Stephen Harper’s Con Klown Tour Continues
Uh oh. Talk about bad timing. It looks like Stephen Harper's Great Escape Tour is turning into a real drama. Or a Con klown show. First a Buffalo Airways plane…
Tuesday Night Rock
Knopfler, Clapton, Sting and Phil Collins on the drums. That’s rock’n roll.
Is flood amnesia setting in?
Immediately after the big water in June, two truisms were out and about in Calgary. One stated the flood had been so catastrophic that finally Albertans would take significant measures…
Making prejudice into a Canadian "value"
The PQ “values charter” would enshrine religion as a justifiable reason to discriminate against people in Quebec: it would promote religious segregation by stigmatizing the devoutly religious, explicitly exclude them…
Don Andrews: Nothing If Not Persistent
Summertime and the livin' is easy! We have to admit that the blog has not be a primary focus for our members. Life has gotten in the way in the…
Campaign Diary Volume 6: Still asking for money … in tiny increments
On hand: one cool election lawn sign. Needed: funds to help print additional copies. The pitch is simple: Small donations can help make a big difference! As previously noted in…
Conservative senate would kill PR bill
Just imagine if the dreams of PR reformers come true after the 2015 election. Somehow, we manage to get a government to pass a bill that makes PR law. If…
Why was the charge murder?
The Toronto police officer was charged with murder and not manslaughter because manslaughter (generally) is a wrongful killing where there was no intention to kill or cause grievous bodily harm…
A Tuesday Night Thought
From one of my favourite writers, speakers, thinkers and bloggers, Alex Himelfarb. Recommend this Post
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Cats with toys.
The Harper Gov.s 2nd Half Agenda Looks Like The Same Old Soap
One bit, if actually advanced, is mildly noteworthy: A number of issues expected to be addressed in the coming months that may very well be included in the throne speech,…
Our Corrupt, Power Hungry Prime Minister Will NOT Answer Questions …..
“Stephen Harper, for the fourth time, has prorogued the Parliament of Canada, depriving elected officials of their ability to do what they were put there to do, which is to…
Peter Nowak on Lessons from New Zealand on Crown telecommunication firms
Last week, we asked you what you thought about a major union’s call for the government to set up a Crown Corporation as Canada’s fourth major telecom provider. Telecom expert…
Is Geoengineering a Silver Bullet for Climate Change?
This is a guest post by David Suzuki. Altering environments to suit our needs is not new. From clearing land to building dams, we’ve done it throughout history. When our…
Stupid. Canada’s police chiefs want to give out tickets for pot possession instead of incarceration.
To many that may seem like a big jump for police chiefs who have been historically, hysterically “lock ’em all up, but look at it this way – why even…
Lego Mini-Figures for Social Justice
I’ve been talking with some other social justice type people about the need to have easily passed on facebook memes, and I decided to try doing some lego pictures. Here…
Maysdorf II By the Numbers: BLM’s Big Coal Giveaway Tomorrow
Tomorrow, the Bureau of Land Management will sell off roughly 148 million tons of coal. The BLM is opening the sealed bids for the so-called “Maysdorf II” tract in the…
SBGHC — Rosebush sets objective to balance budget without cuts to staff or services
If there has been one good news story this summer it’s this: CEO Paul Rosebush sent a memo to all physicians and staff at his South Bruce Grey Health Centre…
"Bored" American teenagers kill an Austrialian athlete for "fun"
What is happening in U.S. Killing for fun? Maybe Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld are these kids’ role models. They were bored so they invaded Iraq and over million innocent civilians…