Harps from Howl – Monday Music Pick: Harp Duet
Sarah Pagé Howl! performance by howlarts Celebrated harp player Sarah Pagé performs a harp duet set with harpist Robin Best. Pagé has performed as a soloist with both the McGill…
Liberal Grassroots Get Mowed Down By Party Official
It seems a group of Liberal Party activists working online to establish a Liberal Learning Centre (LLC), were given a harsh rebuke by a party official.What follows is a series…
3935…Jon Stewart Picks On Conservatives
The Culture and Media Institute, a United States right wing something or other reports in today's top story that Numbers Don't Lie: "Daily Show's" Stewart Hammers Right Nearly Four Times…
3934…Ontario Dya Remember Mike Harris?
And what a train wreck his administration was? Vote Tory in Ontario and our new leader Buffalo's own Tim Hudak, Governor Tim Hudak, will make Mike Harris look like a…
Rebekah Brooks to Lady Rothermere: “Who do you think you are, Mother Teresa?”
The New York Times, in concert with UK’s Guardian, has been exemplary in its journalistic diligence in digging into the scandals rippling through News Corp. In a longish piece today,…
Joseph Harper and Atrocities During G-20
This last Sunday I watched the videos made by different people at the G-20 summit, and the atrocities carried out there. People who were bystanders and not even part of…
Bloc Quebecois to Hold Leadership Race This Fall
From Alice of Pundit's Guide:Unlike the Liberals, who are trying to quit their leadership quick-fix habit with a delayed timetable for permanently replacing Michael Ignatieff, the Bloc Québécois will move…
Rob Ford: The Man Who Would Eat Toronto
(click pic to enlarge)They say it's a hard city to love. When I moved here a few years ago my friends in Montreal said I'd absolutely hate it. That they…
Murdoch & News International: BURN BABY BURN!
I'll leave it to others of more sober professional inclinations and responsibility to provide the sophisticated analysis that the present crisis in Britain deserves. For my part I will unabashedly…
On correlations
This summer has seen plenty of crowing from the right over a connection between "economic freedom" (as defined by various corporate think tanks) and GDP levels. But for those of…
The long, convoluted cover up of hacking and other scandals by News Corp
The New York Times, in concert with UK's Guardian has been exemplary in its journalistic diligence in digging into the scandals rippling through News Corp. In a longish piece today,…
not Beiber but beavers
Sightings near Lake Ontario, much more exciting than Justin! http://ow.ly/5Hn3Z Filed under: Miscellany
Whistleblower in Murdoch hacking scandal found dead
So far police have said the death of Sean Hoare, the man who initially accused former Cameron communications director Andy Coulson of hacking, does not appear to be suspicious. No…
Not Helping
From the ARPA website:An old ARPA article from 2009 has been getting a lot of attention in Ontario over the past few days in light of comments about Tim Hudak…
Hitler Sings!
Fifty-one seconds of pure Spike Milligan joy! Alltop has humor too.
"Honeymoons"
Eric lays out the historical picture to demonstrate why the NDP's honeymoon in Quebec may persist longer than Harper's rhetoric assumes. I largely agree with the analysis, but my opinion…
Whistleblower in Murdoch hacking scandal found dead
So far police have said the death of Sean Hoare, the man who initially charged former Cameron communications director Andy Coulson with hacking, does not appear to be suspicious. No…
What are you working on?
I’m trying to invent a LARP system.
Flip…FLOP!
When he was running for the PC leadership in 2009, Hudak told the Association for Reformed Political Action he is pro-life and had signed petitions calling for the defunding of…
Disasters! Events! As they happen!!!!
This is a map which supposedly tracks nasty shit happening in the world in real-time. Earthquakes? Yup. Floods? Oh yeah. Forest fires? They’re hot on that! Plane crashes? They’re DOWN!…