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Facebook Facebook Inc. shares fell more than 10 per cent in premarket trading on Friday after the company’s lack of a financial forecast reinforced concerns about its mobile strategy. The…
July 2012
Montreal’s English-speaking sports fans rally for their radio team by Steve Ladurantaye
Bell Media’s recent $3-billion takeover Astral Media has put it over the cap of two FM and two AM stations in any language in a market.
Glorifying War
Yves Engler writes this morning that the Conservative government is preparing to go to war: By setting up overseas bases and increasing the military’s size, the Conservatives are preparing for…
Toronto District School Board Blinks
As I suspected, after yesterday’s Star story about the Toronto District School Board’s outrageous demand for $3.6 million to release work order information related to the costs incurred in their…
Let the Games begin!!!!
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A day at the pool?
Fairbank Pool?
Save our Farms! Follow Farmer Friday!
A Farmer in a parched field… So, in case you haven’t noticed, both from my previous Movie Monday post and any time spent out side for most of July, it’s…
Saturday At The Movies
Happy people dancing on Planet Earth, from Matt Harding’s “Where The Hell is Matt?” YouTube video series. Touching and fun. Humans the world over have more in common than we…
Upset with Obama? Could be worse – you could get Romney.
A fair number of progressive political activists in the US and some in Canada are disappointed that Obama has not been as progressive or transformational as they like, and has…
Ask General Kang: Apparently, only one in four people read a book last year — how can we improve that figure?
I’d start by disabling the publishing industry in some way — perhaps an elite cadre of pulp-loving squirrels armed with plasma-shredders and capable of firing book worms out of their…
Olympic inspiration
This is not political in content, just a bit of inspiration as the Olympics gets underway. From a piece on Clara Hughes and her preparations for these games, this blog…
Demand Forecasts #nlpoli
Yesterday’s offhand reference to Nalcor’s electricity demand forecasts brought home a couple of points to your humble e-scribbler. The biggest one is that a great many people still do not…
Invisible Real Autistics Suffer While Self Promoters Peddle False View of Autism Disorder As An Alternative, Superior Way of Thinking
Some self promoting, self proclaimed “geeks” are pushing a distorted view of autism disorders as being the domain of different, even superior, thinkers. Historical geniuses long dead are often cited…
Race-Baiting, National Post Style
The National Post has an interesting article arguing that over the past couple of years CSIS has been monitoring relationships between the First Nations and the government of China. The…
Some Alberta seniors will soon be eating better meals – they can thank the union for them
AUPE’s powerful viral video on the unappetizing 21-day menu. Below: Former Alberta Health Services CEO Stephen Duckett, Alberta Health Minister Fred Horne. One of the least successful experiments of the…
Stephen Harper and the Rotting Regime
Sometimes it's the little stories that tell you so much about the way Stephen Harper's Con regime is slowly rotting from the head down. Like the story of how our…
Beaverton Grace Bible Church loses court case against blogger
A minister who sought 500 thousand dollars in damages for defamation against a former church member who blogged about her experience with his church, will be paying the former members…
Everyone Needs Their Heart – Vancouver’s Fugitives sing against Bill C-31
Adrian Glynn and Brendan McLeod aren’t known for writing music with a political slant. When he’s not writing gorgeous western-tinged melodic songs, Adrian joins Brendan in the Vancouver band, The…