July 2012
Putting Us In a Box
Michael Behiels writes that if Canadians expected to see any federal-provincial conferences during the Harper regime, they should give up on the idea — for two reasons: First, Stephen Harper…
Ya wanna know what stupid is? #nlpoli #cdnpoli
According to information supplied to the news media – and widely reported already – the helicopter from 444 Squadron used for a training flight than ended with a bit of…
A Victory To Celebrate
I have expressed more than once in this blog my opinion that the Harper regime aims to make Canadians feel powerless and disenfranchised, thereby facilitating the government’s efforts to remake…
Blog Hacked
So Sketchy Thoughts was hacked, not sure how, and while all of the blog posts are safe the template was redirecting people to kunoichi.info, probably so that whoever is trying…
rtod: a town without poverty. it happened in canada.
Revolutionary thought of the day: Initially, the Mincome program was conceived as a labour market experiment. The government wanted to know what would happen if everybody in town received a…
In Sunday’s Sun: don’t tear down that wall
The church should not dictate to the state. And the state has no business — none — dictating to the church. If you disagree with that, or if you still…
Saturday At The Movies
This clip is from the 1987 Japanese film Hachiko monogatari (a.k.a. Hachi-ko), which tells the true story of an Akita’s devotion to his master. Hachiko was born in Odate, Japan…
Dazed and Confused: Swinimer version #nlpoli
You know things are bad when even the people who back Muskrat Falls without question start challenging stuff that has long ago been proven correct. The heir to the Moon…
Defection from Harper Office to Air Canada is Latest Evidence of Revolving Door at Top of Government
The media is understandably perturbed that Stephen Harper’s deputy chief of staff, Derek Vanstone, has been hired as a new executive and lobbyist by Air Canada. Vanstone and Air Canada…
Crispy Clark Turns Bitumen Basher – Too Little, Too Late
BC’s unelected and unelectable premier, Christie Clark, is throwing “free enterprise” caution to the wind in a desperate bid to reverse her political fortunes. After dummying-up for months about the…
Charisma Magazine caught posting altered article
What happened at Charisma Magazine? Why would an article by a guest author written in 2004 re-appear front and centre on the Charisma website, with changes, leading the reader to…
PostModern PostMedia
Somehow Stephen Maher has a job at PostMedia. It’s amazing, there is still some honest journalism going on at the husk of former Black-owned newspapers, in 2012 no less. Instead…
Global CO2 emissions rise 3 percent in 2011: report
Climate change is upon us folks and it’s only going to get worse. Yes, events like the current U.S. drought, which is being called one of the worst in recent…
Musical interlude
Serge Devant feat. Hadley – Peace
Global Warming’s Terrifying New Math
Bill Mckibben has just written a must read article in Rolling stone, ignore the initial error which I also made here on P3, and go read it now. Here are…
Responding to "Why Men Have Trouble With Intimacy"
As proposed in an earlier post and enacted once so far in a more recent one, as I complete school I’ve taken on doing weekly-ish, timed, one-hour written responses to…
Omar Khadr and the Invisible Kid
I love this UNICEF message. It's one of the best messages against bullying and violence against children I have ever seen. But for some reason it also makes me think…
U.S. Drought to Last All Summer
The U.S. National Drought Mitigation Center, in conjunction with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, is predicting that the devastating drought now sweeping most of the American bread basket will…