Studying Cartoon #HarperHistory
The NDP broke up The Beatles and convinced Nickelback to get together. #HarperHistory— Joseph Uranowski (@Uranowski) April 27, 2012 There are many examples on Twitter of people mocking Stephen Harper’s…
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Miscellaneous Thursday
Bizarre “Fairness Advisor” position pertaining to the politically charged Roughriders sports stadium replacement process. – Calgary’s Mayor Nenshi meanwhile has this project underway for Albertan cities. – Bev Oda, fraudster,…
School’s Out
Yesterday received my last grades ever from Mount Allison. Although it’s not a surprise, it’s the last confirmation that I’m done and I’ll finally be graduating. It’s a bit outdated…
The Home Ahead….
I have long been attracted to the small house movement…it seems so perfectly revisionist, as in re-envisioning the necessary and the portable..to devolve from what we are programmed to think…
Ads As News A Swindle
It’s bothered me for quite some time how the “professional” media tends to cover campaign ads (particularly attack ads) as news, and thus goads the victim of the attack into…
Yertle the Turtle: Covert political operative
In today’s WTF news, Dr. Seuss’s, Yertle the Turtle, has been deemed “too political” for students at a Prince Rupert elementary school. The offending passage: “I know up on top…
ConCalls: The NDP and Liberals were #RoboConned
A spokesman for the Conservative Party attacked Frank Graves, the head of Ekos, for donating to the Liberals in the past. “Frank Graves … is the same pollster who predicted…
One step forward…
… Metro Transit is cutting evening ferry service. The last boat leaving Halifax in the evenings will now depart at 10:30 p.m. instead of 11:45 p.m. This is insane. Dartmouthians…
VikiLeaks30: A Little Deserved Contempt
I enjoyed all three of the videos that play in succession on this CTV page. Kady live blogging in the background is amusing. I supposed most people get funny facial…
Send a Growable Card to Clients
I recently received a wonderful greeting card from Walmart. It is made of special seed paper that can be grown into a plant. For a company on the sustainability journey,…
ConCalls: Non-Conservatives Targeted, Poll Confirms
A “statistically significant” number of non-Conservative voters were targeted by illegal robocalls before and during last year’s general election. A well known polling firm, EKOS was hired to determine samples…
Aurora in Regina
Early Tuesday morning I noticed others tweeting about northern lights, so I checked 3D Sun app on my phone, and sure enough, there was a moderate solar storm underway. Kp…
Another Independent
The House of Commons has a new Independent MP. Hyer has quit the NDP to sit more freely to represent his constituents. What that means to him and Thunder Bay…
Use the Porche.
This isn’t the hotel you’re looking for. Oda is ^NOT a good Canadian politician. She’s decidedly on the dark side of politics, accused for years of extravagant spending, and contempt…
Morning News Interrupted By Gay Porn
Television viewers in Hamilton, Ontario last week found their breakfast interrupted (enhanced?) by nearly three minutes of “eye-popping hardcore gay pornography.” The mihap, which happened around 9:30 a.m. Friday during…
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…
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…