Four words…
… for you if you want your child removed from the public school classroom if something is being taught that somehow offends your sensibilities: “Home schooling” and “private schools”. Ontario…
September 2012
Cowichan Voters Deserves A By-Election And Democratically Elected Trustees
Call a By-Election now, or refund my School Taxes! The shutdown of elected representation on the School Board has gone on long enough and it is time that Premier Christy…
Lougheed’s Legacy
{A version of this posting appeared as a letter to the Editor in the Edmonton Journal on September 18, 2012 }Last year I had the good fortune of meeting Peter…
There is no BC Liberal Party..
…there is apparently just a party pretending to be Conservative-lite using that particular name. Faced with continuing dreadful poll numbers, BC Premier Christy Clark has decided to postpone the Fall…
GOP worried and they want Romney to wake-up
“Republican lawmakers are grumbling about the direction of Mitt Romney’s campaign and say he needs to change course. The complaints come as polls show that Romney lost ground on President…
Jay Pharoah is new Obama impersonator on SNL
He did impersonation of Obama in the past. Not bad!
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – If there’s anything missing from Mark Weidbrot’s musings about the possibility of a U.S. debt downgrade, it’s that the only significant threat…
Sept. 16: Stray thought on a Sunday…
Inevitably, if you argue current events, somebody is bound to say “All you do is talk about problems. You don’t have any solutions.”Quite true. You see, before you can present…
Inconvenient Truths for the Corporate Sector
Given that recent reports have helped to puncture the myth of job-creation benefits arising from corporate tax cuts and corporate welfare, I was pleased to read Martin Regg Cohn’s article…
Senor The Savant?
Maureen Dowd writes, in today’s New York Times, that the man behind Republican rhetoric these days is Dan Senor, a kid who grew up in Toronto and graduated from the…
5160…Homeless Dude Dies Owing 33,000 In TDot
It is in this morning’s Toronto Star online. The fellow’s name is Larry Quinn and he just up and died at the age of 66 on the street in downtown…
You Daily Banerjee: The Hindu Community Strikes Back!
It has been explained to me that Canada’s Hindu community is, on the whole, quiet and unassertive. Thus, while often horrified by the actions of Ron Banerjee and his group…
Harper, champion of Democracy….. NOT!
With great fanfare, an international organization has announced it is honouring Stephen Harper as its World Statesman of the Year for his work as a “champion of democracy, freedom and…
manitoba to defy jason kenney, cover refugee health care
The Province of Manitoba has announced that it will cover health care for refugee claimants, in defiance of Jason Kenney’s vindictive cuts to help at the federal level. (I haven’t…
Take Time To Renew Your Spirit
The kind of hope I often think about …is, I believe, a state of mind, not a state of the world. Either we have hope within us or we don’t.…
Tax cuts and economic growth
A new study in the U.S. is the latest to say that tax cuts do not positively relate to economic growth. David Leonhardt of the New York Times excerpts its…
5159…It Is Not A Strike
It is a lockout. The owners of the 30 NHL teams have locked their players out yet again. Second time this decade. Started seven minutes ago. Stronzos they are, stronzos.…
5158…Looking For Something To Hate
First it was the stupid Baby On Board signs. WTF am I supposed to do? Turn around and go home coz you have your spawn in your car. Or, better…
In Sunday’s Sun: Spaceman vs. Space Cadet
The spaceman vs. the space cadet. That’s (sort of) what Sun Media’s Mike Strobel famously called the looming Liberal leadership contest between Marc Garneau and Justin Trudeau. There’ll be other…