tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-110996532011-04-21T17:14:24.777-04:00Politics, commentary and news from a left wing queer Canadian feminist --- what news you get can depend on where you are--- I will be writing this from a different viewpoint than the main stream media. The largest portion of it will be Canadian but I will also be dealing with international news and issues. My aim is to reach others who are progressive --- wherever they are.Politicagrllhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03044498634533180693noreply@blogger.comBlogger1631100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11099653.post-65657194799752647042007-02-25T10:06:00.000-05:002007-02-25T10:19:40.854-05:00

Oil fish is recognized as being barely fit for human consumption. Fifty percent of those who eat it diarrhea. It is commonly mislabelled as other types of fish (which are consumed regularly such as cod). It's banned in Italy and Japan.The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is not banning it in Canada...since it only makes the fifty percent of us with delicate stomachs' sick.Canadians fall ill after

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I've mentioned the crack pipe program in Ottawa previously. It is now coming up for review in Ottawa during in the city budget. If you live If you live in Ottawa you should consider coming to a protest being organized by the AIDS committee of Ottawa to make it clear the program is continued. Not in Otttawa. Can't make it to the protest? Spread the word about what the program is, and why it should

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The contrasts between what public events interest Stephen Harper and which don't are interesting. More important, for the public, they are informative on what is considered important by the current government.Harper didn't turn up when Canada was hosting a international conference on AIDS. I wrote a short piece at the time about Harper's Latest Lame Excuse For Not Attending The International AIDS

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Some words seem to move between languages. Others don't. The use of Citroen in reference to a car really surprised me Mr Lawson talks about PSA Peugeot Citroen's "well positioned.... mix and technology perspective".Citroen is fairly close to how you spell lemon in French. In fact I wasn't sure if it was exactly the same or not. According to my Petit Robert it's close but not the same. And none

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Heather Mallick as cbc.ca has a interesting piece asking why do we treat different addictions differently. She goes on to explore the idea with reference to the Pickton trial. It took years before anyone in power (like the police) starting looking into all the prostitutes that were going missing. If we took the lives of prostitute as seriously as the lives of others, this case would have gone to

Politicagrllhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03044498634533180693noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11099653.post-1169561854979667752007-01-23T09:16:00.000-05:002007-01-23T09:17:35.230-05:00

The environment is in the news a lot these days. Most of the work needs to be done through government, as it doesn't involved individual actions. However, the fact that we also need to change our lifestyles is clear. I find though that most suggestions are generalized. They don't give me all that good an idea on what I'm doing right (in terms of my "carbon footprint" discussed in this article)

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The first time I really wrote about anything that was identifiably personal was after the Supreme Court decision on private insurance in Quebec for medical services. I did this because of how important I felt the issue was and because I thought my experience had something to say in the debate that ensued.I don't make a practice of talking about my "real life" on the blog. I still have no

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The Canadian Medical Association has a President Elect who not only believes in increasing private health care---but who owns has private clinic and advocates on behalf of private health care!Private health-care advocate wins CMA presidencyLast Updated: Tuesday, August 22, 2006 | 12:02 PMCBC NewsDr. Brian Day a Vancouver surgeon who supports expanding private health care has been affirmed as

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I have found think tanks interesting for a long time, although it is only in the last couple of years that I started accessing them regularly online. Lately I've been collecting the think thank names and addresses that I'm coming across in newspaper articles (and elsewhere). Now I don't agree politically with all of these think tanks. In fact I disagree strongly with some of them. If you want to

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Harper's latest excuse for not being at the International AIDS Conference in Toronto would be amusing if the issue wasn't so important. Apparently he is not at the conference because...his trip to Northern Canada was planned months ago...Come on...The conference was scheduled way earlier than a few months ago. I would say that Harper needs to get his priorities straight...But I he is showing us

