CAMH asks staff to mail patients’ cigarettes back home
Ah, Rosie. Toronto Star columnist Rosie DiManno recently used her shotgun style prose to take the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) to school. While addiction is part of…
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What matters?
I am not impressed by wealth. I am not impressed by material possessions, or by the gathering up and hording of baubles and trinkets and bits of shiny things. I…
Corporatism, capitalism and real alternatives: On the power to choose our destiny
Corporatism is simply a more virulent form of capitalism – or a late stage of capitalism: it is what happens when capitalism is left unchecked, to run its own course.…
Encouraging an inclusive cultural and artistic city
Last night Vision Vancouver sponsored a panel at the Fox Cabaret to discuss how to preserve cultural spaces in a growing city. The panel, hosted by Vision’s Heather Deal and
Opposition to a Pipeline, any Pipeline? Say it Ain’t So…
Pipeline push-back: What’s behind the rising opposition to Canada’s big oil pipelines Climate change debate behind animosity toward Northern Gateway and Keystone XL By Janet Davison, CBC News Posted: Apr…
The Rise of the Far Right as the Euro-Crisis Hits France
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2014 budget: If your hospital is not already on the rebuild list, it won’t be
When Charles Sousa unwraps his Ontario budget on Thursday there likely won’t be any new money for expanding hospital infrastructure. Coming out of the Harris era, the McGuinty/Wynne government faced…
The Kleptocracy of Vladimir Putin
More than one critic has noted that Russia doesn’t manufacture anything the world wants (a knock that now can be laid against Canada, especially since the dramatic fall of Blackberry…
Santa Monica, Venice Beach, Hollywood
Gymnast fun at Muscle Beach. Lots of walking. Space Shuttle Endeavor at the ScienCenter. Griffith’s Observatory Micheli’s off Hollywood Bl. Since 1949, it’s been my favourite place to eat in…
#VanCulturalSpaces @VisionVancouver event summary: “Protecting Vancouver’s Cultural Spaces: How we can preserve culture in a growing city”
I Live Tweeted the Vision Vancouver-sponsored event “Protecting Vancouver’s Cultural Spaces: How we can preserve culture in a growing city”- You can search the hashtag #VanCulturalSpaces for related tweets on…
Why the CN tower will be yellow tonight
Each year more Ontarians lose their lives through their job than by criminal homicide. It’s a sobering thought. In 2012 the WSIB reported 254 workplace-related fatalities and more than 140,000…
ConCalls: Who Did The Domestic Calls? #RoboCon #elxnfraud
Some behind the scenes numbers about Elections Canada’s impotent investigation into illegal robocalls… 81. At the national level, the Conservative Party, using data from its Constituent Information Management System (CIMS)…
Green jobs see huge growth globally: Why is Canada missing out?
There are those like Stephen Harper who repeatedly say we must choose between economic development and sustainable development. And there are those who, concerned about the environment and the latest…
San Diego, Newport, Santa Monica
Saturday morning at 3:50 was wakeup time to be at the airport on time for the first flight to Calgary. Everything went smoothly and we were in San Diego by…
Canada’s Burger King Kenney Doubles Down
http://montrealsimon.blogspot.ca/2014/04/the-monster-burger-and-inner-torment-of.html It’s even creepier than you know, Simon..yesterday, our NDP politicians here in BC were speaking to the media after a meeting with the Victoria, BC TFWs that will “not…
PS, Tories love you! Is Alison Redford leading predators away from her party? Or what?
The now-famous cell-phone camera shot of Ms. Redford dining with her daughter at Lulu California Bistro in Palm Springs, grabbed from the Internet. VICTORIA, B.C. Truth be told, former premier…
“I’m speaking with you as a human being and you’re talking at me as a politician.”
"I'm speaking with you as a human being and you're talking at me as a politician."— Melissa Fong (@internationalmf) April 21, 2014 When you ask me to open up
Big-pharma backed patient groups attack bill banning paid blood and plasma collection
The current debate over paid plasma donation has brought out a number of patient groups – including those funded by big-pharma – that are suggesting Canada has no choice but…
ConCalls: Canadian Election Attacked From America #RoboCon
If Canada’s “SIGINT” (Signals Intelligence) agency doesn’t have records to share with Elections Canada of malicious #robocalls made outside of Canada aimed at disrupting our federal election, then what good…
Is public speaking a dying art?
Listening to a political speech the other day was a disappointing experience. The speech was by someone who already had our vote. You just wished he cared enough about the…