProducersVille Will she? Go ’round in circles, I mean. Of course she will. But that’s not the point. Because, unlike Billy Preston under the ‘Fro, once you remove the…
the regina mom participated in the Saskatchewan Council for International Co-operation (SCIC) Global Justice Poetry Slam last week. This poem got her into the second round where a false start…
“At year’s end there is a saying, “Out with the old and in with the new” “Unfortunately, this does not apply to your St. Albert Provincial Liberal Constituency Association. The…
One Town’s War on Gay Teens | Politics News | Rolling Stone: “Asked on a radio program whether the anti-gay agenda of her ilk bore any responsibility for the bullying…
There is an interesting item posted on a website of disaffected Crystal Cathedral folk. The site received information that one of Robert Schuller’s daughters, and the husband of the other…
For the exact reason that we are the only party that can manage to make ourselves sound like unfaithful lovers to voters, and we really want a second chance: I…
For reasons unnknown, Blogger will not allow me to follow my friend’s NN’s blog for more than a few hours. It insists on dropping Stacked-NYC from my reading list. Because…
(Click pic to enlarge) As I rushed to catch the ferry this afternoon, it still looked like the Canada I love. The fresh dusting of snow. The ducks sheltering from…
In celebration of African American history month, thousands of Texas schoolchildren attended a screening of the film “Red Tails,” about the famed Tuskegee Airmen, the first black aviators to serve…
In this dream I was running. The grass was the colour of deeply polished jade, and the sun had warmed the sidewalk enough that my bare feet were warm. I…
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OurProvinceIsNotAMelBrooksComedy RunByTheProducersVille Rumour has it that the script-reading earlier today, in advance of tomorrow’s really big show, was an intense affair. Two of the juiciest bits of gossip that have…
I have to learn to not read funny, ironic things in the news while sipping my coffee or anything else for that matter. It appears that (quelle surprise) the Greek…
I touched on many of the reasons I disagree with Nathan Cullen’s (pre-)electoral cooperation proposal a few days ago, which was primarily a reiteration of my previous statements on the…
What comes to mind when you mention “art” and “N. Korea” in the same sentence is propaganda – art that venerates Great Leader, glorious military victories, joyous workers and racial…
Christy Clark recently spoke to a gathering of her close supporters, including Gwyn Morgan, David McLean, Patrick Kinsella, Francesco Aquilini, Peter Wall and Tom Nellis. A spy tells me this…
