Saturday Photo: A Community Garden in a Changing Part of Town
Urban farming is alive and well in Montreal. This community garden was once space the city didn’t need any more for its yards, and so was saved from sale and…
Palma Violets play epic version of the Hot Nasties’ ‘Invasion of the Tribbles’ in Toronto!
…accompanied by some old punk from Calgary!
Me and Palma Violets after a rousing rendition of ‘Invasion of the Tribbles’!
Pix by @lisakirbie! Vid proof to follow!
Toronto City Council Vote To Replace LRT With Subway Was Meaningless
City Council’s recent vote to replace the Scarborough RT with a subway has not affected the project as yet, says IO spokesperson Paulette den Elzen. She said IO is progressing…
6304…More Bad News For Tim Hudak
Kevin Kolb slipped on a rubber mat yesterday. Who’s dat, you say? Mr. Kolb is a new quarterback for Tim Hudak’s fave football team, his hometown Buffalo Bills. He has…
MTL buses – bureaucracy gone mad
Here’s a horrible story about a mother fined $219 by Montreal Transit for not having the exact change for a bus fare — at ten o’clock at night, with her…
Another Victim Of Police Violence?
Although not nearly as public an event as the killing of Sammy Yatim, largely because no video exists to indict police behaviour, the shooting death of Steve Mesic at the…
Geriatric Pipelines?
An analysis of the pipeline failure that spilled 200,000 gallons of Athabasca dilbit in Mayflower, Arizona concluded there was a manufacturing fault in the pipe. Here’s the thing. The pipe…
North Korea and Dictatorship
It is unfortunate that in dictatorships like the one in North Korea people are treated like robots. The following picture is beautiful but one feels sadness about the control of…
August 3: stop press news…
….NB beer sales dropping. what other newspaper in the world would run drivel like that as a big, front-page story? In fact, there’s only one story in all of section…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your Saturday reading. – Rick Salutin writes about the need for the labour movement to better promote its contribution to the general public – and my only…
He’s Crazy About the Schnitzel
In Colorado Springs, a bear loves the leftovers from the Edelweiss restaurant so much that he makes off with the entire dumpster.
Are You Just Too Tired? We’ve Known Why for Decades
You actually do deserve a break today. What ails us? A large proportion of the total produce goes to a small minority of the population, many of whom do no…
Could "America’s Quiet Environmental Revolution" Sound Last Call for Athabasca Bitumen?
A PostMedia article discusses what it calls America’s “quiet environmental revolution,” a nationwide, broadbased movement away from fossil fuels toward non-carbon alternatives. Even the most unlikely Americans are taking up…
6302…No Tipping Allowed In MTL
At least not on the bus. Pauline Tantost found that out the hard way. She told QMI Agency “…that she and her son were booted off the bus last week…
Two Energy Futures: Barriers to Clean Energy Political, Not Technological
For Canadians looking for inspiration in the fight for a cleaner and fairer energy future, there’s a valuable new resource available at Two Energy Futures. Created by the activist group…
Have You Ever Been To Sea, Billy? A Freedom Cruise Update
Just a brief note. Coming up on their August 3rd sail date, the twitter feeds of Ezra Levant, Brian Lilley, Monte Solberg, and other Freedom Cruise “celebrities” have gone dark.…
130 Years of a Warming Planet
NASA has produced a short animation showing how our world has warmed since 1880. This is based on weather data gathered from 1,000 stations around the world. Blue is cold,…
Waziristan on the Potomac
Congressional Republicans hold Loya Jirga What happens when the world’s most powerful nation becomes ungovernable? Often when authority becomes ineffective it gives rise to power vacuums that invite other actors,…