4743…It Is The End Of The World As We Know It
Joey Stalin, Nicky Lenin and Gus Hall must be spinning in their tombs. NPR’s Planet Money reports that “The German bank Sparkasse Chemnitz recently launched a Karl Marx credit card.”…
June 2012
4742…Celebrity Stalking In Ottawa Saturday Morn
Former Ottawa CBC TV personality The World Famous Dan Shields will be appearing in front of the Metro on Bank Street Saturday from 10 til he gets bored collecting food…
Generation Gaps
I recently took a course with nurses of varied years of experience and ages, but it was primarily made up of fairly new graduate nurses within the last year or…
Calgary Herald’s Licia Corbella’s Courageous Position on the "Dismemberment Video" Teacher
It takes courage to go against the grain. When a conservative columnist feels the need to voice her unique insights regarding the Montreal teacher that showed the Luka Magnotta dismemberment…
Review: Demography and Democracy
Himani Bannerji’s latest collection, Demography and Democracy: Essays on Nationalism, Gender and Ideology, builds a rich picture of the themes listed in the subtitle by passing through a broad range…
This Is Generation Waking Up
Generation Waking Up is a global campaign to ignite a generation of young people to bring forth a thriving, just, sustainable world. This video is part of the Generation Waking…
Canadian media homogamy, consolidation, as outlined by a Parlimentary report
In case you haven’t read the Parliamentary “Report on the Canadian News Media”, you can here. What I will be doing is outlining and detailing key complaints that this study…
Musical interlude
Kirsty Hawkshaw – Reasons to Forgive (The Blizzard Remix)
Friday Evening Links
This and that to end your week. – Jeffrey Simpson discusses how the Cons have diminished Canada’s place on the world stage: For those who care about Canada’s international reputation…
Government by judges
Judges are amiable people. They make good golf partners and interesting dinner guests. As a group they are well educated, intelligent and polite. But they are not legislators and are…
Community Garden Continues
Lovely early summer/late spring weather this week, which makes being outside a real delight. Among the places I’ve walked recently is the little community garden near the railroad tracks in…
BC Court Strikes Down Ban on Assisted Suicide
It’s about time. A British Columbia Supreme Court judge has upheld a terminally ill woman’s right to physician-assisted suicide. Justice Lynn Smith held the ban to be discriminatory and unconstitutional.…
Will Bill C-38 offload fisheries to the provinces?
Friday, June 15, 2012 Bill C-38, the Budget Implementation Bill, with its various amendments to Canada’s environmental laws, is a complicated statute, with many long-term implications that have not been…
Friday night
To quote the Wikipedia bio, Little Walter “fundamentally altered many listeners’ expectations of what was possible on blues harmonica” and it would be hard to overstate his influence. This is…
Complete Game Changer for the Liberal Party: ‘Supporter’ votes for Leadership.
I am betting that very few people indeed have given much thought to the Liberal Party’s new ‘supporter’ category of membership. I guess I can see why. Most Liberals thrive…
Why did Scott Walker win?
There has been a lot of commentary about the Wisconsin election in which recalled governor Scott Walker won his seat back. Scott Walker made headlines just over a year ago…
Follow Friday – For My Father – #FF
So, another, far more talented Paul wrote about his father today and it is as heartfelt as it is thorough. Paul Wells has always been a writer I admire and…
Yikes!
Walcott!! Leave it to a Gunner to come through!! What a strike!! (3) Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
Terror is in the Eye of the Beholder: Alberta’s Counterterrorism Unit to Protect Oil and Gas Industry
Picture 2.png In January, during the week before Canada’s federal hearing on the Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline, the Harper government and Ethical Oil Institute launched an unprecedented attack on environmental…
Straight as a pair of fangs
Gay fans of True Blood (and there are thousands) are usually disheartened to learn that series star Nelsan Ellis is straight as a pair of fangs in real life. The…