The morality of atomic bombs
I’ve been listening to Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History podcasts for a while now and they’re fantastic. I look forward to episodes of his show more than any other media I…
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Ontario election watch
Earlier today, Andrea Horwath and NDP Leader Ontario Federation of Labour president Sid Ryan held a Queen’s Park rally sounding miles apart from the Premier in the budget negotiation process.…
Danielle Smith wants your kids to smoke cigarettes
It’s sure starting to look like she does. Out of all the parties, only Wildrose’s Danielle Smith refused to support the majority of the measures that would keep cigarettes out…
Westboro Baptist Church weighs in on Wildrose candidate Allan Hunsperger
Today Wildrose Leader Danielle Smith held a press conference where, much to everyone’s surprise, she didn’t repudiate her anti-gay candidate, Allan Hunsperger’s bigoted, hateful rant about gays and lesbians. Instead,…
Engage
Last night I was having several parallel conversations online, all pertaining to civic engagement (or the lack of it, more precisely). What comes first, the politicians willing to interact with…
Meet your Wildrose Candidate: John Carpay
John Carpay is Wildrose’s Calgary Lougheed candidate. Anti-choice, anti-gay marriage and advocate for privatized healthcare. Health Minister John Carpay? Within the first five minutes of meeting Carpay at a Fraser…
Nurse Love, The Real Kind
Some real nurse love — and incidentally reminding us why we have the most tremendous profession in the world and how we each day make a powerful difference in the…
Ontario election watch
A new poll puts the Ontario Liberals ahead of both the Tories and the NDP, which means the opposition parties are playing a very dangerous game. Hudak’s strategy of refusing…
ConCalls: Thunder Bay Courage Reveals “Errors” As Crime #RoboCon
The Conservatives are constantly falling back to the next available lie. The Conservative party has denied any knowledge of wrongdoing and suggested there is little evidence outside of the Guelph…
BP Gulf Disaster Continues
I’ve been avoiding shrimp for close to two years because I expected this. Do you remember how the EPA said it was safe for New Yorkers to return to the…
Legal Abstractions and For-Profit Delivery
The categories we use to make sense of the world structure how we act. In his April 17th column Andre Picard, the health reporter for Toronto’s Globe and Mail newspaper,…
ConCalls: The Search Warrant that Names Names in #RoboCon
I thought I’d seen the first Robocall search warrant (Production Order), and I had, but the Information to Obtain a Production Order is so very much more interesting I think.…
Rotten Apple
I am an Apple victim. Without a doubt. In my home, right now, are four iPhones, a MacBook, a MacAir, a Mac desk top, two iPads and a variety of…
Wildrose candidate says white people are better
Here. I wonder if his leader, Danielle Smith, will defend Ron Leech like she did Allan Hunsperger.
We’ve Only Just Begun…
Emperor Steve and his nightmare circus clowns have deemed it the ‘cost of doing business’ to redress the pushback that his Enbridge dirty deal has caused..necessary and desirable to offer…
Meet your Wildrose Candidate: Ron Leech
With the Alberta vote just days away, more and more is being revealed about the Wildrose candidates and their spectacularly ignorant, bigoted views. Today we meet Calgary Greenway candidate, Ron…
ConCalls: Hamilton Challenges Council of Canadians
Conservative Party lawyer Hamilton thinks he can get the legal challenge launched by the Council of Canadians thrown out of court before it gets rolling. If he manages this, it…
ConCalls: Coverup Emerges in #RoboCon
As I’d suspected MORE THAN A MONTH AGO, we’re looking at a coverup at the Conservative Party headquarters. March 6th was five days after I’d already explained to some political…
Paving the path on Barrington! Yay city!
My morning commute (cycling) takes me along a gravel path that runs parallel to Barrington Street, starting at the MacDonald Bridge and ending at the end of the navy dockyard.…
Anti-Gay Groups Target Canadian Game Developer
BioWare, an Edmonton-based game development company, is being targeted by anti-gay groups over the option to make your character gay in their latest video game, Star Wars: The Old Republic.…