Attack can be the sincerest form of flattery #lpcldr
As readers of my blog would know, I have been supporting Joyce Murray in the Liberal leadership campaign. I have been proud to do so as Joyce has run a…
March 2013
History’s Repeating Patterns: Ronald Wright on ‘Progress’, Collapse
Why do civilizations tend to “collapse” soon after reaching their peak? Because they continue to expand until they overreach the maximum exploitation of resources that their environment can tolerate. Then…
Has Alison Redford Lost Her Nerve?
Yesterday’s awful Alberta budget, which pussyfoots around the deficit issue by dividing the budget into three separate accounts, avoided both raising taxes and having massive across-the-board cuts by going into…
Wall’s Leaky Logic
Brad Wall went to Washington in order to pitch the Keystone XL pipeline project. In doing so, he made some really absurd claims, that CTV failed to juxtapose against the…
Experts Question Human Rights Watch’s Venezuela Report
Richard ‘Hub’ Hughes- Political Blogger As the condemnation of Hugo Chavez and his efforts to improve the lives of his nation accelerate the straight out revisionist flapdoodle is in high…
Your Cell Phone Horror Stories in the News
Yesterday saw the launch of our crowdsourced report, Time for an Upgrade: Demanding Choice in Canada’s Cell Phone Market, which amplified citizen voices in calling for an end to customer…
Time for an upgrade | Weekly News Update from OpenMedia.ca
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Harper and His Cabal, When Men get Desperate. . .
I haven’t watched the thursday political panel on The National for a while but I caught it yesterday and was somewhat surprised by what I heard. The conversation was further…
No adult supervision #nlpoli
Not even 24 hours after the Premier insisted that the daily layoffs would continue until finance minister Jerome Kennedy delivered his budget speech, Jerome issued a news release – at…
Free Int’l Women’s Day Films at NFB.ca
The beaten (by the Canadian Conservative budget cuts) but not down National Film Board of Canada is offering a treasure trove of titles for free streaming today, in celebration and…
Can Your Grandma Do This?
What a darling. As the tune dies down, 88-year old Nana explains: “I could dance all f***ing day.”
A Superior Court has the inherent power to dismiss an action when the claim does not disclose a reasonable cause of action
Cavanaugh v. Grenville Christian College, 2013 ONCA 139 holds, somewhat surprisingly, that a Superior Court judge has the power to dismiss a claim for failure to disclose a cause of…
Rob Ford a Groper and Dirty Old Man???
Former Toronto mayoral candidate Sarah Thomson says bad boy Mayor Rob Ford hit on her and grabbed her ass. Here’s a picture Thomson posted of herself an an apparently happy…
Conrad Black Stands Up for Tom Flanagan
It seems Connie Black got to know a few guys slammed up for possession of kiddie porn while he was in prison and he says that, like Tom Flanagan, they…
Inconvenient Truths for White Men
Men, especially white men, sleep too easily at night while women earn 70 per cent of what we do. Secretly, I think we’d prefer to not have to talk about…
Greedy Lying Bastards, New Film Pulls No Punches To Expose Climate Denial Machine
Greedy Lying Bastards is a new film hitting mainstream theaters nationwide in the U.S. this weekend. If you like DeSmogBlog, you’re going to love this film. Here’s the Rotten Tomatoes…
International Women’s Day 2013
International Women’s Day: What’s the way forward? By Judy Rebick | March 8, 2013 As an aging feminist I am often asked to speak about the progress we have made…
What’s Wrong With Old White People Anyway?
In the United States, angry old white folks are the backbone of the Tea Party. In Canada, they’re Harper Conservatives. In Britain, angry old white people have the UKIP movement.…
I Don’t Have to Visit Japan – It’s Coming to Me!
America (you know, the country that hasn’t outlawed science) is finding some curious critters that have been carried across the Pacific on Japanese tsunami debris now arriving on our shores.…