Gay Soldier in Afghanistan Receives Death Threat
Gays in the military isn’t exactly a new thing for Canada, but you might not know it from the experiences of Andrew McLean, a Warrant Officer working at Kandahar Airfield.…
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Help Wanted
NDP newbie MP Ruth Ellen Brosseau is seeking a Parliamentary Assistant. I was a little hard on Ms. Brosseau during last spring’s federal election. I don’t apologize for it –…
Reading as Liberation
A couple of weeks ago, it was reported that in Arizona, the Tucson Unified School District had suspended the teaching of Mexican-American studies, banned the teaching of certain books…
Do The Math On Solar
Here’s an amazing article that walks you through the physics calculations that show why the Sun is such a great energy source for Earth. We could make use of its…
The OAS Eligibility Age and Employment
It is argued that eligibility for OAS/GIS discourages older Canadians from remaining in the workforce, and that we need to keep them working to avoid labour shortages and a sharp…
Lazy Loitering Louts
In light of the Occupy movements, younger people will find this vintage video from Vancouver, very vivid. You have to wait until the very end too for a killer video…
The New 1% Doctrine in Action (Electro-Motive Diesel Edition)
While many the US were celebrating seemingly positive job numbers yesterday, for London, Ontario residents such news was caustic, rock salt poured into a gaping wound. WSWS: Caterpillar subsidiary Electro-Motive…
Big Brother goes to the theatre
“For the second time in year, a Toronto playwright has felt the chilling reach of the federal Conservatives…” Wouldn’t it be great if the Opposition parties would get their collective…
F-35 For Australia and Canada
It’s amazing how expensive a stealth fighter jet can be. And it just gets more and more expensive the longer Canada contemplates actually forking over cash for the fictional fighter…
Excited Delirium Chapter 68: Get Garamond
Chapter 68 of Excited Delirium, where our heroes hatch a plan for getting Garamond.
Fake News
Fox News says, “Why didn’t we think of that!” as they smack their foreheads collectively. Sun News is the premier, cutting edge, dishonest, fake news station on Canadian cable. Eat…
Weathermen For Republicans
Most people don’t trust their weather forecaster celebrities to be correct more than 50% of the time. I just made up that statistic, the same way many weathermen have done…
The Stupid Senate
“I felt like it is kind of an insult to be a denier for a long time,” said Sen. Bert Brown, last month at a parliamentary committee studying energy policies.…
Hell In A Handbasket
American spy charged with spying, by his own government, when he revealed to reporters that the CIA was acting illegally by torturing people. Obama’s War on Whistle-blowers, rages on. Bradley…
10 Questions for Banner Health
Lo, a Tweet from Banner Health on the Amanda Trujillo incident, and possibly the most content-free in the history of Twitter: Uh, huh. “Listening” and “hearing” rather imply, in this…
Nothing will ever be good enough for the CFS
Because it would put them out of business. Now they’re complaining that the 30% tuition cut promised, and delivered, by the Liberal government isn’t good enough. It seems that the…
The Silo Strategy –Part 1
How did the for-profit labs become the sole providers of laboratory services for all non-hospital patients in Ontario? These patients, often called community patients, usually need a lab test that…
RCMP Call for submissions…into Workplace Harrassment
Commission for Public Complaints Against the RCMP c/o Public Submissions, File 2011-3791 PO Box 1722, Stn B Ottawa ON K1P 0B3 To Whom it may concern, I am…
Head-Free Driving
Hands-free exemptions in cell-phone driving laws are nonsensical. That much has been obvious to me and a lot of other people for years. The problem with phoning while driving isn’t…
Battle of Service
While legislators in New Hampshire consider a bill that would make it legal for business owners in the public sector to deny services to any gay person getting married, an…