#Ottawapiskat
The newest hashtag is #Ottawapiskat — SilentNoMore at Daily Kos explains: Reacting to the outrageous hypocrisy of the Harper government, the artist Aaron Paquette created the brilliant twitter hashtag #Ottawapiskat,…
The newest hashtag is #Ottawapiskat — SilentNoMore at Daily Kos explains: Reacting to the outrageous hypocrisy of the Harper government, the artist Aaron Paquette created the brilliant twitter hashtag #Ottawapiskat,…
Refusing to join the knee-jerk triviality displayed elsewhere, the editorial writers at the Saskatoon Star-Phoenix understand the bigger picture: Serious talks just beginning: Over the last generation, more First Nations…
Dawg recognizes the ugly truth that Idle No More is revealing about Canadians: We’re a racist, settler country, and it’s high time we stood up and faced that fact, and…
It worries me to see games being played over something so important. If Spence follows through on her threat not to attend the hard-won meeting with Harper just because the…
From the Freeway Blogger:
So, Harper is going to meet next week with Aboriginal chiefs, including Theresa Spence. Maybe this time he won’t just snarl about how Aboriginal people should just shut up and…
Even the National Post is asking Harper to get off his high horse and meet with Teresa Spence before he loses all moral authority to lead the country: Harper should…
The Atlantic has an article about Monty Python as The Beatles of Comedy: It’s a pity that the word irreverent has lost its weight, so that it’s come to seem…
I’m home with the flu and a weird rash on my arm this new year’s eve — though we usually don’t go out anyway, just have family and friends in…
Sixth Estate on racist bullshit: … the people presently braying that we get rid of the Indian Act and “make the Indians” modernize are doing exactly the same thing as…
One of the reasons I re-read A Christmas Carol every year is for the joy of Dickens’ wonderful descriptions of Christmas in Victorian London: The cold became intense. In the…
Does anybody in the world care anymore what a cranky old man in Rome has to say about anything, much less about gay marriage?
Bobby McFerrin leads an audience in singing Ave Maria:““ I had no idea he was so talented, and he pulls the whole audience along with him.
The Idle No More protest today in Saskatoon:
Thousands take over Saskatoon mall for Idle No More protest: This was last night, at Midtown Plaza — 2,000 people took over the mall in a flash mob for Idle…
I always thought Bing Crosby’s last Christmas Special was the oddest one ever made, and the Bing/Bowie song was the oddest pairing, in spite of how their voices actually blend…
The Idle No More movement is being noticed across Canada. The Star Phoenix had a major story this morning about its founders Sylvia McAdams and Sheelah McLean (pictured above) who,…
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Neil Macdonald has a slightly different take on the aftermath of the Sandy Hook massacre: Yet another “national discussion” about guns is under way here, and it’s so anti-rational, so…