Django; The ‘D’eath Is Not Silent
Watched “Django Unchained” , and realized that bodies were exploding because it was a Tarantino movie. It went about as expected. Some parts should not be watched, or it will…
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Arrested and Charged for Uploading Photo of Anti-Cop Graffiti
Jennifer Pawluck, a 20 year old woman from Montreal, was taken into police custody yesterday and questioned after she posted a photo of a graffiti mural on her Instagram. The…
Mtl Groups Issue Public Declaration Against Police Repression
Solidarity against police repression in Montreal: We will not submit to the municipal by-law P-6 With this public declaration, we assert our opposition to by-law P-6: we will continue to…
Health Canada tells us to take a hike as Russia moves to prohibit paid blood donations
Heavens – even Russia is more sensible than Canada when it comes to paid blood donations. As Health Canada takes a pause and organizes a roundtable on the issue in…
Sorry for Hiatus
As regular visitors will have noticed, I haven’t been up to my usual feisty self lately. The truth is, real life intervenes some times, and I’ve been hellishly busy lately…
Secrets: Responsibility for diluted chemo cocktails may be tied up in secret contract
Who is responsible for the unexpectedly diluted chemotherapy cocktail that more than a 1,000 cancer patients received since February 2012? And will we ever know when aspects of the story…
Not Taking Debate…….
B.C. Liberal candidate turned away from UBC debate Organizers say Premier Christy Clark should have attended Vancouver-Point Grey debate CBC News Posted: Apr 3, 2013 7:41 AM PST What..? Christy…
ConCalls: 701 days, 1 charge, 234 ridings #RoboCon
It’s been more than 701 days since Elections Canada first became aware of a nation wide malicious robocalling scheme to misdirect non-Conservative voters away from legitimate polling stations for the…
Bidding Farewell to Boreal Citizen
Ahhh…blogging. So rewarding. So time consuming. After much deliberation, I’ve decided that it’s time for Boreal Citizen to come to an end. It’s already past due, drawn out by the…
On Michael Sona
Officials from Elections Canada have laid an information in a Guelph court alleging one charge against Michael Sona, a former Conservative Party of Canada staffer and campaign executive. You guys…
Campaign: It’s time we challenged our employers to talk about mental illness
Partners for Mental Health are blunt. They call it the cost of doing nothing. That’s the cost of employers failing to address mental illness in the workplace. P4MH has all…
OPSEU provides TV support for Kingston P3 plebiscite campaign
KINGSTON – The Ontario Public Service Employees Union is supporting the Kingston community plebiscite campaign by sponsoring a new television commercial to air over the next two weeks on CKWS-TV.…
Oil Spills Create Jobs
I’m severely disappointed in the lack of vision that conservatives have regarding our economy. Faced with information that burning a lot of fossil fuel is not able to be sustained…
Show me – some countries put everyone’s salary on the sunshine list
“If there’s a more pointless annual story than the sunshine list, I can’t think of it.” – Tweet today from Adam Radwanski, Globe and Mail columnist. Radwanski didn’t always think…
New Look and Site Update
You are probably thinking that things look differently – well that’s because they do. I just updated the back-end of the site (it’s the database and WordPress by the way)…
WikiLeaks: Major Revelations Is What Journalists Do – See @carwinb
There’s some crow to eat this morning, for anti-Assange, anti-Wikileaks people. Last year we got confirmation in the form of a WikiLeaks-Strafor leak of all things, that Assange had been…
Forward Together #UofR: Buffy St. Marie – Live Blog
Buffy St. Marie tackled the subject of Aboriginal peoples’ self image. What has been the basis for it? In many cases in popular culture, it’s from philosophers in Europe who…
Video: Inside the Nicaraguan Maquilas
OPSEU is engaged in solidarity work that extends well beyond our borders. In February we travelled with Cobourg’s Horizons of Friendship to look at development projects in Nicaragua. Our 9-part…
Second deadline for PSW Registry is cancelled – for now
Let’s be clear: there is no present deadline for anybody to get on the Personal Support Worker (PSW) Registry. Employers may be setting their own deadline, but this is not…