Daw Aung San Suu Kyi visit to US-speeches
Here is a compilation of speeches from Daw Suu Kyi during her visit to US in September 2012. This was compiled by Canadian Friends of Burma. http://www.cfob.org U.S-Burma/Myanmar Relations –…
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Somehow the Conference Board is Less Immune to Industry Pressure than the Federal Senate
In recent months the Canadian airline industry has been pushing, hard, for lower costs. Not content with having the Harper regime order its employees to work under threat of legal…
Check the Latest From the Canadian Food Inspection Agency!
Richard ‘Hub’ Hughes-Political Blogger Here is the latest from CFIA about the addidtions to the foods that are unfit for consumption. Many of these are items “Voluntarily recalled” by XL…
International Day of Action on Iran in Winnipeg
Oct. 6, 2012: A passerby reads a leaflet distributed by Peace Alliance Winnipeg in Osborne Village. Photo: Paul S. Graham Activists in at least 6 Canadian cities joined in the…
Free speech for me, but not for thee
Needless to say, the Regina Chamber of Commerce’s attempts to paint concerns about its purporting to speak on behalf of the City as having anything to do with free speech…
Collective Consciousness and Humanity
ermites and their collective consciousness raise some thought provoking questions about humanity. If termites can only express their true genetic identity in the amassed presence of their numbers — only…
The Venezuelan election results…
… will be interesting to see. What will be even more interesting is to see if both sides respect the results. If, as Chavez is quoted as saying in this…
a few words about burlington vermont
We are in Burlington, Vermont, for a wedding. We drove here on Friday, a nice drive mostly through blue skies and autumn colours. On Saturday, we found a public library…
Some YouTube movie recommendations
I still don’t have cable or satellite at my residence, so the internet remains the chief source of entertainment. Thanks to the resident love goddess however we now have a…
In Praise of Thanksgiving
I’m especially thankful this year for turkey. H/t somecanuckchick Recommend this Post
Don’t worry about what the Harper government is ^not spending…
Tony Clement, the President of Treasury Board, would like Canadians to believe that Kevin Page, the Parliamentary Budget Officer, is operating outside his mandate when he requests details on how…
How the Gov’t Is Saddling Parents with College Loans They Can’t Afford
by Marian Wang | ProPublica More than a decade after Aurora Almendral first set foot on her dream college campus, she and her mother still shoulder the cost of that…
It’s cold here
And I needed to be reminded of Summer. This did the trick. Boogie-boarding, Kennebunk, August. Perfect.
Cowichan’s Will Abram Has Passed Away-October 4, 2012
Will Abram 1928-2012 R.I.P. Dear Friends Our dear father and friend to all, Will Abram, passed away Thursday, October 4, 2012 at 10:40 PM. After a pleasing and engaged evening…
Sighting of rare spider halts Texas $15 million road project
American culture is baffling. A particular spider, considered an endangered species, stops a $15 million road building project. Many oil drilling projects were stopped in the past for similar reasons.…
Who Says Shit Like This? Oh Yeah, …Republicans.
If Barack Obama has achieved nothing else, he has fundamentally disproved the notion of a post-segregationist America. Even before the Obama family moved into the White House the floodgates of…
Former Vancity Chair Bob Williams speaks at Cowichan Theatre on October 17, 7:00 pm
Bob Williams Bob Williams, one of BC’s most distinguished public citizens, will be speaking at the Cowichan Theatre on Wednesday, October 17 at 7:00 pm, in celebration of International Credit…
New Ways to Find Older Content
To provide a method beyond the search box at the top of the page and browsing the chronological archives to access older content that I think might be worth reading,…
Jon Stewart on Strip Searches
Here’s what Jon Stewart had to say about the Supreme Court of the United States decision in Florence v. Board of Chosen Freeholders of County of Burlington et al.