4512…5200 4/20 On Parliament Hill
That is a lot of pot heads, like .05 per cent of the population of Ottawa’s metro area. No fuss, no muss, lots of high. According to Russell Barth in…
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Danielle Smith wants your kids to smoke cigarettes
It’s sure starting to look like she does. Out of all the parties, only Wildrose’s Danielle Smith refused to support the majority of the measures that would keep cigarettes out…
Some Blather From Gerry Nichols: Your Mother Wears Army Boots
Earlier this week, Gerry Nichols, self-described on his website as One of Canada’s Top Five Political Minds, wrote an opinion piece in The Start entitled, In praise of negative political…
Canada’s oil is cheap
Stephen Harper wants to sell our oil at any cost. He wants to be a good salesman. Why Harper should take the blame? Because the buck stops at Prime Minister’s…
A Genetic Justification For Liberalism
It’s little wonder that liberalism endorses science when no other ideology is more endorsed by it. Foundational liberal principles have been recently strengthened by new research, solidifying the ideology not…
George Zimmerman Lies under oath
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Watch this video and you be the judge.
Reading today (when I’m not writing)
When I read it’s a bit like grazing in front of the dessert table (minus the diabetic considerations). So it is that I am currently reading, roughly a chapter…
Vic Toews’ Prison Shock Doctrine Recipe
Closing prisons from the 19th century is surely a good idea, but I have no faith that the Conservative Party cares to replace them with anything progressive based on research…
What I Have Learned from Nursing
The world of nursing on a couple of dozen flash cards. From The Nursing Channel on YouTube. While I don’t agree necessarily with every card — some of them, I…
Arab Spring: How Obama and the West are missing the boat
Thebinational business and politicalreporter Erid Reguly is always a pleasure to read. His columns in the Globe& Mail demonstrate that the years he hasspent in the US and Europe have…
Dumbing down Canadians
It started, perhaps, with the Economic Council of Canada. The Council, a Crown Corporation whose role was to conduct a wide range of economic and policy research for the federal…
George Zimmerman’s boodied head
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Paul Fromm: The Veil of Respectability Slips a Little More
You know it's amazing what a few weeks off will do for one's mental well-being. On April 1 when I announced I was taking a break from the blog, I…
Exposing the Gas Industry’s Myth of ‘Recycled Water’
fracking-photo-drink.jpg Reposted with permission from EcoWatch.org (a fantastic site that you should bookmark and visit often) Authored by Mackenzie Schoonmaker and Mike Dulong from Riverkeeper Every time the gas industry…
Sixth Estate Patronage List Updated
The Harper regime’s latest round of Crown appointments have been posted online, and the Sixth Estate Patronage List has been updated accordingly. Around 37% of new appointments outside the existing…
Stephen Harper who?
Not one of the Jeopardy Contestants knew who Stephen Harper was. He sold his soul to Americans and maybe he is more often on T.V in the U.S than Canada…
Will Religious Fundamentalism Become the Last Bastion of Climate Change Denialism?
One by one, the doors are slowly closing shut on the climate change denialists. They’ve had a good run. They have perpetrated a highly-successful scam and have bought a great…
Margaret Wente Scores Another Win For Superficial Thinking
I suspect that with the exception of her employer, few believe The Globe’s Margaret Wente is a subtle thinker who deserves a forum in the self-proclaimed ‘newspaper of record.’ Her…
On short-sightedness
Others have already drawn parallels between the Cons’ plan to require Employment Insurance recipients to accept whatever low-paying temporary work might be available as a condition of receiving the benefits…
Bill 22 and US education ‘reform’
A teacher wrote on our Facebook page the other day asking what the connection was between Bill 22 and US education reforms. I had posted an article about a teacher…