Keeping in touch
Hey everyone. I just wanted to write a bit of a post for everybody at Mount Allison (and everywhere else) on how to keep in touch with me now that…
2012
4690…Ottawa Is Town Of Hypocrites
I don’t just mean on The Hill either. There is this sex exhibition in Ottawa at the Museum of Science and Technology that is on now. OMG if you were…
Let’s All Feel Sorry for the Tarsands Industry
On behalf of Westerners with an IQ above 85, let me just say that Tom Mulcair does not owe me an apology for stating the obvious truth that the currency…
Fun political video
“I’m not familiar precisely with exactly what I said, but I stand by what I said. Whatever it was.” What he said, for the record, that he is standing by…
the whole world is watching: veterans to return medals in nato/poverty protests this weekend
All eyes will be on Chicago this weekend, as thousands of protesters from all over North American converge on the the NATO summit. The symbolism could not be more trenchant,…
World’s First Hockey Player Clearly Gay
Not that there’s anything wrong with that. In fact, I bet there were fewer concussions and general head-hunting behavior back in ye oldyn tymes.
Quebec government bludgeons student strikers with emergency law
Quebec premier Jean Charest announced May 16 that he will introduce emergency legislation to end the militant student strike, now in its 14th week, that has shut down college and…
Senior Toronto Officers Facing Charges
The Star reports the following: About five high-ranking Toronto police officers were informed last week they will face misconduct charges for their actions during the G20 summit, the Star has…
See that blur? It’s the Copyright Modernization Act flying through Parliament
The controversial Copyright Modernization Act, Bill C-11, has shot through Parliament—its Introduction and First Reading, Second Reading, Committee Stage, and recently-completed Report Stage all took place in only a few…
New Shill Gas Study Published by SUNY Buffalo Institute With Heavy Industry Ties
shutterstock_15465343.jpg When does a study on the unconventional shale gas industry become a "shill gas study"? The quick answer: when nearly everyone writing and peer reviewing it has close ties…
A solution to the Québec student strikes…bill baby boomers
I’m really getting fed up with baby boomers, especially those who to try to characterize the Québec student strikers as being greedy and out of touch with reality. Talk about…
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Cons Shoot the Messenger
They told the truth the Government didn’t want to hear. They had to go. “They” are the National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy. The message advocated introduction…
Peter Sinclair’s New Video Skewers Heartland’s Offensive "Murderers, Tyrants and Madmen" Billboard Campaign
Peter Sinclair, the creator of the "Climate Crock of the Week" series, has a new video posted at the Yale Forum on Climate Change and the Media documenting just how…
Labour Struggles in the New Age of Austerity
The first months of 2012 hardly represented a new beginning for the working class in Canada and internationally. From the riots and general strike in Greece to the lockout of…
Using police to suppress political opponents
RCMP conducted five-month national security probe into leaked F-35 story, Murray Brewster and Jim Bronskill, The Canadian Press, May 16, 2012 “The Harper government called in the RCMP to investigate…
Pirating helps music sales? Uh huh
A new study says BitTorrent piracy found by study to boost music sales. Right. BGR even points out the obvious way this study seems suspicious. Look, everyone “pirates” stuff to…
Household Division Band Rehearsal
This one is for all the musicians…band musicians, that is. The bands of the guards regiments of the Household Division are among the best bands of their type, made up…