Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Decked-out cats.
July 2012
We get letters: this week’s winner!
From Tim Juhlke, timothyjuhlke2@hotmail.com, an instant classic! So anyone who actually wants to defend this nation is a nose breather you pathetic left wing bitch. Diversity is a weakness you…
Tuesday Evening Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – George Monbiot discusses the effect of inegalitarian and austerian policies imposed by the UK Conservatives: (T)he neoliberal programme has closed down political…
Bill Nye teaches you how to tie a bowtie
Bill Nye check list: Whimsy ✓ Bowtie ✓ Seemingly infinite knowledge of the universe ✓ Someone needs to check if Bill Nye has 2 hearts. Filed under: Things That Are…
Kenney’s bogus stats on refugee health care
Jason Kenney has come out with some stats on refugee claimants from ‘safe’ countries and the cost of their using Canadian health care. They will likely come off as sounding…
Enbridge foes: Schedule your statement so you don’t get Calgaried
Wednesday, August 1, 2012 All right, maybe Calgary is not a verb. But if you’re among the 4000+ Canadians who have registered to make an oral presentation to the National…
So Long, Bev Oda! Please Stay Away From The Canadian Senate
Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s minister of international co-operation, Bev Oda, officially retires today. A sigh of relief! What a financial burden to the Canadian taxpayer the Conservative MP for the…
Christy Clark Clobbers Adrian Dix In Latest Poll!
Georgia Straight Editor Charlie Smith comments on the surprising results . Ahem!
Why won’t McGuinty stop health care (and card) fraud?
Last week, I was shocked to hear on the news, as were a lot of people in Ontario, that there are still 3.5 million of the old red strip, no…
Die News Corp Die!
The Daily, News Corp.’s attempt to create a digital newspaper for the iPad age, is laying off nearly a third of its staff. The publisher plans to tell its workers…
The NDP’s Dangerous National Unity Game: The Triumph of Talking Points Over Truth
What’s going on with Canada’s New Democratic Party lately? It seems to me that the NDP has decided to imitate Stephen Harper’s Conservative Party, at least when it comes to…
They Bought Manhattan. They Bought Louisiana. They Bought Alasaka. Just a Thought.
What would the Americans give Canada for Alberta? Let’s say everything east of the Rockies to the Saskatchewan border and everything from the north end of the Athabasca tar fields…
Ottawa SFH show on Saturday
It’s going to be a schmozzle. A circus. A travesty. In other words, the usual.
Conservative hearts are two sizes too small
This is one of the ads made by the Toronto agency BBDO in 2007 on behalf of the UN Refugee Agency, with the goal of raising Canadian support for refugees.Unfortunately,…
Enbridge Flip-Flops, LNG Pipeline, New Salmon Farm in Clayoquot Perplexing
I’m perplexed at the provincial government’s apparent imminent approval of a new fish farm in Clayoquot Sound. Has no one in that catastrophic government in Victoria read the recent and…
Stephen Haper’s New Hit
Stephen Harper likes to sing. This is his new hit. Every Canadian household must have it in their collection.
The Caregivers’ Worst Fear
Every caregiver has a worst fear – a nightmare scenario that unfolds like an unwanted, sinister guest in the imagination. It might be triggered by the sound of an unusual…
Vancouver is teeing off over city-owned golf greens
Developers, and the city itself, would like to see affordable housing, rather than affordable golf, on the publicly owned land by Emma Teitel Maclean’s Magazine , Tuesday, July 10, 2012…
Slate.com: The TPP is The Most Important Trade Agreement That We Know Nothing About
What is the TPP hiding? It’s long been referred to as a “trade agreement” between the countries that are negotiating, but in reality it addresses more than twenty chapters of…
The Scourge of Online Anonymity
I have spent the better part of my life, it seems, writing letters to the editor and occasionally newspaper articles. Never once, during all those years did I ever think…