Registered my first domain
Hey everybody, I’ve got a lot to do the next few weeks but I managed to steal five minutes to register a domain for my life after Mount Allison. It’s…
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A New Progressive Narrative: What Could Be Part Of It, And What Should Not
In the last couple of years, various Canadian commentators have remarked on the new conservative narrative of Canada that Stephen Harper and the federal Conservatives have been creating. Much of…
My son could be Trayvon Martin
Trayvon Martin’s brutal, and senseless, death shook me to my very core. I didn’t know him. But, oddly, I feel like Trayvon Martin lives with me. I say good night…
US Blocking UK Travel to Canada
This is completely outrageous. Better hope no one with your name ends up on the US No Fly list. This move makes the financial blockade against WikiLeaks, look like a…
United States May Relax Customs Restrictions For Same-Sex Couples
The United States’ Department of Homeland Security has proposed finally lifting restrictions requiring same-sex couples to fill out separate customs declarations. Currently, heterosexual families are allowed to fill out one…
The Final Countdown
It’s a little crazy but in 18 days I’ll be done with my undergraduate education. Today I finished up my involvement with ATLIS by handing the login information and giving…
Out-of-context quotes from my work in progress
I’m well stuck into what I hope is my last draft of my next novel, and I thought I’d share the occasional quotation from the book: The sirens were an…
Let’s go
The Ontario Federation of Labour had a poll done which revealed that “Ontarians from every riding in the province are solidly opposed to the unfairness of (Premier Dalton) McGuinty’s budget…
Trudeau TKO’s testosterone out of Sun News talking heads
OK. I didn’t see the fight. My cable co. doesn’t carry Sun News. But I watched the tweets. Won a Tweet TKO of my own over Monte Solberg. And marvelled…
Election blog #2: On ‘pure laine’ Albertans, and tawdry Tweets
When Danielle Smith smugly surmised that Alison Redford didn’t even like Alberta, I thought we might have hit a low point in the provincial election — and in less than…
More bad news for RIM, but what does it really mean?
Last night’s earnings report from RIM brought more bad news, even prompting BGR into a sensationalist headline of Research In Motion is dead. The comments in response to the BGR…
Energy Efficiency Hour
Earth Hour has been implemented incorrectly the last few years. It’s time to change that, and use the time to make a concrete contribution to energy efficiency that lasts .…
Organizing the Personal to the Structural
My personal motivations for participating in movement-building stem from a steady process of feeling empowered through collective action with climate justice organizers. I wish to share my experience to help…
Say No! to Enbridge, a little Donnybrook coming to a Canadian West Coast near you
Here’s something I was requested to share on Facebook, and i’m happy to do so…it’s a great symbol for the expressed unity of First Nations people and everyone else opposed…
This is what feminism is
Recently, I was seated next to an acquaintance at a fundraising dinner, and somehow the conversation turned to feminism. His point: Men, not women, are the gender discriminated against in…
Best Laid Plans of Mice and Bloggers
Here I was planning to post on multitude of topics, including some stuff on breastfeeding, restraints, the duty to care, more twists and turns in the Amanda Trujillo case, the…
Ottawa’s Integrated Hospital Laboratory Service Takes the Next Step
The Ottawa Citizen announced the start of the Ottawa area hospitals integrated laboratory service. The Citizen somehow links this development to Don Drummond. It has nothing to do with Drummond.…
About the ONDP budget phone line
You know, the one Andrea Horwath set up to hear from the people before her party decides whether or not to support the McGuinty budget. It’s now being reported that…
ConCalls: Live #PROC Committee – LiveBlog
Watch live on CBC.ca Kady: In what can only be described as a deeply unfortunate bit of scheduling business, Chief Electoral Officer Marc Mayrand is set to make his first…
Parade of Disgraceful Conservatives
The Conservative Party of Canada could use better people to back it, and its ideology. The current support crowd online has some pretty obvious, and significant flaws: threatening lawsuits (both…