Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your Monday reading. – Alison draws the links between Robocon and an American firm proud of its efforts in some of the Republicans’ most odious causes, while…
March 2012
My Friend Mary.
BC’sVeryBest CitizenJournalistVille I first first noticed this lady who called herself ‘BC Mary’ on the comment threads at ‘The Tyee’. For all kinds of reasons. And not just because we…
Toronto’s Voter Suppression Protest
If you live in southern Ontario, you know that yesterday was a gift, with sunny skies and temperatures reaching about 15 degrees Celsius, surpassing normal highs by about 11 degrees.…
A win for Reproductive Justice on PEI!
PEI Reproductive Justice Activist wins Active-8 Campaign! Here are some articles that ran recently, about Kandace Hagen’s co-win and about some ugliness that threatened to undermine the spirit of the…
Harper’s dream of a Republican Canada
I was checking out the site stats for LFR last night and discovered a sizeable number of referrals from Craigslist Vancouver and Craigslist Toronto over the past few days to…
Where Did Pierre Poutine Get The Script?
“He didn’t come up with the same script in 30 ridings.” Exactly. In both official languages. That suggests organisation. On the other hand, I didn’t know Andy Prescott was this…
French parrot needs translator
As you might recall, my double-yellow-headed Amazon parrot, Kazoo, came to me at the age of 13 from a Francophone family. Although she has a fairly limited vocabulary, she’s a…
Canadians and Canadian movies
Last week was an important one for the Canadian movie industry. The 32nd Annual Genie Awards, honoring Canada's greatest, was held Thursday. As expected by many, Québécois movies did rather…
Canadians and Canadian movies
Last week was an important one for the Canadian movie industry. The 32nd Annual Genie Awards, honoring Canada’s greatest, was held Thursday. As expected by many, Québécois movies did rather…
Canadians and Canadian movies
Last week was an important one for the Canadian movie industry. The 32nd Annual Genie Awards, honoring Canada's greatest, was held Thursday. As expected by many, Québécois movies did rather…
Dundernomics 101: Public Sector Employment Numbers #nlpoli
In an interview with CBC’s David Cochrane, Premier Kathy Dunderdale said that the public service has grown by more than 2,100 jobs in the past eight years and that total…
Canadians and Canadian movies
Last week was an important one for the Canadian movie industry. The 32nd Annual Genie Awards, honoring Canada’s greatest, was held Thursday. As expected by many, Québécois movies did rather…
Admitting to lesser sins
The Liberals in Guelph admit they were behind the robo-call that called the Conservative candidate out as being anti-choice, and say that yes, they should have properly identified it as…
Will any of this stuff ever stick to Alberta’s Teflon-coated premier?
Finance Minister Ron Liepert, centre, lets a couple of oil drilling contractors know what he thinks of their political judgment. Alberta politicians may not be exactly as illustrated and may…
RoboCon: Where’s Waldo? Who’s Poutine?
Canada’s short-lived version of Where’s Waldo, is now closing one chapter in the morning, to open a new phase of the search. Will Pierre Poutine finger their co-conspirators, and spill…
Image of the day…
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Poem of the day
image source An Almost Made Up Poem I see you drinking at a fountain with tiny blue hands, no, your hands are not tiny they are small, and the fountain…
more on alberta mla extra pay and the privileges & elections committee.
Alberta MLA's at a meeting of the Privileges and Elections Committee. More information has been relvealed about controversial $1,000 monthly payments made to Alberta MLA’s for being members of a…
they’re all civilians. they’ve always been civilians.
A U.S. soldier is accused of slaughtering 16 Afghan people. Civilians, we are told. As if all the Afghans and all the Iraqis slaughtered by US bombs, raids, drones, guns,…