The solution is not new expensive maxi prisons. But that's the intelligent argument, supported by experts in the field. Just more ammo for the anti-intellectual Conservatives. Plus, you know, mandatory…
Just a quick note to highlight the 85th birthday of El Comendante, Fidel Castro Ruiz.:-)The adventures of a Franco Ontarian Viz Min Woman in Ottawa.
It's bad enough living in Stephen Harper's Canada. The darkness. The insanity. The double think. Those cold dead eyes that seem to follow you around. Jason Kenney. The horror. The…
You can understand my surprise upon reading of your attempt to silence an elderly widow of an asbestos-linked cancer victim, Michaela Keyerslingk, using trademark law. The idea that a political…
RealNewsIsNoMatchForTruePoetryVille According to Mr. Beer 'N Hockey, who lives out that way, this is what happened before the big airshow even began on Friday: "I had not even said Hello…
Special effects. Wow. I have to laugh at some of the things that were done in the name of 'enhancing' photographs in the pre-Photoshop era. Sandwiching two slides together. Taking…
Could there be a better illustration than the story below? What a ridiculous sideshow! http://bit.ly/mPymgf The Communist Party of Canada is thinking about filing a human rights complaint against…
After Pawlenty's bad showing in the Iowa straw poll Pawlenty is now out of the race for the White house. Tim Pawlenty who was said to have spend an enormous…
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SomewhatPopularBlogFatherVille You want to know how the Congresswoman from Minnesota really captured the corn belt vote? Well, given what political discourse in North America has become, it may have less…
...doesn't mean someone isn't really out to get you. There sure seems to be a lot of talk lately about how the press should ignore "phoney" civil rights and just…
Whenever the topic of female genital mutilation or circumcision is brought up, most people experience a poignant and visceral reaction at the mere thought of such atrocity. Almost everything to…
...on Hudak's promise to put crooks in your parks:Ontario has long been a province of tough, practical people. The Ontario way is to ask: "what works?" and make decisions based…
Wonderful thing, the Tweeter. Keeps things lively, and keeps you on your toes.So apparently there's some question over what I wrote about the Globe's ideologically reliable urban affairs curmudgeon and…
In June of this year, a report was released on governance at Concordia University. The 39-page report was written by the External Governance Review Committee, a three-person committee chaired by…
…that much was clear long before his rancid race-baiting rant about the Tottenham riots, projectile-vomited at anyone who happened to be dozing, bored to tears, in front of a TV…
Who's Tory now??? It's bad enough that he writes for the SUN. Oh well ... once again we see the truth in the old prairie axiom ... "Liberal/Tory. Same old…
Lots of changes in the 'hood! I've been meaning to write an update for a while but it seems that a staycation with two kids under five does not make…
No one told George W. Bush that: "A closed mouth catches no flies" Photo source: MSNBC
As a constituent of what must be one of Ontario’s most progressive ridings, Parkdale-High Park, I was dismayed and disappointed by the first piece of Liberal campaign literature that showed…
