Derek Boogaard article in the New York Times
This is a very well-written, well-researched article that describes the life and death of Derek Boogaard. For those that don’t recognize the name, Boogaard was a feared and respected enforcer…
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A Spirited Exploration
The Spirit rover didn’t survive a Martian Winter once it became stuck and could not aim its solar panels toward the sun in preparation for colder temperatures. Its lifespan far…
Thumbs Up To Equal Marriage From Australia’s Governing Party
The Australian Labor Party officially adopted policies in support of full equal marriage rights for same-sex couples last week. That’s an encouraging sign, certainly increasing the likelyhood of a successful…
Share your opinion!
Copper Roof Politics is now accepting your stories! By visiting our Submit a Story page you can send us your stories that you would like to publish! Want to share…
Hudak endorsed homophobic campaign flyers…
…does he support this bullshit, too? Tory MPP Frank Klees sponsored today’s press conference and I’m told that fellow MPPs Lisa MacLeod and Peter Shurman attended, too. Reason kabillion that…
Open Government
A government so open, that it lost its marbles. If we had journalists who uniformly understood that letting politicians get away with flaming lies would lead us into a mess,…
Frank’s Interview with Tara Lyons
Frank’s on the road, interviewing people across Canada about the issues that matter to them. Today, he interviews Tara Lyons, founding member of the Canadian Students for Social and Democratic…
Hope As A Gas
What if we could frack for natural gas without polluting the drinking water tables? I don’t think it’s as easy as this article suggests. Your only concern cannot be the…
John Snobelen: PCPO Whisperer
You may not have heard but there’s a race for a new Ontario PC Party president. Here’s John Snobelen and his campaign manager, Josie. I especially like how he goes…
Conservative MP celebrates killing gun registry
How about you do that in front of their loved ones? Suzanne Laplante-Edward is the mother of one of murdered women, which took place 22 years ago today. She calls…
Portrait of the president as a young Marxist guerrilla
A young Dilma Rousseff, being interrogated by the Brazilian military junta in the 1970s. She looks pretty fearless and pugnacious, no? Here’s the story behind the picture, courtesy of Cubadebate:…
Coming recession? Shane Jones at UofR
He was able to take a plane to Spain from Britain for two pounds. I’m sure there will be info that will go over my head at this talk. How…
Lies Don’t Matter
There may be no way to get fired from a cabinet job in the Harper Government. Well, unless Peter MacKay takes off his shoes and throws them at a helicopter…
Standarize Electronics
Electronics work best when there are standards to follow. Without standards we wouldn’t have CDs that could be read in any nearly CD-ROM or DVD drive. We wouldn’t have radios…
The Habitable Exoplanets Catalog
The Habitable Exoplanets Catalog is an online database for scientists, educators, and the general public focused on habitable exoplanets discoveries. The catalog uses various habitability indices and classifications to identify,…
Remembering Dad
He’s been gone 40 years now. Had he lived, he would’ve turned 70 this year. As it is, I’ve been on this Earth a dozen years longer than he had.…
Canadian Banks Made Millions from Illegal Secret Fed Loan
The other day I saw a video of Dennis Kucinich, an American Congressman, reviewing a scandal which I thought was years old. It was actually breaking news with important new…
Russia Proposes Ban On “Gay Propaganda”
The city of Saint Petersburg in Russia has introduced a bill that would impose a $100 fine for anyone found promoting “homosexual propaganda.” The fine is increased up to $1,600…
Bullied
With a rash of recent suicides in Ontario this fall, and elsewhere, bullying has received a lot of media coverage lately. Finally. Even governments have taken action. But this isn’t…
Occupy Christmas
OCCUPY CHRISTMAS! (Santa photo originally from from Tumbleweed:-) and released under Creative Commons license) Santa’s been abusing the 99% elves at his North Pole cold-shop. Lt. Pike comes to the…