Take Time To Renew Your Spirit
Whatever one’s religious beliefs, the Hallelujah Chorus from Handel’s Messiah is a joyful and inspiring piece of music. Here on Easter Sunday is the Hallelujah Chorus performed during Andre Rieu’s…
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Holiday Weekend Link Round-up (Or, Yes, I WAS too lazy to write something original. Deal.)
What you should be reading this holiday weekend, in lieu of spending quality time with your family/loved ones (like yrs truly will be a little later): – Open ass, insert…
NDP Finally Lead in a Poll – Maybe
And thus the Orange Wave has finally landed upon our shores. I’m very certain that isn’t the right metaphor, but there it is. Leger Marketing, everyone’s favourite online-based Quebec pollster,…
I guess all of Europe is misogynist – Welcome to the new Canada
Demonizing those with whom one disagrees, that’s something we’re seeing more and more of in this country. We certainly heard it during our most recent federal election. Had Canadians elected…
W. Somerset Maugham on theocracy
From The Razor’s Edge, published in 1944: “D’you remember how Jesus was led into the wilderness and fasted forty days? Then, when he was a-hungered, the devil came to him…
Financial Post: Big telcos warn of ‘market shake-out’ if pick-and-pay TV model adopted
Big Telecoms Rogers and Shaw are lobbying against the so-called ‘a la carte’ model that would allow customers to pick and pay for individual channels. The CRTC also expressed concern…
Danielle Smith can’t toss the abortion furor under the bus along with Jeffrey Trynchy
The crew of the Wildrose lays smoke to obscure their exact position. Below: Jane Cawthorne (Writers Guild of Alberta photo). Wildrose Leader Danielle Smith can pass off reports of her…
The stars shall fade away, the sun himself
Grow dim with age, and Nature sink in years;But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth,Unhurt amid the war of elements,The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds. Joseph AddisonSent…
‘Don’t be messin with Mr. T,’ Part II
Mr. T: Don’t be messin’ with him! That was then. This just in: Alberta Education Minister Thomas Lukaszuk allegedly assaulted by resident while door knocking in Edmonton-Castle Downs! What’s more,…
Think It’s Okay to Feed The Homeless? Think Again!
New York City. Dallas. Houston.Las Vegas. Orlando. Philadelphia. All major US cities that have now BANNED distribution of food to the homeless in some form. Numerous reasons are sited such…
Wankers of the Week: Easter Bummers
Crappy Easter, everyone! If you’re feeling kinda butthurt, or like your ears’ve been chewed off, the chocolate bunnies above can relate. So can I. Because I’ve been tracking the reasons…
CBC ties country together by Tony Manera
Tony Manera, CBC’s President in 1993 and 1994, says that at a time when we should be strengthening the CBC, the relentless chipping away of its financial resources further weakens…
Hide and seek, albino deer, forty year old plywood
In mid family weekend at the farm. I would extract some pictures from the camera but I’m too tired. The day’s been about playing hide and seek, spotting the famous…
Saturday Night’s Alright For (Uke) Cover Fighting!
There’sNoUkeLike CoverUkeVille First, ‘The Original’, by a real original…. And now, ‘The Cover’, which was found so serendipitously that I can’t even begin to explain it, except to say that…
Questions for SFU and Wilf Hurd
April 5, I sent an email to Wilf Hurd, Simon Fraser University’s Director, Government Relations, (Contact info), posing three questions: Have you issued a public statement responding to Jonathan Fowlie’s…
4th Poll In A Month Has NDP Tied With Conservatives
A Léger Marketing poll for The Gazette and Le Devoir April 2-4 shows the following support among decided voters: NDP 33% Conservatives 32% Liberals 19% Green 8% In Quebec: NDP…
4451…Mohawks. I Like Mohawks
They are living in the now. Great quote from Joe Delarond in yesterday’s Globe and Mail. Mr. Delarond is a member of the Mohawk casino project team. We’re Kanewakans. We…
David Banner on the Shooting of Trayvon Martin: “We Have to Get Some Type of Legislation Now.”
Gulf Coast hip hop impresario David Banner drops some straight knowledge re: Trayvon, race, and class in the US of A in this BlackEnterprise.com interview: “The fact we have to…