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It started slowly. Sometime in 2005 I noticed that at the end of some CBC online articles the tag would be with files from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. I can't remember exactly when...except that it was definitely appearing after the Tsunami (but could have been appearing before). The latest example of the CBC using other news sources is more disturbing. See here for a example at the

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Since I last wrote there has been more information about the US Supreme Court ruling on Guantanamo Bay. The best of the news was what became available on the first day I think. Since then it appears (based on reading of the news) that the decision of the court isn't as complete as those who want Guantanamo Bay closed down hoped (although it is still real progress). In the news I found the

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This just in from CBC news...U.S. Supreme Court quashes 'illegal' Guantanamo trialsLast Updated Thu, 29 Jun 2006 12:30:20 EDTMilitary trials arranged by the Bush administration for detainees at Guantanamo Bay are illegal, the United States Supreme Court ruled Thursday.The court found that the trials — known as military commissions — for people detained on suspicion of terrorist activity abroad do

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A recent comment by the executive director of the Canadian Shooting Sports Association on the gun registry was blatantly racist.Contentious gun registry spawns hate mailMay 16, 2006, CP...Larry Whitmore, executive director of the Canadian Shooting Sports Association, which opposes the long-gun registry, said urban Canada never understood - and probably never tried to understand - why the gun

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The Nation has a wonderful piece of political satire. I laughed all the way through reading it.The sad thing about it is is how close it cuts to the bone in recent Amercian politics. The explanation of the author, Richard Lingeman, as to where the idea for the piece came is included just prior to the full Gospel of Scooter. The explanation on it's own is quite amusing and also worth reading. And

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Crime gangs mixing crystal meth with other drugs: reportLast Updated Wed, 19 Apr 2006 08:56:05 EDTThe Hells Angels and other organized crime groups are mixing highly addictive crystal meth with other, less harmful drugs, an internal RCMP report says.The report from the criminal analysis section in British Columbia, obtained by CBC News, says drugs such as ecstasy, ketamine and marijuana are being

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Stephen's Harpers government has been forcing draconian cuts in how the press can cover items. There is a complete Transcript of meeting between PMO and Press Gallery officials on March 24, 2006 now available in which the press tried to deal with the recent issues surrounding press coverage.I found it very interesting to read. There are in fact more press issues than are making the general news.

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Cellular phones are always "advancing" with new features. The disposing of cell phones that are still good can lead to pollution problems, both from the cell phone and from the amount of material that is used to create each cell phone. It's something that is becoming a crisis in Britain. But if you need new features on a telephone and can't stay with it for longer there are ways that you can

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McGuinty has again brought down a budget that is supposed to help bring back up to par items that were cut during the Harris era. Left out of this in all of his budgets have been the cuts to social assistance.When I began reading today about the budget I noticed a bit that newspapers seemed to be throwing in, as an aside sometimes, but not discussing. The paltry increase to social assistance

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During the last couple of weeks the press has been talking about the fact that Bob Rae might run for the leadership of the Liberal Party. The emphasis you see in the news are all about how Rae was the New Democratic Party Premier of Ontario. While I guess the mainstream view I find it strange, especially the idea that this has something to say about the NDP now.From my point of view Rae made it

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Code Blue for childcare is a website that is against the Harper cuts in childcare and is working to help rally public support for childcare. The Website includes links to articles about the Harper cuts for childcare and why they are bad for the country---and for women. It also includes updates on actions being taken in support of childcare and links to articles on public childcare in Canada. One

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Daily Kos has a good (and unfortunately very amusing) article on Censuring the President 101We're living in a PowerPoint world. We've become a bullet-point-dependent society. If it can't be summed up succinctly in a handful of slides, then it must not be worth saying. If you're a Member of Congress with a dozen issue briefings to get through every day, then you're more reliant upon the bullet

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The publishers of the Guardian and the Observer have just launched a new service called comment is free. It looks like it launched yesterday and I haven't had a chance to look at it very carefully but it looks very interesting. The best feature (from my viewpoint) is that you can set up RSS subscriptions by author. While I still intend to go to read the newspaper I was missing a lot of the

