When Will the CPC Wake Up?
When will Conservatives wake up and get rid of their greatest liability: Stephen Harper?
June 2013
Canadians deserve to know if U.S. federal agencies are blanket-monitoring their communications
In the aftermath of yesterday’s revelations about the U.S. National Security Agency collecting the phone records of millions of Verizon customers, Canadians want to know if U.S. federal agencies are…
6112…Justin Trudeau Syracuse Fan
Go Orange! Love it! WFDS
Ottawa: Buying Ads Is Easier Than Rooting Out CPC Corruption
Power, like a desolating pestilence, Pollutes whate’er it touches. Percy Bysshe Shelley, Queen Mab What a week in “Ottawapiskat”! In Canada’s capital city the embattled government of Stephen Harper is…
healthy slow cooker recipe of the week: thai peanut chicken
In defiance of current internet rules, I am posting this on my own blog instead of on Pinterest – but please feel free to share this on Pinterest if you…
Home care – it’s critical we get it right this time
Ontario’s Community Care Access Centres could have been very different had events unfolded differently in the early 1990s. At the beginning of that decade home care was considered to have…
In Praise of Political Cartoonists
Where would we be without their pithy insights? Recommend this Post
New Documents in West Virginia Coal Lawsuit Shine Light on Judicial Corruption Allegations
“Extreme by any measure.” Those four words were used by the U.S. Supreme Court in a landmark 2009 decision to describe judicial corruption and corporate influence in the West Virginia…
Stephen Harper’s empire: Is it falling apart?
Alberta MP Brent Rathgeber has resigned from the Conservative caucus and rumours are that three or more MPs will do the same. Partially crumbled already. CBC video on Harper’s troubles.
Abandonment a defence in Canada
R. v. Gauthier, 2013 SCC 32 upholds the defence of abandonment from a common intent to commit a crime. Many, including this writer, doubted such defence existed in Canada. Well,…
On The Politically Compliant
Woke up this morning thinking of our friends in the animal kingdom, and their affinity for their counterparts in Ottawa. Recommend this Post
June 7: It’s hard to read this crap every day….
I’ve just noticed that Donald Savoie, at the head of his columns, is referred to as a policy expert. As a description. that is absurd. They never referred to Dr.…
House Of Commons Speaker Andrew Scheer DEFIES The Canada Election Act And Allows Two Inelibible Conservative’s To Sit As Members Or Parliament ….
‘The Act provides that an elected candidate who fails to provide documents required … may not continue to sit or vote as a member until the corrections have been made.’(Excerpt…
in which i remember what big life change feels like
Even though I’m following several important news stories – from the revelations about the massive NSA domestic spying campaign to the slow-motion implosion of the Conservative Party of Canada to…
Prince of Wales Bridge: Why Isn’t This a Bikeway
(click on image to enlarge) As early as 2005, after the rail line was discontinued and the City of Ottawa purchased the bridge for possible future public transit use the…
Prince of Wales Bridge: Why Isn’t This a Bikeway
(click on image to enlarge) As early as 2005, after the rail line was discontinued and the City of Ottawa purchased the bridge for possible future public transit use the…
Prince of Wales Bridge: Why Isn’t This a Bikeway
(click on image to enlarge) As early as 2005, after the rail line was discontinued and the City of Ottawa purchased the bridge for possible future public transit use the…
Butch Dykes: A Herstory told in zines
At the recent Montreal Anarchist Bookfair, where another (better) world of incredibly inspiring, provocative and boundary-pushing art and media is on display each year, I stumbled upon Eloisa Aquino and…
Art in Progress
Artist at work: an Ancient Egyptian style decorative collar by M (click to enlarge). And it’s finished! Filed under: Beautiful Tagged: young artists