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2012
The Wave of Social Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneur and successful executive Jeff Church founded Nika Water to create a thriving social enterprise that supports clean water projects in impoverished countries. In this inspiring lecture, Church lays out…
Megalomania
In her comment on one of Susan Riley’s recent columns in The Ottawa Citizen, Cathleen Kneen writes: There is a clear pattern here, from proroguing Parliament to the omnibus “budget”…
Why I’m Boycotting Bob Rae
For all the reasons listed here and one more. I’m not fighting that fight again. I’m not fighting to keep someone out of the leadership. I’ll fight to get someone…
Favourite Poems LVII: Death
The first two lines — “Because I could not stop for Death,/He kindly stopped for me” — must be among the greatest opening lines of any poem. Death Because I…
Gated Democracy? – Protesting The Harper Omnibus Budget Bill – Part 2
Yesterday I got a glimpse of the kind of democratic expression that is considered acceptable under the Harper regime. It is one that I found profoundly disturbing. Almost a week…
In today’s Sun (early): what the end of s. 13 will mean
Kike. Don’t like that? Too bad. Nigger. Faggot. Paki. Chink. Don’t like those, either? Again, too bad. As of last week, Stephen Harper’s Conservative government made it a lot easier…
How to Eliminate Tuition Fees (and do it right)
Quebec student group CLASSE has come forward with an offer of what it would take to end their almost four-month strike: the elimination of tuition fees by 2016. The plan…
Fist pump
Yes! Female pilot tosses passenger off flight for making sexist remarks: A Brazilian airline says one of its female pilots tossed a passenger off a flight because he was making…
4721…Rick Jeanneret
If you are a hockey fan, especially one from Toronto, Niagara and parts in between, you surely know the name Rick Jeanneret. The ultimate homer, Mr. Jeanneret has been doing…
Dangerous driving and fault
R. v. Roy, 2012 SCC 26 considers the fault component of a charge of dangerous driving: Dangerous driving causing death is…
Saturday At The Movies
Here’s a video out of small-town New Brunswick that’s gone viral, From Sussex and I Know It. The lyrics are a little hard to understand, but I’ve copied them below:…
A classic image
Flocke
Ask General Kang: I heard the Pentagon experimented with a ‘gay bomb’ — do you have a favorite non-lethal weapon?
Seriously, a ‘gay bomb’? My guess is they got to the testing stage and discovered that making soldiers sexually irresistible to one another actually made them more efficient, vicious killers.…
Shabbiha militiamen appear to be off the leash, targeting Sunni civilians regardless of their part in the uprising
It's not obvious al-Assad will be forced from power. He may survive, albeit on a mountain of corpses. Clearly that's his gamble although he may have lost control of his…
Our Warming Capital: Environment Canada Weather Data Shows Climate Change in Ottawa Since 1930s
They say all politics is local, and at the end of the day, the effects of climate change will be, too. And since the collective wisdom of the media and…
Harper Conservative response to NDP seems delusional – and apparently ineffective
The Conservative Party’s Parliamentary brain trust figures out how to respond to Opposition Leader Thomas Mulcair during Question Period. Below: Nik Nanos. No one should be particularly shocked that yelps…
Standing in the Circle of the Cedar
Please watch and listen to this beautiful and poignant plea to save the BC coast from the greed of Big Oil and the complicity of "our" government. The thought, talent…
Standing in the Circle of the Cedar
Please watch and listen to this beautiful and poignant plea to save the BC coast from the greed of Big Oil and the complicity of “our” government. The thought, talent…