Ontario’s Sex Education
As Frank Zappa sang in his 1968 song, What’s The Ugliest Part Of Your Body?: What’s the ugliest Part of your body? What’s the ugliest Part of your body? Some…
2015
American and Canadian Food Waste Both Staggering
Here’s a very interesting and instructive blog post about American food waste. See Stunning Photos of What Rob Greenfield Finds After Dumpster Diving Across America http://t.co/vXbwgqi5Is pic.twitter.com/OALsW3lT0n — EcoWatch (@EcoWatch)…
Where Is Karl Heinz Schreiber Now That They Need Him?
The Tories are looking to move bags of money, tens of billions, on new purchases for Canada’s armed forces and nothing says Tory and money better than Cap’n Airbus himself,…
Your Daily Digital Digest for Tuesday, May 5, 2015
Your news links for today: Canada poised to pass anti-terror legislation despite widespread outrage – The Guardian The FBI wants us to have computer security so strong that only they…
Important Races to Watch and My Predictions
It is election day in Alberta and before I have anything else to say, I have this important thing to say: VOTE! It will only take a few minutes but…
Should political parties get inside information on whether you voted or not? – Part 1 By Peter Ewart
Peter Ewart Peter Ewart offers thoughtful well researched and reasoned posts on wwwNews250.com This 4 part series takes a look at issue of identifying those voters who cast ballots…
Curiosity (and art) is Addictive
A new theory based on some old research is that our drive to figure things out can be as addictive as doing drugs. If you’ve ever had to deal with…
Harper’s Jihad Part 3
Dear Leader’s jihad against Muslims continues apace. As you probably know, his regime is going to court today to request an “emergency” stay of Omar Khadr’s release on bail, their…
Life In Scarborough: Today, A Curse Was Laid Upon Me…
…by a little old lady in Sunday-Morning-Churchy gear. She was walking towards my bus shaking her fist at the sky. When it slowed to pick her up, she pointed and…
Tax Cuts Only Work When There Are Jobs
http://www.theoslotimes.com Everybody’s talking about tax cuts. Stephen Harper has be doing it for six months. Yesterday, Justin Trudeau talked about tax cuts. It’s true that Trudeau’s proposals would spread the…
Harper endangers Canadians at home.
There was some interesting story positioning in the Toronto Star on Monday. The top story on page two was that the federal government will block any attempt to procure bail…
Stephen Harper, Bill C-51, and the Winds of Change
There couldn't have been a more brutal clash of images. The old veterans in their wheelchairs honouring their comrades who died fighting the fascists to make Holland free.And Stephen Harper…
Final #abvote Projection: NDP Majority, Wildrose Opposition
After last night’s fun in PEI, today’s election promises to be even more fun, with the possibility – nay, the likelihood of a New Democratic majority in Alberta coming to…
Teddy’s updated Alberta prediction.
I’ve scheduled this post go to up about 30 minutes before the polls open in Alberta. I’ve posted this early to not conflict with Kyle’s final projection. I’ll start with…
The Red and the Black: budgets and politics #nlpoli
The annual budget is probably the most political document of any government in a Westminster style parliament like ours. At its simplest and most obvious level the budget is the…
How Do YOU Fight for Workplace Justice?
How do YOU define determination? One of them gave birth the day before the vote. As soon as her baby was nursing properly and her bloodwork came back okay, she…
Canada now has two elected, openly LGBT premiers
PEI Premier Wade MacLauchlan With tonight’s majority Liberal win in Prince Edward Island, Wade MacLauchlan becomes the second openly gay premier elected in Canada (after Kathleen Wynne in Ontario.) Most…
PEI final results
Analysis tomorrow.