How to stop Ford Nation
How do we stop the cuts to core services and the wasteful spending by Rob Ford and his supporters on city council?Talk to the councillors.Now, we know that there are…
The transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich and how this affects Toronto
Toronto at a crossroads: Will Ford's austerity agenda be derailed? | rabble.caExcerpts: Lost in the rhetoric is the fact that there actually is a "revenue" problem, a problem that is…
What Is Christy Clark Really Ducking….
AllTheStay(Away!)cationsThatFitConvictionlessCourageVille....With Her Well-Timed Vacation?According to Lotusland's proMedia herd, whose stampede this time was led by Mike Smyth with The Dean bringing up the rear, it had something to do with…
Lost dogs: Baloo and Solo
I’ve been looking for Baloo, a half-groomed lost dog this week. He’s a rescue dog. The Rescue had him at the groomer’s to get his matts cut out. Poor little…
When Society Progresses in the Reverse Direction
When I saw this post, it reminded me of how I met up with a friend from elementary school last summer and, over the course of our conversations, we realized…
Winnipeg Lanterns for Peace
On Monday, August 6, 1945, at 8:15 a.m., the nuclear bomb “Little Boy” was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan by an American B-29 bomber, the Enola Gay. An estimated 130,000 people…
Scott Brison talks about the committee hearing that wasn’t
Seeing as we never had a chance to chat at the end of the abbreviated spring session, I caught up with Liberal MP Scott Brison yesterday by phone. Q: How…
Our liberal media part XXVVX
Fair and balanced Brian Lilley in CTV News segment Ottawa Citizen reporter Glen McGregor writes about Brian Lilley’s wife and family taking centre stage on CTV in 2005 endorsing the…
Jason Kenny Responds to B&H Propaganda
Okay, on the one hand we hate giving McKee and his, as our friend Daryle describes them on OPP, mall rats any publicity. Add to this we generally think Jason…
Secret Revolutions.
How much is the press reporting when it comes to the protests that are sweeping the globe? They covered Egypt, they covered Iran. Syria. Libya. Tunisia. But they are people…
September 2011 Bits and Bites: Blasts From the Distant Past, the Recent Past, and Current News Sandwiched in the Middle
Sometimes we like to revisit some older stories, some of which are so old they predate this blog by close to four decades. For example, here's a name we haven't…
Something fishy about this Toronto Sun article by David Menzies
Sometimes the Islamophobic Toronto Sun goes so far over the edge, it opens itself to open ridicule. This bit of flimsy from the Sun takes the edge and moves it…
Nissan Cars May Power Your Home
Nissan has built a car that can charge on the road then use the excess charge it holds to power a home. This car can then be used to power…
The food insecure amongst us
Every year the UN-OCHA (Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs) says that 3-4 million (always different) subsistence farmers and pastoralists in a variety of different regions in Ethiopia are…
Yup
Turmell is much more fun than that boring old economy.
Nycole Turmel: Naive Or Lying?
Don MacPherson makes an interesting point in today's Montreal Gazette:Another is that not even the subtleties of politics in Quebec allow you to be a member of two competing federal…
We’ve seen this movie before..
A day or so ago, Harper came out at the Mayor of Toronto’s private picnic calling for a defeat of the Ontario Liberal government, which was published on Youtube. Some…
Canada’s GHG commitment problem
For the past decade, Canada’s GHG emission targets were framed by the Kyoto Protocol, in which Canada committed to a 6% reduction in emissions by 2012 relative to 1990 levels…
Austerity and Welfare State Practices
I’m going to dip my toe back into the blogging pool via a quick “Lookee here!” post. In the last little while, lots of energy on the left has been…
Jane Taber’s one-sided column unleashes Dean Del Mastro on Margaret Atwood
In a column worthy of her nickname ‘Tory Taber’, the Globe writer gives all kinds of space to the Con spokesperson to insult and lie about Margaret Atwood. Only one…