Dear sisters and brothers: stop using your employer’s email
I am amazed that in 2013 I am still feeling the need to write this but Kathryn May in today’s Citizen is covering a PSLRB (the board that handles issues…
September 2013
The Hair helps His Honour.
You could tell from the news clips of yesterday’s event that the Hair is enjoying his holiday. With Parliament prorogued until late October, the hair has time to visit with…
Four free iPad IOS 7 3D wallpapers
Alien gold Beach at Blind Bay Clouds in a clear sky A conversation #9 Filed under: art
Police Intimidation Tactics: The Knock At The Door And The Telephone Call
The other day I wrote a post based on Thomas Walkom’s coluumn detailing the intimidation tactics being utilized by the Ontario Province Police againt those in the Kincardine area opposed…
Dynastic Ambitions
Reginald Tweedsmuire had invented the tongue depressor, tongue scraper and uvula tickler (better known as the Roman Weight Management Apparatus), and he was said to be in line for a…
The New York Times Goes After the Harper Regime
Uh oh. It looks like Stephen Harper has been exposed. He's been trying to fool the Americans into thinking he's a REAL environmentalist, so Obama will give him his precious…
Talking Rob Ford and Toronto Politics at Word on the Street
Continuing my run of political Sundays, I spent the afternoon yesterday in the shadow of Queen’s Park in downtown Toronto, where a number of panels and discussions at the Word…
Ontario Anti-Wind Forces Claimed Turbines Caused Health Problems, Refused To Provide Medical Records
Stumbled across this is an article entitled “Wind turbine syndrome: farm hosts tell very different story“: In a 2012 Ontario legal case, complainants were asked to provide their medical records…
Debt, Demand, and Delusions #nlpoli
The Conservatives running the province got together with their staff and key supporters this weekend to reaffirm their conviction that they alone ought to be running the province. Some people…
Stephen Harper’s Outrageous Prorogation Vacation
Well at least now we know another reason Stephen Harper shutdown Parliament. Not just so he could dodge questions about that sordid Senate scandal. Or take a long paid vacation…
Theorizing Social Democracy
I’ve started reading The Theory of Social Democracy, by Thomas Meyer. The book was initially published in German in 2005 and was published in English in 2007, just before the…
Wildrose MLA accused of slate-building in Airdrie civic election
TweetOutgoing mayor of Cochrane Truper McBride has raised questions about the involvement of Wildrose MLA Rob Anderson in the ‘Team Airdrie United’ slate of candidates running in the October municipal…
No joy in Mudville
Last-second field goal gives Lions victory over RoughridersThat makes three losses in a row for our boys. Ouch! And two of our field goal attempts hit the post. Two!
Arrests on horizon in First Nation’s Sacred Headwaters mine protest
Tahltan elders and supporters in the Sacred Headwaters (SkeenaWatershed.com) Read this Sept. 20 story from the Vancouver Observer on the standoff over a proposed open-pit coal mine in BC’s Sacred…
TransCanada Whistleblower Evan Vokes Details Lack of Confidence in Keystone XL
Originally published by The Progressive. Evan Vokes never gave any thought to whistleblowers before realizing he would need to blow a shrill blast against his former employer, TransCanada, the company…
German capitalism – a success story?
Reblogged from Michael Roberts Blog: The German election has produced a victory for right-wing German Chancellor Mrs Angela Merkel, the best result for her party since 1990. However, the existing…
Rafe: Harper won’t succeed in bribing First Nations over pipelines
Stephen Harper meets with National AFN Chief Shawn Atleo in 2011 (Reuters) So Prime Minister Stephen Harper and members of his cabinet have been meeting with BC’s First Nations chiefs…
Very Soon, I Think That Lorne Gunter Is Going To Look Stupid
He writes, of what happened up in High River , where RCMP officers took guns from homes abandoned after this summer’s floods in Alberta: Nearly a half hour into his…
Legalize It, Control It
One of the most devastating problems that our society faces is that of addiction. Whether that is to tobacco, alcohol or narcotics – any substance addiction can have long term…