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Are you a draft dodger from the Vietnam War? Unless you have a pardon, you ought to seriously consider taking the US off your list of places to visit or pass through when traveling elsewhere. Even with a pardon I'm not sure how it works, although I would think it would be safer. But then who would have thought to be hearing about this now?A man with dual citizenship who enlisted in the US marines

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I haven't written anything about the Danish cartoons earlier because I wasn't sure how to put how I was feeling (and still what exactly I think) about what is going on into one piece (especially with not writing all that much lately). However I came across a few pieces that I think expressed the ambiguity that I feel on the situation well (and I do feel on the topic, I just haven't been sure how

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When I came across Copps latest column today I found it very interesting. It's about why Ralph Klein brought in the type of health program that he did. Now I'm not sure I agree with the theory she is putting forward or not. I think it's likely Klein didn't consult Harper so the two of them could cook up the health care proposals. However it's quite possible that Klein brought them in partly for

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You scored as Babylon 5. The universe is erupting into war and your government picks the wrong side. How much worse could things get? It doesn't matter, because no matter what you have your friends and you'll do the right thing. In the end that will be all that matters. Now if only the Psi Cops would leave you alone.Your Ultimate Sci-Fi Profile II: which sci-fi crew would you best fit in? (

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Alberta announced it's new "health care framework". It should be called a "bad health framework". At the moment I'm going to try and provide a good set of links on the stories that have come out so far, as well as some comment. The set of links weren't turning up aggregated yet (although you could find them individually of course). I've got news articles, the press release the Alberta government

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When the possibility of private health care in Canada is discussed what we hear about today is usually how there are private public systems working in Britain and France and perhaps Sweden. However it seems we often hear about the fact that they work (which is questionable but you can choose your source), but we seldom hear about when they aren't working, especially from those who are using them

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At the moment it looks like the Harper government may be an even shorter government than the Clark government was. His cabinet is stranger than anything I would have come up with on my own.Within in a few days of the election results coming in I became concerned. It was after the news informed me that by the rules of the Liberal Party there needs to be at least a five month wait after date of a

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This article is the initial information available from some new documents released. It was written about in The Guardian at 7PM their time, and while the article is better than your average CP article I would expect there will be much more extensive coverage in Britain tomorrow. 7PM in England is about 2PM EST here so it might make the evening news here. This is going to be a lot bigger than the

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The Toronto Star appears to have taken an interest in Latin America. I don't know how long it will last, but it would be nice if it became a more permanent feature at The Star. I noticed they had more articles in the last few days on Latin America but one set caught my attention.Tim Harper, who does a lot of reporting out of Washington, some plain news and some opinion pieces. He has just

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I must say that I'm glad that the election is finished. I think there were some very good features of having a longer time for the election. I liked the increased debate about issues (or time to talk about them anyway). But I'm more than happy having it finished at this point. My specific thoughts (at the moment) about the elections results are on the Election Roundtable post "The NDP hasn't won

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The comments I received on my post Old Enough For Adult Sentences Yet Too Young To Consent to Sex have made me think that a large part of what I wanted to get across in the article didn't work. Other issues I discuss there also interest me, but I wanted this to be my main point. Now, I'm not writing this to get everyone to agree with me, but to get the part of the issue I want highlighted out.A

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Note: Originally the end of this article got cut off by accident. This is the full versionA few further thoughts on my article at the Election Roundtable. What I've said here is a supplement to what I've said there...So you'll need to read that article possibly for it all to make sense.Looking at a government page on the age of consent they say the age of consent has been 14 since 1890. I'm not

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Tory a no-show, with no notice, at poverty debate is my most recent article for the CBC Roundtable. This was a large all candidates debate, 600 people attended. It's a sad state of affairs when I only read about this when I was reading Linda McQuaig's weekly Toronto Star article. I've been reading election news very thoroughly, but it appears that the editors didn't think this merited news

