Globe & Mail Says Canada Needs More Indebted Seniors
There comes a point when you’ve moved past trying to stay optimistic in the face of bad news into the realm of the simply deluded — or, no better, into…
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Time for BC’s media to admit its conflicts
When the media notes conflicts of interest in the business of politicians and community leaders, the reporting is immediate and relentless. Ask Glen Clark or Bill Vander Zalm. However, when…
Are there really 287,000 law-abiding farmers, trappers, hunters and fishers in Toronto?
A strong market in central Canada for raccoon coats like the one worn by this man accounts for the large number of urban trappers who live in Metropolitan Toronto, law-abiding…
Amazing online cinema archive for educators – 2500 films & study guides in NFB’s “Campus” project
"Oxford Tire Pile #8" by Edward Burtynsky The National Film Board of Canada — producer of such great films as Manufacturing Consent, Ryan, Jesus of Montreal, The Decline of the…
Canada’s #enemygate open for questionable business
the regina mom‘s amassed a number of links about the proposed Northern Gateway Pipeline and, though other bloggers have moved on to the HarperCon’s potential attack on Old Age Security…
The modern primate
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Lenin’s Ghost Weighs In…
WhiskeyBarUberAlles FeverswampVille lenin’s ghost and I are old friends. We first met in the comment threads at Billmon’s now defunct Whiskey Bar, way back in the dinosaur days when the…
Patched ceiling, wounded pride
So this weekend I started in on fixing the hole I opened in the ceiling to figure out the leaky toilet thing. The toilet is fixed. Thanks to Pegg Plumbing.…
Shafia verdict prompts debate: Was it an honour killing, or just murder?
It was, of course, both. Broadly put, the motivation for murder is irrelevant. The question is not 'why' but 'if'? The ethnic and religious background here may play well for…
Liberal Invisibility Is Liberal Non-Existence
Liberals like to pretend, and this is reinforced by public opinion, that the Liberal Party didn’t stand for anything in the last election and that’s why they lost. Liberal members…
Recent Heritage
Canada’s famous (well, internally famous) Heritage Minutes got a new addition recently. The succinctly titled Canada Gay Marriage may not be an It’s Time in terms of quality, but hey,…
Like The New Coke, But Slappier
Slap’s got a new format and schedule! Due to persistent interference from Real Life™, regular illustrated posts now happen on everyone’s favourite day of the week: Monday! There’ll also be…
Newfoundland Gets GSA Fund
Looks like Ontario may need to go to Newfoundland for some schooling on schooling. Clyde Jackman, Newfoundland’s education minister, just announced MyGSA, a $90,000 fund to help support the establishment…
Aeroflot tells gay flight attendant to marry woman
Pure insanity from Russia. After Maxim Kupreev created an LGBT group within Aeroflot to fight for the protection of the rights of gay employees in June 2011, the airline offered…
BC Schools: A decade of choice, a decade of decline
Yesterday marked the tenth anniversary of Bills 27 and 28. These two pieces of legislation began a dramatic shift in the framework of BC schooling towards a policy of “choice”…
Passwords on gRSShopper
Last night with all the indignation of the morally righteous someone wrote to me and demanded that I do exactly what they say or they would blog about how awful…
Signs of life in the second NDP debate
There may have been more instances of “violent agreement” with the second official NDP leadership debate, held in Halifax this afternoon, but this particular debate saw a few minutes of…
Larry O’Brien steps in it again
Our former mayor, Larry O’Brien, has managed to publicly disgrace himself once again. This time it was by being openly racist on his public Twitter account. David Reevely, of the…
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg – 1943 (Furtwängler, Bayreuth)
A magnificent recording — now YouTube is allowing long videos there are some wonderful older pieces going up. Four hours and two minutes and worth listening to every second: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAokG9BrvPo&feature=related