With Thanks to Jamie Calder…
A new site popped up recently that I must pass on. It’s aptly named Sorry World and expressed the following sentiments held by many of us on the left/cener-left Sorry…
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Heroin, Foreign Groups And Large Pipes: The Kathryn Marshall Story
Pictured: Kathryn Marshall who, upon seeing this photo, will be embarrassed only by the CBC logo above. I can’t help it. When I think of laying pipe, I think of…
Oboe update
He’s still in the hospital. He’s not out of the woods yet. The vet wants him to get a little better on his own before she treats him, because she…
Molly’sBlog 2012-01-12 21:30:00
VISIONS: THE PRODUCER CO-OP OPTION: There are basically two types of cooperatives, consumer and producer. The former is a mutual aid society of purchasers banded together to get the best…
Mallory and her friend C built a snow fort tonight
Before dinner. From the heap of snow built up at the end of the driveway. It was all that Irene and I could do to convince her to come in…
Headlines we wish we could use
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Sorry World
Sorry World A site apologizing to the world for having let Stephen Harper become Prime Minister
Jan. 12: addendum to the day’s blog.
1. I forget to mention a local boosterism item that the Moncton TandT seems not to have heard of. that’s odd. The TandT usually remembers to print long stories about…
Christy, what are you thinking? BC Liberals hire Harper aide and Enbridge lobbyist Ken Boessenkool as chief of staff.
If you ever wanted to know which side of the political spectrum the BC ‘Liberals’ fall, it’s pretty obvious by now it’s neither centre nor left. When a supposed centre-left…
On the chopping block, Canada gay marriages
Canada has an estimated 15,000 legally-recognized same-sex marriages. If Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s Conservative government has its way, 5,000 of them would be invalid. All because the couples were originally…
King of Bain
The complete film by the SuperPAC supporting Newt Gingrich called “When Mitt Romney Came to Town.” It’s quite an artful hatchet job. As expected, the Republican establishment and most of…
Same-sex marriage blows up in Harper’s face | #cdnpoli #lgbt
Sweet, sweet irony. Or is it poetic justice? Don’t care, really. Either way, there’s a week’s worth of schadenfreude watching Harper squirming on this. Here’s a guy who redefines the…
Rebuilding
Trying out the Blogger app for my phone. A picture from the registration floor highlighting the theme.
Reflections on Activism
People keep saying that 2012 will be the year of protest in North America – the year when ordinary people rise up and demand better treatment from government elites. I’m…
BC public sector enters 2012 bargaining
This week saw the beginning of a new round of public sector bargaining, with most public sector unions entering negotiations for 2012 agreements. The government has already stated their intention…
Pink Herrings: Ethical (Sp)Oil and Pride (in Pipelines)
“Make a hard Right-turn at the Town of Wedgepolitics and keep going Straight until you’ve reached the City of Bigotry and Political Strategy.” Directions for Harper’s recent wedge-issue of choice,…
Burning question
In re: the credibility of Stephen Harper in declaring that his government’s legal stance that Canadian gay marriage can be retroactively nullified by government fiat shouldn’t be taken as an…
More Figures Illustrating Harper Regime’s Economic Mismanagement
Okay, here are some new revelations adding to what I’ve enumerated before. This is probably no surprise given the misguided law and order agenda and the Harperites’ fondness for locking…
Stephen Harper’s Brutal Assault on Gay People
He can try to hide behind big legal words. He can claim he didn’t know. But nobody can deny that this is a brutal assault on gay people. The Harper…