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During the last debate Harper mentioned the National Anti Poverty supporting the GST cuts he would bring in. My most recent post to the CBC Roundtable, What the National Anti-Poverty Organization really thinks about Harper's GST cut has an extract from December where NAPO said it didn't support this, and that the Tories were using one paper quoted out of context with what the organization

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My latest post on the CBC Roundtable is A Concrete Example of Why Social Housing is Needed.Trying to keep the length down does limit how much I can say on the topic though. These are some of my other thoughts on the topic (see the article for the original thoughts ;-))If someone is living in social housing the likelihood of them having to apply for social assistance is lower if they are making

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Well I found the list of contributors to Harper's 2004 leadership campaign. It's for those who donated over $200 and it's 38 pages long. I still haven't found any way to look at his donations when he ran for leader of the Canadian Alliance. If anyone comes across that I'd be very interested.I'm going to be looking through the list but given it's length it might take a while. If anyone else

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My latest post at the CBC Roundtable is about the second English debate.I don't know if this debate will be decisive or not. This one didn't have a clear winner, but I think it had a clear looser: MartinI've included a link to a transcript and where you can download the debates. I didn't find the news coverage of the debate gave any feeling of what the debate was like yesterday. I suggest that

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Apparently the blog Fighting for Taxpayers didn't read my post on the CBC Roundtable Tax on the tax cut proposed by Stephen Harper, very clearly. Their comment about my post saidAbramovitch over at the CBC forum thinks Harpers sports tax credit plan isn't any good because it's not inclusive enough. The plan is flawed for several reason, but a lack of inclusion is not one of them. For Marcie, all

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I'm going to be working on putting together an easy to understand dictionary of words about economics over the next couple of weeks. I'm writing it so that I can talk understandably (I hope) about some economic ideas I have.The right wing economic words are fairly well known because they are used so much. But sometimes they have a broader meaning than people might know because they are only used

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I would like to apologize to Kate and for three things. Part of life is realizing sometimes you screw up and i did and i'm sorry. I will make sure i don't make the same mistakes again. i know in the end actions will speak louder than words. First i think i should have waited longer before going public. If i had i likely wouldn't have gone public at all.Second I didn't check every link out

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I hope everyone is enjoying their break. I hope everyone had a good holiday. And I hope everyone is having a nice break. Most of us get are getting a couple of days off from the rat race at this time of the year regardless of religion. I hope everyone is having an enjoyable time and happy holidays. If you are celebrating a religious holiday I hope that it was nice and enjoyable.P

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There's an amusing piece in The Toronto Star today which asks all the leader's questions about Christmas called Leader's Time To be Jolly. I found the whole thing amusing and worth reading. It's nice to have some light political news now and then. I do think it's too bad they didn't have Gilles Duceppe there as i think he would have added to it. A few of my favourite questions and answersLeaders'

Politicagrllhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03044498634533180693noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11099653.post-1135213596119533682005-12-21T19:58:00.000-05:002005-12-21T20:13:30.366-05:00

I'm writing for the Election Roundtable at the CBC. I know that a lot of people are aware of this but since I've never talked of it here i'm sure it's possible there are others that don't know about it as well, so i wanted to let people know i hadn't disapeared.The Election Roundtable is made up of bloggers. It isn't a blog per say but it retains some features of blogs seeing as all the people

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With all the recent discussion about how accurate Wikipedia is I'm glad to have come across an article about howWikipedia, the encyclopedia that relies on volunteers to pen nearly four million articles, is about as accurate in covering scientific topics as Encyclopedia Britannica, the journal Nature wrote (via the Globe and Mail)........The finding, based on a side-by-side comparison of articles

Politicagrllhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03044498634533180693noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11099653.post-1134489741868076282005-12-13T10:42:00.001-05:002005-12-13T11:43:54.323-05:00

Ever since Reid made his stupid statement about parents using the $5 a day that Harper said would be given to families for childcare there has been a lot of blogging about it. Which I think is good. Because it's just ridiculous to think parents will find daycare at $5 a day---unless of course you are using a Quebec model---but that takes social investment and actually that was raised to $7

Politicagrllhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03044498634533180693noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11099653.post-1134424406882387172005-12-12T16:46:00.000-05:002005-12-12T17:02:16.180-05:00

With all the discussion of the Narnia books that is going on since the release of the movie i thought I'd add a somewhat unique viewpoint to the issue.I absolutely loved the Nania books. I read through them fairly young. I'm not a Christian and i thought they were terrific. In fact i think that is part of why i found them terrific. To me they didn't carry all of the Christian overtones and

Politicagrllhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03044498634533180693noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11099653.post-1134343138773638292005-12-11T18:10:00.001-05:002005-12-11T18:28:54.023-05:00

I've been in the habit of reading the Observer on Sundays on the internet for a few years now. I find it has interesting and different news. I started reading The Guardian(of which the Observer is a sister paper and which shares part of the same web space) in the build up to the Iraq war. Even though Britain was a country that was involved in the war i found i could get much more complete

Politicagrllhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03044498634533180693noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11099653.post-1134231522310113202005-12-10T11:07:00.000-05:002005-12-10T11:21:07.910-05:00

I've always loved political humour, particularly political satire. We don't seem to see to much of it in Canada anymore which is too bad...I enjoy reading the political satire in the Guardian even if it is British (i can usually get at least half of the material because i like reading British news...As to why that is another post).So when i came across this piece i knew i wanted to put it up. I

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The Red Cross has chosen a new symbol which has absolutely no religious connotations. With good reason i would add. I've never understood why a humanitarian group (which does a lot of wonderful work) always worked under either a cross or a crescent.The original red cross doesn't appear to have been chosen for directly religious reasons, at least according to the news I'm reading (i had always

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Well even though i think science can go too far sometimes and that we might not know enough about what we are doing (ie like my article below on genetically altered peas)... But i do think that it has a lot of merit as well. Especially in the areas that are more well developed and where we aren't making such huge changes in the environment.One fairly well tested theory is evolution. And it's an

Politicagrllhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03044498634533180693noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11099653.post-1133635438295014972005-12-03T13:25:00.000-05:002005-12-03T14:04:05.566-05:00

Take a good close look at this article. If you favour genetic engineering of foods i suggest you take an even closer look at what they found out here. Apparently when doing what seemed to be a simple genetic engineering transfering a gene that protected one type of pea to another type of pea they ran into some big problems.Peas find bean gene too plainDec. 3, 2005. 01:00 AMScientists who created

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The release of Firefox 1.5 is now available. Not release candidates but the full version. They have even change the main web site for downloading it and other Mozilla products. The main web page for downloading Mozilla products is now here.The new version of Firefox has a lot of new features. One of the neat one's i haven't mentioned before is that it will automatically check for you if there are

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During the last election i watched a number of rallies that all parties had. And what annoyed me the most at the time was that Stephen Harper most frequently ended the rallies with "God Bless Canada". It seemed very US to me. We are a secular democracy and God doesn't play a direct part in our elections.Well i came across the discussion of Stephen Harper not answering the question of "Do you

Politicagrllhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03044498634533180693noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11099653.post-1133038067270010202005-11-26T15:35:00.000-05:002005-11-26T15:54:55.043-05:00

When the Canadian constitution was originally written (the BNA Act 1867) it was modeled after how elections were run in Great Britain. There were already the beginnings of ideas about proportional representation (PR) but they were very early ones. And it does make sense that we would adopt the British model (in fact it's quite likely that Britain wouldn't have allowed Canada to adopt any other

