Pre-Paleolithic Neanderthals
stephenlewisfoundation.org/ That’s what Stephen Lewis calls the Harper government. Lewis has always known how to turn a phrase. But he’s also always known how to make an argument. And the…
2014
Video: OPSEU at Friday’s big health care rally
In this new video Anna Jover and Emily Visser highlight the voices of several OPSEU activists during Friday’s health care rally at Queen’s Park, including President Warren (Smokey) Thomas. About…
Preparing for The Holidays – A Caregivers’ Conversation
This week, I had the pleasure of chatting with other caregivers about how we prepare for Thanksgiving and Christmas. I had this online chat on the wonderful site Caregiving.com which…
140 Law – Legal Headlines for Tuesday, November 25, 2014
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Tuesday, November 25, 2014: F. Lee Bailey loses his quest to practice law again after past misdeeds Toobin:…
Edward Snowden and Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois
Went to see Citizenfour, about Edward Snowden, last night. Definitely worth the detour. Snowden, you’ll remember, is the young US cyber whiz who was employed by the National Security Agency…
Saturday (or Tuesday) Photo: Brasília
A year ago I was in South America, doing the last bit of on-the-spot research for Road through Time. The photo is of the cathedral designed by Oscar Niemeyer in…
Please come back Curmudgeon.
This is like a plaintive cry in the night across the prairie. A fellow blogger who goes under the pen name The Curmudgeon, a.k.a. The Mound of Sound, says he…
Stephen Harper, Jason Kenney, and the Con Clown Circus
As you know, I sometimes like to portray the foul Harper regime as a Con clown circus.Because although they are the most sinister government in Canadian history, fanatical, brutish, and…
NEWS FLASH! NDP MP Anonymously Accuses LPC MP Of Sexual Assault!
“It was sex without explicit consent,” she said. This is bullshit, because, want to or not, she has in fact destroyed a man’s career. And seems willing to keep the…
The Ghomeshi Scandal and the CBC Management Cult
About ten days ago I wrote a post about the CBC and the Ghomeshi scandal, and I blamed its hapless managers for creating a cult of celebrity where such a…
Experience and government #nlpoli
In the 1980s, local entrepreneur Craig Dobbin bought a batch of helicopter service companies across Canada and merged them with his own company – Sealand – to form Canadian Helicopters. …
Frances Kelsey’s Passing Was as Incorrect as is Possible.
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger I wrote earlier about the passing of Frances Oldham Kelsey, the 100 year old physician-pharmacist who saved Americans from the ravages of thalidomide. I was wrong. I…
Wildrose Party endures its cruelest day as two MLAs quit to join Jim Prentice’s PC government
Ian Donovan, Alberta Premier Jim Prentice and Kerry Towle at yesterday afternoon’s floor-crossing news conference in the Legislature Building. (Ici Radio-Canada photo.) Below: Wildrose Leader Danielle Smith and quotable former…
Dean Clifford and Bill Noble: Emails
This day last November freeman-on-the-land guru, former active Stormfront member, and general nutter Dean Clifford was taken into custody during a seminar he was conducting in Ontario. Since that day,…
#BlackLivesMatter but not in #ferguson
The failure to indict Darren Wilson is a travesty. By Langston Hughes: Ferguson: Chicago: Seattle: New York: Los Angeles: Washington: And in Toronto tomorrow
BC Liberals LNG Tax Bill equals Unprecedented Wealth Transfer and Will Pass Unopposed
Kevin Logan-Cowichan Conversations Contributor The LNG Tax Bill currently winding its way through the BC legislature will impact the very fundamentals of this Province and paves the way for a…
North Cowichan’s Existing Soccer Fields–Better, Safer and Healthier Than Artificial Turf!
Crumby Soccer Fields to be replaced! Don Maroc If someday you want to feel good about the ever-increasing property taxes you pay to the Municipality of North Cowichan just take…
Ian Mulgrew: Judge robbed Burnaby Mountain Protesters of Right to Civil Disobedience
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger There is a great deal at stake when the court acts as accommodators for the corporate interests while denying the civil rights of citizens to protest. Ian…
Ferguson, right now
Spotted by Michael Bolen. Remind you of anything?