What’s on God’s Mind Lately?
Recent throughts from The Tweet of God: Well I’ve lost faith in you, too. Sorry, rest of the world, Junior and I can’t help you now. We’re too busy helping…
Edward Snowden Flees Hong Kong for Russia
NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden- Hero or Traitor? Here is an update from Democracy NowU.S. Files Espionage Charges The exact whereabouts of National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden are unknown after…
children at political protests
My kids and I went to a protest recently against the closing of a municipal daycare. Though my children are not in daycare, I recognize the need for daycares and…
Nobody Shoots at a Dead Duck!
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger Our PM Stephen Harper is a power at any cost politician it seems. Liberal leader Justin Trudeau is climbing in the polls giving the appearance that he…
What If We Are Wrong About Diabetes?
“What if blaming the obese is blaming the victims” This TEDTalk is a must watch. Dr. Peter Attia explains that obesity and diabetes are in fact linked, but not at…
What If We Are Wrong About Diabetes?
“What if blaming the obese is blaming the victims” This TEDTalk is a must watch. Dr. Peter Attia explains that obesity and diabetes are in fact linked, but not at…
If Only Man’s Best Friend Could Speak Its Mind
Sad Dog Diary
After layoffs, racialized immigrant workers face precarious employment, poverty wages
by: CAW & Ryerson University | Press Release: TORONTO, June 25, 2013 – Older immigrant workers who have been laid off are falling through the cracks of Canada’s employment system,…
OpenMedia.ca Sounds Alarm on Privacy Rights as court case could see Canadians’ private information handed to U.S. firm
Image by o5com on Flickr.jpg U.S.-style copyright trolling could clog Canadian courts if law not made clearer JUNE 25, 2013 – OpenMedia.ca is warning Canadians that their privacy rights could…
6184…Rob Ford In Trouble Again
This time the story comes from CBC who have revealed that hizzonner was friends with one of the frequent callers to his Sunday afternoon radio show on CFRB. “CBC News…
PMO Organized Anti-Trudeau Protest
The Prime Minister’s Office is a partisan waste of taxpayer money. $10M a year goes there to die. Huffington Post uncovered the PMO coordination of the silly protest aimed at…
The Great Wall Ties Chairman Calvert’s Five-Year Plan
The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives has released my policy brief (PDF) on Saskatchewan employment growth. It is covered on the front pages of today’s Regina Leader-Post and Saskatoon StarPhoenix…
Americans Begin to Ask If the F-35 Is Simply Unaffordable
The F-35’s reputation for being over-priced, under-performing and overdue is etched in stone at this point. For an aircraft that’s been in development for a dozen years, no one still…
Mandela and Snowden Two Heroes In A Dark World
Nelson Mandela For decades after the intrusive CIA fingered Nelson Mandela, the terrorist was imprisoned in South Africa. In spite of his incarceration he never gave up hope. Mandela gained…
It’s not just Erica Meekes. The PMO is rife with young vermin – Maddy Stieva, Carl-Olivier Rouleau, Stav Nitka, Nick Young, James Mitchell and Grant Dingwall
While many a blogger and journalist blame the PMO for the army of unethical rats for whom integrity and ethics take a backseat to winning (Apathy is Boring!), it is…
Vancouver Sun Letter
A letter of mine found its way into the Vancouver Sun today. This one comes in response to a piece last week by Senator Mobina Jaffer about the role of…
Harper’s Building All Those Prisons. Why Aren’t We Filling Them With Conservatives?
It’s not like the Conservative ranks, federal and provincial, are short of miscreants who deserve a long stretch behind bars. Yesterday the fellow who was in command on the bridge…
Alberta Has Been Climate Changed – And It’s Forever
“This is Pacific Northwest U.S. weather we’re getting and we’re not built for it. We didn’t design our cities, our floodways, our flood maps, anything for this. ” – John…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Thomas Walkom discusses how a continued economic slump is combining with the Cons’ economic policies to destroy secure jobs in favour of…
Do You Make the World Better? There’s an App for That
By now most people have heard what a carbon footprint is, but have you heard about your gloabl ‘handprint‘? The notion is that it’s the opposite of a negative counter…