Charlie Booker’s Wipe
What do you think? Have you been conditioned to accept powerlessness? Pick up the video at about 25:38
January 2015
It’s America’s Problem. Why Make It Canada’s?
One of These Is a Fighter. Your Guess. Imagine what would happen if you showed up for your first day of work at a new job with no pants. That,…
What’s a Single Issue Prime Minister to Do?
These are not good times for Canada’s petro-prime minister. Harper’s Holy Grail, Canadian energy superpowerdom, has sprung a leak. Even The Globe & Mail, says bitumen no longer makes any…
Disappointed with Democracy: Canadians Speak Out on Barriers to Political Participation
The university students sitting around the table at the Citizens’ Academy in Ottawa have never met before, but you wouldn’t know it from all the laughter. After the facilitator starts…
More In Canada Now Willing To Accept Dictatorship
Here’s Harper’s legacy, as he’s attempted to plunge our country into darkness: The group surveyed attitudes towards democracy and governance in interviews with 50,000 people in 28 countries. It found…
140 Law – Legal Headlines for Monday, January 5, 2015
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter from Dec 24 to January 5: Canadians upset with Romanian website that exposes court case details – The Globe…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Emma Woolley discusses how homelessness developed into a social problem in Canada in large part through public neglect. Judy Haiven is the latest…
Mockery Is All They Deserve
Crawford Kilian of The Tyee poses an interesting question/suggestion: What If We Made 2015 the Year of Poking Fun at Conservatives? While there is certainly no dearth of mockery emanating…
Now now, Now
Now magazine is irritated with Your Humble Narrator. For a while – um – now, the alt weakly has been in a state of high dudgeon, and it would be…
Will Iceland be the “Switzerland of Data”?
Iceland is the de facto home of Wikileaks and is also a country concerned with privacy issues. The country is now considering leveraging their experience and reputation of being digital-data…
Losing Its Soul
It’s truly demoralizing to discover that a significant number of Canadians continue to believe in Stephen Harper. Michael Harris writes: And now we have an even bigger problem, according to…
Ontario fastest growing province. But public services get zip
Four of the big Canadian banks have come out with new forecasts for the Ontario economy and they all indicate the economy is improving. The fall in the price of…
Is Den Tandt right?
Quote: “Mulcair is the only leader of a federal party who stands a fair chance of losing his job following the federal election, tentatively slated for later this year.” I’m…
I am confused, as usual
Apologies for getting all Toronto-centric, but the media in The Centre of the Universe are this morning filled with stories about how the new mayor is going to “get tough”…
The Hair’s ‘crazy’ care of our environment.
If no environmental regulations are required when times are good in the tar sands, why is it ‘crazy’ to impose them when times are bad? Yet that was what the…
Stephen Harper and the Great Canada Birthday Scam
Stephen Harper has spent more than a billion dollars on porky ads trying to brainwash Canadians, with their own money.He has tried to hypnotize us into believing that his is…
I Am The Chicken, And You Are My Prey
Noted without comment, other than the obvious: never…ever..mess with an angry chicken.
Fishing for support #nlpoli
When the going gets tough, the tough go fishing. In this case, a bunch of politicians in a tough spot with voters are fishing among a small bunch of politicians…
That Thing About How Those Who Forget Their History are Doomed to Relive It? Confirmed.
Autumn Forge. Familiar, No? Not many – certainly not enough – of us have any vivid recollection of the Cold War that spanned the second half of the 20th century.…
Why the Police Don’t Know Why People Don’t Trust Them
Laval police delete controversial photo from social media | Montreal Gazette. This is why the police don’t know why people don’t trust them. That, and killing First Nations youth, people…