Molly’sBlog 2012-02-11 18:26:00
AMERICAN LABOUR CALIFORNIA: HAVE A HEART: SUPPORT THE UFW IN CALLING FOR A BAN ON METHYL IODIDE; This Valentine’s Day give a gift to farm workers and rural residents in…
February 2012
Campaign visuals from Toronto-Danforth
Thanks to some individuals who are out and about in Toronto Danforth today, we can see the early campaign literature that is being dropped. Take a look at the outside…
Wankers of the Week: Happy Stupid People’s Day!
Crappy weekend, everyone! Are we all looking forward to the discount chocolate sale on the 15th yet? I know I am. I need something to take my mind off all…
Some cuteness and some happy news
I found all these on Pinterest.com. I hope they’re not too cute! In other news, blog reader Dawn contacted the NCC about my Skateway Robbery post, and the young man…
BC Ferries Air
AllTheUnscheduledMaintenanceThatFits Where’sDaveyVille Remember that old slogan from BC Ferries that went something like this: “Follow The Birds To Vancouver Island.” Well, now you can fly with them. Literally. The birds,…
Maine Votes and I have No IDEA!
Today Maine votes for which candidate they want to run against Obama. Now I would try and guess where these states would Go, but There aren’t any recent polls. The…
Debating torture
Andrew Coyne weighs in on the torture debate—I rub my eyes using the phrase “torture debate” in Canada in 2012, but we seem to have one—and criminologist Craig Forcese takes…
Paint it or rape it: would the Group of Seven condone the tar sands?
Lawren Harris, Lake Superior Sketch XLV (collection: A.K. Prakash) Rather like waiting for a London bus, you wait some time for a decent exhibition of landscape art and then two…
China gets our oil. We get pandas.
Adorable! Ethical Pandas. Slick Stevie Harper in China. “Cute, cuddly results”. Hurry, where’s that kitten? Put it down. We got pandas now. Photos up!
Ontario’s Not Digging Deep Enough
PricewaterhouseCoopers’ biennial guide to Canadian mining taxation, Digging Deeper, features a comparative summary of royalties, mining taxes and corporate taxes for a hypothetical gold mine. This approach differs from the…
How to Make a Myocardial Infarction Funny
A very droll short video featuring Elizabeth Banks having a heart attack. Part of the American Heart Association’s Go Red for Women campaign. Not too edgy, but undoubtedly some will…
Stephen Harper and the triumph of ideology over reason
Why did he do it? Why did Stephen Harper suggest we had a public pension funding problem when we don’t? And why did he proclaim his concern at an international…
“Real” Citizenship Canada bureaucratic oath
Last October Canada’s Immigration Minister Jason Kenney’s office organized a bogus citizenship ceremony broadcast on Sun Media, popularly known and Fox New North. The ceremony featured six federal bureaucrats posing…
Website Feedback Requested for The Argosy, Mount Allison’s Student Newspaper
Hi everybody, In case not all of you know, I’m the Online Editor at The Argosy, Mount Allison University’s Student Newspaper (now since 1872). I went to the Canadian University…
More thoughts from "New World New Mind" – Robert Ornstein and Paul Ehrlich, 1989
This piece starts back when humans were still hunter-gatherers, >15,000 years ago. __________________________________________________________ “. . . everybody could keep track of all, or almost all, of the relationships among the…
More thoughts from "New World New Mind" – Robert Ornstein and Paul Ehrlich, 1989
This piece starts back when humans were still hunter-gatherers, >15,000 years ago. __________________________________________________________ “. . . everybody could keep track of all, or almost all, of the relationships among the…
Mining Industry Caught On Tape Plotting To Corrupt Media
* This week Australian mining billionaire Gina Rinehart became the largest shareholder in Fairfax Media, having already bought a stake in Channel Ten. But this new video reveals this move…
Best Line on a Resume: Member of Jim Flaherty’s Riding Association
The Globe & Mail reports that the Oshawa Port Authority is going to be set up by the boss of finance minister Jim Flaherty’s Oshawa-Whitby riding association, Gary Valcour. This…
On being more than a student at Mount Allison University
Some of the most important things I’ve done at University besides schoolwork. Completing graduate school application was the first real confirmation of what I had heard from a few people…