Julian Fantino and the CIDA Scandal
Last night I wrote a post about how the Harper regime is turning CIDA into the Con International Development Agency. I was also planning to mention how the Harperites have…
January 2013
5512…Why Brits Have Big Teeth
And they do. Found out why in The Daily Telegram. According to that esteemed rag Tesco, Iceland, Lidl, Aldi and Dunnes Stores, uh these are grocery stores that are as…
5511…People Don’t Like Change
Check this out from Airchecker Canada. It is a cut and paste about the early days of the car radio. n 1930, laws were proposed in Massachusetts and St. Louis…
5510…Honey Boo Boo Star Is Positive
As in HIV positive. “Lee Thompson, one of the stars of TLC‘s “Here Comes Honey Boo Boo,” says in an interview with an Atlanta magazine that he is HIV-positive.”Mr. Thompson,…
Inspired by Aaron Swartz
“I think everyone should be inspired by what this one young person has been able to accomplish in his short life. Beyond that, I think the takeaway from this incident…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Helpful cats.
Book Review: Too Much Magic
While I enjoy reading the works of James Howard Kunstler, I’m always hesitant to talk or write about them. His low-tech vision of the future seems too far out there…his…
Sixth Estate Makes Available Julian Fantino’s Ministerial Missives
Canada’s most inept international aid minister ever, Julian Fantino, published two extraordinary partisan screeds on his agency’s website recently which have caused a bit of a kerfuffle in the news.…
A Film from the NFB that Tells the Story Behind Theresa Spence’s Hunger Strike
Where would we be with out the National Film Board? For decades it has been making excellent films about Canada and Canadians. As it happens a film released last year,…
You’re Doing It Wrong
I just got a PM from a candidate for the upcoming BC Provincial election letting me know that they were advised to shut down their personal FB page for the…
Campaign Update: December’s Financials
Financial Reports: LINK Another month in the leadership campaign down means another chance to take a look at some financial report numbers. Obviously, the big story coming out of the…
Ethical Ignorance
So, has anyone else noticed that “Ethical Oil’s” news feed has been dead since September, 2012? I guess it would be quite difficult to write about how ethical Canada is…
Educators and Enbridge
There was some “controversy” earlier this year when the media (main stream) picked up a story about the BCTF producing teaching materials about the Enbridge pipeline. I use quotes because…
Of Toronto G20 protests and “abuse orchestrated by fascist states”
by Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive, Jan 15, 2013: Ontario Superior Court Justice Harriet Sachs says police behaviour during the Toronto G20 protests had “the eerie overtones of the…
Aaron Swartz, 1986-2013
Be curious. Read widely. Try new things. I think a lot of what people call intelligence just boils down to curiosity -Aaron Swartz, 1986-2013 The past weekend open-access advocate and…
Deborah Coyne meets the press
It’s been a busy few days for Liberal leadership candidate Deborah Coyne, doing several media interviews around the launch of her new ebook Unscripted: A Life Devoted to Building a…
Sudbury and North Bay: Layoff a professional, hire a professional
Cuts to nursing positions in Southern Ontario do apparently have a silver lining. Sudbury’s Health Sciences North says hard times for health care workers in the south are solving some…
Rafe Mair Is Back And I Am Stealing His Posts Again!
Rafe Mair – Political Blogger Holidays are over and Rafe is back telling it like it is. His response to the heavy handed Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s handling of…
I knew it
Doping, and now this! Is there no end to his shame?
REVIEW: What Money Can’t Buy by Michael J. Sandel
Robert Fulford’s year-end musing in The National Post, “2012, the year when money somehow became unpopular” contains a predictably jaundiced view of two recent scholarly works about contemporary capitalism, What…