Orange Blood II, the NDP Edition…
This is about the NDP Leadership Convention 2012, and why I think that democracy has failed. I became a member of the NDP for the BCNDP Leadership race. My partner…
April 2012
4458…True Dat
Dat being the quote in The Wall Street Journal from Toronto mayor Fatty Arbuckle’s brother Doug Ford. In response to best-selling author Margaret Atwood’s “…short, high-profile campaign against him last…
How Do We Define Ourselves?
Given the ongoing dust up between the great folks over at DAMMIT JANET and the administrators of Progressive Bloggers, I have been giving considerable thought as to how to define…
A Sane Response to Collective Insanity
My version of the old adage nothing is certain but death and taxes is that the only thing we know for sure is that things will change. That’s true for…
Road Trips and Canadian Identity – Movie Monday
It’s Monday, which can only mean that my good friend William Matthews and I have made you another great movie! It’s a quick one, because it’s so beautiful outside I…
What Does China Want for Christmas? Coal, More Coal.
China may claim that it ‘gets’ global warming and that it’s going green. It’s not. This chart from the Washington Post’s WonkBlog shows who’s who when it comes to coal…
Glow-In-The-Dark Dinosaur Quarter
“The Royal Canadian Mint is planning to issue a special collector’s item 25-cent coin featuring the Pachyrhinosaurus lacustai, the first dinosaur discovered in northern Alberta, a region that would become…
The Great F-35 Swindle…Perspective Is Everything.
Deficit YouKeepOnUsingThatWordVille And, as Charlie Smith makes clear, even if the the $25 billion is not a low ball (which I am convinced, based on AG Ferguson’s own words, that…
Memo to PCs: Here’s how to go negative on Danielle Smith
OK, PC party, listen up. I’ve been cheering for your demise ever since Peter Lougheed stepped down, so I really shouldn’t be giving you any advice. And please, don’t take…
Survey Says…Fracking IS Causing Earthquakes
oh-frack1.jpg A new report by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) says that the increased seismic activity taking place in certain areas of the United States is almost certainly the result…
Some Journalists Still Buying the Line that Technology Will Save Us from Oil Spills
Craig McInnes of the Vancouver Sun today has an article essentially supporting the Enbridge Pipeline and the tanker traffic down our coast. His position is that with all the science…
What Harper’s "apology" to First Nations is worth, Ch. 763
Let the pesky redskins die.
The Conservative Mind Equated With ‘Low-Effort’ Thinking’
Following up from an earlier report establishing a relationship between low intelligence and racism, prejudice and conservatism, The Huffington Post reports on a new study equating conservative politics with ‘low-effort’…
Alberta Votes Day 15: Paging Stockwell Smith
Like Stephen Harper in 2006, Danielle Smith now has 5 priorities, highlighted by an Accountability Act. However, in proposing citizen-initiated referendum, Smith evoked memories of an equally photogenic Albertan leading…
Here is an idea Paladiea
Sometimes it is better to let sleeping dogs lie, let the storm pass, so to speak, you know STFU, because your explanatory post about why the Progressive Bloggers Administrators should…
Summer 2012 Job for Mount Allison Students
Mount Allison is hiring a Communications Assistant for the summer May 23-End of August. It’s the job I’ve had for nearly a year now and it has been an incredible…
Summer 2012 Job for Mount Allison Students
Mount Allison is hiring a Communications Assistant for the summer May 23-End of August. It’s the job I’ve had for nearly a year now and it has been an incredible…
By-product of the sex offender registry
In this story, CBC reports that a Brockville man has had to “spend a lot of time and money” to clear his name because he has the same birth date…
By-product of the sex offender registry
In this story, CBC reports that a Brockville man has had to “spend a lot of time and money” to clear his name because he has the same birth date…
By-product of the sex offender registry
In this story, CBC reports that a Brockville man has had to “spend a lot of time and money” to clear his name because he has the same birth date…