by matttbastard If Toronto City Councillor Giorgio Mammoliti wasn’t real, some enterprising young sketch comedian would have to invent him (and subsequently cash in on the character with a marginally…
The Coptic Orthodox Church has threatened to somehow withdraw 5000 schoolchildren from the Toronto Catholic District School Board unless the board scraps its plans to implement the government’s required tolerance…
Timmy and his gang should stop measuring for drapes. Click below for the full article. Not to overstate it, but a hat trick for the Cons – Rob Ford in…
This is revolting on so many levels. To suggest that bikini basketball or lingerie football gives women a “chance to play” in an era when men’s sports dominates is insulting…
Any nursing blog readers (as opposed to bloggers) out there willing to speak to a writer from Canadian Nurse who’s writing about nurse bloggers? Please contact @asilversides (Twitter) or email…
Self Power, Other Power II – from Zen Philosophy, Zen Practice, by Thich Thien-An – excerpts The methods of self-power and other-power were both originally taught by Sakyamuni Buddha, the…
by matttbastard Norwegian journalist Magnus Nome was in the good ol’ US of A when self-styled counterjihadist crusader Anders Breivik decided to escalate his murderous fantasies about Eurabian conquest from…
The city of São Paulo approved legislation last week that would bring a heterosexual pride day to the city, if the Mayor approves it. Carlos Apolinario, the bill’s sponsor, said…
You know it’s bad when you’re a Conservative and even the Sun starts shitting on you: “Ontario Conservative leader Tim Hudak forgot and then eventually if grudgingly remembered that he…
by matttbastard Michael Tomasky: The Boston Globe ran a chart last Sunday that I’d buy billboard space to reproduce in every decent-size city in America, if I were running the…
Nicole, Alvil, April, and I went a few minutes out of Regina on Dewdney Ave. last night, and got many photographs of the aurora from the massive solar storm that…
When I heard that Archie Comics was getting its first openly gay character last autumn, I was floored… that Archie Comics was still around. Not that I have anything against…
I was watching the cbc news this morning. I find it very sad to witness the decline of that once proud public broadcaster. The cbc used to provide some fine…
Hudak’s probably wishing he answered the question now. So, in addition to gutless, weak, and inexperienced, we can add “feeble” to the growing list of adjectives being used to describe…
Have you wondered why so many people oppose nuclear power generation when there are so many ads claiming there’s a “nuclear Renaissance” and that it’s “green” or “sustainable” and free…
Defend Nycole Turmel as well as Quebec’s right to self-determination | rabble.ca Filed under: Uncategorized
Well, here’s a very special way to have your struggle for equality used by large corporations! The Alberta tar sands, condemned internationally as one of the most harmful environmental projects…
While CK’s on the road, she’s invited me to blog and cross-post here. So I’m recycling this tasty little item, which I found via @NaomiAKlein. (They say she’s polarizing ……
Congrats to the USA for raising the debt ceiling. Wait, is that a good thing? No, I’d say it isn’t. I think the fight over reigning in US spending is…
In 1996, under the Harris Conservatives, an MPP by the name of Frank Klees introduced a private member’s bill that would limit access to abortion by mandating parental notification before…
