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Impressions of the Ontario By-elections.
My sense of how things are going, based on the brief polls I’ve seen, talking to people and just anecdotal “gut” feeling: The OLP seems to be holding on a…
6263…Tim Horton’s Ix Nay The Gays
Well at least the gay papers that one could cruise online whilst having a double double. Read about it in the Sun yesterday. It is said that DailyXtra.com, an online…
6262…Dean Del Mastro Is A Bad Boy
Allegedly. I missed this; happened last month. CBC ran with the story that “Frank Hall, whom Del Mastro contracted to do voter outreach and identification during the 2008 federal election…
Why does the Ottawa Sun get away with this double standard?
The Diva is perplexed. Behold, today’s Ottawa Citizen cover. It is a heart-wrenching account of an adult who died of a drug overdose. His family is going through the grieving…
Why does the Ottawa Sun get away with this double standard?
The Diva is perplexed. Behold, today’s Ottawa Citizen cover. It is a heart-wrenching account of an adult who died of a drug overdose. His family is going through the grieving…
True? NO! In the old days men would stand outside the courtrooms with straw in their shoes. That would indicate their willingness to be a false witness and lie in front of the judge. So a straw man became someone who lied deliberately?
Its nonsense. Though repeated in websites and books – I saw it recently in a book about London in the early 1700s – not a single legitimate source attests to…
A Peasants’ Magna Carta
A working group of the United Nations Human Rights Council met in Geneva last week to begin formulating a draft U.N. Declaration on the rights of peasants and other rural…
Why I Worry So About Canada’s Middle Class
All you need to do is take a hard gaze south of the 49th to understand why Canada’s political apparatus is failing our middle class and what lies in store…
July 21, Just a brief, Sunday note….
I’ve been out of touch with them for quite a while, but all the mafia I knew were great church attenders. Mostly Catholics, they usually made the earliest mass on…
400 ppm
Of all the events that occurred during my blogging hiatus, the one that struck me as the most significant, even including the massive flooding of my hometown, was the Earth…
What Do Harper, Mulcair and Trudeau Have in Common? Plenty.
It strikes me that if you want to avoid trouble it’s probably best not to look the other way while it approaches. There’s something about taking one upside the head…
Sunday Morning Links
Assorted content for your Sunday reading. – Gerald Kaplan discusses how the privileges of power have contributed to the utterly callous response to the Lac-Mégantic rail explosion by Stephen Harper…
19 Things We Can’t Say About Afghanistan
Canada’s indulgence in martial boosterism has come and gone. We’re no longer all that keen on kicking Taliban ass in Afghanistan. Like our American counterparts we hardly even mention the…
A Farmer’s Lament
I think that, at some level, most progressives “get” what this Brit farmer is saying. Food, especially cheap food, is on the mind of many Britons this week after the…
Japanese Quickie
Teddy here with a quick update on politics elsewhere in the world. In Japan an election was held today for half of the upper house. I’ve cobbled together this table…