In the DSM-5 the new Autism Spectrum Disorder will, for the most part focus on those with Aspergers' and high functioing autism. The vast majority of those with Autistic Disorder…
Steve is right that the Nycole Turmel story speaks to the emerging media narrative that the NDP are cynically trying to be popular in Quebec by pandering to separatists.By letting…
Funny that shortly after the U.S. Congress passed the largest – and arguably most catastrophically stupid – deficit reduction package in history, the market promptly reacted by taking a nosedive.…
In a somehow unsurprising result, an online poll of the greatest Canadian political book in the last 25 years ended up giving Ezra Levant's "Shakedown" the top spot.Take a moment…
Those who criticize Nycole Turmel for leaving the Bloc Quebecois for the NDP only publicize how well she represents a people who did the exact same thing.It was recently revealed…
Well, it wasn’t like he didn’t offer to share! Maybe that’s why Stephen Duckett wasn’t fired for the Notorious Cookie Incident ™? Below: Dr. Duckett, AHS Chair Ken Hughes.How do…
McKee is good at two things. He's good at starting new racist groups in Calgary and, in spite of the small number of members, getting publicity for their actions. He's…
Golly. Who knew you could combine the McCarthy hearings with Alice in Wonderland and make a non-story sound so alarming?“We all support our friends — that doesn’t mean we buy…
Typical bleeding-heart tree-hugger, getting all squishy about caribou and weeping into his tofu. Never mind the jobs involved in forestry and the Ethical OilTM Sands. And where's he getting his…
I've been doing some reading about the Provincial Party the interim NDP Leader remains a member of. They are separatists but gosh, just Google them -- radical is an understatement.
The New Democratic Party of Canada has achieved what the Liberals and Conservatives never could. They have nearly relegated the Bloc Quebecois to the dustbin of Canadian history.The results of…
Well, for starters, there is NO SUCH THING as a “crisis” pregnancy. That word is utterly meaningless. And then there’s the fact that all this weasel-verbiage exists for a reason:…
Toronto has the largest urban concentration of raccoons in the world -- about 100,000.
While CK’s on the road, she’s invited me to blog and cross-post here. So I’m recycling this tasty little item, which I found via @NaomiAKlein. (They say she’s polarizing ……
Watching one of his brain-damaged, spittle-flecked rants, I’ve sometimes wondered what a regressive, racist old paleocon whackadoo like Pat Buchanan (or if you like, Pat BucKKKanan) is doing as a…
Did Jack Layton make a mistake recommending the appointment of Nycole Turmel as interim leader? Her status as a former Bloc Quebecois party member may not cause concern within Quebec.…
Despite the fact that the election discourse is gravitating mostly around the economy here in Ontario, with the PCs and Liberals trading blows on who can manage money in better…
Bloc NDP leader Nycole Turmel is supposed to be in St. John’s on Wednesday for the annual regatta. Local Dippers will be out in force. As local president Dale Kirby…
Cubed cats.
Open Source Data Journalism – Happening now at Buzz Data
(there is a section on this topic focused on governments below) A hint of how social data could change journalism Anyone who’s heard me speak in the last 6 months…