State of the Movement: Canada’s Blood & Honour Part 1
NOTE: As this article is pretty screen shot heavy, we decided that we would divide it into three parts. This article is Part 1. Since most of the, “important” players…
2012
Catching up on my reading
I bet you thought I’d forgotten about this little project of mine to read 50 books this year. Admittedly, I seem to have fallen behind, what with switching jobs and…
[Not] Solving Traffic Problems in Uptown Waterloo
I attended the Uptown Traffic summit last week. It was a success – over 120 people, lots of careful consideration of the problems that were posed. In the promo for…
Slower than molasses in January!
Elections Canada is investigating the fraudulent and deceptive calls, aka robocalls, made during the last election… beyond Guelph, Ontario. Slower than molasses in January! Other posts on the Robocon Scandal:…
Liberal leadership procedure and process update from Mike Crawley
Today was the Liberal Party of Canada (Ontario)’s Toronto region day, where Liberals from the ridings of greater Toronto gathered to talk organization, policy and rebuilding. A few items of…
You might be a Conservative if …
You don’t think “The Simpsons” is all that funny, but you watch it because that Flanders fellow makes a lot of sense.
The Roma, Jason Kenny, And The University of Haifa
The Roma Community Centre of Toronto, Canada has sent a letter–their second, because their first from earlier this month has not been responded to–to the University of Haifa in Northern…
UofC Liberals sign up 150 young liberals
Liberalism is alive and well in Calgary. As of September 21st the University of Calgary Liberal Association signed up 148 young Liberals from the annual week long clubs week held…
Angry White Men Go Crazy, Keep Aged Leader, Lose Sole MLA
The Gods must be smiling down on Crispy Clark. Her right of centre rivals, the B.C. Conservatives, have imploded. After the Cons’ leader, Geriatric John Cummins, was backed by a…
Courts usurping Parliament? (so this is news?)
Canada (Attorney General) v.Downtown Eastside Sex Workers United Against Violence Society, 2012 SCC 45 has an interesting passage about public interest standing. In effect the Court says the historical limit…
Title Shuffling #nlpoli
The news via Twitter looked a lot bigger than it actually is. David Cochrane tweeted on Saturday: Sources: Premier Dunderdale shaking up staff on 8th floor (Premier’s office). New deputy…
rtod
Revolutionary thought of the day: And all the criminals in their coats and tiesAre free to drink martinisAnd watch the sun rise– Bob Dylan A woman refuses to kill people,…
Saturday Afternoon Links
This and that to end your Saturday. – As pointed out by Paul Krugman, Kathleen Geier recognizes an obvious possible cause of a declining life expectancy for some less-wealthy Americans:…
Saturday Photo: End of Summer Brilliance
Today is the day of the automnal equinox, the end of summer, the beginning of fall. Here are two pictures taken a couple of days ago which show the billiance…
The state of my brain 6
Filed under: digital, drawing, life Tagged: brain, Concussion
Q: Where do polar bears vote?
A: The North Poll
On single issues
Apparently today is Stadium Cheerleading Day in the Leader-Post. But in correctly noting that this fall’s election will be decisive in determining whether a stadium goes ahead, Bruce Johnstone seems…
Politicspeak with simultaneous translation
The Guardian’s Polly Toynbee was writing about Nick Clegg and Britain’s Liberal Democrats but she could have been writing about the Campbell/Clark BC Liberals: “a string of the same weary…
The state of my brain
Filed under: art, cartoon, comment, digital, drawing, life Tagged: always wear your helmet kids, brain, Concussion