This is a pretty ordinary sentiment but I picked it because Stockwell Day was often portrayed as a radical beyond radical. In fact, Mr Day appreciated well the constitutional role…
The right can now play it down as the work of a lone nut. If he was a brown Muslim, well, let's just say they would have portrayed him as…
The other day I wrote about the fact that statistic show serious crime in Canada to be at a 40-year-low. Despite this, of course, the Harper Government is marching headlong…
If there's any good news in the report that it's apparently impossible to keep corporate sponsorship off even the most political of public functions, it's that it should be highly…
Awkward. The mass murderer who set off a bomb in Oslo and opened fire on a bunch of kids in a camp turns out to be a right-wing, Christian, anti-Muslim…
The Ford Bros Circus of Stupid decided that the best way to figure out which services we ought to toss on the bonfire was to hire auditing firm KPMG. Well,…
While authorities work overtime to find international connections, the only known assailant in the deaths of 91 Norwegians is a deranged Christian fundamentalist terrorist known as Anders Behring Breivik.A devotee…
So says my daughter. She was coming home from work on the subway the other night and found this book on the seat. I love that people do this!
I Burned my Bra For This? REAL Women of Canada and the Men Behind ThemAnother soldier in the war against American women, who helped to the launch a similar war…
Some Saturday fun – a cat caught barking until she notices the human:
If you ever wondered about the value of street trees, here's an object lesson. The trees across the street from our temporary digs shade the buildings there, which means they…
This is a link from a friend from the storm we had Thursday night. The view from the terrace here was very similar, and I stood and watched the rising…
A right wing terrorist killed over 80 people in Norway, so Norway should adopt right wing penal policies.I call that the Obama Solution.
Ezra Klein cuts to the chase in today's Washington Post. The White House wanted $400 billion in revenues, and John Boehner knew he couldn't get the deal through the House:But…
As you’ve no doubt heard, a far right extremist gunman who holds anti-immigration, anti-Muslim views decided to vent his wrath on the governing Socialist Party in Norway yesterday, blowing up…
On Friday April and I went to Kensington and its haunted mansion. It’s a historic house from the 1800s, redone into a haunted house and theme park with rides. The…
I might have more to say about this later, but for now I just want to highlight the idiocy of some on the right of the spectrum here in Canada.…
Fire trucks, Twitter and a 60 year old who dropped a hundred pounds in six months wanting a job today she didn’t want six months ago. Must be the Summer…
Blogsy experiment
So, I bought Blogsy from the app store and it turns out to be really nice. Easier to use than the WordPress app. And it seems to deal with images…