Fox Snooze: Global Warming Name Game Debunked By Media Matters (Again)
Media Matters put out a video this past week with clips of all the recent FOX News mentions of a global warming name conspiracy. The Fox ‘conspiracy’ is that ‘liberals’…
April 2013
rtod
Revolutionary thought of the day: I can’t stop looking at Rue, smaller than ever, a baby animal curled up in a nest of netting. I can’t bring myself to leave…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – David Olive writes that the dangerous effects of long-term unemployment (caused in no small part by gratuitous austerity) are just as much a…
Shakespeare’s Lost Plays
Shakespeare’s canon, as it is known today, is incomplete. The Bard is known to have written several plays that were not, for various reasons, included in the First Folio printed…
Signifying Nothing
Michael Harris writes that the Canadian Bar Association does not support Bill S7, the Harper government’s recently passed anti terrorism legislation: The CBA makes the point that the legislation does…
Painful media scrum for Adrian Dix on his Kinder Surprise
After a BC election radio leaders debate, NDP leader Adrian Dix faced the press, and questions on his Kinder Surprise. And it wasn’t pretty. Between back-dating memos and forward-dating decisions,…
A Classy Apology
Regular readers of this blog may be aware of my almost boundless enthusiasm for The Toronto Star. I deeply admire its progressive mission, and I find its roster of excellent…
Repulse Bay
(This is the one in China – not Nunavut)
"a contract for services by an independent contractor can be terminated at will and without notice"
McCready v. De Dwa Dehs Neys, 2013 ONSC 2425 holds: It is clear from judgments across the country that a true independent contractor like the Plaintiff, who is free to…
Saturday At The Movies
LOL – tough love from some of our “relations”:
More on Quebec
Teddy here with some expansion on an earlier post about Quebec. The poll taken, as outlined in that article, had Federal and Provincial questions asked. Since the poll used the…
It was always Paul for me
We got tickets today for Paul McCartney in Regina in August — as teenagers growing up in Saskatchewan, we never thought we would get to see him in person. We’re…
Which leader would you choose?
Which of these makes more sense to you? Stephen Harper, Conservative Leader A leader who says that this is no time to “commit sociology“, and believes that the root cause…
Musical interlude
The Blizzard – Piercing the Fog
Pre-War German Suicide Rates
In 1932 Germany's suicide rate was four times that of the UK and double that of America. Perhaps this reflected a despair for the state of the nation that underpinned…
An ideal replacement for Google Reader: Part 2 Inbox vs Stream
It’s been much longer than I intended when I wrote part 1 of an ideal replacement for Google Reader. But I haven’t forgotten that I promised a part 2 As…
Shameless Self-Promotion Department: an Interview about Writing
Mary Eva of the Riverside School Board asked me a whole lot of interesting questions and I went on and on 🙂
Shameless Self-Promotion Department: an Interview about Writing
Mary Eva of the Riverside School Board asked me a whole lot of interesting questions and I went on and on 🙂
CKNW Election Debate Media Scrum With Party Leaders
Here is the Media Scrum that followed the Leaders Debate. It really is unfotunate that the reporters asking the questions were not shown. I am off to see Sean Holmans…