The fight to sell or save water – Friday Film Pick: Water on the Table
New DVD release of Water on the Table, a doc beautifully showcasing the public-vs-private fight over water.
Bargain basement prices on BC public lands?
Monday, June 27, 2011 Attention Alpine Resort developers! Beautiful Public B.C. mountain rea...
Why Rob Ford Won’t Be At Pride: Because He’s A Bigot
Bourgeois politeness, and perhaps fear of lawsuits, prevent the mainstream media from calling right wing politicians by their proper names. I'm less concerned given my "circulation" and lack of advertisers…
At Least Ruth-Ellen Brosseau Knows the Difference Between a Lockout and a Strike
I’ve been following the marathon debates on forcing the locked out Canada Post workers back to work on the CBC page live feed since last night and observing the debates…
A Few Lugubrious Thoughts for Friday Afternoon. . . .
- I would like to thank and congratulate the NDP caucus for their opposition to the back to work legislation concerning the Postal Workers. It is an important, if symbolic,…
Kiwi CEO: no equal pay for women because “once a month they have sick problems”
Alasdair Thompson of the Employers & Manufacturers Association (Northern) in New Zealand is unapologetic about his recent comments on why women should not receive equal pay. In fact, he’s a…
Who Holds the Family Purse-Strings?
Statscan have released an interesting paper, “The Income Management Strategies of Older Couples in Canada.” It looks at who controls the family finances in couples with one partner aged 45…
3876…Happy Fete La Belle
Happy Fete Nationale/Ste. Jean Baptiste Day.Remember it is not a party til someone falls in the bonfire.WFDS
The Great Canadian Standoff
The NDP are filibustering, presenting their 20 minute speeches, delaying the vote on the back to work legislation, that would force postal workers back on the job, for less money…
Great line of the day
Orwell's Bastard discusses the Toronto police pity-party G20 report: So Bill Blair's had some time to reflect on last summer's G20 clusterfuck, and good and loyal servant he is, he's…
Convicted felon Conrad Black puts the Con in Conservative
A con can always con a Con but not everyone is a Con, as Conrad Black has found out. Back to the slammer, Mister.48 months and $125,000 fine. Has 16…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Plenty of observers have noted the Cons' complete lack of a reasonable explanation for standing in the way of a global consensus to at…
Fetus Billboard Boy Would Rather Go To Jail Than Take Down His Billboard
Remember that gawd awful image below? Is it just me? Or does he really look diabolical? He looks like he’s about to devour that invisible baby. Yes, #gregfultzisacreep, that…
Now available in Canada
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved, Used by Permission. GOD TV isn’t available on your cable TV, but if you’re a Canadian with a satellite dish, you may be able…
OJ Simpson: the never ending story
OJ Simpson. The althete. The rental car spokesperson. The wife beater. The trial of the centry that started Reality TV. Slow speed car chase. El Blanco Bronco. The Dream Team…
Impeaching Ahmadinejad
Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khameni, has a problem. He wholeheartedly supported incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in the 2009 presidential election, and now it turns out the flaky Ahmadinejad is being…
Winnipeg Jets it is!
Winnipeg has a new NHL team and now it has a name - Winnipeg Jets. The only name it could be.And now if Ottawa would only name its CFL team…
Americans tire of war spending
Americans have for some time seemed to have an insatiable appetite for military spending. Defence was the sacred cow of their federal budget. Now it seems they are losing that…
On maturing processes
Let's take a look at a couple of final issues from #vancon2011, starting with the series of machinations around resolutions ruling out merger or non-compete agreements with the Liberals.As I…
Canada’s New Partisanship
The dust has finally begun to settle on the great democratic ritual that culminated on the night of May 2nd. In the end, the results of the 2011 federal election…