Toronto the Good. Really?
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission. Next Saturday, July 28th, is a big day for Faytene Grasseschi as the latest of her big prayer rallies, The Cry…
2012
Our Shamelessly Anti-Canadian Government
It’s pretty clear whose side the Harper government is on and it’s equally clear that’s not the side of Canadians. Senator and featherbedding former media shill, Mike Duffy, dismisses his…
Mixed message
Jason Kenney, July 9, 2012: “(Soldiers) are heroes, but at the time, they’re British subjects,” Kenney said firmly, before explaining that there was no such thing as a Canadian citizen…
Memorial service for Michael Lawson
Friends and family of my father, Michael Lawson are holding a memorial service for him at “the farm” Saturday August 11 at 1pm. All who knew him or know his…
Toronto police investigating after three shootings overnight
It does seem there is a gang war in Toronto: Details here Toronto police are investigating after three shootings in the city overnight, capping off an already tragic week that…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Doug Saunders discusses how corporate cash hoarding is limiting any economic recovery – and what we can do about it: (T)his should be…
June 21: Praise the Lord…….
….and pass the ammunition. That was a Amerian popular song of World War Two. Appropriately, it was about army chaplains who helped to load the guns. I thought of it…
Pillow or cat
Filed under: art, digital, drawing Tagged: 100 cats
More Municipal Ridiculousness
One of my neighbors who just spent a pretty penny to landscape her small front and back yards tells me that our borough administration wouldn’t give her a permit to…
Putting Us In a Box
Michael Behiels writes that if Canadians expected to see any federal-provincial conferences during the Harper regime, they should give up on the idea — for two reasons: First, Stephen Harper…
Ya wanna know what stupid is? #nlpoli #cdnpoli
According to information supplied to the news media – and widely reported already – the helicopter from 444 Squadron used for a training flight than ended with a bit of…
A Victory To Celebrate
I have expressed more than once in this blog my opinion that the Harper regime aims to make Canadians feel powerless and disenfranchised, thereby facilitating the government’s efforts to remake…
Blog Hacked
So Sketchy Thoughts was hacked, not sure how, and while all of the blog posts are safe the template was redirecting people to kunoichi.info, probably so that whoever is trying…
rtod: a town without poverty. it happened in canada.
Revolutionary thought of the day: Initially, the Mincome program was conceived as a labour market experiment. The government wanted to know what would happen if everybody in town received a…
In Sunday’s Sun: don’t tear down that wall
The church should not dictate to the state. And the state has no business — none — dictating to the church. If you disagree with that, or if you still…
Saturday At The Movies
This clip is from the 1987 Japanese film Hachiko monogatari (a.k.a. Hachi-ko), which tells the true story of an Akita’s devotion to his master. Hachiko was born in Odate, Japan…
Dazed and Confused: Swinimer version #nlpoli
You know things are bad when even the people who back Muskrat Falls without question start challenging stuff that has long ago been proven correct. The heir to the Moon…
Defection from Harper Office to Air Canada is Latest Evidence of Revolving Door at Top of Government
The media is understandably perturbed that Stephen Harper’s deputy chief of staff, Derek Vanstone, has been hired as a new executive and lobbyist by Air Canada. Vanstone and Air Canada…
Crispy Clark Turns Bitumen Basher – Too Little, Too Late
BC’s unelected and unelectable premier, Christie Clark, is throwing “free enterprise” caution to the wind in a desperate bid to reverse her political fortunes. After dummying-up for months about the…