CETA: Can Harper’s Trojan horse be stopped?
Stephen Harper’s no-longer-secret agenda to implement a revolution from the right and dismantle Canada has one major impediment that must really stick in his craw. He is constrained in what…
September 2012
5205…Incompetent Scabs Fired
Can you fire job thieves? I don’t know. One way or another the scabs aka replacement workers aka scabs are history after three weeks of the regular season and a…
Harper’s subversion of co-ops
One of the Harper government’s assaults on progress that I missed at the time, perhaps because the mass media made little of it, was its undermining of co-ops, one of…
NoHomophobes.com
Sick of homophobic twats on Twitter? The Institute for Sexual Minority Studies and Services at the University of Alberta has created a social mirror website titled NoHomophobes.com that tracks the…
5204…Sons Of Anarchy Weirdness
Le cut. Le paste. Actor Johnny Lewis found dead in Los Angeles, suspected in killing Thu Sep 27, 2012 12:05pm EDT Print This Article Text 1 of 1Full Size LOS…
Spain: Prostitution – solution to unemployment!!
Could the world’s oldest profession be the newest solution to Spain’s jobs crisis? “Immediate opportunity! Professional prostitution classes. Very profitable occupation for both sexes.” This ad, targeting the nearly 25%…
Stephen Harper’s Sins
On the day that Stephen Harper is to receive his World Statesman of the Year award from the Appeal of Conscience Foundation, presumably for his unstinting and uncritical support of…
Holy camoly
The NDP are four points ahead of the Conservatives? Wow! Sets up my Sunday Sun column, nicely, however. Free snippet: Among Liberals, there isn’t much dispute that the cabal of…
French Immersion in Peel Region – Plus ça change
The Peel District School board in Ontario has made headlines this week for an all-too-familiar Canadian problem: burgeoning enrollment in French immersion, and limited capacity to accommodate the student demand.…
French Immersion in Peel Region – Plus ça change
The Peel District School board in Ontario has made headlines this week for an all-too-familiar Canadian problem: burgeoning enrollment in French immersion, and limited capacity to accommodate the student demand.…
French Immersion in Peel Region – Plus ça change
The Peel District School board in Ontario has made headlines this week for an all-too-familiar Canadian problem: burgeoning enrollment in French immersion, and limited capacity to accommodate the student demand.…
5203…Eating Dog For Cdn Thanksgiving
The Winnipeg Sun tells all that PETA, the American animal rights group of vegetarians, is going to put up the following billboards outside of schools in Ottawa, Saskatoon and Winnipeg.…
French Immersion in Peel Region – Plus ça change
The Peel District School board in Ontario has made headlines this week for an all-too-familiar Canadian problem: burgeoning enrollment in French immersion, and limited capacity to accommodate the student demand.…
Rona Ambrose and the Wacky Woody Show
About five years ago I made this button of Rona Ambrose. So I'm glad to see that my confidence in her was fully justified.Canada’s minister for the status of women…
Yes, M 312 was voted down…
…but I do hope that constituents will remember the names of all of those MPs who voted YEA. You can find out how your MP voted here. (6) Trashy, Ottawa,…
Hands off my Uterus
Last night relief of the defeat of M-312 quickly gave way to anger. Given the rampant deregulation being implemented by this Government, it would seem that the only regulation they…
Hands off my Uterus
Last night relief of the defeat of M-312 quickly gave way to anger. Given the rampant deregulation being implemented by this Government, it would seem that the only regulation they…
Hands off my Uterus
Last night relief of the defeat of M-312 quickly gave way to anger. Given the rampant deregulation being implemented by this Government, it would seem that the only regulation they…
Hands off my Uterus
Last night relief of the defeat of M-312 quickly gave way to anger. Given the rampant deregulation being implemented by this Government, it would seem that the only regulation they…
Site Counts Homophobic Tweets
Students and researchers at the University of Alberta have created a website that counts homophobic slurs on Twitter in real time. It’s both amazingly awesome and a little depressing, but…