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Photo: Jonathan Hayward/CPWell they say a picture is worth a thousand wordsI came across this picture in an article at the Globe and Mail. It's really not all that connected to the article but i thought it was priceless. The text that went with the photo wasThough sitting next to each other at a Canadian Arab League reception on Tuesday in Ottawa, Prime Minister Paul Martin, right, and

Politicagrllhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03044498634533180693noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11099653.post-1132927201742670492005-11-25T08:54:00.000-05:002005-11-25T09:00:01.756-05:00

I thought I'd share some of the features that i find the most useful in the Release Candidates of Firefox as I've found i really like one in particular and it's making a big difference on how i keep track of interesting articles and with an election coming up i think that is important. I use bookmarks more heavily during an election. I would be surprised if I'm the only one...Although it won't

Politicagrllhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03044498634533180693noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11099653.post-1132585206344573832005-11-21T09:50:00.000-05:002005-11-21T10:04:05.320-05:00

You are a waitress! You're destined to serve Spamand Lobster Thermidor to Vikings every singleday of your life... What Monty Python Sketch Character are you? brought to you by QuizillaThis is the latest quiz which identifies who you are (this time which Monty Python character you are). Not a bad result...and hey only 3% of the folks got the Spam waitress (although i'm not sure how many characters

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What is wrong with this story? Well first it is a very sad story about a teenager shot at another teenagers funeral. Which is wrong generally and sad but is not what bothers me about this story in particular. What bothers me is that the article makes repeated references about the Church getting together on a Saturday....But never points out that for Seventh Day Adventists Saturday is the

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Over time I've come across a few commentary pieces by Jimmy Carter. He's not a president i really remember although I've read about him since. Not that much considering he was a US Democratic President...But then I've generally been more interested in European politics than US politics except when US politics directly effects Canada. OTOH I've found a lot of interesting material from US feminists

Politicagrllhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03044498634533180693noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11099653.post-1131908960889179322005-11-13T13:49:00.000-05:002005-11-19T07:27:36.456-05:00

Apparently the article was written up to "simulate" left wing writing . The purpose of this article was to discuss strategic voting and to some extent electoral system. As such i don't think it has a major impact on the article.Alberta-Canada Now has a post that is about strategic voting called Apologies to the rest of Canada. It's an interesting article because it isn't just a post saying about

Politicagrllhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03044498634533180693noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11099653.post-1131802810542243192005-11-12T08:21:00.000-05:002005-11-12T08:40:10.570-05:00

Well strange stories seem to abound these days. First Flipper the Firing dolphin and now drunk elks.Yes, drunk elks. I think this time it's worth putting the full story in, a quote doesn't do it justiceDrunken elks attack old people's homeLuke Harding in BerlinFriday November 11, 2005The GuardianA drunken party of elks surrounded an old people's home in Sweden and had to be driven away by armed

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For those of you who like using new software (and getting the benefits of improvements in the software early on) Firefox 1.5 Release Candidate 1 and Thunderbird 1.5 Release Candidate 1 are now available.These versions do not come with support. In fact the Firefox 1.5 Release Candidate has the following text:Note: This is not the final release of our Web browser, it has been made available for

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There are many different opinions on why the riots in France are continuing. But I still tend to think that coverage is selective...Maybe not by conscious bias, but bias none the less. I don't think that these two stories provide a definitive story of what is going on in France. But it is material that I'm not seeing very often in the British Press and I've yet to come across in the in the North

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The riots that have been occurring in France since the 31st of October have been covered in the North American MSM. However i didn't feel that i was getting all that good an idea of what was going on. On Sunday's i usually read the Observer and today i decided that i would drop in at Le Monde as well.I'd like to put together a post on the topic soon. However in the meantime I've found some links

