The Theft Of Our Children’s Future Is A Crime
This week, the world lost a leader in sustainable business practise. Ray Anderson, founder and Chairman of Interface Carpets, passed away on August 8th. After reading Paul Hawkens’ The Ecology…
Political tidbits
This is stupid. If you don’t like the Mayor of Toronto, you vote against him next municipal election (or his councillors that support him). You don’t utter death threats, or…
Yvonne Jones
Six months ago, in the dead of a winter which blanketed Corner Brook with six-and-eight foot snowdrifts, and on the tail end of receiving chemotherapy treatments for her cancer, Yvonne…
Um, To Be Brainwashed, I Believe One First Has To Have A BRAIN.
by matttbastard If Toronto City Councillor Giorgio Mammoliti wasn’t real, some enterprising young sketch comedian would have to invent him (and subsequently cash in on the character with a marginally…
140 Law – Legal Headlines for August 10, 2011
Here are today's leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter:Children's Aid Society Needs Fresh Approach - NorthumberlandView.ca - http://goo.gl/KmGn5Jackson attorneys ordered to court - http://goo.gl/SOZ8JHIV-positive teen to appear in…
One Of Those Polls
Angus Reid poll on the Turmel affair offers a bit of everything, depending on how you spin the results. Bottomline, the horserace numbers show little NDP erosion in the wake…
20 Tips for first-year students: #3- Experience Theatre at Mount Allison University
In the third post of a 20-part video series, Sarah Underhill, who expects to graduate in May with a double major in history and anthropology, talks about experiencing theatre on…
All you need is love …
And maybe some bamboo...
René Magritte: Merchant Banker Masters His Mental Powers at Walton-on-the-Naze
While an art historian will tell you this 1964 painting is called “The Son of Man”, and is meant to be a meditation on what is hidden in the visible…
Replace the Champlain Bridge.
The Champlain Bridge is crumbling down. We need to replace the structure now! Before something bad happens. Because of problems with the bridge the city will lose productivity amounting 2…
Guess The Government CAN Create Jobs
Tough on Crime = 6,000 more positions within Corrections Canada since 2006. (Of course, the figure is from Brian Lilley, whose math skills are known to be somewhat limited)
Hidden message on a shirt
Look out tea party homophobes! This could happen to you . A German group has taken new tech printing on t-shirts to a new level. The group handed out free…
I Heart Giorgio Mammoliti
It's not every day that a politician comes along who is so totally and completely ridiculous and juvenile, such a cartoon character, that they are a like a gift from…
… the anti-police protesters did not appear to participate in the rioting, and quickly denounced it …
From today's Globe: "That was the shooting by police last Thursday night of a father of four and alleged cocaine dealer named Mark Duggan. People in the north London community…
Catholic Sect Threatens Children Over Tolerance Policy
The Coptic Orthodox Church has threatened to somehow withdraw 5000 schoolchildren from the Toronto Catholic District School Board unless the board scraps its plans to implement the government’s required tolerance…
Yvonne Jones: Profile in Courage
What does not kill you makes you stronger. That must be the case. Yvonne Jones is emerging from her battle with cancer with unrivalled moral strength even if her physical…
Ministerial tantrums
Last week, Amnesty International wrote Jason Kenney and Vic Toews an open letter about their “suspected war criminal” hunt, and listed a number of concerns about the process and the…
Stop me before I blog again! Alberta Diary is closed for vacation until Aug. 22
Gone campin’ … NOT! Alberta Diary is CLOSED FOR THE HOLIDAYS. No, really! I promise not to post about the CFIB’s attempt to bring “right to work” legislation to Alberta…
Pot, meet kettle
Isn't it priceless that after all the harrumphing and pontificating on the part of the Conservatives and their media supporters about how awful that Nycole Turmel accepted a leadership position…
Sounds like something weird is going on in Brazil
This is beyond bizarre. First, Canadians are reading about how Harper locked himself in a bathroom and wouldn't come out until the speech schedule was changed to his liking at…