We had a great time except for all those cars!
http://authenticityhoax.tumblr.com/post/93739949294/two-danish-women-visit-canada-are-unimpressed Filed under: art
August 2014
Netanyahu’s Big Lie
http://stopthewall.org/ History is full of ugly ironies. Among the ugliest is the Netanyahu
Babel Conservatives have a candidate.
You have to admit, the Conservative Party of Canada makes it look easy. You want a Conservative candidate for the coming federal election? You get one appointed from Ottawa. It…
Harper’s Reign Of Terror – Part Six
The latest installment of this series illustrating the Harper regime’s subversion of the Canada Revenue Agency to punish nonprofits for opposing government policies also demonstrates its pathologically secretive nature. The…
Stephen Harper’s Monstrously Biased Assault on Canadian Charities
He is the foulest bully this country has ever known. He muzzles scientists, he has terrorized the civil service into submission.He says he likes to see fear in the eyes…
The 2018-2019 Offshore Review #nlpoli
In 2003, the new Conservative administration set as its first task to renegotiate the Atlantic Accord. They hadn’t campaigned on that issue. The campaign election platform included a pledged to…
The Dumbest Decision in the World
Australian comedian FriendlyJordies doesn’t mince words in his video response to Prime Minister Tony Abbot axing the carbon tax this month. * Australia repeals controversial carbon tax A Carbon Tax…
The Day Stephen Harper Broke Up With Homer Simpson
Well they always were a weird couple, Stephen Harper and Homer Simpson.Sharing a strange space together on Lord Harp's sinister Twitter feed. Wading through the people Prime Minister Stephen Harper…
TFWP: How Racist is Canada?
Here’s one way to tell how racist a person/nation is. Have them read this excerpt and see if they fly into a rage about “those” people, or just come up…
The Calgary perp walk: it’s a routine disgrace, and it’s about time someone spoke up about it
Angela Davis does the “perp walk” after her arrest in New York City in 1970. The “perp walk” – discredited, but still popular with the Calgary media and Calgary Police…
UN Under Attack
I’ve avoided making many blog posts on Middle East politics because they tend to descend into dogmatic shouting matches on the Internet. I also don’t know every historic, geographic, religious,…
Alberta’s Rogue Politics and Politicians
Is Alison Redford a rogue politician or does she belong to a rogue party? A rogue is a dishonest or unprincipled man (or woman), a scoundrel, villain, miscreant, reprobate, good-for-nothing,…
R.I.P. Paul St. Pierre, 1923-2014
In the summer of 1968, I was a naive minion of the Liberal Party, helping manage the coastal part of Paul St. Pierre’s campaign to become MP for Coast Chilcotin.…
BC, China sign deal for foreign temporary workers to build LNG facilities
Read this July 25 story from the Vancouver Sun, which undermines the BC Liberal government’s promises of jobs for British Columbians from their proposed LNG industry. The federal government’s foreign…
Detroit turns taps back on after outrage over private water control
Read this July 29 story from the Associated Press, via globalnews.ca, on the latest twist in the battle ove water in Detroit. DETROIT – Control of Detroit’s massive municipal water…
The Latest Gaza Horror and Israel’s War on the Media
When I read stories like this one. A deadly attack on a school in the city of Rafah in the south of Gaza has been denounced as a "moral outrage"…
Author’s Note: Changes are coming to Alberta Diary, soon to be AlbertaPolitics.ca
Write hard. Live a long time. (Edited version.) Tattoo by Jason Edward Morgan, Bastrop, Texas. Round about the end of summer – Labour Day or thereabouts if God’s willin’ and…
USB Broken
It’ll be hard to justify using USB now. It basically must be assumed to be malicious/infected. It was so nice to have a standard port too! I guess USB condoms…
Hello hello why am I not getting the attention I demand?
Filed under: art
A Call For Change In Business
It wasn’t so long ago that businesses recognized people at their local levels as having something to contribute. That individual employees have a meaning greater than the “bottom line”. That…