St. Brendan’s Day: Lessons in Mythmaking from the Mists of Time
Today, May 16, is the day when St. Brendan is supposed to have died in 578. He's the guy who is said to have set off from Ireland in a…
A Snapshot of the Vulnerable Underclass of Foreign Workers in Canada
There are lots of ways to look at Canada’s checkered history with immigration. Europeans welcome, French to a lesser degree after they lost a war or something, Chinese railroad workers,…
News from the Zoo
Kazoo and OboeI got all the birds’ vet tests back last week, and everybody’s healthy. The big news is that Kazoo was DNA-sex-tested. With most parrots, including Double Yellow-Headed Amazons,…
The Human Alternative. . . .
I find it fairly interesting the way Liberals and Conservatives in this country are desperately trying to portray the NDP as a wacky socialist throw-back to the 1960s. Acceptance of…
TorStar Op-ed: Liberals have to create a next political centre
This past Saturday the Toronto Star published the following piece by Taylor Owen and myself on its op-ed page. Thought I'd put it here for those who might have missed…
Help Save the Redwoods with Modern Tech
Organizations that care about protecting the environment are always looking for ways to get more people helping them out and in some cases consumer technologies are the solution. Save the…
Independence Equals Weakness In Today’s Ottawa
Outgoing Speaker Milliken has articulated his thoughts that "party leaders wield too much power" in our Parliamentary system. It's hard to argue with the logic, apart for the belief that…
Tim Hudak vs. Ontario jobs, Eastern Ontario edition
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/technology/Hudak+urged+support+green+energy/4787642/story.htmlFrom Windsor to Ottawa, Ontario families & Ontario businesses are standing up to defend jobs created for families by private investment helped by the Ontario Lib...
From MediaCulpa, George Monbiot vs. Margaret Wente
Still working on the dual-blogging multiple-redundancy thing. Bear with me. Link here, via here.
Stats on Liberal Voters’ race, gender, salary, etc.
Interesting how this is yet another graph that confirms the LPC has lost ground in the immigrant/viz min community they've taken for granted for so long and failed to introduce…
Disaster: Slave Lake Burning To The Ground
With relatively little news published Sunday on the wildfires raging in northern Alberta, many Canadians will awake Monday morning to learn with surprise and shock the town of Slave Lake…
Small silver-lining for Election 41.
Sure, Saskatoon-Humbolt was willing to re-elect a radical fundie whose social views are even too extreme for PM Harper to endorse, but at least it said “No Thank you, Pankiw”!
Small silver-lining for Election 41.
Sure, Saskatoon-Humbolt was willing to re-elect a radical fundie whose social views are even too extreme for PM Harper to endorse, but at least it said "No Thank you, Pankiw"!
Small silver-lining for Election 41.
Sure, Saskatoon-Humbolt was willing to re-elect a radical fundie whose social views are even too extreme for PM Harper to endorse, but at least it said “No Thank you, Pankiw”!
Strauss-Kahn arrested
When I heard the news late Saturday night after work that IMF chief Dominique Strauss Kahn had been arrested for an alleged sexual assault in NYC just as his flight…
CNN’s Don Lemon comes out
"It’s about the worst thing you can be in black culture. You’re taught you have to be a man; you have to be masculine. In the black community they think…
All The Nights In All The Seasons Don’t Mean A Hill Of Beans…
.....Compared To This.Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova "Drive All Night" from Patrick Glennon on Vimeo.I know the romance is done. As will all the world, soon. But the music....Jayzus..
Standing up to Enbridge in an Undemocratic Canada
Last article I spoke of civil disobedience, a legitimate tool of dissent in a democracy when a government makes political decisions without public consultation and to the exclusion of all…
Molly’sBlog 2011-05-16 01:29:00
CANADIAN POLITICS:SOME LATE LATE NIGHT THOUGHTS ON THE RECENT CANADIAN ELECTION:It's been decades since I voted in any governmental elections (the associations that I belong to don't count). Still, like…
Calling all lawyers: Help our Liberal Caucus understand Section 10(2)(e)
Our MPs and Senators in our Caucus will meet to decide which candidate to elect as the Interim Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada. Unfortunately, the Board of Directors…