Nine years older nine years later
It’s been so long I had to look up what SARS stood for (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome). That was part of the underlying score as I spent five weeks in…
2012
linkathon part 2: charlotte’s web at 60
Two great books – both children’s classics, and both simply great books for any reader – had milestone birthdays this year. A Wrinkle In Time, which I’ve blogged about before,…
CBC to jettison Wheel of Fortune, Jeopardy!
Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy!, two popular U.S. game shows, will not be returning to the CBC prime-time or prime time lineup in the fall of 2012.
linkathon part 1: hawkcam 2012
I have a bunch of links I want to share, and no real post for any of them. I think readers don’t like linkathons, so I’m putting each link in…
Where’s Waldo
Bruce Anderson articulates well the challenges we Liberals face moving forward. The very last line sums up nicely the predicament The choices the Liberals make over the next few months…
4560…Want To Know A Secret?
Ask the Stephen Harpers. The Globe and Mail reports that “Stephen Harper’s Conservative government has won this year’s Code of Silence Award from the Canadian Association of Journalists.”Apparently they, the…
Interpersonal Politics – Movie Monday
So, recently a number of friends of mine have gone on the job hunt or are just generally trying to figure out their professional life. Maybe you’ve guessed that by…
Lord of the Flies
Lord of the Flies follows a group of boys as they go to the worst summer camp ever. There are no tents or cabins for them to sleep in, the…
Progress Is Measured In Small Increments
A decades-old pro-asbestos lobby group, currently funded by the Quebec government, will be shutting its doors after notifying the federal government of its plan to dissolve. …but it can be…
Super Hero Leaps For Climate Action
Last year a hole had to be cut in the ice to allow us to leap, but for the second annual Leap in Red Lake For Climate Action, the lake…
The Harper Perversion Of the Temporary Foreign Workers Program
In what looks like yet another invitation by the Harper regime to corporate thievery in Canada, Human Resources Minister Diane Finley last week announced that employers will now be able…
The Muskrat Ah-Prentice #nlpoli
The local Tories were all twitterpated over the weekend with Jim Prentice’s comments about the Lower Churchill. One suspects, of course, that they were loving it all up for the…
We Can Be Such Children!
…. but we can live with that. Happy Dead Hitler Day, one of the few deaths we will happily commemorate.
Art for social justice: 12 remarkable women – Roots to Resistance project shares stories of courage
Natalia Estemirova Twelve women. Twelve stories of political courage. Twelve portraits. The Roots to Resistance project is spreading word about the groundbreaking work of twelve women who have dedicated their…
Assessing Alison Redford and Danielle Smith: one minute you’re a hero and the next you’re a bum!
Wellington rallies his troops during the Battle of Waterloo. “The nearest run thing you ever saw in your life.” Below: I think you’ve all seen enough photos of Alison Redford…
4559…Competition In Health Care Is Good V.2
Plus we need to get more doctors, toute and suite. That means opening up medical schools and getting aggressive in recruiting foreign doctors and credentializing them in a more timely…
Shake up in the BC Liberal senior ranks
But let’s be honest, this isn’t going to save them. The problem is that there’s nothing liberal about ‘em.
4558…Competition In Health Care Is Good
I know it will cause a lot of you to plotz but the fact is that if we in Ontario and Canada are going to fix health care and make…