César Santos
Reblogged from Good morning, best morning: How gorgeous are these pieces by César Santos? These classic paintings, re-imagined are almost like visual fan fiction. Is it important that we merge…
June 2013
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Kathleen Geier makes the case for greater progressive activism at lower levels of government – and the point applies with equal force…
Pricey Passports R Us……..
Canadian ePassports arrive July 1 New ePassports feature electronic chips, other security features CBC News Posted: Jun 28, 2013 2:55 PM ET Not only are the passports getting even more…
An Unprecedented Emergency
The Guardian has an excerpt of Stephen Emmott‘s new book, Ten Billion, about the effects of overpopulation on the environment. The situation is dire. I haven’t read the book, but…
Contrasting Pictures
This post could perhaps more aptly be entitled A Tale of Two Centuries. The top picture, from yesterday’s Dyke March in Toronto, represents some of the best of the twenty-first…
How should a municipality deal with cigarette litter?
I was sitting on a decorative rock on the landscaping west of Loblaws, this weekend, waiting while Susan was inside and amusing myself at the bad driving habits of our…
Hydraulic Fracturing in Atlantic Canada – Elsipogtog First Nations
I am turned away from any discussion re: Hydraulic Fracturing that starts with someone saying that Fracturing can be done so long as environmental protections are in place … because…
Why is Ontario buying into by-elections?
By-elections are sometimes fun but the five coming up in Ontario will be a serious waste of time and money. Why are we doing it? What will we prove? All…
The Fevered Dreams Of Blue-Eyed Sheiks
Not seeing the forest for the trees. It’s the classic characterization of tunnel vision. An updated version of the old saw might be not seeing the shale for the pipeline.…
NSA leaks: abuse of power: John Pilger on the rise of a new fascism
Ed Snowden’s leaks that reveal the NSA’s borderless metadata trawling and massive invasion of Americans’ privacy is further evidence that something is rotten in the heart of empire. Equally disturbing…
Stephen Harper’s Stealth War on Gay Canadians
In just a few hours I'll be following the rainbow, or waving it, at the Toronto Pride parade.Along with about a million gay people and their straight friends and supporters.It's…
They Sell It But They Supposedly Have Nothing to Do With It.
When you buy Athabasca DilBit you’re buying two fuels – a form of synthetic oil and a type of coal. Alberta bitumen contains heavy oil and it contains petroleum coke…
Why Story of Climate Change Fails to Capture Public’s Interest
According to the Guardian’s Oliver Burkeman, “the most important issues of our era aren’t particularly interesting. Worse than that, there’s good reason to believe in an inverse relationship between interestingness…
Aurora in Wood Mountain
One of the advantages to small-town Saskatchewan, is that it’s easier to escape light pollution than it is in a city like Regina. I was fortunate to be out of…
6196…Kory Teneycke On High River Gun Thefts
I do believe you know what I am referring to; the RCMP going into empty homes in flooded out High River, Alberta and emptying them of legally obtained firearms. This…
6195…Good Time For A Tumour
Cold I may be but I am also accurate. The lucky recipient of said tumour, a lung tumour none the less, as reported by the gang at Postmedia, is Bruce…
In Sunday’s Sun: when scandal is the rule and not the exception
If we have a national memory of seven minutes, do scandals matter any more, or at all? If we have seen and heard everything before, does a new scandal register…
6194…Mayors Should Pay Hos In Cash
When using a sex worker. Allegedly, according to The Canadian Press and TVA, interim hizzoner Alexandre Duplessis of Laval rented a hooker a while back and had a dispute about…