There once was a time when everyday folk spoke one language, and learned men wrote another. It was called the Dark Ages.
Samuel T. Williamson
2014
@VisionVancouver @MayorGregor Manifesto #YVR #Homelessness
Vision Vancouver Manifesto? 1 Promise to end homelessness 2 Pass inadequate #DTESLAP 3 Ballem report worst AFTER ppl pleaded to stop gentrification 4 Gregor blames Prov — Melissa Fong (@internationalmf)
Slamming Harper Secrecy
The Toronto Star recently revealed the following: Health Canada is keeping secret the vast majority of the drug reviews it conducts despite a clear promise from the federal minister to…
The Further Adventures of Premier Peek-a-boo #nlpoli
Frank Coleman didn’t speak to reporters about the Conservative Party by-election loss in Virginia Waters. Someone wrote up a prepared statement and sent it to reporters later on. The Western…
MPAC Report: Wind Turbines Have NO Negative Effect On Home Values
MPAC is the Municpal Property Assessment Corporation. They determine what each piece of property in Ontario is worth so that the various local governments can hit you up for taxes.…
Band of the Month: SOHN
Hey readers! This months band is SOHN. London born and Vienna settled, SOHN is longing, brooding, and beautiful. Much like Toronto’s current state of anticipation for this winter’s eventual end.…
Pseudoskeptics Are Not Skeptics
Genuine scientific skepticism is not just the unmoving rejection of evolution or climate change by fake skeptics, called pseudoskeptics. The real thing avoids premature conclusions, recognizes uncertainty, motivates searches for…
Christians Like Us
The Harper Party insists that its values are the values of the vast majority of Canadians. But, Linda McQuaig writes, Senator Linda Frum’s recent musings reveal just how narrow and…
The Fix Was In #nlpoli
Bill Barry, in the Western Star, on the Conservative leadership show he quit on Thursday: “I just chose to recognize that the leader has been selected by the party insiders.”…
Experience still counts #nlpoli
Now that Frank Coleman is the de facto leader of the provincial Conservative party, there’s no reason why Coleman can’t be in the Premier’s Office with his new cabinet in…
Harperland, the Con Monsters, and the Death of Reason
Once upon a time Canada seemed like a brighter, better place to me than it does today.A more hopeful, more optimistic, more decent country.A country where an opposition MP could…
German TV program ‘Monitor’ on Kiev sniper attack: ham radio intercept of sharp shooter chat surfaces
A report that aired on the German public TV program “Monitor” includes audio recordings and interviews that strongly suggest opposition involvement in the Kiev sniper attack of mid-February. The program…
Political Seasons – a Teddy Theory
I’ve always felt that Politics does not quite match the seasons we see in the real world. In fact, they are probably closer in scope to the seasons that are…
In one day, the ground shifts in Alberta politics in ways unexpected, sometimes uplifting, sometimes troubling
On March 23, Lewis Cardinal became the first nominated federal NDP candidate in Canada for the expected 2015 election. (Photo by Dave Cournoyer, used with permission.) Yesterday he stepped aside…
This is what "we" believe in, and we’re batshit crazy
Hi there, I’m back. Sort of. I needed to take a break from everything, my blogging sort of goes through cycles but I’ve also had a lot of life shit…
Wage Development in the European Union
Wage Development in the European Union Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: Austerity, Europe, Eurozone Crisis, inequality, Labour
The Senate’s proposed amendments to election bill are a facade.
The committee in the Senate designed to look at the (un)Fair Elections Act – Bill C-23 – tried to come across as dramatically wanting to amend this bill….it came up…
TFW: The Dark Side Of Corporate Feudalism
The Temporary Foreign Worker program has become a symbol of the worst predations of corporate thinking. As more revelations come out, the depths that corporate groupthink can sink to are…
Lewis Cardinal steps down as NDP candidate in Edmonton-Centre
TweetLewis Cardinal announced today that, due to personal and health reasons, he is stepping down as the New Democratic Party candidate in Edmonton-Centre for the upcoming federal election. Although he…
ROFO Campaign Kick-Off Wee Bit Of A Clinker
Let the Globe’s Ivor Tossell tell it: This is not a full room. pic.twitter.com/MWER1HiyVC— Ivor Tossell (@ivortossell) April 18, 2014 The view looking forward pic.twitter.com/vCW3nHINEj— Ivor Tossell (@ivortossell) April 18,…