Wifi in schools
Should schools be installing wifi to enable the use of wireless devices? My answer is no, but this is a hot topic with a lot to think about. Recently the…
2013
5829…Dear Gay Athletes In Pro Sports
Please come out. Now. I am just parroting what my famous friend said on Len Berman’s That’s Sports this morning: Former Baltimore Ravens linebacker Brendon Ayanbadejo suggested not one but…
5827…It Is Voting Week For The Federales
So vote already. WFDS
Wente vs. Wong
Long piece. I was nodding until the author tried to set up Jan Wong, who is human garbage, as a victim. She isn’t.
Margaret Thatcher RIP
It is not my style to speak ill of dead. However, I think Margaret Thatcher was a twin of Ronald Reagan. They both put their countries on the path of…
Given tax breaks, Royal Bank betrays public trust by replacing staff with foreign workers
If the McGuinty government is to be remembered for one thing, it’s the parade of bankers giving their advice on how to run government – including our public health care.…
Margaret Thatcher Will Always Be Remembered For Her Support Of Right Wing Military Dictatorship In Chile
On September 11, 1973, a military coup d’état led by fascist General Pinochet. violently removed the democratically elected President of Chile, Salvador Allende. The military coup was extremely violent from…
When Men are Raped
A man was sexually assaulted by four women in Toronto, and the story is make the facebook rounds. I hate to say “of course,” but of course people think it’s…
We Don’t Like Steve. We Don’t Trust Steve. Steve Doesn’t Really Care Because "We" Don’t Matter.
It’s not that a solid majority of Canadians don’t trust Sideshow Steve Harper or find him ethically sleazy. That should come as no surprise. I suppose what is impressive, from…
On changed incentives
Steve has already pointed out RBC’s status as the leading beneficiary of corporate tax giveaways in the context of its outsourcing of Canadian jobs (using temporary foreign workers as an…
Liberal / Tory …. Same Old Story ….. (and Justin Trudeau Knows It!)
“The biggest distinction between a Liberal Party led by me and Stephen Harper’s Conservatives is one of tone …” Justin Trudeau (Toronto Star print edition, April 6, 2013) Wow ………
Cat with eyeglasses 2.1
Filed under: art Tagged: Cat, eyeglasses, LOLcat
April 8: (Yawn)
The big, front page headline in today’s Moncton Tiresome and Tacky is “Oulton College makes history”. Wow, just like Julius Caesar and Napoleon and George Washington and John A Macdonald…
Manitoba Elder Putting Life on The Line To Stop Canadian Government’s Dismantling of Treaty Rights
It’s a sad day in Canada when First Nations elders and leaders are put in the position that fasting and self-sacrifice are the only avenues left for them to communicate…
Consumers Care About Social Responsibility
I recall early in the last decade that companies didn’t respond to calls for corporate social responsibility because consumers didn’t care. That seems to have changed, which is a very…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Michael Harris takes aim at Stephen Harper’s thugocracy: There is little that Stephen Harper has done that other prime ministers before him have…
How things get reported now: Thatcher and Twitter
This seems about right, to me.
Nick Taylor-Vaisey
I really enjoy the way he summarizes the news over at Maclean’s. (And I like the fact that he doesn’t clumsily try and drive an agenda all the time, like…
New undemocratic rules barrier to public participation in Enbridge’s Line 9 pipeline hearings
Rules “a consequence of weakened federal environmental laws under Bill C-38″ By: Greenpeace Canada & Environmental Defence | Press Release: TORONTO, ON, Apr 5, 2013 – New undemocratic rules are…