Let’s Not Get Backed Into Another Cold War
Nobody wants to talk much about it but the Harper/MacKay pinwheels seem intent on signing Canada on to America’s next Cold War, this one in Asia. Already announced by Obama/Panetta,…
June 2012
Canada’s Worst Senator Patrick Brazeau Disappears From Twitter
No comment yet from Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who appointed Brazeau to the Senate in 2008. On Wednesday, I blogged about the Conservative Senator, who called Canadian Press reporter Jennifer…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your long weekend reading. – Jim Stanford highlights how anti-labour “right to work” policy is spreading from the U.S. into multiple Canadian provinces: It’s clear we’re going…
June 30: Criticizing a newspaper that has no news…
…….ca be very difficult. The purpose of the Irving press is to keep people uninfomed. That’s why it has staff writers for the op ed page who say nothing at…
Farewell, Voyager
It’s been hurtling through space since May 5th, 1977. Now, almost 35-years later, NASA’s Voyager 1, has made it through our solar system. Voyager completed its intended mission 30 years…
50th Anniversary Of Medicare – July 1, 2012
50th Anniversary of Medicare
Canada Day cocktails
Since the LCBO will be closed tomorrow in Ontario, here are five Canuck cocktails for you to enjoy. Go out and grab the intriguing ingredients before it's too late. A…
The DilBit Disaster: InsideClimate News’ Incredible In-Depth Report on Enbridge’s Kalamazoo Oil Spill
Ruptured-Enbridge-Pipeline-from-Kalamazoo-Spill-credit-NTSB.jpg By now, hopefully you've at least heard of the Kalamazoo River oil spill. read more
If It Looks Like a Duck and Quacks Like a Duck, It’s Probably Global Warming
You may have heard about the waves of wildfires sweeping across Colorado for the past several weeks that continue to rage with no end in sight. Welcome to the new…
On truth in advertising
It’s been quite some time since I did anything new with Photoshop – and lately, that’s been more out of a lack of time than a lack of readily available…
U.S Supreme Court’s decision on Healthcare legislation
Obama celebrates!!
More Political Responses From The Toronto District School Board
While the goings-on at the TDSB may seem only a matter of regional concern, in my view the implications extend well beyond any geographic boundaries, evidence as they are not…
Quote: State Dependence on Violence
The manufacture, possession, and deployment of weapons of mass destruction (chemical, biological, and nuclear) must be counted as instances of declared governmental readiness to inflict cruel death upon civilian populations…
Aspen Ideas Festival Fracking Debate Livestream – Tune in Sunday
Screen Shot 2012-06-29 at 12.12.38 PM.png This Sunday, July 1, FORA.tv is hosting a free, online debate at the Aspen Ideas Festival, "No Fracking Way: Is The Natural Gas Boom…
4818…Toronto Still A Bush League City Er Town
Rob Ford is a case in point. He is the morbidly obese mayor of Toronto, Canada’s Cincinnati. He is in trouble again. Apparently this time he was rude to a…
In tomorrow’s Sun, today: the politics of disaster
Everyone in Canada knows about the catastrophe that has been unfolding in Elliot Lake, midway between Sault Ste. Marie and Sudbury, in Ontario’s North. It has been a terrible, terrible…
After Hockney 2
Filed under: art, digital, drawing, painting Tagged: 100 cats
Mum’s the word now over ‘authorizing water pollution’.
You might remember a few days ago that I was highlighting a letter from Keith Ashfield, our Fisheries Minister, proudly proclaiming that the federal budget implementation bill ‘will offer new…
Saturday Diablogue story pile-up
In sports they call it plays of the week. For us, it’s just our way to address the pile up of issues surrounding health care this week. Labour issues are…
Wear are my sunglasses?
Cuz I need to wear them tonight!!! (11) Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario