Holy Sit
Kids were getting chemical burns from a toilet seat (and probably desk, for a boy with burned elbows) at an Ottawa area school. Most likely the disinfectant was sprayed on…
February 2013
#skndpldr Candidate Rankings – February 12
As I mentioned in my follow-up notes from Saturday’s Saskatchewan NDP leadership debate, the candidates’ performance hasn’t done much to change my impression as to their relative position. (Which, as…
Christian Crossroads Previously Dinged By CSBC For Gay-Bashing Show
Christian Crossroads Communications has been in the news recently over this: A Canadian Christian communications group that does taxpayer-funded development work in Uganda has rejected allegations that it is anti-gay…
Why Fidlar may be the most important band in the history of the world
Fidlar is a band from L.A. Their name is an acronym: Fuck it, dog, life’s a risk. There are four of them, they are social blemishes, and they are perhaps…
The Ideal 25 Hour Work Week
The currently popular 40 hour work week is a fairly modern notion and it’s thanks to unions that we don’t have something like an 80 hour work week. Times have…
Dramatic Increase In Arctic Methane Release Requires Dramatic Increase In Political Will To Address Climate Crisis
* All eyes in the climate change community are going to be on President Obama tonight as he delivers his State of the Union address, which outlines his administration’s vision…
Justin Trudeau’s Defence Of The Existing Senate Structure Is NOT What You Could Call ‘Democracy’
Trudeau says appoint better senators, forget reforming upper chamber Imagine! The man who wants to lead the Liberal Party of Canada believes in APPOINTED Senators. My question to Trudeau is…
Tasha on Sandra
Tasha is always worth reading, if you ask me. “After losing the premier’s office, why would Pupatello want to take charge of the most difficult file in cabinet? Do a…
Newfoundland Act, 1949 (Terms of Union)
Newfoundland Act 12 & 13 Geo. VI, c. 22 (U.K.) An Act to confirm and give effect to Terms of Union agreed between Canada and Newfoundland. Whereas by means of…
140Law – Legal Headlines for Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Tuesday, February 12, 2013: Social Media Law in Canada (Part 1: The Rogue Employee) This week at the…
I’m Not Sayin’ (I’m Just Sayin’)
The following nugget was buried at the bottom of a follow-up CP report on how CIDA helped fund the Ugandan aid work of the virulently anti-gay Crossroads Christian Communications (in…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Yves Engler discusses the importance of a “social wage” – and how the minimum standard of living we’re prepared to tolerate affects…
The Women Have Arrived
When Kathleen Wynne introduced her cabinet yesterday, she became the fifth woman premier in the federation. Lawrence Martin writes: Now, women run much of the federation. They are at the…
The Asteroid of Doom
Coming soon to a planet near you. Filed under: art, digital, drawing Tagged: asteroid, Doom, extinction, fear
Or maybe doomsday just postponed…
A story in Science Daily today talks about the effect that antibiotics used in animals has had on humans. Or rather, on antibiotic-resistant bacteria which are dangerous to humans. The…
So, you say Sun News deserves a chance on TV?
How about you say that after you see this piece of bullshit, just today put out all across the Sun News network: Evangelicals are un-Canadian: NDP leader Thomas Mulcair NDP…
A Timely Reminder From Linda McQuaig
Fanned by a corporate-dominated media, it is hardly a surprise that anti-union sentiment seems to be rampant today. Everywhere we look, there are articles decrying the ‘unchecked power’ of union…
Plan to radically remake Windsor hospitals
The Windsor Star suggests today that the city is likely to be reduced to one acute care hospital. Hotel Dieu and Windsor Regional have agreed to a partnership that will…
VICTORY: Canadians Killed Harper’s Internet Surveillance Bill C-30
by Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive, Feb. 12, 2013: Prime Minister Stephen Harper‘s Internet surveillance Bill C-30 is dead. The demise of the deceptively christened Protecting Children From Internet…