Pro Same Sex Marriage GOP Candidate…….Maybe?
With Rob Portman, the senator from Ohio along with the many prominent Republicans like Dick Cheney, Meg Whitman and Laura Bush supporting gay marriage is it possible to see a…
March 2013
Take Time To Renew Your Spirit
Via Brian McClaren’s blog, Holy Week: Meditation 6: Wherever there is death … wherever hope is buried … wherever evil triumphs over law, and wherever law triumphs over grace ……
The Con Mob and the Disappearing Budget
As you probably know, I've been portraying the Cons as a scary mob for a very long time.From the days when Bev "Juice" Oda was running with the Harper gang,…
Dangerous charity caught in Harper Government web
Environmental charities ‘laundering’ foreign funds, Kent says, CBC News, May 1, 2012 Some charitable environmental groups in Canada are “laundering” funds from offshore donors to obstruct Canada’s environmental assessment process,…
In Sunday’s Sun: there’s nothing negative about telling the truth
“I will not go negative.” Justin Trudeau had been warming up to saying those words for a few minutes, as he sat before a sold-out crowd of hundreds at Toronto’s…
Listen to this Amazing Version of ‘Lean on Me’
Listen to this amazing young boy, born blind with autism as he leads this Children’s Choir in Bill Wither’s classic. Daphne had posted this on Facebook. Thank you Daphne! LEAN…
Robert Baden Powell Has Advice For Shawnigan Residents
Dave Hutchinson of the ‘Shawnigan Focus’ sent this gem along Yesterday, a friend mentioned Robert Baden-Powell, the man who founded the Scouting Movement in the early 1900s. We were discussing…
google, what have you got against choice?
Google is losing a lot of friends lately. Their recent decisions to discontinue iGoogle and Reader are making many people unhappy. Today, to the great dismay of many Gmail users,…
5801…Bacon Jumps The Shark
I got this from Gawker. J&D’s Bacon Condoms™ are proudly Made in America of the highest quality latex. Every Bacon Condom has been rigorously tested to help ensure reliability and…
Someday, this could all be ours
Yesiree, frequent standardized testing sure does help teachers focus on what’s most important… Ms. Parks admitted to Mr. Hyde that she was one of seven teachers — nicknamed “the chosen”…
"Humans have never dealt with nature’s complexity…"
Allan Savory, on learning together: “We have learning sites, where the boundaries are soft psychologically. We’re all learning together because we don’t have answers. We just have a way forward…
Metcalfe – 95km
Since I’m so much later starting than last year, I figured I’d skip some of the normal, 40km or 60km startup rides. Why not hey? After all, I did more…
Tom Flanagan’s Too Brief Exile
Consider Tom Flanagan rehabilitated. All it took was a dead premier to get him back in the public eye. That and the Globe & Mail. On the occasion of the…
The World Should Consider North Korea As Dangerous And Deranged, Now Threatening Others In The Global Community …
I don’t think it’s wise to ignore the political lunacy spewing from North Korea this week. They are isolated and paranoid. Their rigid ideology leaves them reacting to everything with…
Utah’s Students Forced to Push Fossil Fuel Propaganda for Earth Day
Last week, Huffington Post reported a story about the Utah Division of Oil, Gas & Mining’s ridiculous Earth Day Poster Contest. You know, the one where elementary school students were…
The Bitumen Cliff
The so-called “bitumen bubble”, the hollowing out of Alberta’s oil prices, has left the seemingly wealthy province with a staggering budget deficit of billions. With an economy now mostly dependent…
Kormos
I am so sad to learn of his death. He used to say that he wanted to turn me into a New Democrat. With more guys like him, I’d say,…
We Are The 130,744
That’s how many souls registered to vote for the new LPoC leader, according to an email today from party president Mike Crawley. Being under 1/2 the 294,000 number touted several…
5800…Former Sunshine Boy Dies
That would be Peter Kormos, a Niagara Regional Councilor who represented Welland and who was MPP from that Niagara town for 23 years. A life long Dipper, Mr. Kormos was…
Rogers wasn’t afraid to take risks by Jeff Blair
Writer reflects on Ted Rogers and his role with Toronto sports teams.