Good Reading: Kwe Today On Sex Workers As Persons
In the context of ongoing debate over Bill C36, the so-called Protection of Communities and Exploited Persons Act, @Kwetoday has crafted a powerful personal post urging an understanding that sex…
July 2014
Good Reading: Kwe Today On Sex Workers As Persons
In the context of ongoing debate over Bill C36, the so-called Protection of Communities and Exploited Persons Act, @Kwetoday has crafted a powerful personal post urging an understanding that sex…
July 12: What’s going on?
Ain’t nothing going on in Section A of Friday’s paper. In C, page 5, we have a headline “Pension report favours province’s pension reforms”. The sub-head tells us the N.B.…
Alberta’s billion dollar failed Carbon Capture “science experiment”
TweetA report from Auditor General Merwan Saher released this week found no evidence that the Department of Environment and Sustainable Resource Development has properly monitored the performance of the PC…
CPC MP Not a Fan of the SCC or the Charter
It has been pretty obvious, I think, to anyone who takes an objective view of the Stephen Harper government that they don’t really have a great deal of respect for…
Captain Awkward rallies the troop(s)
John Tory gets up close and personal with his many many volunteers. Not. .
Activists Prepare July 13 Cove Point Protest, Lawsuits To Fight LNG Exports
Gas export terminals might be the new oil pipelines. Taking a leaf out of Keystone XL protestors’ playbooks, organizers have scheduled a Washington, D.C. rally to “Stop Fracked Gas Exports”…
Well Out of Hospital
On medication to slow my heart, and with a modern device to reset rhythm if it’s lost, I’m cool as a cucumber now. There are so many people to thank,…
Is Canada Putting All of Its Eggs in the Oilsands Basket?
The recent shelving of the Joslyn mine oilsands project in Alberta is a reminder of the fragile economics of the oilsands. No economic formula could be found to make the…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – PressProgress highlights how the Cons’ stay in office has been marked by temporary rather than permanent jobs, while Kaylie Tiessen writes that precarious…
Spendaphobe? Give Us A Break
So, according to Rob and Doug Ford, Rob isn’t a homophobe, he’s a spendaphobe. Rob Ford’s own actions related to pride in the not so distant past (refusing to attend,…
Portrait of Rocco
@ClaudiaHajian at Museworthy tweeted about a new feral Tom visiting her garden. Cats will tell you their own name if you listen. He whispered, ‘Rocco’. Filed under: art Tagged: Cat
A choice for Babel Conservatives.
The Babel Conservatives thought they had everything organized. When the Barrie riding was split, the south half of the city had lots of reliable conservative country voters from south of…
Maybe They Were Already Dead
Paul Wells thinks the Harper government should be given credit for slaying Quebec separatism. I’d suggest its been deceased since 1995 and Harper has merely presided over the last twitchings…
Greenpeace "Founder" Patrick Moore Not a Founder at All
For more than 20 years now, industry lobbyist Patrick Moore has touted himself a “co-founder” and sometimes even a “founder” of the global environment group Greenpeace. But a document making…
That Will Take Some Doing
http://bookdome.com/ Stephen Harper came to Ottawa like a bull in a china shop
Tommy Ramone, RIP
I woke up to the bad news, and I immediately felt like going back to sleep for good. I tell ya: if there ever was news that I am going…
Stephen Harper and the Losing Battle for Quebec
Well as you know, and as I mentioned the other day, Stephen Harper has set out to try to woo the province of Quebec. Or at least the people in…
The Lethal Dysfunction Of The Far Right: A Mound of Sound Guest Post
Problem: you’re already getting hammered by early-onset climate change. Solution: deny it’s happening, look the other way, think happy thoughts. It sounds ridiculously dysfunctional and it is but that is…
Tweet of the day
she has a point pic.twitter.com/NKVAcIoxFo — (@Dory) July 12, 2014