The loneliness of the long distance rabbit
The stats were daunting. The average breeding season for rabbits is 9 months (10 in Newfoundland). Gestation time is 30 days. Each litter produces somewhere between 4 to 12 kits…
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Really? Except: The attack ads are working. Twitter “teaches” nothing; mostly, teachers do. Obama lost the gun control vote. Question Period changes nothing. Twitter circulated an avalanche of false information…
Like Lobsters Caught in a Trap, Americans Are Held Prisoners By Their Procedural Republic
The news coming out of the USA last week was pretty bleak: another senseless act of indiscriminate violence at the Boston Marathon, where two home-made bombs were detonated amongst the…
Autism and the Natural Environment: Conor Celebrates Earth Day Every Day
Today is Earth Day! Conor celebrated yesterday with some Run, Jump, Fly fun on the North Riverfront Trail here in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. We try to get outdoors and…
Some free advice #nlpoli
The Premier’s daughter tweeted this comment last Wednesday night. Few people consider the impact that political life has on the families of politicians and political staffers. Steve Paikin’s book The…
An Interesting Development in Our Identification of Boneheads
Yesterday we started publishing the unidentified boneheads, some of whom are found in this picture: One of the guys we were wondering about was this fella here: Hey, nice Schutzstaffel…
Rafe Mair & Damien Gillis Hit The Road-It’s All About Water And Power
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger Politicians tend to avoid issues as much as possible during elections or any other time. Rafe Mair knows this full well as he served his time in…
k.d. lang inducted into the canadian music hall of fame at juno awards in regina … she deserves it!
a little tribute to k.d. lang
Stittsville, 82km
Unseasonably cold, but sunny. Discovered Corktown Road, which runs east-west between Carling at Andrew Haydon Park and March Road. Traffic free. Scenic. Use it to link up with the Ottawa…
Improving accessibility
Here’s a photo from the inside of the washroom in the COC Friend’s Lounge at the Four Seasons Center for the Performing Arts in Toronto: (Sorry for the fuzziness. The…
Improving accessibility
Here’s a photo from the inside of the washroom in the COC Friend’s Lounge at the Four Seasons Center for the Performing Arts in Toronto: (Sorry for the fuzziness. The…
Somewhere Between is a Great Doc
Netflix just earned my monthly 8 bucks again. Somewhere Between is perhaps a bit of a chick-doc, but there are enough geopolitical economic undertones to keep the coldest intellectual male…
When attacked cry "FIRE" not "HELP"
People will respond better to "Fire".
5894…Dean Del Mastro Where For Art Thou?
This dude is a great bullet dodger, eh? WFDS
Over 100 Canadian artists demand cancellation of anti-immigrant TV show “Border Security”
By: Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive: Over 100 actors, directors, producers, directors, technicians and other cultural professionals have signed an open letter demanding the immediate cancellation of anti-immigrant TV…
What does a blind person have to say about the Internet?
We received this letter from a supporter of OpenMedia.ca: “I am totally blind. I own a company called ebony consulting here in Toronto that specializes in teaching mostly in Ontario,…
Idle No More to spearhead Mother Earth Day commemoration in Ottawa
By: Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive: The Idle No More movement for Indigenous rights and sovereignty is scheduled to spearhead the commemoration of Mother Earth Day in Ottawa. Activists…
Southern Ontario "Skinheads": Who’s Who?
It isn't a surprise that the boneheads read this blog. In fact, since we were the only media that even wrote anything about their little march in London last weekend,…