QOTD: Rethinking Sex-Positivity & Sex Work
Audacia Ray: If we put aside our attachment to the sex positive construction of sex work, we will certainly hear things that will be hard to sit with. But for…
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Another Wildrose Bozone Eruption
Here, courtesy of GC.
Go For It, Andrea Horwath
Conducted by Public Polling Inc., the survey found that “over two thirds of respondents would like to see corporations pay their fair share to help reduce the provincial deficit, with…
predicting alberta’s election results.
We have received more than 100 entries for the joint Daveberta and CalgaryGrit Great Alberta Election pool and have entered these predictions into a state of the art spreadsheet to…
In today’s Sun: Danielle Smith, kook
Harper didn’t just win by uniting the right, however. He did something else, too. For a decade, Chretien defeated conservatives by highlighting every boneheaded, xenophobic utterance by (mostly) Reform Party…
Matthew Kalkman on New Liberalism
The Deets on “New Liberalism” From Wikipedia: New Liberalism is a book by Matthew Kalkman that examines the evolution of Liberalism from its early beginnings to its potential future incarnations.…
Alberta Votes Day 28: What to expect tomorrow
I’ve already written about the difficulties of using seat projection models due to the unique circumstances of this Alberta election. So rather than crunch the numbers, I thought it might…
Prime-Time Ratings Bring Speculation of a Shift in Habits by Bill Carter
Columnist says that across the television landscape viewing for all sorts of prime-time programming is down this spring — chiefly among the most important audience for the business, younger adults.
Image: The Big Telecom price-gouging cycle
The cycle of telecom price-gouging. Take action: http://pricehike.ca/ Click to enlarge. read more
Matt Damon “‘I Would Kiss George W. Bush on the Mouth’ for His AIDS Work”
Matt Damon: I would kiss George W. Bush on the mouth for what he did on PEPFAR. Reporter Jeffrey Goldberg: How long would you kiss him? Matt Damon: Three seconds.…
Sunday Reading Recommendation
For an insightful analysis of the choices facing both Andrea Horwath and Dalton McGuinty as they negotiate over changes to the Ontario budget that will win the support of the…
4517…Dan Quayle And Shopping
You can combine the joy of hearing the former Vice President of the USA speak and do some quality shopping next month. Dan Quayle is scheduled to give the commencement…
Mulcair doesn’t clarify stance on pot decriminalization
Would he support making it legal? Saying someone with a small amount of marijuana shouldn't go to jail says nothing about the legal status of marijuana — very few people…
4516…Ottawa Is A Happy Town This Day
The Ottawa Senators won last night. This is the team that all on the planet, excepting Don Brennan of The Ottawa Sun, said were going to be soooooooooo bad. The…
One Tyrant & Three Amigos
With last week being the 30th anniversary of thepatriation of our Constitution and the adoption of the CANADIANCHARTER OF RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS it seems that itis appropriate for a blog…
4515…Earth Day
Is today. I thought we did this one a couple of week’s back when we turned out our lights for an hour. I was wrong. Not sure how to celebrate…
Finally, Someone Has Noticed
…that the Wildrose Human Rights platform goes a wee bit beyond repealing the hate speech section of the. From WK’s Sun column today: Wildrose’s platform wants to kill a section…
Mysterious Humming Sound in Windsor
Mystery solved.:) You will have to watch the whole video to understand the source of humming sound!
For Iran, A Generic U.S. Drone
Apparently, Iranian engineers have successfully decoded America’s captured reconnaissance drone and now Tehran intends to build a copy. The Islamic Republic’s military captured the US RQ-170 Sentinel reconnaisance aircraft last…