Quebec at forefront of right-to-die movement
The Quebec National Assembly introduced a bill on Wednesday that will allow health professionals to use medical procedures to end the lives of patients near death who are suffering and…
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Turkey Arrests CBC Journalist Sasa Petricic
Saša Petricic has been arrested in the midst of covering the Occupy Gezi protest in Istanbul. This is an outrage which the Turkish government will not be able to defend…
Of babies and bathwater: how Harper might be undermining the monarchy
The Constitution? Unborn Queens? Fascinating stuff (do not insert a “said no one, ever” after that please). The scene unfolds thusly: Parliament recently approved a gender equity bill as regards…
USA Raises ‘Carbon Price’
Climate change is happening and it’s costing a lot of money to deal with. More floods, tornados, hurricanes, and other natural events are happening with greater frequency thanks to planetary…
PRISM: Greenwald on CNBC
Strong congressional oversight means asking direct questions & getting straight answers. 1.usa.gov/1a0EIY3— Ron Wyden (@RonWyden) June 11, 2013 Encrypt your shit: Spooky reading after #Snowden: Julian #Assange's call to take…
“Bebolucija!”: The #JMBG Movement in Bosnia-Herzegovina
It may the most important event post-war Bosnian history, to date—and it has a hashtag. Some ten thousand individuals from all over Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH) today gathered in the streets of…
“Leadership” “Stealing”
Conservatives have created a new idea. It’s Leadership Stealing. You can Steal, like a Leader. “How can the Liberals actually, with a straight face, pretend to stand up for the…
Corporate Hypocrites Gone Wild: Syncrude Edition
Let’s say that you’re one of the world’s largest producers of synthetic crude and also Canada’s largest single-source producer of crude derived from oil sands. Imagine that you are also…
PRISM: NSA Watching the Innocent
Technology and civil liberty experts knew PRISM was a very real possibility. I knew, and wrote about it last August. The National Security Agency (NSA) (star bad guy org. in…
BREAKING NEWS – Mayor Ford Does Something Stupid
Business as usual. Everything is fine. Anything else?
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Yup, another photo-op I couldn’t give a shit about,… but hey it is a photo-op Rob Ford looks at another Photo-Op MORE RobFordLooksAtThings
when did everyone get so angry?
I told the lady from the pro-life organization that the article I was writing would go to a social justice oriented group of people, and she asked me to withhold…
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Yup that’s a lot of empty offices, business as usual, everything is fine, anything else? Rob Ford looks at empty offices MORE RobFordLooksAtThings
WikiLeaks: Snowden to Greenwald to Guardian
The Verizon phone taps, to Yahoo, Google, Skype, and more all owned by the US Government. These were things suspected by many (thanks to WikiLeaks), and now confirmed by the…
Creationism’s stench still lingers in American education
Creationism (and it’s dressed-up-in-drag younger brother, “intelligent” design) is the black mold of education. It’s an insidious infection of the mind, an intellectual parasite. And like real-life black mold, it…
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These clowns will make me look more serious, right? Rob Ford look for new office staff MORE RobFordLooksAtThings
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Damn that is a big stomach,… Rob Ford looks at his stomach
Rathgerber Out of the Strong, Stable, National, Majority, Conservative Government
Who could forget Harper’s “strong, stable” majority comment during his victory speech in 2011 after his party swept to surprise power on a wave of election fraud supporting his party?…
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Yup, that’s the sky Rob Ford looks at the sky
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Yup, thats’ the ground Rob Ford Looks at the ground