2013
Musical interlude
Brainbug – Rain
I thought that Stephen Harper said he had personally reviewed Pam Wallin’s expenses .. and they were ok??
“I have looked at the numbers. Her travel costs are comparable to any parliamentarian travelling from that particular area of the country over that period of time,”Stephen HarperPrime Minister of…
Are Canada’s Spies Working For Mining Industry? Good Question!
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger US, Canada and a number of other western governments throughout the western world have been fidgety and downright freaked about insider government snoops Julian Assange, Edward Snowden…
CBC: Federal Court: Bell’s treatment of this ex-customer was "reprehensible"
“Reprehensible.” That’s how the Federal Court of Canada describe big telecom company Bell’s treatment of this former customer, including their lacklustre response after violating his privacy. We need to rein…
Friday night Rock & Roll blogging: RIP Lou Reed
Lou Reed passed away last Sunday at the age of 71. Here are a few tunes to remember him by. This performance of Dirty Boulevard is taken from an episode…
I Am Voting For Seaz (Sterling Downey, Projet Montreal)
I have had the incredible good luck of meeting an interesting diversity of Montrealers since I started this blog in 2005 and there is no way I could discuss that…
All the King’s Horses and All the King’s Men
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. All the king’s horses and all the king’s men Couldn’t put Humpty together again. That children’s nursery rhyme…
Quebec to invest half billion in green transportation
Quebec plans to spend more than a half-billion dollars on a green transportation plan over the next three years. Premier Pauline Marois says the plan includes up to $8,000 in…
Australia’s Murdoch Newspapers Lying to Public About Climate Change, Says Study Author
CONSIDER the following two statistics together. Research into the peer-reviewed science of climate change found that between 1991 and 2011, 97 per cent of studies agreed that climate change is…
Would They Have Defied Harper This Way a Year Ago?
Shifty Steve Harper has been busy lately trying to write off his former chief of staff, Nigel Wright, as a rogue. Harper has accused Wright of deception in the under…
Whose Agenda?
The latest interesting twist in the Senate’s proceedings with respect to suspensions is the Conservative majority’s strategic shift to ‘Government Business’. Originally, Senator Carignan had placed three motions on the…
How popular is Rob Ford?
I have seen expressions of dismay by many after the latest Ford fiasco that express the notion that the man retains his popularity despite all his foibles, violations of ethics…
Video: Max Haiven on The Debt of Creativity
Activist and art professor Max Haiven recently delivered a TED talk at TEDxNovaScotia titled “>The Debt of Creativity, in which he elaborates on the ideas he discussed in his essay…
The new epidemic: Death cults and the culture of despair
An article in The Atlantic speaks to the growing death-fetish that is gripping more and more youth. It is a bad omen for the state of modern industrial civilization as…
Democracy at Putney Church, continued
This post continues from my previous post about on the Putney Debates; a debate that took place between Cromwell and the Army Grandees on the one hand, and the representatives…
Revealed: Never Before Seen Photos of Tesoro Fracked Oil Spill in North Dakota, Pipeline Restarted Today
A month after over 865,200 gallons of oil spilled from Tesoro Logistics’ 6-inch pipeline near Tioga, North Dakota, the cause of the leak is still largely unknown to anyone but…
The More 22 Cats book has arrived.
Waiting impatiently all morning and now part of the afternoon, for the paper copies of the new cat book to arrive. Well, here it is. 20 altogether. Only 20 in…