Gold Plated Baird – ChristiansYES, Queer Kids NO
The Harper Government is set come good on an election promise to establish a new office within the Minister of Foreign Affairs. The new Office of Religious Freedom will investigate…
Rick Barnes
Calling Premier Dad – Sex education
Now we have a new Major Minority Government (hey, that's what the Ontario Liberals call it?) we can see them move on the school sex education curriculum. Especially after the…
What’s it like to be beaten in School
My condolences to Jamie Hubely and his family. It's time to take action to protect queer kids in our schools. Jamie Hubely's suicide certainly makes that clear. I am haunted…
Another gay boy has committed suicide
Another young life is gone. Another gay boy has committed suicide. I find it too much sometimes, the lives lost due to bullying and haters. They continue to rack up…
NDP still on Top in Quebec
I attended the annual get together of progressive bloggers recently in Toronto. It was enjoyable but could have been even more so had I been able to trot out the…
Occupy Toronto signs
Some signs of the times.. Signs at Occupy Toronto More signs at Nonprofity.com
Occupy Movement – It’s About Time – Standford
Jim Stanford, an economist in Canada has published another must read article on the Occupy movement at the Globe and Mail. rodmickleburgh 5 mins 8 secs ago Twitter Here it…
OWS Tweet says it all
Occupy Wall Street
America’s ‘Primal Scream’
You need to read this article from the New York Times. The piece explains very well what the big problems are. Although the article is primarily discussing the American situation,…
Occupy Toronto
Occupy Toronto looks to have been a success. 3,000 people arrived at the Bay Street address of the stock exchange. People listening to speaker at Occupy Toronto The demonstration was…
NDP Leadership Contest
My good friend but alas political adversary over at IMPOLITICAL takes comfort from a column by Don MacPherson in the Montreal Gazette, Quebec's conservative english language newspaper. Mac it seems…
The Liberal Party and the Dandelion Effect
Is the party over for the Liberals in Canada. A few writers seem to think so. And of course Liberals that I know always puzzle me. They are afraid for…
Friends of CBC
Since 1992 governments have left office providing less money for CBC than when they arrived. This from the friends of public broadcasting and a hat tip to David Akin, is…
CBC – not loved by government
Want to protect CBC. You can sign Bob Rae's petition if it will make you feel good. It can't hurt, it won't help either. Look at the facts as presented…
Change Wall Street
I am part of the worldwide movement for social justice that has come together due to the inspiration delivered from the Occupy Wall Street protests. We are onto something here…
No way Catholic Schools, no damn way!
That will be the day... I am annoyed enough that here in Ontario my taxes pay for catholic schools. That we have four different school boards in some communities. One…
Topp is a Juggernaut says Nano’s
So now they are calling Brian Topp's leadership effort the‘an elite juggernaut'. How clever. Critics of Brian Topp's effort to become NDP leader are missing quite a bit. He is…
The McGuinty Greenwash
“Liberals (McGuinty) are running on their green credit but most of their spending is going to the nuclear plan, so it’s a bit of a greenwash." - Greenpeace’s Shawn-Patrick Stensil…
McGuinty – He said it, then didn’t do it…
McGuinty say lots of things and doesn't always manage to do the things he says he will or won't do, as we all know. This from the Toronto Star today....…
Ontario – Deficits – The Liberal and NDP Story
The Ontario Liberals talk a good game about being fiscal managers of our money. They suggest that the NDP would spend wildly, driving the deficit even bigger. It's not based…