Elections and the yearning for change
Watching the election campaign unfold in a province where the slogan of change manages to obscure most of the spring street action, I was reminded of Tommy Douglas’ nice rendering…
2012
5082…Man In Ballgown Robs Liquor Store
And it is not even Pride week in Texas! I will let Phillip Caulfield of The New York Daily News fill you in. Texas cops are hunting for a cross-dressing…
Republican Convention in Tampa, Florida: Strippers are the happiest group
A strip club trade group says Republicans spend three times more than Democrats. Highlights: Tampa’s strip clubs are preparing for the Republican National Convention More than 50,000 visitors are expected…
Michael Bryant’s failure to relate to the public
The morning after Darcy Allan Sheppard died, Michael Bryant emerged from police custody wearing a clean change of clothes and headed straight for the waiting microphones. In the hours since…
Friday miscellany…
Dead explorer and #ihategarybettman edition! =================================================================================== Every now and then – though rarely – The Head Robot of this fair land does something that I actually agree with. It hurts…
5081…Lance Armstrong Flying The White Flag
It is widely reported that one of the greatest athletes ever and seven time winner of Le Tour de France, Lance Armstrong, has given up his fight to clear his…
5080…Dean DelMastro Update
Nothing to update. He’s been lying low and since he is friends with everyone at the one electronic news outlet in Peterpatch he is getting a big pass from his…
Power to vary spousal support may be ousted by arbitration agreement
Grosman v. Cookson, 2012 ONCA 551, released today, holds an arbitration agreement can oust the power of the Court to vary spousal support. The decision is extremely important — a…
#FF Yourself!! A Follow Friday You’ll Thank Me For
Sometimes I worry that I am actually trapped in the Matrix… So, I was doing my normal dance around the internet, reading pieces of news from all corners. While I…
Let’s Make Our Hospitals Healthy Places!
Richard Hub Hughes-Political Blogger A report released today outlines policies that will require nurses to take flu shots, or wear a mask! Hello! Why wouldn’t shots for all health workers…
Irish President Rips Into American Extreme Right
I’m happy to make this video my first post since ending my technological hiatus. Enjoy. You can read the accompanying story here. Recommend this Post
Campaign Capers: Too much of nothing
The Council of Canadians and the seven ridings When it was first reported that the applicants in this case were requesting information from Elections Canada, it was suggested that EC…
Friday Morning ‘Rider Blogging
No, this isn’t 2011 all over again. But Saskatchewan Roughriders fans could be forgiven for flashing back to the previous season throughout the team’s loss to the B.C. Lions. Once…
Mainstream Corporate Media – Psychiatry’s Publicists
In a democratic system of thought control… necessary to take over the entire spectrum of opinion, the entire spectrum of discussion, so that nothing can be thinkable apart from the…
Celebrating Birthdays Today!!!
Lukas’s birthday was Wednesday, Jeanne’s will be Sunday, so we’re having the gang (11 of them, counting Jeanne) over for barbecued leg of lamb and other good things this evening.…
Questioning Being Black and White in Canada
“Canadians have a favourite pastime, and they don’t even realize it. They like to ask—they absolutely love to ask—where you are from if you don’t look convincingly white. They want…
Liberalwho.ca – Candidate’s website or something else?
If you haven’t seen this quirky site yet, then go take a look – its just some standard-fare messages and a silhouette of some guy standing with his arms crossed…
Regenerating Britain’s local media: can public service broadcasting come to the rescue? by Justin Schlosberg
Columnist says unchecked media concentration over several decades has allowed some groups to accumulate vast amounts of revenue and influence, with disastrous consequences for ethical journalism and democracy.