Sammy Yatim: A Petition From Change.Org
A petition has been established at Change.org. seeking justice for Sammy Yatim. At last count it was closing in on 27,000 signatures. Here is how it reads: In the early…
August 2013
Notes On Property Ownership
Attended my very first condominium corp. AGM. People who knew told me it was going to be a freak show, and it was. Angry white men, incoherent mumblers, fact challenged…
Community Canoes to Help Bees and Butterflies
A new initiative in Toronto is trying to help the local ecosystem and bring people closer to nature through canoes. Not by paddling, but by bringing bees and butterflies to…
Pipelines And Pipe Dreams
Barack Obama has been signalling that the Keystone Pipeline is not all it’s cracked up to be. In a recent interview in the New York Times, he said that the…
Byelection Day in Ontario – grading the pollsters polls
Interested political observers and partisans will be looking at today’s by-elections here in Ontario to see what message the voters will be sending the Ontario Liberal government of Kathleen Wynne.…
Pallas Athena, Goddess of Wisdom and Nerds
She sprang from the cranium of Zeus himself, a divine thought found form, and a blessing unto the Gods, the philosophers of men, and the City of Athens. She was…
Sammy Yatim and the City of the Dead
I've now seen all I need to see about the police execution of Sammy Yatim. Almost more than I can bear to watch. And like Rosie DiManno, more than enough…
Pushing back on the pushback
Anonymous reader argued through earlier comments that comparisons between BC Investment Management Corporation and Washington State Investment Board are inappropriate “apples and oranges.” The person attempted to justify huge increases…
Sun Media Shutters Another
Bye Bye Dresden-Bothwell Leader-Spirit! Sun Media needs the money it saves from closing you down to fund the antics of The Monkey King: .@montesolberg and I posing in our swimsuits…
Liberal Leadership Videos #nlpoli
Two Liberal leadership candidates are using youtube videos as a way of getting their message out. Paul Antle has a professionally produced introductory video that is also the basis for…
Stephen Harper’s Ugly War on Diplomacy
If you want a simple illustration of where Stephen Harper's sinister Con regime is taking us, all you have to do is contrast two pictures.This picture of Bruno Saccomani, Harper's…
Compare and contrast
The contrast could not be greater.Montreal police spend a full day dealing with a demonstrably-violent mentally ill man who shot at them from a house with 180 guns; they finally…
Apology and retraction by Robert MacBain
In Mr. MacBain’s own words, here: