5161…Today’s Reason To Drink
Rosh Hashana. Jewish New Year. Mazel Tov. WFDS
2012
Manifesto for a Doomed Youth
Two things have happened in recent months that have made me think seriously — and somewhat pessimistically I might add— about the future prospects of the next generation (for want…
On Being Misquoted – Access Info Europe and Freedominfo.org
I’ve just been alerted to a new post out on Freedominfo.org has quotes of mine that are used in way that is deeply disappointing. It’s never fund to see your…
Civil disobedience planned for October
Over 80 influential leaders from the business, First Nations, environmental, labour, academic, medical and artistic communities across Canada today announced an upcoming mass sit-in in front of the provincial legislature…
Who Do They Think They Are, the Vatican?
It’s going to be a tough two weeks for the Boy Scouts of America as details pour out of the organization’s decades of suppressing information about child molesters in their…
Minimum Sentences for Us, Minimal Sentences for Them
It’s come to something when the Assistant Attorney-General of the United States, responsible for overseeing the country’s federal prosecutors, doesn’t just think this way. Doesn’t just act this way. But…
Republicans and Current President of Libya Muhammad al-Zanati are allies
Repugs say that attack on embassy which killed the ambassador and three other diplomats was planned and outsiders were involved. President of Libya Muhammad al-Zanati says exactly the same thing.…
Italian Magazine Chi publishes Kate Middleton’s topless photos
Chi Magazine is owned by former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s Mondadori group. There goes Berlusconi again. When he was Prime Minister of Italy, there were rumours that he held erotic…
Is competitive bidding in home care done? Let’s hope so.
September 10 Doris Grinspun, executive director of the Registered Nurses Association of Ontario, tweeted that Health Minister Deb Matthews had just announced to a nursing meeting that the moratorium on…
They Can’t Do It
In capitals around the world there’s been no shortage of bold talk about the need to tackle the global warming threat but that talk rarely translates into more than token…
Washington’s Climate Change Wrecking Ball
To the Third World, the United States stands out as the nation resolutely blocking “any hope of stopping run away climate catastrophe.” “By the end of the most recent round…
A Fact Check on Tory Lies
I suspect that the Harper regime’s capacity for fear-mongering, character assassination and bald-faced lies, so much in evidence in previous smear campaigns against Stephen Dion and Michael Ignatief, will have…
Just Four More Years
It wasn’t predicted to happen until the end of the century – well after we were long gone. Now it could arrive within just four more years. “It” is the…
A Song for All Those Demonstrating against Austerity (and Maybe Those Annoyed by Anti-Islamic Films)
Stomae is a young Belgian/Rwandan singer whose hypnotic song has been running through my head for days. It seems perfect for the current economic situation. And perhaps all those (perhaps…
Sept. 17: Wow! Did the TandT ever blow it!
Section A is pretty much a wipe-out unless you just live for pictures of kids playing ball hockey and for a picture of a man with his mouth open. The…
Dunderdale Translator: expert edition #nlpoli
Kathy Dunderdale speaks her own language. She uses words in a different way from the rest of the population. Take the word “expert”, for example. Dunderdale claims that she would…
The big lie and the bigger truth
Yes, it’s inevitable that Tom Mulcair will have to answer the Cons’ (however farcical) talking points about some nonexistent carbon tax. But there’s more to the story than the “big…
Moving Quickly at the Newhouse School
During the first week of class of the fall semester, (of the M.S. in Public Relations here at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications) I was concerned that classwork…
Ask Me Anything #5: Other hobbies
Celtchick asks, “What with the quilting bug hitting, and then pottery, my question is: Have you considered other fiber-related hobbies?” I have considered ALL hobbies! Seriously. There’s nothing I like…
If They Won’t Spend It, Perhaps We Should Tax It Back?
That is the question I am left with after reading this article in today’s Star on the over $500 billion (the article erroneously describes it as $526 million) corporate Canada…