rally for toronto! today in nathan phillips square
Rob Ford might be losing weight, but Toronto is losing vital public services and good jobs – if the mayor and his friends on City Council have their way. If…
2012
Your Daily Nazi: Big Ambitions
Is this the beginning of a post Section 13 Neo Nazi Renaissance in Canada? Some have wondered as much. Or maybe not. The folks at ARC doubt the organizers ability…
Sucking eggs, debating Muskrat Falls and other wastes of time #nlpoli
Former natural resources minister Shawn Skinner thinks there House of Assembly should debate the Muskrat Falls deal. Ditto his replacement, Jerome! Kennedy who likes to quote a supposed 1980 endorsement…
Not a quiet week
Oh, Canadian politics. Did you really have to be so busy while I was on vacation, virtually unplugged and confined to radio silence? And what did I miss? Harper announcing…
South Carolina moms versus Stephen Colbert – moms ticked off at candidate Colbert
Oh my gosh. This group of South Carolina women don’t seem to know who Stephen Colbert is. They don’t seem to get what he does for a living and some…
The Kind Of Thing We Used To Do…
WeShallOvercome SomedayVille …Before there was a Martin Luther King Day: Vancouver (CP) – The 60,000-man west coast longshoremen’s union in Canada and the United States agreed Thursday not to handle…
Stephen Harper and the Fascist State of Alberia
Uh oh. Duck and cover. It looks as if Great Oil Pimp Leader is trying to whip us into a nationalistic frenzy, by demanding that the United States stop treating…
The art of worrying in the middle of the night
It is 1:53 in the morning and I am up worrying. I got tired of lying in bed worrying, so I got up. Some people are prone to worrying in…
alberta election candidate update – january 2012.
With an election fast approaching, Alberta’s political parties are busy nominating candidates across the province. Here is a regional breakdown showing where candidates have been nominated and some of the…
Naomi Klein Debunks “Ethical Oil” Fiction
As she delivers this brilliant rebuttal of the corporate-funded Ethical Oil fiction, Naomi Klein brands herself “an expert in corporate crap”. We don’t have ethical oil in Canada. We’ve tar…
Double whammy
We all understand that, sometimes, financial hardship is simply a fact of life. And I do believe that most of us are willing to endure painful sacrifices, in the pursuit…
Radio Topics, January 17
Happy New Year! Well, belated, I suppose. I’m back after several weeks, and am ready to kick off 2012 with an exciting show. Tune in at 93.1 FM in Ottawa…
It’s our ‘giant national park’. Let’s keep it that way.
Canada is not the exclusive property of Stephen Harper, the Conservative party or the oil companies. We share this land and we want to preserve our coastlines, lakes and rivers.…
Photos of Martin Luther Kings’s tragic death published by LIFE for the first time
LIFE photographer Henry Groskinsky captures the scene at the Lorraine Hotel after the shooting of MLK (detail). Today is Martin Luther King, Jr. Day in the United States, and LIFE…
Thomas Mulcair: He didn’t choose France for you
Thomas Mulcair is French by choice. It’s not terribly difficult to predict the sort of response that a political attack machine could run with this untimely revelation. We’ve seen it…
Urgent action required: remember you are not your audience
I send and receive a fair number of appeals for online actions. And I see phrases like “Act now” or “Urgent! Your help needed” a lot and I admit if…
Why Beatles Music Will Solve Any Problem You Have.: Let it be :.
Looking back at many of my previous entries, I realized a serious foul on my behalf that required immediate attention…hence why this is my second blog entry for today and…
Why North Americans Don’t Get Climate Change
I was talking to a friend tonight about the studies and planning undertaken by the province and municipalities of the Lower Mainland of sea level rise projections. It’s a complex…