Fun for the weekend
From io9 – This animated short is the best 10-second adventure you’ll take today:
May 2014
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – The Globe and Mail joins the chorus calling for Canada to welcome more citizens, rather than exploiting cheap and disposable workers. But…
Voter and Campaign-Worker Fatigue
We’re in the midst of a general election here in Ontario. Election Day is June 12, 2014. Two ridings in Toronto, Trinity—Spadina and Scarborough—Agincourt, are also in the midst of…
Presentation to Etobicoke York Community Council
Update: I am re-posting this entry as some residents of Parkdale-High Park may visit this blog to find these submissions. Development in the riding is an issue for many and…
Presentation to Etobicoke York Community Council
Update: I am re-posting this entry as some residents of Parkdale-High Park may visit this blog to find these submissions. Development in the riding is an issue for many and…
The Common Sense Revolution Redux ( A.K.A. Tiny Tim Roars)
H/t Theo Moudakis If you have resided in Ontario for some years, and were of a certain age when Ontario’s Common Sense Revolution was conducted by Mike ‘The Knife’ Harris,…
Wynne Liberal party: not progressive, not even liberal
The Ontario Liberals are trying to pawn themselves off as the “real” progressive party this election. Of course, so far they have yet to deliver on anything but empty and…
memo to porter airlines passenger who needs lessons in new york city
Dear suburban GTA resident flying on Porter Airlines from Newark to Toronto: Since you were not talking to me, I was unable to respond to your erroneous statements. But since…
Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?
I live three doors down from not one, but two, group homes. Without exception, the developmentally-challenged folks who live in them are quieter and nicer neighbours than the other neighbours…
Powerful and Amazing Video: Ancient Tuvan Song “Boodey” (Sonnel) arranged in modern ambient style
dougrogers: Art For Nothing has many great posts. Love this Tuvan Throat singing. Originally posted on ART FOR NOTHİNG: http://tyulyush.wordpress.com/ Ancient Tuvan Song “Boodey” (Sonnel) arranged in modern ambient style.…
The pollsters also need to get real.
Here we are less than half way into the Ontario provincial election and the pollsters are getting more attention than the politicians. Get a life folks. This is far from…
Election Act, Election Ont, Election Incentives
So the flawed “fair” Elections Act has now passed final reading with a few amendments that public pressure made the Cons include but without the dozens of amendments proposed by…
Listening To Suzuki
Jeffrey Simpson wrote last week that the present Government of Canada defines itself by the enemies it makes: By identifying enemies or hostile institutions, or by picking fights with individuals…
Could Stephen Harper Still Win the Next Election?
It's a horrible question, and one I'd rather not ask myself in the middle of the Victoria Day weekend.Lest it encourage me to join half the population, and start drinking…
Toronto Star: Toronto Councillor Doug Ford Believes Treatment Home for Kids with Autism "Ruined the Community"
Is Toronto City Councillor Doug Ford so contemptible as to verbally attack autistic children residing at a home for children with autism? con·tempt·ible adjective \kən-ˈtem(p)-tə-bəl\ : not worthy of respect…
Finance Minister Doug Horner meekly throws his support to heir apparent Jim Prentice
Alberta Progressive Conservative Party activists surround leadership candidate Jim Prentice at a recent $500-a-plate fund-raising dinner in Edmonton. Finance Minister Doug Horner is visible immediately to Mr. Prentice’s right. The…