Another reason politicians so detested
Recipients of Kenney missive wondering how government knows their sexual orientation BY GLEN MCGREGOR, THE OTTAWA CITIZEN SEPTEMBER 24, 2012 “OTTAWA — An email extolling the Conservative government’s record on…
September 2012
Harper selling out to UK?
It’s not necessarily a bad thing to be able to share consular services. Canada and Australia have had such a sharing agreement for over 25 years — Australia handles Canadian…
CBC News: Yukon phone outage blamed on aging infrastructure
Bell has made it clear that should their takeover of Astral Media go through, they would use ‘tangible benefits’ (an owed tax on the $3.4B purchase) to fund the expansion…
A pattern to Jason Kenney’s online petition data mining
This story today rang a bell for me: “Jason Kenney’s office mined online petition to target message to gay Canadians.” Kenney’s office has done this before. About two years ago,…
The Summer of Muslim Discontent
The so-called “Arab Spring:” is a distant and bitter memory to those who fought and struggled for a better world, not to speak of the thousands who lost, life and…
200 Reasons to Say No to the F-35
There were at least 200-instances since 1988 when CF-18 pilots had to shut one engine down and return to base on the remaining engine. Put another way, the Canadian Air…
What is white and goes RRRRG! RRRRG!?
A polar bear walking backwards.
Poetry, Questions and People
A writer and thinker of substance should leave more questions than answers. This is the case with Robert Bringhurst, the author of The Tree of Meaning: Language, Mind and Ecology…
Karaoke Nationalism
Lips Karaoke Calgary, on 10th St SW made the news by putting up a sign which translates as: "Diaoyu Island belongs to China. Japanese are not welcome." I've been there…
Karaoke Nationalism
Lips Karaoke Calgary, on 10th St SW made the news by putting up a sign which translates as: “Diaoyu Island belongs to China. Japanese are not welcome.” I’ve been there…
Karaoke Nationalism
Lips Karaoke Calgary, on 10th St SW made the news by putting up a sign which translates as: "Diaoyu Island belongs to China. Japanese are not welcome." I've been there…
5191…Mitt Romney Is A Job Creator
In China. He da man.WFDS
MLM Mayhem Reviews Zak Cope’s Divided World Divided Class
My comrade Josh recently wrote a review of Zak Cope’s Divided World Divided Class on his excellent MLM Mayhem blog. You can read it here, but i am also reposting…
The Revolutionary Anti-Imperialist Movement Interviews Dr Zak Cope
The following interview appeared recently on anti-imperialism.com, the blog of the Revolutionary Anti-Imperialist Movement (RAIM), with Zak Cope, about his book recently published by Kersplebedeb, Divided World Divided Class: Global…
Is Shouldice Hospital sale actually a real estate deal?
The owners of the Shouldice Hosptial may sell the eight hectares of land that the hospital sits upon. Centric, the prospective buyers of Shouldice Hospital, say they will likely move…
U.S. casually expands it’s secret war in Africa
In an interview with Richard Stallman about the new digital age of media on the Keiser Report. Stallman argues that (and I am paraphrasing here) when a new technology is…
Rant On
Rant on, while you still can. The right to rant is not won through timidity and withdrawing from struggles. There will always be something that you disagree with, it’s just…
Muscat eyeing Gozo
Muscat eyeing Gozo as PN positions Simon Busuttil to take on PL leader – maltatoday.com.mt. It’s a strange concept indeed for those of us used to the (near) sanctity of…
Conservative Government Abandons Market Principles on Climate Change File
Years ago now, the big argument in the climate change community was about how to lower emissions. The left favoured regulation. But, in order to draw in right-wingers who insisted…
Link shifting and connections
I will try to make this the last product post here. But I will spam this post with a few links 🙂 The pages for the eboosk are still hosted…