The PQ “values charter” would enshrine religion as a justifiable reason to discriminate against people in Quebec: it would promote religious segregation by stigmatizing the devoutly religious, explicitly exclude them…
I just don’t understand it. Why do people leave before a concert or a game is over? Why would they deliberately miss something they paid good money to see? OK,…
“ We’ve been binge-watching The Wire lately — didn’t see it when it first came out, but all the episodes are available on our Shaw box so we’ve been watching…
Back in August, 1964, my sister and I lined up at 6 am at the Trivoli Theatre to see the first showing of A Hard Day’s Night.I’m the dark haired…
Was there ever a truer phrase spoken in Ottawa than when David Dingwall told parliament that he was “entitled to his entitlements”? Its all of Ottawa in a nutshell —…
In a gorgeous flooded city, a scavenger discovers that he isn’t alone
LOL! Loved the remark on tonight’s news that Sun News TV generated more letters of complaint to CRTC than it had actual viewers.— Michelle Simson (@MichelleSimson) August 8, 2013 In…
I saw this ad on TV tonight, can’t remember which channel — its the ad that CBC itself wouldn’t run: Powerful stuff, with a bit of humour at the end,…
Here’s a horrible story about a mother fined $219 by Montreal Transit for not having the exact change for a bus fare — at ten o’clock at night, with her…
This Sikh motorcycle club is only one of Naomi Harris’ unique photos of Canada. More here: Naomi Harris: “Oh Canada” is a road trip for a Canadian photographer looking to…
The contrast could not be greater.Montreal police spend a full day dealing with a demonstrably-violent mentally ill man who shot at them from a house with 180 guns; they finally…
Cloud, meet silver lining.The Harper Con’s cheap partisan dissing of astronaut and Liberal MP Marc Garneau has produced a very useful set of adjectives which we can all use in…
Kinsella thinks Trudeau’s pot legalization proposal is a mistake: To sum up: a policy that is made on the fly, apparently without much caucus consultation – to curry favour with…
So I decided earlier this week to add Salon.com to the new links on my blogroll.Then they publish this ridiculous piece of Drudge-report link-bait, apparently because they thought they should…
At Eschaton, Thers wrote yesterday: You know, anyone who thinks that we as a nation have Overcome Racism ought to check out the comments section of any local newspaper that…
A Second a Day from Birth. – YouTube: ““ You won’t be able to stop smiling. Thanks to Daily Kos.
George Takei posted this photo montage in celebration.
Reading this made me sick: Hungry Canadian aboriginal children were used in government experiments during 1940s, researcher says: The first experiment began in 1942 on 300 Norway House Cree. Of…
The Harper Cons are warning new and shuffled Cabinet ministers about who their friends and enemies are: On the “Transition Binder Check List” are 10 items, such as: “What to…
I’m not surprised at the Zimmerman acquittal and neither is anyone else.First, the prosecution didn’t really prove its case very well; second, in the United States, white people usually get…
