A duplicitous Charles Sousa?
An old friend down in Windsor has posited in a blog that Ontario Finance Minister Charles Sousa is running a covert campaign for Kathleen Wynne’s job. While it is a…
September 2013
Buyer’s Remorse
Even as Stephen Harper repeats his mantra that he knows best how to manage the economy, the ground is shifting under his feet. The Hill Times reports that: The Conservatives…
Thag not grok big bottoms!
The trip back to the Drunka Grunka’s lands would be a long one — of all the Grunka tribes, the Drunkas lived the farthest away from the place of the…
Why We Do What We Do
It’s TED Talk Tuesday, and today’s video is Rev. Michael Dowd’s 2012 TEDx Talk which reexamines faith traditions and what science is now revealing about human nature and instincts: The…
Province chops tax breaks for two companies #nlpoli
On August 1, the provincial cabinet revoked tax breaks granted to two companies in the province under the Economic Development and Growth Enterprises (EDGE) program. Order-in-Council 2013-218 states that cabinet…
Why It’s Time to Chase the Dream in Harperland
And so ended, unofficially at least, the summer of 2013. Another Labour Day parade has marched into memory. The Snowbirds have drawn a giant heart in the sky and departed.…
Amazing encounter with Orca pod caught on camera
Check out this amazing encounter with a large pod of orca on BC’s south coast. The home video, captured in Active Pass, off Galiano Island, has garnered well over 300,000…
When You Look At It This Way, Digging Dead Things Out of the Ground Only to Kill Live Things Above the Ground is Madness.
We have become a world obsessed with digging carbon out of the ground and transporting it into our atmosphere just as fast as possible. We say we’re not, but the…
RoboCall Scandal – Breakthrough Imminent? Stay Tuned.
“Hard to imagine how they thought they could manipulate this issue.” “Stay tuned.” Word reaches the island to brace for some breakthrough on the robocall scandal, possibly as soon as…
Sending a message
Daily Kos: And away we go: I wonder if Obama backed off a unilateral strike against Syria at least partly because the usual gang of idiots jumped out of the…
On the Road Again, For the First Time.
*Note of correction: After further reading Paul Godsmark's blog with regards to the public transit impact of a self-driving car, I have corrected the post. My initial comment that his…
On the Road Again, For the First Time.
Source: Huffington Post: Self Driving Cars are Coming to Canada Despite previously alluding to some of the topics we might talk about this week, I decided to go to a…
RAPE AS A POLICY OF STATE POWER
" You won’t be raped, you might enjoy it ! " Technology then and now, in rape as well, is part of the tools of the master's house, the preservers…
RAPE AS A POLICY OF STATE POWER
Colonialist powers and acts of a sexualized violence, such as rape by institutions, enacted through individuals : The Case of Djamila Boupacha: Torturers statements to Djamila before they “gave her…
RAPE AS A POLICY OF STATE POWER
" You won’t be raped, you might enjoy it ! " Technology then and now, in rape as well, is part of the tools of the master's house, the preservers…
RAPE AS A POLICY OF STATE POWER
Colonialist powers and acts of a sexualized violence, such as rape by institutions, enacted through individuals: The Case of Djamila BoupachaTorturers statements to her before they “gave her pleasure” :…
BC NDP – A New Leader is only one step in a long and winding road ahead.
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger The BC NDP has lost its’ edge. The feisty Glen Clark victory in 1996 was the last. That was four elections ago. NDP victories and effectiveness depend…
In Tuesday’s Sun: the right response in Syria
If Syria’s regime is permitted to continue gassing its own citizens to death – and, rest assured, it did just that last week, killing hundreds of men, women and children…
From My Quotes Cupboard – Teddy Roosevelt
Old Joe Cannon, Speaker of the House, has reservations about Roosevelts methods: “Roosevelt’s all right,” Cannon tells a friend, “but he’s got no more use for the Constitution than a…