Report to the LPC Membership…
...by ALF APPS. As posted on Facebook earlier today:REPORT TO THE MEMBERSHIPfrom the NATIONAL PRESIDENT of the LIBERAL PARTY OF CANADAJune 3, 2011FELLOW LIBERALS:I AM PLEASED TO REPORT TO YOU…
Harris Centre: A prosperity plan for Newfoundland and Labrador
Mark this one on your calendar: “Over the past ten years, Newfoundland and Labrador has gone from poverty to prosperity, all due to revenues from non-renewable natural resources, especially petroleum.…
Palin’s ‘One Nation’ tour hits a bump
Sarah Palin is traveling across the US on something called a 'One Nation' tour - by any other name a publicity-seeking stunt. The historical sites she is taking in during…
Yes, so I was gonna post this stuff…
… about David Warren or the end results of my root canal (which was a lot like reading one of DW’s columns – whooooaaa!!)… or the weather or something… but…
Political prisoner Bassem Tamimi’s statement at trial opening
PSCC-logo.jpg http://www.popularstruggle.org/free-tamimis Press release Monday, 6 June 2011 West Bank Protest Organizer, Bassem Tamimi, to Judge: “Your Military Laws Are Non-Legit. Our Peaceful...
The Case Against Wage Insurance
At the CEA meetings I participated on a panel organized by IRPP to discuss a recent paper – by Finnie and Gray - on older laid-off workers and the policy…
Sentence reduced (very slightly) for immigration reasons
R. v. Duhra, 2011 ABCA 165 is another decision in which an appeal court reduced a sentence imposed at the trial level because of the immigration consequences of such sentence.…
The Face Of The Conservative Revolution
Two stories this morning -- one in The Globe and Mail and the other in The National Post -- put the Conservative Revolution in perspective. In The Globe, John Ibbitson…
Israel Is No Different Than Syria
Israel likes to tout itself as the "plucky little democracy" in the Middle East, and as an island of European-style democracy besieged by a sea of dictatorships and dark, Arabic…
Dr. James Hansen
....on the Keystone XL pipe-line. Nothing you haven't heard before, other than his opinion that the State Dept. is likely to give its approval. In any case, its the Northern…
Four Years of Rants and Reflections but No Eden Recreated…
...but then I didn't expect to do that on June 5, 2007 when started this blog. It was born in a conversation at The Writers' Union of Canada annual general…
The Curious Case of Toulouse Le Grandfig, Graphic Designer (Part One)
PATIENT HISTORY OF GRANFIG, TOULOUSE LE File #: 12-23571-X Dr. Abe Cornelius Bellevue Hospital — Psychiatric Triage Center Entry 1: Dictated: April 25, 1951 The patient was brought into the…
"Moran" Monday*: More Pam Geller tea-bagger insanity.
America’s “Muslim Presidency”, brought to you by last week’s teabagging moran, Pam “Atlas Shrugs” Geller. *We’re devoting space each Monday to documenting Teabagger idiocy. Stay tuned for more head-slappingly idiotic…
"Moran" Monday*: More Pam Geller tea-bagger insanity.
America's "Muslim Presidency", brought to you by last week's teabagging moran, Pam "Atlas Shrugs" Geller.*We're devoting space each Monday to documenting Teabagger idiocy. Stay tuned for more head-slappingly idiotic antics…
"Moran" Monday*: More Pam Geller tea-bagger insanity.
America’s “Muslim Presidency”, brought to you by last week’s teabagging moran, Pam “Atlas Shrugs” Geller. *We’re devoting space each Monday to documenting Teabagger idiocy. Stay tuned for more head-slappingly idiotic…
Senate protester DePape offered job by Michael Moore
Doc maker Michael Moore backs rogue page over stunt - thestar.com "For a young person to do that and to do it peacefully, and quietly and with grace, I thought…
Eating Local Is Delicious
Where we live in northwestern Ontario we don’t have access to a lot of local market gardens or farms. But what we do have on our doorstep are lakes full…
First signs of the Bobby Bounce?
On May 25 Bob Rae became interim Leader of the Liberal Party, after a few weeks of speculation that the job would be his. On May 2 the surprising election…
Pope Pleads For Couples To Marry (Except Gays)
Pope Benedict XVI appeared before an audience in Croatia yesterday to plead for couples to marry instead of simply living together as common-law partners. In his anticipated homily, the pope…
Unite the Left
Some members of the Bloc NDP think the party needs to take a turn to the left in order to capitalise on the gains from May’s general election. As the…