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Rightwing Knuckledraggers Unite!!!!
Climate Change Scientist Calls Conservatives ‘Neanderthal’ CBC | Posted: 04/27/2013 8:03 am EDT | Updated: 04/27/2013 9:46 am EDT This message is only marginally redundant..and the Conjobs could care less,…
Peacock: Beauty and Wonders of Nature
Peacock is a stunningly beautiful bird. To me it looks like that someone prepared a design and then in a workshop built it with all those patterns, green and blue…
George Jones Has Died R.I.P. ‘He Stopped Loving Her Today’
George Jones arguably Country Musics all time greatest singer died in a Nashville Hospital yesterday. I have included a You Tube video of George singing his tear jerker “He stopped…
Harper Cons Are "Neanderthals" – James Hansen
Take that, Joe Oliver. Retired NASA Goddard Space Laboratory director James Hansen says Harper and his underlings are lashing out at him because they’re getting very worried. Pipeline Minister A…
A sign of the times at the New York Times
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission A brief correction notice in the New York Times shows that our world is changing. Several others have already noticed a…
April 27: This is the blog….
….I knew I would have to write some day. The dispute between hothead Hemming and the province’s medical system is only a small part of a much, much bigger crisis…
Fracking Our National Parks: America’s Best Idea Threatened By Oil and Gas Addiction
Teddy Roosevelt must be rolling over in his grave. Elkhorn Ranch, where the great Republican conservationist sat on his porch overlooking the Little Missouri River and conceived his then-progressive theories…
Fox Snooze: Global Warming Name Game Debunked By Media Matters (Again)
Media Matters put out a video this past week with clips of all the recent FOX News mentions of a global warming name conspiracy. The Fox ‘conspiracy’ is that ‘liberals’…
rtod
Revolutionary thought of the day: I can’t stop looking at Rue, smaller than ever, a baby animal curled up in a nest of netting. I can’t bring myself to leave…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – David Olive writes that the dangerous effects of long-term unemployment (caused in no small part by gratuitous austerity) are just as much a…
Shakespeare’s Lost Plays
Shakespeare’s canon, as it is known today, is incomplete. The Bard is known to have written several plays that were not, for various reasons, included in the First Folio printed…
Signifying Nothing
Michael Harris writes that the Canadian Bar Association does not support Bill S7, the Harper government’s recently passed anti terrorism legislation: The CBA makes the point that the legislation does…
Painful media scrum for Adrian Dix on his Kinder Surprise
After a BC election radio leaders debate, NDP leader Adrian Dix faced the press, and questions on his Kinder Surprise. And it wasn’t pretty. Between back-dating memos and forward-dating decisions,…
A Classy Apology
Regular readers of this blog may be aware of my almost boundless enthusiasm for The Toronto Star. I deeply admire its progressive mission, and I find its roster of excellent…
"a contract for services by an independent contractor can be terminated at will and without notice"
McCready v. De Dwa Dehs Neys, 2013 ONSC 2425 holds: It is clear from judgments across the country that a true independent contractor like the Plaintiff, who is free to…
Saturday At The Movies
LOL – tough love from some of our “relations”:
More on Quebec
Teddy here with some expansion on an earlier post about Quebec. The poll taken, as outlined in that article, had Federal and Provincial questions asked. Since the poll used the…
It was always Paul for me
We got tickets today for Paul McCartney in Regina in August — as teenagers growing up in Saskatchewan, we never thought we would get to see him in person. We’re…