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Royal Ottawa and CAMH face new prosecutions for unsafe workplaces
It’s not every day that a major Ontario psychiatric hospital is placed on trial, much less two. Health care workers across the province will be closely watching the outcome of…
Has premier Jim Prentice just found himself up ‘Schitt$ Creek’ with former Wildrose leader Danielle Smith?
According to the unintendedly ironic and transitory layout on CBC Calgary’s news page yesterday afternoon, it looked as if former Wildrose Party leader Danielle Smith is up Schitt$ Creek. Actually,…
How’s That City On The Hill?
From Barrett Brown, a wrongfully jailed journalist… in the USA. He’s imagining speaking to the founding fathers about the country’s progress: Benjamin Franklin: “It was among my fondest dreams that…
Wanted for being married to a guy some people don’t like
You’re right, we’re not married yet, but this post isn’t about what’s happened to me (despite some very public swings because of who my partner is). This is about a…
Wente is nothing but Globe and Mail clickbait
Some male Dalhousie dental students posted about how you should “bang” young women until they are unconscious; choosing which woman you’d like to “hate fuck”; commenting that you’d like to…
A short break
Just a quick note to say that I’m dealing with a death in my partner’s immediate family and will be posting far less frequently, if at all, for the immediate…
There are no Words for It…..
Daphne Bramham: Susan Point an artist for the ages (with video) Her work adorns manhole covers, police cars, Olympic oval and welcomes visitors to Museum of Anthropology BY DAPHNE BRAMHAM,…
Everything you need to know about 2015 right here.
As a dues paying member of the blogosphere, I feel compelled to do at least one of the annual blogs: the year in review, or the predictions column. Since the…
What do Canada, Pulau, the US and the Ukraine have in common?
Four countries voted against a UN resolution to stamp out Nazism across the globe. Canada was one of them. Why?
First casualty of outrage at Wildrose floor crossing? Airdrie MLA Rob Anderson says he will quit politics
Airdrie MLA Rob Anderson, understood to have been one of the key leaders in the controversial effort to get the majority of the Wildrose caucus to defect to the Progressive…
Lovely Sun and Jesse James
John Klein: 30 years ago yesterday, here’s what was on TV, and what the weather was like in Toronto. Originally posted on Grandparents' Journal: January 5, 1985 Lovely sun at…
Alberta’s Wildrose remnant has new role as ‘conscience of the right’? Come off it, guys!
Fallout from the march of the Mudville Nine from the Opposition Wildrose benches to the government’s Progressive Conservative caucus continues to drift across Alberta. So serious is the contamination in…
Saskatoon A Day At A Time
Here’s a clever video that took more than a year to complete by a young Saskatoon man. It reminds me somewhat of my shorter-lived face-a-day project modeled on Noah Kalina’s…
More In Canada Now Willing To Accept Dictatorship
Here’s Harper’s legacy, as he’s attempted to plunge our country into darkness: The group surveyed attitudes towards democracy and governance in interviews with 50,000 people in 28 countries. It found…
Explaining the revulsion: It’s not the policy differences, stupid! It’s the Wildrose corruption critique
Why are Albertans so angry about the defection of 11 Wildrose opposition members to the government’s benches? I mean, why are they really so furious? The reason — and it’s…
January 30 Years Ago
Originally posted on Grandparents' Journal: My grandmother I knew as “Nana” lived in Toronto when I was young. She’d moved back there from California, before I was born. She kept…
Poll says all is well in the Alberta garden as disappointed voters file sombrely back into PC ranks
Support for the Wildrose Party is plummeting as supporters angered by the defection of 11 MLAs to the governing PCs have turned on the five Wildrose MLAs who didn’t cross…
Disruptive Power
The Crisis of the State in the Digital Age Anonymous. WikiLeaks. The Syrian Electronic Army. Edward Snowden. Bitcoin. The Arab Spring. Digital communication technologies have thrust the calculus of global…
New Solar in Ontario
Ontario isn’t as GD senseless as Saskatchewan’s government. They actually have somewhat of a Feed In Tariff program underway. The Ontario Power Authority has just extended its solar feed-in tariff…