Schindler’s Pissed, And Other News
I’m back in the saddle, after a relaxing and rejuvenating vacation, which included almost no access to the internet for 2 whole weeks. Four of us piled into a clean…
2013
WikiLeaks: Major Revelations Is What Journalists Do – See @carwinb
There’s some crow to eat this morning, for anti-Assange, anti-Wikileaks people. Last year we got confirmation in the form of a WikiLeaks-Strafor leak of all things, that Assange had been…
ON NDP Stance on Funding for Public Transit
The other day, Martin Regg Cohn wrote a horribly twisted piece of anti-NDP propaganda in the Toronto Star. Andrea Horwath and the ON NDP are not changing their stance on…
ON NDP Stance on Funding for Public Transit
The other day, Martin Regg Cohn wrote a horribly twisted piece of anti-NDP propaganda in the Toronto Star. Andrea Horwath and the ON NDP are not changing their stance on…
ON NDP Stance on Funding for Public Transit
The other day, Martin Regg Cohn wrote a horribly twisted piece of anti-NDP propaganda in the Toronto Star. Andrea Horwath and the ON NDP are not changing their stance on…
ON NDP Stance on Funding for Public Transit
The other day, Martin Regg Cohn wrote a horribly twisted piece of anti-NDP propaganda in the Toronto Star. Andrea Horwath and the ON NDP are not changing their stance on…
5791…Katherine Wynne Needs To Get Out More
She is the new premier of Canada’s most important province, Ontario. Here is the deal. The Sunshine List came out today. It contains the names of all provincial employees who…
A tale of two LHINs – Champlain could learn from Central East when it comes to community involvement
In the past few weeks we have been challenging the Champlain Local Health Integration Network (LHIN) to step up to the plate around cuts and transfers of services from The…
The Most Racist Thing I Have Ever Seen Published
Educate First Nations to be modern citizens Don Olsen, The Daily News Published: Wednesday, March 27, 2013 via Educate First Nations to be modern citizens. This is the most racist…
March 28: I didn’t comment on the budget because…
…1. It was a budget that showed no understanding of what has been learned over the past century about how to deal with a recession.2. It does virtually nothing to…
Caregiver Advocacy: Part 3, The Roundup
Caregiving a job that is made up of hundreds of small tasks. Each task in itself seems perfectly doable. But taken together and over time, caregiving can be isolating and…
How Big is the SoCon Threat to Harper?
There’s been some ink spilled today by everyone’s favourite Toronto Star columnist, Chantal Hébert, on the recent “revolt” that has been growing in the Conservative backbenches over the crushed dreams…
People Recycle More in Green Buildings
Researchers at UBC have studied the recycling behaviour of people who work in green buildings to those who don’t and found that – regardless of their past habits – people…
Turning Canada’s Back on Our Warming World
We’re out. The Harper government has pulled Canada out of the U.N. convention to fight drought in the world. We’re officially the only country to exit the drought agreement. Every…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Edward Greenspon discusses the importance of a public service whose focus extends beyond the narrow interests of the government of the day:…
Preferential Balloting and Merger
Teddy here. I was browsing around when I found out that Eric from 308 has requested and received this: http://www.threehundredeight.com/2013/03/preferential-ballot-poll.html?spref=tw data. I’ve been able to determine that the data is…
Ha ha ha
Suck it, LeBron.
Man Watches The Hunt for Red October 168 Times, Decides It’s Not that Good
LONDON, ONTARIO (The Skwib) — After a courageous 12 weeks, Terry Bakker has abandoned his New Year’s Resolution to watch The Hunt for Red October every time it comes on…
Can We, In Good Conscience, Allow This To Continue?
There are, without doubt, many justifications and rationalizations that people have for being willfully ignorant of the larger world around them: work pressures, home stresses, lack of time, lack of…
New column day
Here, applying the recently-approved Somerset development as an example of why we should expect elected representatives to do more than just remind us that we’re on our own in dealing…