Industrialized Poverty
The House(s) That Brian Built If there was any people NAFTA was supposed to help, surely it was the Mexicans. It was supposed to be their admission ticket to industrialization…
June 2012
Australia Creates Largest Network of Marine Parks
Australia has taken a step in the right direction when it comes to protecting their natural environment. The country has announced that they’ll be creating the largest network of protected…
Crispy Kids
Years ago a friend asked me to drive them to the tanning salon. I was less than thrilled by this plan, but carried it out with much grumbling. It’s not…
Greetings from Winlaw, B.C.
Can anyone please tell me what the H, E, double hockey sticks is going on at Queen’s Park? Are Hudak and Horwath going to get their wish for an election,…
Taking Stock on the Rain Coast
It’s grey and wet outdoors. It’s been grey and wet since, what, October? Just kidding, we’ve had a few nice days. Everybody’s sure of it even though nobody can agree…
A Note about Alan Sullivan
Nearly two years ago, the poet and blogger Alan Sullivan died. His final project, a new translation of the Book of Psalms, has been published. The translation can be ordered…
Incomes Flat in “Recovery Year” of 2010
Today’s Statscan release of income data for 2010 allow for a backward glance at the state of the recovery. What is most striking is that – following two years of…
Green cat
Filed under: art, digital, drawing Tagged: 100 cats
Root sculptures celebrate local activists – Pierre Leichner’s Grassroots Project
Pierre Leichner uses grass to make sculptures — for The Grassroots Project, in the shape of faces of community workers and activists from Vancouver’s East Side. The living sculptures, pictured…
Re: PN CRTC 2012-0509-7 CBC Analog Transmitters
FRIENDS says the CRTC should defer a decision on a CBC proposal to cut off free over-the-air TV service to large numbers of Canadians until the Corporation’s network licences are…
140Law – Legal Headlines for Monday, June 18, 2012
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter on this humid day in Toronto! John McCain Calls US Supreme Court ‘Uniformed, Arrogant, Naive’ for Citizens United Bill…
Separate schools: the subject that won’t go away…
… damn right it won’t! There was a good piece on Saturday by Kate Heartfield (one of the better writers at the Shitizen) about the inefficiencies of the publicly-funded separate…
Geist: Secret U.S. industry lobby revealed to be pushing for Internet lockdown laws in Canada
We were successful in stopping the push for website blocking and Internet termination powers, but now it’s clear why the government refuses to listen to Canadians in regards to restrictive…
Polar bear in the distance on land
Notice how the water is almost free of ice?
The Rumpelstiltskin Effect
“Rumpelstiltskin,” 1957 Once upon a time in a distant land, a miller boasted to his king that his daughter could spin straw into gold. Intrigued, the king locked her up…
Will Joe Volpe follow in Borys Wrzesnewskyj’s footsteps in Eglington-Lawrence?
Former Etobocoke-Centre Liberal MP Borys Wrzesnewskyj has won headlines for his legal challenge to force a by-election due to election irregularities, and it appears another former Liberal MP, Joe Volpe,…
The Bike Stops Here – The Politics of Cycling – Movie Monday
So, I’ve started riding my bike to work a couple of times a week again and as usual it’s a pretty awesome way to get around. Not only do I…
More background on the Twitter and ATIPPA #nlpoli
One Twitter exchange on Monday morning raised the possibility that Tory MHA Paul Lane was referring to something that happened during the debate last week on changes to the access…
Judge to rule on whether obesity is factor in man’s fitness for fatherhood
It is difficult to think of a much more offensive consideration than this – well, maybe asking if a father’s religion makes him unfit would count. How about saying, listen…