Globaloney
So recent is the word “globalization” that, if you consult the revised 1978 edition of The New Political Dictionary: The Definitive Guide to the New Language of Politics by the…
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Alberta Doctors Still Billing Province For Treatment Of Homosexuality
Last year, Alberta finally removed homosexuality from its list of disorders that doctors in the province could bill the government for treating. This was 38 years after the disorder was…
WikiLeaks: Stratfor Just Heating Up #gifiles Israel and Iran
Besides monitoring the Yes Men, Amnesty International, and a swath of international media and activist organizations, Stratfor fancied itself as a superior intelligence agency, better than the FBI anyway. Here’s…
The Feminization of Pinterest
Pinterest, I’ve discovered, is something you learn by doing. And by “doing”, I mean getting sucked in to the site, like Alice going down the rabbit hole, picture-by-picture, pin-by-pin, only…
WikiLeaks: Amp Up The Hype – Stratfor Spy Emails Exposed #gifiles
Now I can hardly wait until Monday (now in the UK), with a series of promotional tweets going up today. And I don’t have to wait any longer! Stratfor emails…
Stephen Harper, Fascist?
Is Stephen Harper a Fascist? You take the survey and judge for yourself.
Robocall Scandal May Blow Over
It’s been more than two days now since the media caught hold of the latest Conservative election fraud scandal. Are they going to let go? Only time will tell. For…
Permaculture Presentation at Cathedral Community Centre
Rob Avis from Verge Permaculture. Quit his old job when he was preparing to take down trees to put in natural gas pipeline. Got a video on YouTube called Greening…
Maryland Passes Same-Sex Marriage Bill
You’re on a roll, United States! The Maryland senate passed, yesterday afternoon, a bill granting equal marriage rights to all state residents. The governor said she will sign it into…
Child Predator Tax
Look for the latest charge to appear soon on your Bell, Rogers, Telus, (or MTS, or SaskTel) bill by next year when Vic Toews Bill C-30 comes into effect. It…
Why Actions Today Matter
“We’re destroying future generations for now, and forever.” – Jitesh, an Indian oilman. You won’t regret watching this video, the guy’s a very good storyteller.
Has Anybody Actually Read the Surveillance Bill?
We already know that Vic Toews hasn’t. I’d said all I have to say on the subject, or so I thought, and then I came across this blatant fiction —…
Drummond and For-Profit Health Care
Considering the 1,500 dollars a day Don Drummond was paid and the research staff at his disposal you would figure that his analysis would be more subtle and better informed.…
Canada’s sub fleet
Our defense minister claims the sub fleet we bought from the British 14 years ago, which has been in dry-dock for most of that time, and won’t hope to be…
The Silo Strategy – Part Two
On January 31, in “The Silo Strategy: Part One,” I wrote about the exclusion of the for-profit laboratories from Ontario’s regional health authorities, the LHINs, and the negative effects of…
Tories Normalize Marriage Laws
The federal Conservative Party introduced a bill on Friday that would explicitly confirm the validity same-sex marriages granted to foreigners in Canada, and extend the right to divorce to any…
On birthdays. And fathers.
My dad would’ve been 71 today had he lived. Seventy-one. He died before I was even out of diapers but I’m told he doted on me, his only daughter. His…
Jonathan Kay and Toronto Life: What’s the point?
I have no idea what point Jonathan Kay and the editors of Toronto Life were trying to make with their “almost rich” feature. The package takes a look at what…
Makes Me Furious
This sort of bullying story should not exist in a budding police state, err, I mean civilized Canada. How are the “bullies” who assaulted this girl multiple times not expelled…