Duane Michals
“Who gives a fuck about what he had for breakfast? These are stylistic ticks. The digital has changed the paradigms of photography. I had an opening in Boston and this…
July 2013
If You Don’t Secure Your Firearms, Don’t Complain When the Police Take them
Harper’s Redneck Society, High River Branch, is incensed that RCMP officers entered their abandoned homes and recovered unsecured firearms left in plain view. Sideshow Steve wasted no time in bitching…
Medgar Evers
Medgar Evers was murdered 50 years ago. Medgar Wiley Evers (July 2, 1925 – June 12, 1963) was an African-American civil rights activist from Mississippi involved in efforts to overturn…
This Vancouver startup wants to bring ultrafast Internet to Canada
A Canadian startup says it will be offering fibre Internet at a speed of one gigabit per second – 60 times faster than the Canadian average – with no bandwidth…
Friday night blues blogging
Outside Woman Blues was originally recorded in 1929 by Blind Joe Reynolds. This is Doyle Bramhall II at one of the Crossroads festivals (where they really seem to have a…
Senate Is a Cartoon
I’ve been cartoon-ified by Jim Sadlemyer! Larry and I unintentionally wrote a joke used in ParlimANT Hill. Duffy’s PMO scandal with Nigel Wright just gets more filled in, and bigger…
If you read anything today, it should be Rafe Mair
An illustration of why corporate media is in a death spiral: “…Modesty is not my long suit and I believe that had I stayed, the general public would have been…
Maclean’s article on Wendy Gritter and New Direction: Quietly head of the curve
Maclean’s Magazine has an article about Wendy Gritter and New Direction: Quietly ahead of the curve Gritter was optimistic when she started ministering at New Direction. She attended an Exodus…
Reading, Writing and Memory
“Memory,” he read the headline as he settled into the armchair, resting his elbows on the wide arms to expand the National Post paper to its fullest, “declines much slower…
Conservatives Politicize Confederation
Have you seen this yet? On October 16th, 2003, the leaders of the Canadian Reform Conservative Alliance and the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada announced an agreement-in-principle to unite under…
Indigenous rights: Alberta Métis to appeal to Supreme Court on harvesting rights case
by: Métis Nation of Alberta | Press Release: EDMONTON, July 4, 2013 – Today, the Alberta Court of Appeal refused to overturn the conviction of Métis harvester Garry Hirsekorn for…
Economic Action Plan 2013 is apparently on track – so says the flyer I got
You’ll all be glad to know that Economic Action Plan 2013 is in high gear/on track according to the pamphlet (otherwise known as a “10 percenter pamphlet) I received from…
Best of Diablogue in 2013 (so far)
It’s time for our annual summer break here at the Diablogue. This year our readership has almost doubled from 2012 and more than tripled from our humble beginnings in 2010.…
Great Political Quotes: Tax Shelter edition #nlpoli
“We lost, but that passion for fighting the injustice of a retroactive law change — that passion I will bring to the Liberal Party of Newfoundland and Labrador, and to…
EcoEnergy money went to Carbon Capture, Tar Sands – No Clean Tech funding for this year
Clean tech innovation expert Will Dubitsky charges Stephen Harper’s announcement of EcoEnergy Innovation funding winners last month simply rehashed winners from 2011 and 2012, while the are no monies available…
EcoEnergy money went to Carbon Capture, Tar Sands – No Clean Tech funding for this year
Clean tech innovation expert Will Dubitsky charges Stephen Harper’s announcement of EcoEnergy Innovation funding winners last month simply rehashed winners from 2011 and 2012, while the are no monies available…
The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives has a new website
by: Obert Madondo | @Obiemad: The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, arguably Canada’s leading progressive voice on public policy issues, has a new website. What’s new? This note from the…
Audio: Damien Gillis on ‘Multi-Issue Extremism’, Liberal Gas Agenda
Listen to Damien Gillis and Nanaimo’s CHLY host Rae Kornberger discuss how activism is becoming “extremism” – even terrorism – under the Harper Government’s petro-state regime. Invoking new, secretive anti-terrorism…
Video evidence: Palma Violets close Glasto with the Hot Nasties!
…brought to us by our British friend, @MorganeSG!