People for a SoCon Ontario
The Star posted this article yesterday about a new anti-Liberal, pro-Conservative political group called People for a Better Ontario. People for a Better Ontario hopes to convince voters to replace…
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When will Ontarians tire of cynical, sophomoric, and disingenuous politics?
Perhaps, I’m an anomaly. Perhaps I’m just too naive and insist on clinging to fundamental ideals of democracy (e.g. the electorate should be as well and truly informed in its…
Toronto and Ottawa
From Church St. looking northish. View from our hotel room. We paid a little extra over the Hotwire price to get this room, but it was worth it. Security blanket…
MMT: What it Means for Canada
Arun Dubois’ blog post yesterday on Modern Monetary Theory has prompted me to write my own take on the subject. For those interested, an interesting thumbnail sketch of MMT, essentially…
Bank of America Gets Foreclosed
This is the feel-good story of the year. A couple, and a rookie lawyer, kick BoA in the ‘holdings’. If it doesn’t play, you want The Daily Show with Jon…
Wherein the Globe and Mail yearns for the days of yore, when workers were serfs
My eyed popped out a bit when I read this article: The prime minister’s facing pressure to improve monitoring on the treatment of workers owned by Canadian investors there. Owned…
US Investments and great guitar
Over the past few days I’ve been contemplating the medium-term view of US stocks and whether I should reduce exposure to them. It seems difficult to be very bullish on…
So Angry
Are you so angry you’d: a- consider bombing a plane? b- leak a secret classified document? c- vote for Jason Kenney? d- all of the above? If you answered d-,…
Tim’s very bad day
So I guess all my Tory buddies can stop smirking now. Told ya! In a flash sample poll conducted last weekend on 400 decided voters, Ipsos Reid found that the…
Say No to Negative Politics, Help Stop the Smears
It’s now a commonplace the incredible gains made by the NDP in the recent federal election had to do with its unrelentingly positive approach and unwillingness to engage in the…
Um, To Be Brainwashed, I Believe One First Has To Have A BRAIN.
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…
Catholic Sect Threatens Children Over Tolerance Policy
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…
More bad news for Hudak
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…
Show us your tits. Sigh.
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…
A Request
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 and the Power of the Enlightened Ones
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…
Facts vs. Narrative, Utoya Edition
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…
Brazil Ponders Heterosexual Pride Parade
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…
Tim Hudak gets more heat on abortion issue
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…