Canada Has Lost it’s Democracy
I can’t even start to translate what is going on in our supposed “democracy” except to say that I don’t see it as a democracy at all anymore. We have…
October 2012
Canada Has Lost it’s Democracy
I can't even start to translate what is going on in our supposed "democracy" except to say that I don't see it as a democracy at all anymore. We have…
Canada Has Lost it’s Democracy
I can’t even start to translate what is going on in our supposed “democracy” except to say that I don’t see it as a democracy at all anymore. We have…
Frankenstorms and climate change
“If the study to which you apply yourself has a tendency to weaken your affections, and to destroy your taste for those simple pleasures in which no alloy can possibly…
A unique visualization of Sandy
The website hint.fm/wind/ (which understandably is currently very slow) has an incredibly interesting visualization of the wind patterns over the entire continental United States. An instantly recognizable feature tonight is…
Message to my American friends. Please vote.
It is election time in the States and some of my political friends are posting on facebook text-in-box images that say that voting is legitimizing whatever government gets elected and…
Fight The Right on BT in BC this AM!
Right here! Now, off to Cap College to talk about values and words! And conservatives! And progressives! And exclamation marks!
Romney on Diaster Relief: Preferably Privatize It
I didn’t think this was for real when I first saw reference to it, but here’s the clip. According to the Huffington Post, his staff today, as Sandy raged, reaffirmed…
Medicare for Autism Now: Shelley Davis Behavioural Consultant and Attorney
From the Medicare for Autism Now web site and the film Medicare’s Orphans: A Film About the Fight to Get Healthcare for Children with Autism in Canada an interview with…
GlobalTV Mocks Hurricane Deaths
Frankenstorm Promo How would you feel about a news organization that treats a hurricane as a campy Halloween ratings booster? I’m appalled. Watch the above clip from GlobalTV last Thursday…
"The Fiendish Four" and Campaign Updates
I’m going to use the term Fiendish Four to describe the most recent event from the Sask. NDP Leadership Race, if only because it’s a nifty term with a Stan…
Green Candidate Calls Calgarians Smug and Immature: Chris Turner’s Contempt For Industry, Calgary
It’s hard to take the Green party seriously. “ emerging power and prominence come across from some angles as pure teenage bluster. I think I first heard it said about…
Not a Monty Python sketch
The editor of a Canadian faith magazine to MP John McKay, “I have just received an official “reminder” from Canada Revenue that our charitable status may be in jeopardy because…
Is British Columbia’s small tsunami a sign of a massive one to come?
Haida Gwaii earthquake 2012 Our recent earthquake was large – 7.7 on the Richter scale. The last major earthquake in the same region was in 1949. However, despite initial fears,…
Katz donation assures one thing — no money for arena.
You’d think at some point I’d get tired of writing about Daryl Katz, but no. The guy just keeps doing the most amazing, mind-boggling things. I swear, Katz is an…
5270…Hurricane Sarah Is Scary
Actually it is not scaring me a bit. I am in Ottawa and it is going to be 17 above zero tomorrow. Ah, Hurricane Sandy, like the Springsteen song, gotcha.…
The Globe and Mail: CRTC chief aims to gain the trust of Canadians
In the wake of Canadians speaking out to StopTheTakeover.ca, CRTC chairman Jean-Pierre Blais is emphasizing the importance of earning Canadians’ trust and input in future decision-making. Let’s ensure that this…
5279…Tory And NDP Politics Suck
Then again so do the politics of the Bloc and Liberals and, when given a chance, Le Greens.Borys Wrzesnewskyj, the former and future MP for Etobicoke Centre has made a…
If This Ever Goes Through, I Got Dibs On "Haywood J. Blome"
Sixth Estate laments Dean Del Maestro’s proposed ban on anonymous comments, missing an obvious countermeasure were it to become law. Incidentally, P.P. “Weiner” is also a good one, because he’s…
CARBON TAX! ON EVERYTHING!
Especially relevant if you are a Canadian, or paying any attention at all to our present political situation in Canada, where the governing party fantasizes its opponents. Filed under: art,…