One Public School System
I had an opportunity to argue with someone via Twitter with regards to funding of the Catholic school system in Ontario. I took exception with her assertion that it was…
2012
Republican minority voting suppression tactics will hopefully end after 2012…
Further to recent revelations about forcing voters to show government issued photo ID in certain Republican-controlled U.S. states this election, let’s look at another Republican tactic in this campaign: cancelling…
Fight The Right in the Toronto Standard!
Right here!
Is Steve at Risk in India?
Steve Harper has brought his own convoy of armoured cars to India. TorStar reports the RCMP “at least two” of the prime minister’s vehicles, including an armoured limo, to ferry…
More mustaches
Filed under: art, digital, drawing Tagged: “Okay this one’s kinda rude”, Cat, Movember, mustache
It’s No Longer a Gap, It’s a Chasm
Carol Goar, in today’s Toronto Star, writes that two recent reports highlight the new solitudes in Canadian society. One report comes from the Toronto Dominion Bank, the other from Food…
Who Would Canadians Turn to in the Event of a Cylon Attack?
As this picture shows, Justin Trudeau is NOT Canada’s best hope to lead the Rebel Alliance. However, in the event of a cylon attack, Justin is the man. Last week,…
Canada’s Bought and Paid For Government
Steve and the misses are in India now pushing Athabasca bitumen to that country’s massive energy market. He’s got to sign up customers fast to justify his Northern Gateway pipeline…
All the news fit to predict, right here, and free of charge, too
In the U.S., popular vote don’t matter so much. Sure, the ebbs and flows of the avalanche of national polls have been plenty fun to watch. Sure. But Barack Obama,…
The Mystical Lords of Mu’skr’at Fa’alls #nlpoli
The water management controversy flared briefly at the end of last week thanks to Geoff Meeker’s blog at the Telegram and a couple of interviews by the 2041 Group and…
America in 2012: Awe, Disgust, Sadness
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6q6DNm6rrYY&sns=em It’s still relatively early in the morning, so don’t watch this too soon after breakfast because I guarantee you’ll be ill. You may also weep uncontrollably. I’ m not…
Food Banks: The Art of Enabling
Few rational people would deny the contemporary need for food banks. Begun in Canada largely as a temporary anodyne to recession-induced job losses in the 1980’s, they have grown in…
T.O. Sun: the Never Ending Restructuring
A rumor at T.O. Sun Family: Halloween tricks at the Sun…a few more terminations. Unclear as to how many, but one long time manager. Anyone shed any light? Will update…
Fox and Deer in Michigan
If I was Roman I might see this as a sign for the Presidential election!!!
Ontario Forum Poll: 37% PC, 32% NDP, 22% OLP
The newest Forum poll is out for Ontario, completed over Halloween, and shows the smallest of rises for the Ontario Liberals, and a slight drop for the NDP. Forum Research…
Mayor Ford and the TTC diversion
To my mind the question is not so much why the TTC diverted the buses (I assume it was a low level person just doing it) as why the Mayor…
CBS warns of coming job losses in national meeting with labour
Canadian Blood Services says the organization of the future is going to require fewer people. Caught in a funding squeeze by their provincial funders, CBS says they have to compete…
One more day..
..until we all stop talking about (or at least see it greatly reduced in convos) American politics for at least two years (the Congressional midterms come up then). An interesting…
We didn’t start satire
Heard the start of this on the Sunday Edition on the CBC, and thought it was worth sharing. Alltop didn’t start humor blog aggregation either, but they’re still around!
Dean MacDonald on the Gull Island Mess: “He Didn’t Even Read the Deal!”
Since Joey Smallwood’s infamous giveaway of the Upper Churchill to Hydro Quebec, there has been a romanticism around Newfoundland and Labrador’s eventual development of the Lower Churchill. It’s been the…