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I hardly noticed the transition from Baseball Season to Movie Season this year. With the Red Sox having their worst season almost 50 years (1965), my tolerance for the nightly…
2012
Foreign Funding? So Glad You Asked: Enbridge Renews Attack Against Canadian Environmental Groups
Enbridge recently launched a renewed attack on Canadian environmental organizations, demanding the panel overseeing the Northern Gateway Pipeline hearing squeeze funding information from the project’s critics. In early 2012, a…
Malala Yousafzai—heroine
This week the Taliban committed yet another atrocity in the name of religion when they shot 14-year old Malala Yousafzai in the head and neck while she sat with her…
Why Justin Trudeau is running for leader of the Liberal Party of Canada
Justin Trudeau & hard work Very interesting article in Macleans – an interview with Justin Trudeau: “Can I actually make a difference? Can I get people to believe in politics…
Government welfare and private charity
The right has a fairly standard set of lines about what is appropriate to do about the problem of poverty. They believe that welfare is bad for the recipients, who…
Regrets might come later
Chairman Harper and the Chinese Sell-Out, Andrew Nikiforuk, The Tyee “By Nov. 1 three of China’s national oil companies will have more power to shape Canada’s energy markets as well…
Don’t You Just Hate It When…
It’s such a bitch being well off in an affluent homeland. Just as these folks:
Oct. 11: The Front Page.
On most papers, the front page is the big one. That’s the page that attracts buyers. For an example of the front page in a related medium, check out the…
Doom And Gloom – The Stones Return
They’re not going anywhere, not yet at least. The Stones return to celebrate their 50th year of rock and roll. Doom and Gloom.
White House Holds Meeting to Address Coal Export Terminals
It was barely two weeks ago that we reported on the Army Corps of Engineers’ decision to “fast track” approval of the Morrow Pacific Project, a coal export terminal on…
Who Says Shit Like This? Oh yeah, …Republicans – Again
“Some Girls Rape Easy” Wisconsin state representative Roger Rivard says his pappy taught him to be wary of “consensual” sex because “some girls rape easy.” “He told the Journal Sentinel…
When is an Agriculture minister ^NOT an Agriculture minister?
Silence is golden. A proverbial saying… With respect to the Harper government, specifically the Agriculture minister and the XL Foods recall, saying nothing is preferable to speaking. For those of…
5226…For Better Or Poorer Thru This And That
It was on this day in 1975 that two love mad kids, Bill and Hillary, became as one. Sorta. Anyhow Bill Clinton and Hillary Rodham got hitched on this day…
Bhutan to go 100% Organic
Bhutan is an amazing little country that has banned cigarettes and measures its success not through the backwards-looking GDP but by Gross National Happiness. In another step to be the…
OpenMedia.ca pleased with CRTC plans to protect Canadian cell phone users
openmedia_logo.jpg Grassroots group lauds announcement of public consultation for national rules for wireless October 11, 2012 – Today, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) announced today they will hold…
5225…National Coming Out Day
My Facebook buddy and king of the sex columnists, Dan Savage, tells me that today is National Coming Out Day. Five p.m. your time. Would someone be kind enough to…
Margaret Wente Returns, Issues Yet Another Apology for… “Careless Mistakes”
The Globe & Mail’s resident plagiarist and cheap-shot artist Margaret Wente has finally resurfaced after a mysterious two-week disappearance, with a typically vapid column on the U.S. election. Strangely, the…
Lifestyle change…
… results after 10 days. Hey! Psst. Wanna lose 10 pounds in 10 days? No – this isn’t an ad… I’m just amazed that by cutting back to a 1,000ish…
ConCalls: Israeli Ambassador Told Canadian MP to Stay Home
A little strange news linked to the election fraud of last year: The Liberal MP Borys W., who led the case to have Etobicoke Centre’s results overturned successfully, was once…
Obama’s Tepid Incremental Housing Policy
Andrew Leonard has written an excellent article on the role that housing policy has played in the U.S. economy and politics: http://www.salon.com/2012/10/10/obamas_hard_housing_lesson/ . The disappointment in Obama's performance can be…