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I got a real laugh out of this article about Prince Charles issuing a gentle rebuke to Bush on the environment even though it is serious. Why? Because the newspaper I'm reading it in says they are not sure that Bush will realize the Prince was criticizing him on climate issues:Prince issues gentle rebuke to Bush on climate change White House urged to take lead on environmentPresident hails

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I haven't written a post on The Gomery Report yet. I've followed it closely and had the TV on most of Tuesday listening to Gomery releasing the report and commentary and what political leaders said after it was reported. I've formed some definite opinions but i would like to read a good part of the report before i start commenting on the report itself (as opposed to the obvious political fallout)

Politicagrllhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03044498634533180693noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11099653.post-1130672818184769582005-10-30T06:26:00.000-05:002005-10-30T06:49:03.120-05:00

With all the talk about Lewis 'Scooter' Libby's indictment but some comments on who "Official A" is and why what happened with Karl Rove (was he totally looked over, is he still being looked into?) I'm going to leak the secret. Karl Rove is official "A". I came across it somewhere yesterday in the Washington post but i also found it again much more clearly summarized in The Observer. And he isn't

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With all the discussion of avian flu i thought I'd write a post today on how and why pigs could be a way that this virus would become much more easily transmitted to humans. So i googled for pigs and avian flu. What came up was scary. I would have thought that the presence of avian flu in pigs would have been well reported considering how dangerous it is. I was wrong. There has already been

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U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is coming to Ottawa today and tomorrow. There will be protests across the country because of the war in Iraq. Given the war in Iraq it's important that people go to them to make it clear how people in Canada feel about the war. If you live in Ottawa here are the details of the protest planned:CONDI, GO HOME!!!WAR RESISTERS WELCOME! WAR CRIMINALS NOT!Rally

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(please note this was my introduction and first post to the Blogs Canada E group)As a result of the Canadian blog survey there was a lot of discussion of women blogging politically. Also recently there has been discussion of how many women were blogging at the E Canada Group. I think that the two are entwined. This is my personal introduction to the E Canada Group and a hello. I'm looking forward

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I'm running into a problem. It takes my computer a long time to load PDF articles and it won't about half the time. Not only is it a pain that way but often my browser needs to be closed or sometimes the machine needs to be rebooted when a PDF article is clicked on by accident. Now there is a really simple solution to this. I download the PDF article and then read it at my leisure. Works fine.

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This story was a very strange one to come across. However it is an AP story. If anything AP stories seem to play things down. So i would think there is a significant amount of truth to the story although I'm ready to admit i don't know and can't prove exactly how much.The story is about Steven Tuck who came to Canada to avoid being prosecuted after he was arrested for the second time in 2001 for

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I'm interested in meeting other poor bloggers from Canada who are out there. Since I'm mostly writing political stuff i imagine the people who would answer would be into politics...but it's not required. If i get enough people interested perhaps we can start a mailing list. If you are not poor but are reading this blog and are the friend of a poor/low income blogger and think of someone who you

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The case of David Carmichael killing his 11 year old son has taken a twist in the last few days. The Crown agreed during closing arguments that David Carmichael was not criminally responsible on account of a mental disorder for killing his eleven year old son Ian (for those of you unfamiliar with the not criminally responsible on account of a mental disorder an older term is not guilty by reason

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Please see note at the end of text.When i saw this story this morning i was absolutely outraged. A father has killed his son with epilepsy to end his son's "hell". Which includes really liking to ride his BMX bike and do fancy tricks on it only a few weeks earlier. It's a no brainer as far as I'm concerned, although reading the whole article may be required. My only question is given the details

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Now maybe this is common knowledge, and i'm wasting time. But then it is in the UK press, not the Canadian Press or US press, and even there it's an unusual story and it likely hasn't made it into North America generally yet (if it ever will). Differences in news available in the UK versus North America is one of the reasons i try to read the UK press fairly often. And yes this is a real story,

Politicagrllhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03044498634533180693noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11099653.post-1127390245546044262005-09-22T07:25:00.000-04:002005-09-22T08:00:14.796-04:00

I'm back on the internet. I moved into my new place on the third of September but i've been having troubles getting the utilities going. Very annoying considering it's not a money issue since i don't owe them any money. But hey that is part of the fun of moving(not really i'm now into three weeks without a telephone which is annoying as hell.)I really like what i've seen of my new place.

