Get a bucket and mop, clean the bottom and top
Shaw’s Global Toronto ran a MacDonald’s ad as a news story tonight. Watch the video here.Global merged a story about, newly, published, research (with no MacDonalds references), by Dr. Marc-David…
2014
Wild Rose Country no more? What are we gonna call this place if the Alberta Party starts soaring in the polls?
Alberta Minister of Licence Plates Doug Griffiths poses with some of the versions of Alberta’s plates considered by provincial officials before they settled on the three finalists unveiled yesterday. Below:…
Michael Ignatieff Is Not A "Loser"
In his opinion piece in the Jacobin, Will Johnson claims that Michael Ignatieff is a “perennial loser” and that his new job at Harvard is “failing up”. He claims that…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Surfacing cats.
BBC Pulls The Plug On Climate Change Deniers
Corporate-controlled media outlets have figured out that debate, or more appropriately heated debate and confrontation, can generate larger audiences than a bunch of people sitting around a table agreeing with…
A View from Gaza: This Is a Brutal Attack, Not a “Military Operation”
Israel’s ongoing military offensive in Gaza, is “collective punishment” and “a brutal attack against all Palestinian people,” says physician, human rights activist and Director of Gaza Projects for the Middle…
This is what happened when I drove my Mercedes to pick up food stamps
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger Those of us fortunate enough to have had some rough patches in our lives will empathize immediately with this amazing article about the struggle back from poverty…
Addressing Global Warming is an Economic Necessity
This is a guest post by David Suzuki. Those who don’t outright deny the existence of human-caused global warming often argue we can’t or shouldn’t do anything about it because…
Addressing Global Warming is an Economic Necessity
This is a guest post by David Suzuki. Those who don’t outright deny the existence of human-caused global warming often argue we can’t or shouldn’t do anything about it because…
The Great Toronto Storm, A Year Later
These words seem to have held up pretty well. May they cheer any fellow Torontonians who suffered a loss during that horrible day. Like having their Lamborghini flooded.
Hilarious. Tom Flanagan frets about ‘moral panic’ of prostitution law.
No words could do this one justice.
Tweet of the day
CTV has a story titled Best Twitter reaction to Germany’s 5 goals against Brazil but they missed this one: This won’t be the first time that thousands of Germans will…
How To Reshape News in Canada
A simple recipe for giving Canadians control over news. For good.
When does a limitation start to run?
Longo v. MacLaren Art Centre, 2014 ONCA 526: The relevant provisions of the Limitations Act, 2002 are as follows: 5. (1) A claim is discovered on the earlier of, (a)…
America’s Dairyland Turning to Petrostate: Wisconsin Oil-By-Rail Routes Published for First Time
DeSmogBlog is publishing the first documents ever obtained from the Wisconsin government revealing routes for oil-by-rail trains in the state carrying oil obtained via hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) in the Bakken…
July 8: Wow! Big story! Nothing happened….
There’s a big picture on the front page of police in bullet-proof vests, and one of the them carrying a rifle. The big story? Nothing. There had been a false…
The Harper Regime Receives Another Judicial Rebuke
Things continue to go from bad to worse on the judicial front for the Harper regime. Funny how those pesky laws get in the way of government ideology, isn’t it?…
Alberta Tory MLA arrested in U.S. prostitution sting? Not a problem, apparently…
Fort McMurray-Wood Buffalo Tory MLA Mike Allen: Excited to be back in the Tory caucus. (Dave Cournoyer photo, used with permission.) Say what you like about the many flaws of…
RiverBlue doc asks: How dirty are your blue jeans?
“How dirty are your blue jeans?” That’s the question posed by the forthcoming, Vancouver-produced documentary RiverBlue. The film examines the pollution produced by the blue jean manufacturing and tannery sectors,…