Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Cats hanging on.
2013
Diane Francis is an imbecile and a traitor. The Chicago-born…
Diane Francis is an imbecile and a traitor. The Chicago-born conservative immigrant to Canada should be deported to her homeland, as should all foreign-born right-wing elitists who want to give…
On the occasion of the website re-launch
So today marked the finale of a two year campaign to re-design, re-engineer and re-everything the flagship website where I work. And after the most excruciating day of bickering about…
Tariq Ali and Oliver Stone at the 2013 Subversive Festival in Zagreb: "Untold History of the U.S."
Tariq Ali and Oliver Stone took part in a roundtable discussion at the sixth annual Subversive Festival in Zagreb earlier in the year – a discussion well worth revisiting. It’s…
US Shutdown: You’ve Got to Laugh if You’re Not Going to Cry
The New Yorker’s Andy Borowitz has been posting daily about the ridiculousness of the tragedy unfolding South of the Border. What about this: “In a special Sunday radio address, House…
Footwork Closing
Footwork Closing … end of an era! Footwork is one of the best venues for electronic music in Toronto. When I heard that they announced their closing I got freaked…
Autism Speaks Betrays Children, Adults With Severe Autism Disorders: Autism Speaks Blogger Calls Autism A Blessing
Since my 17 year old son was diagnosed with autistic disorder and profound developmental delays (and more recently, like many who share those conditions, with epileptic seizures) little has been…
Troubled Waters: New video investigates northeast BC fracking
Watch this new 5-min video documenting some of the impacts of shale gas fracking in northeast BC. Chief Roland Wilson of West Moberly First Nations describes his community’s concerns regarding…
Barack Obama is Gay
Indeed. What other conclusion could you reach when your sources are a noted scam artist and a notorious tabloid in which articles about unfounded and literally insane conspiracy theories are…
The Staple Theory @ 50: Gord Laxer
The next installment in our special series of commentaries celebrating the 50th anniversary of Mel Watkins’ classic article on staple theory, focuses our attention on the latest staple boom to…
6346…Margaret Atwood Has A 3 Stooges Thang
Love the Larry haircut. For anyone who has had to write an essay about The Stone Angel, good on her. WFDS
6346…Margaret Atwood Has A 3 Stooges Thang
Love the Larry haircut. For anyone who has had to write an essay about The Stone Angel, good on her. WFDS
6346…Margaret Atwood Has A 3 Stooges Thang
Love the Larry haircut. For anyone who has had to write an essay about The Stone Angel, good on her. WFDS
Kingston Pen: Closed Too Soon?
Why? Well, this, this, and maybe even this: BREAKING! Another one of #PMHarper‘s appointed senators in trouble! Senator Brazeau arrested last night in Gatineau. #cpc #tcot #idleNoMore— Rachel Décoste (@RachelDecoste)…
Campaign Diary Volume 10: The ‘Me Card’ comes to St. Albert library users
Your candidate for St. Albert City Council, looking happy while hanging around St. Albert’s terrific public library. And why wouldn’t he? Now the library offers even more to patrons. Below:…
The Types of Cyclist Change Thanks to Bike Sharing
Bixi is a bike sharing program that started in Montreal but the concept exists in cities around the world. In Montreal where there are more bicycle commuters every year,researchers at…
A support discussion
TICKET: 3480006284 on September 28, 2013 4:47pm I have inadvertently reverified this account at a cost from my Paypal account. I was having some odd problems logging in, and uploading…
We’ve never seen anything like it
What an incredible response! It’s been just a few days since we launched our ‘No to Internet Censorship’ letter calling on world leaders not to sign away our fundamental digital…
Obamacare: why far-right Republicans are trying to stop it
They aren’t trying to stop it by shutting down the US Government because of the devastation and damage it will bring to the US, as their hyperbole claims (never mind…