A week after Sandy
It’s been a week since Hurricane Sandy hit the east coast. Some friends in NY are still without power, some still flooded, last I heard. This has been one of…
It’s been a week since Hurricane Sandy hit the east coast. Some friends in NY are still without power, some still flooded, last I heard. This has been one of…
One of the oddest things about death is that there’s no way to reach that person by their usual phone number. We can call people in Antarctica, in space, in…
Yesterday’s blog responded to Geoff Meeker’s most recent posting, where he criticized the Newfoundland and Labrador media while misunderstanding the water management issue.. Today’s blog addresses some of the great…
So I just read another piece from Geoff Meeker who, once again, decided to defecate on the reporting by the Newfoundland and Labrador media on Muskrat Falls. Specifically, he seems…
You know that children’s book, Go the F*ck to Sleep? This is a take off on that, narrated by Samuel L. Jackson. It’s laugh-out-loud funny and it’s funded by the…
Why is there such passionate debate over climate change? It’s not like many global problems tend to inflame heated debate all too often at a local level, but climate change…
Mens sana in corpore sano: a sound mind in a healthy body – a very good motto that is. The saying comes from the Roman Juvenal, and it applies as…
Another Republican – male, natch – talks about being against abortion and, you know, that “rape thing.” Here.
This morning I went on Krista Erickson’s show to talk about Ontario MPP severance packages. I pointed out that MPPs haven’t received pensions since 1996 and rules guiding severance packages…
It’s a national disgrace that 18 months after the criminal phonecalls that ruined the 2011 election, there have been 0 people charged with the fraud of misdirecting voters to fake…
The Durham Labour Council has honoured OPSEU’s campaign for workplace safety at Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences with two awards. Local 331 President Yvonne Lewis has won the…
Health Minister Deb Matthews is often regarded by the media as one of the front runners to replace Dalton McGuinty as Ontario Premier – a surprise given the intense scrutiny…
Recently the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) posted bus shelter ads that noted two of three individuals with mental illness suffer in silence. The stigma of mental illness…
Today the government released the Decision-Gate 3 numbers, the key analysis before sanction of the Muskrat Falls mega-project. While we’ve all been looking forward to these numbers for a long…
The largest hurricane recorded is underway, and it’s hitting the US and Canada. Is it because of climate change? The short answer is, yes. If you’re asking that question because…
Hey, So if you’re familiar with my experience you may know I’ve been using this cool social media curation service called Storify. I’ve used it to collect reactions to the…
Again, it never ceases to amaze me how much men like to talk about abortion, and limiting – or, eliminating – women’s access to it. And there’s no shortage of…
Other countries take note. If you enact crazy anti-gay laws forbidding any positive portrayals of homosexuality, here’s what you can expect to happen: A popular brand of milk is being…
That’s right, Obama. Utah, home of America’s largest Mormon community – of which Mitt Romney is one – endorses the non-Mormon Democrat, President Barack Obama. Here’s what the Salt Lake…
Colin Powell’s former chief of staff says the Republican party is “full of racists.” Exactly no one is surprised.