Hate Crime Reporting Improves
More and more hate crimes are being reported across the country, and that’s not necessarily a bad thing. In 2009, the number of hate crime reported in Canada went up…
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The Business of Cancer
Every year, millions of people around the world run, jog, swim, roller blade, pogo hop and do all matter of other efforts to draw attention to the need to fund…
Remembering Joy Division
Around the time I started wearing combat boots, putting safety pins through my ears as improvised earrings and became perpetually sullen, I first heard Joy Division’s Closer. It was amazing.…
Oh, This Is Just Too Precious!
Yes, indeedy, Stevie Spiteful!! You’ve been a very naughty boy!! And there is somebody, Terri-Jean Bedford, a dominatrix, who announced on a CBC interview, they would like to discipline you…
Tony Awards With Manly Opening Act
Broadway has never looked straighter. Featuring Stephen Colbert, Brooke Shields, and not Al Pacino.
More Weiner hilarity
Ok, fair warning, not only is this not safe for work, don’t play it when your kids are around either. Or mom. Anyone, really, don’t play it in front of…
WikiLeaks: Assange Breaking Ground While Governments Break Laws
Assange points out that there were illegal attacks on WikiLeak’s technical infrastructure, especially since it’s a legal, media organization and not an illegal group as some extreme critics suggest. ==…
My take on Senate reform
We need the Senate, but not as it is now. The current Senate is far too inefective, inefficient, and undemocratic. I don’t agree with Stephen Harper much, but I do…
Tories Raise The Spectre Of A Same-Sex Marriage Ban
Well, that didn’t take very long, did it? Just weeks after Canada’s federal election, delegates at the Conservative Party Convention have raised a dead social issue over the weekend, discussing…
How Canada Can Cut About $3 Billion – The Easy Way
Funding to the IMF should be cut off.
Never Waking Up
Spirit has taken a dirt nap on Mars, years after it was expected to fail. If only Microsoft, Apple, or Garmin could build devices half as reliable as a Martian…
A Proposal for a Canadian National Hockey League (CNHL)
I post these thoughts as I wait in an airport watching everyone gear up for Game 5 of the Stanley Cup. I’m not a hockey fan. I think I’m one…
Obama: pseudo-populist, crypto-fascist, corporatist, globalist
(Ya, I’m subtle – I have to call it as I see it) Obama and the Democrats are being framed and blamed for every evil in America, and the country’s…
It’s Dead Jim!!! Or how my EeePC 1000 died
I love/loved my ASUS-Tek EeePC 1000, it is was (nearly) indestructible. It went to Mexico with me and returned several times, surviving airport security,… it went on many a dive…
Gay Conservatives Promote Fabulous Blue Tent
Yesterday marked the start of the Canadian Conservative Party’s national convention. Canada’s only right-wing party has been celebrating their recent 39% majority government victory, so it promises to be a…
Story of Stuff
Live blog from Education Auditorium Starting with a prayer song from a Cree elder, singer and pipe keeper and cleaner. Drum and singing is very impressive in here. The introduction…
Men (and women) behaving badly
Margaret Wente today suggests that if we’re tired of political sex scandals we should simply bar the entire male gender from the field. Bullshit. At best her column is meaningless…
Humour of Political Websites
I give points to politicians who try their luck online. Over the years there have been laughable incidents with most political parties’ websites, and blogs/Twitter accounts, however. The Conservatives and…
Thoreau, the dharma and the dark age
In the view of Buddhism, Hinduism and also the ancient Greeks, among others, we live in a dark age, or what in the East is called the Kali yuga, the…
Ontario Catholic School Bans Rainbows
An unofficial Gay-Straight Alliance at St Joseph Catholic Secondary School in Mississauga, Ontario has been forbidden from displaying any rainbows at their information booth. The school board had already banned…