Another Ontario NDP Ad – Very refreshing
New Ontario NDP ad - Its about change, about making life affordable, its positive! Its so refreshing to see an ad that doesn't focus on the other guys, but on…
Convince Me
Nation, as I indicated in my most recent missive, I'm conflicted about this second stage of the PC Leadership race.One of the big sticking points for me has been my…
Quotable quotes
From Rob Antle's article in Atlantic Business Magazine, an interesting quote from federal Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver about Muskrat Falls, and the federal government's loan guarantee.“Look, the project, at…
Pakistan: When Thieves Fall Out
As Neil Sedaka once crooned "breaking up is hard to do", especially when you're a superpower who needs the help of an unstable and corrupt government to have any chance…
Cleaning up the ‘hood
The annual Fall Cleanup takes place tomorrow - Saturday, September 24. We're starting a little earlier this year. You can register any time between 8:30 to 10:30am in the Community…
"Unfortunately, what you in the united states and the global community were being told by the likes of the press in this country…was a lie"…
if what you're reading here grips you, holds you, fascinates you, provokes you, emboldens you, pushes you, galvanizes you, discomfits you, tickles you, enrages you so much that you find…
Cynthia McKinney in Libya…
these are older interviews...from about three months ago. i just found them. she's awesome, brave, truthful and tends to travel to and from the middle east, always critically, politically in…
making the most of difference
people with Aspergers excel in company that tests software http://ow.ly/6D3KU Filed under: Miscellany
Ontario New Democrats Release Affordable Housing and Anti-Poverty Plan
“Faced with the grim stats on poverty in Ontario— including food bank use increasing 28% since 2008, waitlists for affordable housing increasing 25% since 2007, and the poverty rate increasing…
liberal party tries to raid alberta party staff by promising job and nomination.
Outgoing Liberal Party executive director Corey Hogan and Liberal Caucus strategist Jonathan Huckabee offered Alberta Party provincial organizer Michael Walters a job as their party’s executive director, sources close to…
Killer elite. Peter MacKay took military jet to dine on lobsters.
Man, these Conservatives sure know how to lie live the high life. Tuxedos, lobsters, jets, search-and-rescue helicopter rides. I should be born again as a Conservative. Like waking up one…
Canada included in world events:Millions will ‘march, bike, and skate’ Saturdayto politicize others about the plight of the planet
In Kenya, I have seen herds of animals starving because the small rivers and lakes have dried up. In Sierra Leone, I witnessed people fighting for control over meagre water…
Tarsands civil disobedience in Ottawa…
i hope they cause lots and lots of trouble.i hope they don't walk away willingly.i hope they make their bodies heavy to move and frustrating to carry.i hope they chain…
They’re baaaaack!
I've just received a mailing from my MP. He identifies himself as an MP. The return address is the House of Commons and the email address is his parliamentary address.…
Of course he’s going against the majority opinion of this country’s citizens…he’s a dictator…
Harper’s undermining of UN bid goes against Canadian public opinion Yves Engler The Electronic Intifada 22 September 2011 Today the Palestinian Authority is pursuing a state on 22 p...
Committee to Stop FBI Repression…
Build the Movement Against Political RepressionOne year since the September 24 FBI Raids and Grand Jury Subpoenas The Committee to Stop FBI Repression (CSFR) is asking you to build the…
Is It Just Me…
Or does anyone else notice the timing of this story regarding former GG Adrienne Clarkson’s taxpayer paid secretarial help? Not that I condone this kind of thing, but I have…
Affectionate dispatches from the recently retired
Dear Newfoundlanders and Labradorians:I know that there is an election going on over the course of the past week and the next couple of weeks. (I know this because it…
What Is A Hero?
Having completed at my wife's urgent behest the always onerous task of vacuuming, I sat down a short time ago to peruse The Toronto Star. In it there is another…
Ontario Liberal Smear Campaign will fail
I would really like to spend this election talking about the issues. Trouble is the Ontario Liberals and the Hudak Conservatives just want to run negative ads that attack others…