Not Exactly a Confidence Builder
For reasons I don’t understand I often read the Times Colonist online before I go out to the front porch and pick up the morning’s print edition. This morning the…
January 2013
Jack Knox It Straight Out of the Park
Victoria Times Colonist scribe Jack Knox has it right. It’s not eco-hippies who will stop Harper’s Northern Gateway pipeline, it’s the heart of middle-class Canada who will do that job.…
Walk a Mile
A few days ago, I had one of those “eff you, I’m turning off the radio and all y’all are just a bunch of paint-sniffing reticulated jerk muffins” moments. It…
Don’t Bet On A (n Ontario) Spring Election, Part Duh
The NDP has done well wielding the balance of power over the past year, and seems disinclined to lose its leverage by triggering an early election. Horwath has hinted that…
One Fish. One Point Seven Million Dollars. Adios, Blue Fin.
It’s a record. A 222kg blue fin tuna was sold for $1.7-million (155m yen) at Tokyo’s Tsukiji fish market. High bids traditionally mark the year’s first auction at Tokyo’s Tsukiji…
Attention Bloggers In Ontario: The Ontario Liberal Party Will Accredit Bloggers to Leadership Convention
After some persistent inquiries, it was announced over the Ontario Liberal Party’s twitter account (@OntLiberal) that they would be accrediting bloggers for the Leadership Convention – which is from Jan…
How Us Settlers Can Be In Solidarity With #IdleNoMore
Twitter / suzhawkins: As settlers… #idlenomore …. York University’s Suzanne Hawkins is my hero today for showing us all this amazing poster that succinctly describes how us non-indigenous settler folk…
5486…Michael Moore On Chief Spence
Nada. That speaks volumes to me. WFDS
Mazza in the Globe
I have many things to say about this but due to a generous court settlement, I can’t.
Young Woman Shot by Taliban Recovering
Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy She is very brave, great to hear that Malala is recovering. It is appalling that she – a…
5485…The Beginning Of The End
NFL playoffs start today. Bittersweet. Go Bills! WFDS
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Crawford Kilian comments on Chrystia Freeland’s Plutocrats as a useful expression of trends many of us have seen in action for some time:…
Dr. Denial: Q and A
Here. Questions and answers: Why did the elusive Chris Mazza “break his silence”? Because someone suspects they are about to hear from the OPP, and because they want to lay…
Liberals feeling good about ourselves
…because, as Twain said, reports of our death have been an exaggeration.
Reasons why newspapers are like dinosaurs: a continuing series
Check this out. Read it where this guy says I claimed my web site would become “dominant.” Problem: I didn’t say that. I was linking to the CBC’s web site,…
Is Tar Baby the new N-Word?
As far back as I can recall, the term “tar baby” was a metaphor in common political parlance for a “sticky situation.” It has no racial meaning in that context,…
Jan. 5: THEY NOTICED…
The Moncton Times and Transcript hasn’t said much; but it has noticed there’s an Idle No More movement.They haven’t noticed what lies behind it – the wretched housing, the poverty,…
Haiti In Fantino’s Crosshairs
Julian Fantino — who proclaimed before Christmas that Canada’s foreign aid would be linked to Canadian corporate opportunities — announced this week that Canada was suspending aid to Haiti, that…
Hit TV series reminds us why we need a public health system
Several years ago musician and labour advocate Tom Juravich reminded us that popular culture can be a means of comprehending an issue at a much deeper level than traditional political…
Saturday Photo: Bolo Rei a Day Early
Tomorrow is Epiphany or the Kings’ Day, when the Magi supposedly showed up with presents for the baby Jesus. We’ve never celebrated it, although many of our friends do a…