#CancelColbert and ‘Radical Choices’ Re: Rhetoric
This: The #CancelColbert supporters have a very valid point in arguing that radical action and racial outrage should not require that people of colour temper our actions and reactions to…
April 2014
Death by gluten
Alltop is chewy with humor.
Harper to blame for Canada’s housing bubble
Jim Flaherty tried pawning himself off as a prudent manager of Canadian banks and diligent tamer of the housing bubble. But in reality, he was trying to undo damage the…
GM: It is the profits which matter
If some lives are lost then that is not so important to big corporations like GM. That is the world we live in. It is a very sad state of…
Red Light District
Recently the media in our province did, if you will pardon the pun, an “expose” on the colloquial massage parlours. These are not the offices and suites of Registered Massage…
Rob Ford’s words, from the mouth of a child
Brilliant. Dunno who did this, but I want to meet them.
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Trish Hennessy’s latest numbers focus on the skills gap myth in Canada. And PressProgress documents a few of the Cons’ damaging public service…
Restorative Justice and Neuroscience
In this TED talk, Daniel Reisel examines how neuroscience backs up the (already obvious) reasons that restorative justice works better than punitive justice.
Austerity, the Hard Right and the French Election: Two Views | The Bullet No. 963
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The Tsipras List: A European Perspective to Overcome Divisions in the Italian Left | The Bullet No. 962
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Slip Slidin’ Away
Slip sliding away, slip sliding away You know the nearer your destination, the more you’re slip sliding away – Paul Simon I know, by his public efforts to appear reasonably…
Was Monday really a tipping point?
On Monday I saw Ontario Health Coalition Director Natalie Mehra at a noon-hour rally on University Avenue. As far as rallies go it wasn’t a big one. About 50 people…
Love And Ambition
Taken separately, both are worthy pursuits. But, when combined with the catalyst of romance, they are an explosive compound. Consider the case of Dimitri Soudas and Eve Adams. Tim Harper…
Pot prices plummet.
Who said that nobody benefits from the Conservative’s mismanagement of the country? Look at what they have done with growing marijuana. By trying to regulate the growing of everyone’s favourite…
Stephen Harper and the Damage of Dimitri
Well as you probably know, I don't just question Stephen Harper's judgement, I question his mental state, and study it extensively.Because better safe than sorry eh?And in that regard, for…
DTES Local Area Plan- Speaker #5, on Amendments
We need to respect the experiential knowledge of DTES residents that understand how the plan violates their security. Not fundamentally opposed to Vision- but you have to realize reality. If…
Premier Confusing #nlpoli
Premier Tom Marshall has been in cabinet since 2003. He’s held pretty well all the big portfolios connected to Muskrat Falls, including natural resources and finance. He should know details…
A 2nd Brief Note On Property Ownership (In Scarborough)
So I find there’s a petition being circulated in my Condo building. People want to boot out the current property managers and hire somebody new. This after already forcing the…
Pierre Palooka and the Con Robocall Scandal
OMG. Somebody please throw in the towel. This fight has gotta end before I start feeling almost sorry for Pierre Poilievre.Because the way that palooka and his foul Unfair Elections…