Not allowed to talk about poverty
BC Stats put out a release yesterday with the headline “Low Income Cut-Offs (LICOs) are a Poor Measure of Poverty” and author Dan Schrier gets in a dirty hit right…
Wankers of the Week: Staying Inhuman
Crappy first weekend of summer, everyone! How’s the weather where you are? Where I’m at, it’s predictably unpredictable with occasional bursts of shitty. But all is not lost. I hear…
Fund-Raising Review By Province – Conservatives
As promised, let's dig into La Presse's party fund-raising data to see what we can conclude about where and how Canada's political parties have raised money over the past few…
3878…Asbestos Must Be Safe
Right?My Facebook friend from Westmount, Marc Garneau, tells the world that Canada has not added asbestos to the Rotterham list of dangerous stuff.Surely this is an oversight by the Stephen…
Warren Kinsella Jumped the Shark Roughly at the Same Time as the Phrase "Jump the Shark" Jumped the Shark.
As the rhetoric, games, and spin ramp up in the lead up to this fall’s provincial election, am I the only one noticing that Kinsella, who’s purportedly running the McGuinty…
The New Political Landscape
The results of the general election have dramatically shifted Canada’s political orientation. A round-up: What’s good: No more mushy-middle, quasi-conservative-government-in-waiting-politicking by the Grits. What’s bad: Big Blue is stronger than…
Long Time…
Been busy.
The NDP platform: Not made in Ontario
On the left, the stock photo as it appears in the NDP platform. On the right, as you can purchase them, too. All style, zero substance.
Vancouver riots: Revealing video shows what’s behind the “kiss” photo
No, it really wasn’t a hot make-out session. (Too bad, eh?) Here’s what really happened: If you think the rioters were bad, the cops were WORSE. (Like I often say:…
Turkeys! Lots of turkeys!
Turkeys are causing havoc…. HAVOC I tell ya, in the burg of Barrie, Ontario! No, not the kind who you address as Senator or Minister, but the real feathered kind.…
"Tactics of police violence used during the G20 are used everyday in poor and racialized communities across Toronto"…
via mostly water...“G20 Land” and the Real CanadaOne Year After the G20 Protests By Megan Kinch; June 25, 2011 - Toronto Media Co-ophttp://toronto.mediacoop.ca/story/%E2%80%9Cg20-land%E2%80%9D... The streetscape of Toronto is overlaid in…
State of America: theatre forced to put disclaimer on film because it may be too ‘philosophical’ and ‘challenging’
Disclaimers on movies have usually been isolated to ones that warn of 'strong sexual content' or 'violence'. In a new twist, a theatre in Conneticut posted a disclaimer for Terence…
Using U.S. Stock Photos Over CanCon To
...express your solidarity with Ontario workers isn't the worst thing you could do. But it's the sign of a shoddy campaign.
Andrea Horwath’s NDP: all style, no substance
H/T The Hispanic family and the older guy with his “grandson” in the Dippers platform, all stock photos.
Peggy Nash: Postal workers could be back at work Monday
More truth has rarely been spoken. Drop the bill and the workers return.H/T: Everett Coldwell
America the Mad
That's it! The United States has gone terminally FUBAR. Pregnant women who lose babies are actually being charged with murder. This is madness, Christofascist lunacy.Rennie Gibbs is accused of murder,…
Flash Mob Bares Breasts, Somewhere Prudes are Moaning
For a good cause, of course: A bold group of mothers gave a new meaning to the term ‘flashmob’ when they bared their breasts at a major shopping centre today…
Ottawa police: the beat goes on
Ottawa Police Constable Shane Henderson is a man who can run through a rainstorm without getting wet. Back in 2004, he was videotaped beating a customer in a Tim Horton’s.…
More Rancid Rightwing Ideology
Florida nursing home operators must have a powerful lobby. State Republicans turned down federal grants to help remove patients from nursing homes and provide the same level of care to…
Shades of Green: Mechanisms for Making Mistakes
The strange behaviour of the sub-atomic world caused a few physicists to worry that we might be able to invent a particle collider powerful enough to generate a black hole…