Leadership
So today, Toronto got more than 90 mm of rain in a couple of hours and low-lying areas of the city, including major highways and rail links were flooded. Subway…
July 2013
Leadership
So today, Toronto got more than 90 mm of rain in a couple of hours and low-lying areas of the city, including major highways and rail links were flooded. Subway…
The Reserve Paradox, Part Two: Telling A New Story
Aboriginal people in Canada today suffer from much higher rates of poverty, illness, dysfunction and incarceration than non-Native Canadians. Many non-Native Canadians believe that this is due to the Indian…
Medical Records Rant: Update
So, as I know you are sitting on the edge of your seat wondering “what has cenobyte done? What’s going on with her medical records?”, I thought I’d update you.…
Elderly Man Saved From Fireball By His Little Dog in Lac-Mégantic, Quebec
Amidst all of the terrible news from that train explosion that devastated large parts of the Quebec town of Lac-Megantic, a happier story. Paul Leclerc, 83, describes on Sunday, July…
Vic Toews has Resigned
I just donated to the Liberal Party of Canada in Provencher in celebration of Vic Toews resigning. Donate now and help the Liverals win the upcoming by-election! https://action.liberal.ca/en/donate/Riding/46008
Vic Toews has Resigned
I just donated to the Liberal Party of Canada in Provencher in celebration of Vic Toews resigning. Donate now and help the Liverals win the upcoming by-election! https://action.liberal.ca/en/donate/Riding/46008
What do you call the resignation of Conservative Cabinet Minister Vic Toews? ……
A damn good beginning! This overly authoritarian Conservative thug came within a hairs breath of putting every Canadian who uses a computer under police surveillance. His resignation is welcome and…
What do Canadian companies have to say about mass surveillance in Canada?
We now know that the Canadian government asked Google for data on 128 Canadian users in 2012. This journalist recently investigated issues of Internet privacy and mass surveillance in Canada.…
It’s biblical (updated)
And it was cut off by a zombie attack. It’s been nice knowing you. Adios. Your browser does not support the video tag Here is what slowed down the traffic.…
Laraque’s Bourassa By-Election Gambit a Real Game Changer
The entry of Green Party of Canada’s Deputy Leader Georges Laraque into the Bourassa riding by-election is an absolute game changer, not just for the Montreal-area riding, but for the…
Tremaine Contempt Appeal Update
Terry Tremaine filed two documents last month regarding his appeal of the contempt sentence he received as a result of willfully ignoring the provisions of the Human Rights Tribunal decision.…
Shameful: Keystone XL Proponent Using Deadly Lac-Megantic, Quebec Oil Train Tragedy To Promote Pipeline
Five people are confirmed dead and 40 people remain missing in the small hamlet of Lac-Megantic, Quebec, where a train with 73 carloads full of Bakken shale oil derailed explosively,…
6223…It Is All About Dogs
Dog TV. These have to be the end days. Cut and paste from TVbythenumbers.com: DirectTV is launching a channel for dogs. No, not a channel about dogs. Canines are the…
Between a rock and a wet place
Filed under: photo Tagged: Lily, water lily
A Place to Call Home
NEWSFLASH! CBC News is reporting that as innumerable Conservative scandals became public in the month of May, Stephen Harper, leader of Canada’s Foundling Party, quietly applied to 21 nations for…
EnCana takes over Funding of Govt Study into Fracking Water Contamination
What promised to be a ground-breaking report into the effects of natural gas hydraulic fracturing on groundwater has devolved into a classic case of the fox in charge of the…
Buh Bye Vic
One of the better Mondays I’ve had of late, after hearing good ole’ Vic Toews has resigned/retired: Vic Toews, the gruff,mustachioed minister who was the face of the Conservative government’s…
Small town news in the ‘big city’
As a news junkie and former member of the Fourth Estate, I’ve always had a fascination not just with the actual news, but how it is presented. For example, as…
The Con Zombie Vic Toews Resigns
OMG. It seems too good to be true. And it's still a full two weeks before the next full moon.But it looks as if the Con zombie Vic Toews has…