Heat and Skyline
Spring came early to Toronto. Summer arrived early too and I don’t like heat. Thank goodness it’s supposed to break next week. But we’re on the way to the island…
2012
Thomas Walkom Opines on E.I. Changes
To this Conservative government, anything that might interfere with the mythical free market — and particularly with the market’s downward pressure on wages — is anathema. The above is just…
Stories we couldn’t let pass by this week
CCACs hire 144 direct care nurses This month the government announced 900 new nursing positions to come from their 2007 commitment to 9,000 new nurses for the health system. Among…
Food security
This story does leave me in two minds. One, who is the UN to dictate to Canada? But the other — the UN has a point. I have seen how…
Conor’s Autism Reality: From Joy To Self Injurious Behavior In A Flash
I have never accepted, and have in fact been openly contemptuous of, the view that autism is a joy, an alternative, even superior way of thinking. My son’s autistic disorder…
Calvinist Hypocrisy
Nothing betrays the Calvinist-Social Credit roots of the present government more than this week’s Employment Insurance “reforms.” Tom Walkom writes: Behind this week’s changes to Canada’s Employment Insurance system lie…
The Butler Did It!
This report kind of reminds me of an old spoof on small-town newspapers I once saw, with the headline “Two Local Women Missing in Japan” with almost the entire front…
#Casseroles: Viral Video From Montreal
* Montreal Pots And Pans Video of Protest Against Bill 78 Goes Viral
Canada’s Selective Immigration Strategy: an Evolution (Part 3/6)
1906 — INDIANS NEED NOT NAVIGATE TO CANADAThen-Clerk of the Privy Council, Rodolphe Boudreau wrote on the restriction of immigration from the Orient, in particular British East Indians: “Experience has…
Agriculture Minister Complains that His Staff Don’t Expense As Much to Taxpayers as He Does
Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz is hopping mad. He put a civil servant in Guelph, one Bill Teeter, in charge of a spending review in Ottawa, had him travel back and…
Quebec and the Spirit of Resistance
A massive thunderstorm hit Montreal this evening. The heavens really opened up. But that didn't stop thousands of people from parading through the streets, beating their pots and pans. Even…
Content strategy workshop notes
I wasn’t as prepared as I would have liked to have been alas. Today I gave the content strategy workshop, one of two I’m doing at the CALM conference. Here’s…
In today’s Sun: His Royalness
His Royal Highness The Prince Charles Philip Arthur George, Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester, Duke of Cornwall, Duke of Rothesay, Earl of Carrick, Baron of Renfrew, Lord of…
Musical interlude
Sou Kanai – Awakening (Sunn Jellie Remix)
is there any life left in the [alberta] party?
Tweet The Alberta Party's former Acting-Leader Sue Huff and MLA Dave Taylor on January 2011. The only person to sit as an Alberta Party MLA in the Legislative Assembly, former…
Friday night
Alesso & Dirty South – City Of Dreams – Exclusive Preview Yeah, more house music…have a good one!
Credit where credit is due
Hurray for Constable Bubbles. He has done the right thing in identifying fellow police officers who broke the law. More cops should do the same. Tweet The Rev. Paperboy Feed
Suggestion by Cactus that CBC/Radio-Canada should offer its analogue infrastructure to communities
Press release says CACTUS risks confusing communities about the critical distinction between towers and transmitters, and of the different circumstances facing CBC/Radio-Canada and TVO.
Who is silenced by the animal health law?
Friday, May 25, 2012 You may have read about a provision in the proposed Animal Health Act which would make it illegal for journalists or scientists to report on animal…