#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,…
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Star-Phoenix gets it right
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…
Wake up and smell the magnolias
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…
Playing games
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…
Says it all, really
From the Freeway Blogger:
Another Theodoric of York moment
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…
Harper just doesn’t get it
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…
And now for something completely different
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…
Happy New Year
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…
Great line of the day
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…
Keeping Christmas Well
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…
Irrelevant
Does anybody in the world care anymore what a cranky old man in Rome has to say about anything, much less about gay marriage?
This is amazing
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.
Cold hands, warm hearts
The Idle No More protest today in Saskatoon:
Flash mob for protest
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…
One of those things you wonder about
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…
They’re not going to take it anymore
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,…
WTF was that?
Holy shit News, Video and Gossip – Gawker
Unbearably stupid
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…