A parody of the Nigerian e-mail frauds in reference to the Conservative Elections Scandal, Courtesy of Calgary Grit:
From: Conservative Headquarters
To: Conservative Candidates
Date: December 2, 2005
Subject: Urgent Request
Dearest Candidate,
Good morning, how are you and your family? I hope fine. Please, I am sorry to bother you with our problem.
Please know that it’s not by mistake I […]
An interesting commentary:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IXpibN7Hug
Don’t believe the hype
Twenty years ago the classic Hip Hop group, Public Enemy, said in their hit song,
Some media is the whack
You believe it’s true, it blows me through the roof
Suckers, liars get me a shovel
Some writers I know are damn devils
For them I say don’t believe the hype
Yo Chuck, they must be on a […]
Yesterday, Hillary Clinton scored a massive double digit victory over Barack Obama in the Pennsylvania primary!
Except she didn’t.
I’m not saying this because the spread between Clinton and Obama was actually 9.3% (which if I remember math class correctly rounds down to 9% instead of up to 10%).
Nor am I saying this because Pennsylvania was natural […]
When “free speechers” publish letters by lawyers or put legal proceedings online, they themselves are attacking free speech by attempting to intimidate legal proceedings.
Fry That What?
The case of Mumia Abu Jamal, on death row in Pennsylvania for killing a white police officer in 1981, is raising some interesting issues surrounding jury selection.
The court found that the prosecution used two-thirds of its vetoes to deliberately remove persons of colour in a county that consisted primarily of minorities. The […]
The Ahenakew affair: a bad law, an opportunity missed
By Marjaleena Repo
The David Ahenakew Affair, after five years in the courts, has sprung back with full force after the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations (FSIN) voted to reinstate him as one its senators. The media have reacted with vehement disapproval as have Jewish organizations. The provincial […]
Stephen Lewis at Dalhousie University
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gz16oP4cb9E
The talk was given at Dalhousie University last year where he said,
When one part of the human family is under siege, the privileged part of the family responds…
There’s a possibility of changing the way this world works. Or if you can’t change the world, at least altering the human condition for […]
By Brian Heal
We often teach our systems planners and policymakers the mantra that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
It is easier to provide affordable housing options for those in need rather than respond to a crises of homelessness when it arrives.
Provinces that create new jobs to support an aging population will […]
In a Supreme Court of B.C. ruling released this weekend, British Columbia Nurses’ Union v. Attorney General of British Columbia, nurses have won the latest fight against two-tier healthcare.
The British Columbia Nursing Union (BCNU) filed a suit against the provincial attorney general and Medical Services Commission for allowing the expansion of private […]
Tasteless Tattoos
A recent online prank among bloggers has raised the issue of poking fun around sensitive issues such as the Holocaust.
Racial and ethnic humour abounds among comedians, though most prefer to poke fun only at the group(s) they identify with and belong to, as to do otherwise appears degenerating. But members of the in-group […]
A new independent documentary has been released on the Internet called Unfair Dealings by David Weingarten. CKLN’s Mark Bills interviewed Weingarten on the production of the film.
The documentary covers the arrest of the Toronto 18. But the publication ban severely limits the information potentially collected by the producers.
One of the commentators appears […]
Justin Morris, a member of the Ryerson University Conservative Club, sent an e-mail to Heather Kere, the vice-president of education at Ryerson.
But Kere is also a member of the United Black Students of Ryerson. And the e-mail had little to do with her role as VP Education.
Morris’ e-mail accused Kere of being a […]
Between Jan. 2004-Sept. 2005, the U.S. government killed 23,366 American citizens, 1,100 people a month, or more than 35 a day.
On paper that is.
Social Security erroneously recorded the people as deceased, much to their protest.
Alex Johnson and Nancy Amons of MSBC state,
Even if you do finally convince the government that you are not dead, your […]
Dr. Lyle Rossiter, author of the new book, “The Liberal Mind: The Psychological Causes of Political Madness, thinks so.
And as expected, the neo-cons are celebrating.
Dr. Rossiter said,
The roots of liberalism – and its associated madness – can be clearly identified by understanding how children develop from infancy to adulthood and how distorted development produces […]
