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…
2014
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…
Saturday night blues blogging
Let’s see if I can get your toe tappin’ for starters with I’m a Lowdown Viper by Those Delta Rhythm Kings. Here’s a slow instrumental by Jerry Portnoy called Blues…
Hudak’s New Ad
My favorite bit. He’s just fired a bunch of people. It wasn’t an easy decision. It was a hard one. It didn’t make him happy. The rest of is here.
And the rest, as they say, is gravy
Today’s ride, a 164km tour through the countryside south and east of Ottawa (Berwick – if that means anything), put me over the top for my training goal for this…
Oh NDP,You Have So Sold Out
From CFRA: Alex Cullen, the NDP candidate for Ottawa-West Nepean admitted public sector job cuts are likely if his party is in power following the June election, but would likely…
Picabia
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May 17:How utterly stupid we are!
It’s pretty sobering to look at the tremendous problems we have created for the near future – problems of food supply, climate, wildly overstrained resources. problems of immense overpopulation, problems…
Conference Board illustrates folly of conventional economic metrics
Once again conventional measurement has painted a warped view of our economic well-being. Relying principally on growth in the GDP sense, The Conference Board of Canada applauds the oil and…
Barely A Parody
If you have ever watched the Stephen Harper propaganda channel, you will have a hard time distinguishing it from the following parody: H/t Canadians Rallying To Unseat Stephen Harper Recommend…
The Struggle Within: Prisons, Political Prisoners, and Mass Movements in the United States
The Struggle Within is an accessible yet wide-ranging historical primer about how mass imprisonment has been a tool of repression deployed against diverse left-wing social movements over the last fifty…