4337…Greatest Political Movie Ever
“Leave the gun, take the canolli.” The greatest political film of all time, The Godfather, opened this week in 1972. WFDS
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Three things I wish heterodox economists would quit talking about
Number 1. Mainstream economics and heterodox economics To be consistent it should be homodox economics and heterodox economics. Those with routine knowledge of Latin would find nothing nefarious in such…
Cheney chickens out of visit to Toronto
Must be all those mandatory minimum sentences that spooked the skittish Mr. Cheney. Do the crime, do the time must be scary words to a man wanted in much of…
4336…St. Paddy’s Day Fiasco
I am as Irish as Paddy’s Pig. My friend and neighbour Jenn Farr says I could be a leprecaun. I am also proudish of being Irish Catholic. One of the…
Girls, Please Get More Involved in Politics!
I am shouting out this entry for all of you males and more importantly females out there because enough is enough. You know why enough is enough? Its enough because…
28 Stories on Breezehill? Have your say
So Claridge is proposing a 28 story condo building at 1050 Somerset, on the corner of Breezehill and Somerset, right beside Devonshire School. This is the location of the former…
Robocon update
A couple of different things today: – Here’s a study showing that despite claims to the contrary: alleged voter suppression tactics using robocalls (ie telling them their polling station had…
And again with the pre-emptive legislation, Lisa Raitt
I’m beginning to think this might be a pattern. Same company, same rhetoric, same lies. They’re all in favour of letting workers try to defend their livelihoods at the bargaining…
Radio Topics, March 13
Happy Tuesday! We’ve got an exciting show lined up, with a couple of fun surprises for the second hour. Tune in on CKCU at 7am! Clayton Ruby wants Rob Ford…
dickhead’s Scared of Canadians . . . .
Score one for Our Side! From today’s Seattle Times: Cheney deems Canada too dangerous for visit Toronto – Former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney canceled a Canadian speaking appearance because…
Anytime someone is ordered to do something and not permitted to consult a lawyer, I think ‘draconian’ is a very fair description.
http://bit.ly/xfS4hJ As currently written, C-30's non-disclosure provisions empower (but do not mandate) courts to compel ISPs, banks, journalists and anyone else subject to production or preservation orders or demands in…
Soccer Monsters!
A reader writes: I want to get my 3 year old going in soccer this spring and I’m wondering if you would know of any programs in Hintonburg, Civic Hospital…
The Robocon Scandal that was and wasn’t…
REPEAT AFTER ME: An issue-based call is not a voter suppression call. An issue-based call, setting out where stood on the issue — of Abortion — is not remotely the…
Why Thomas Mulcair is not good for Canada
Mulcar: Not good for Canada at this time I have liked Mulcair’s energy, his fighting spirit, his presentation of his arguments, and his willingness to mix it with those who…
For Stephane Dion, a Quick Math Lesson/Thoughts on Separation
I only like democracy when the numbers are in my favor. Stephane Dion penned an op-ed for the National Post. (there’s an odd combination) detailing how the NDP’s position on…
Marx once said to Lafargue: ‘Ce qu’il y a de certain c’est que moi, je ne suis pas Marxiste.’ (If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist)
Frederick Engels Letter oo Eduard Bernstein 1882 http://bit.ly/AoMuNW
For Stephane Dion, a Quick Math Lesson/Thoughts on Seperation
Stephane Dion penned an op-ed for the National Post. (there’s an odd combination) detailing how the NDP’s position on Quebec separation, detailed in the Sherbrooke Declaration, threatens national unity. There…
Another massacre in Afghanistan
If this is how one “wins the hearts and minds” of a people, this past weekend’s massacre of 16 civilians by a US soldier has only succeeded in creating even…
4335…The Death Penalty
Front page of The Ottawa Sun was one of those lethal injection beds. Apparently Canadians want the death penalty back. Thing is the death penalty doesn’t stop folks from killing.…
Video: It Kinda Scares Me
Here is a recently released scene from It Kinda Scares Me, a 2001 documentary about a gay drama coach and the troubled boys he teaches. From my favorite documentary filmmaker,…