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I realize i should have posted this when i stopped posting really. But i stopped more suddenly than i thought i would. From what i can see the summer has been regular with some blogs, irregular (like mine) on others.I'm moving and until i get the phone connected there (early in September, I'm moving on the 31st of August). Until then my internet access is intermittent. I have found some access at

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I've noticed a lot of the comments on recent Canadian blogs about the race of the man who was shot in London the other day. Staying away from the main debate on whether he should have been shot or not (i tend to favour not shooting so fast, and would question whether he was a terrorist much more information would need to be known for that to be decided, but that isn't what i want to explore in

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Hi, i know I've been gone a little while. I intend to keep up with the blog again. Although i must admit that like everyone else the summer is likely to be hectic for me, so maybe the post won't be quite back to normal, but i will be here on a regular basis anyway.My computer was getting very old and slow (it was from 1998). Last year my modem blew during an electrical storm. A friend posted this

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I've just added Rick Mercer's blog. I like it, it's funny. I'm wondering though if anyone has been able to verify if it is Rick Mercer's blog. I'm just curious. Personally i think it is unlikely. i mean find the rotation of Jason Kenny's blog spot quite amusing. He added it after a complaint to the House of Commons by a politician who had someone buy a web site with their name (ie not all of them

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Montreal has gotten the Shriners Hospital that will be built in Canada, after a large effort to get it built in London (which was favoured for a time) and then a big fight to get the Shriners to rebuild the hospital they have in Montreal.I think this is an interesting way to look at how two tier health care can end up working. It's not that I've got anything against the Shriners but consider some

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There is a lot of news about Karla getting out of jail. This post is actually an expansion of a comment i made elsewhere on Dust My Broom where there is a post about her release and discussion. It made me realize i wanted to write expand on this.The legal system of Canada made a deal with Karla Homolka because they were unable to find easy to find evidence. There were two videotapes behind one of

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The first thing i would like to say is that i'm delighted that the bill has finally passed. Barring strange acts of god(s) it looks like it will become law in a few weeks after it goes through the Senate and Same Sex Marriages will be able to be performed across the country (legally)!And i'm sure a lot of bloggers feel the same way. What i decided to write about instead was the case actions

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I got an email asking me if i could bring some publicity to this event that is happening next week. Since it is the type of meeting i would go to where i live if it was going on i thought i would put up the basic information. The conference is free and the camping if you are from out of town is as well, although i don't know this well enough to say if I'd actually camp to go. You'd have to look

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With the new debates going, in the blogosphere, about healthcare after the Supreme Court Ruling last week I've decided to let more of my life into this blog. Generally i just think it isn't all that relative. While a strong believer of The Personal is Political[and not just on feminist issues] my life outside the blogs has just not been relevant. However i want to discuss a two tiered part of the

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As much as i am upset by the Supreme Court ruling with regards to healthcare (and i'm upset and annoyed), I think it is important to remember something.Quebec was the first province to bring in a human rights code "The Quebec Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms". It was made law on June 27th 1975. And it was way ahead of it's time and still is in regards to many situations.I might put in more

Politicagrllhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03044498634533180693noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11099653.post-1118380031551051412005-06-10T00:57:00.000-04:002005-06-10T12:14:41.936-04:00

I haven't finished reading the Supreme Court ruling in regards to the purchase of private health care but i wanted to write something on the topic before then (i can still read the news on it).It becomes difficult to deal with "legality" as a result. But that doesn't stop a person from looking at general ideas.If i had my copy of "The Wealthy Bankers Wife" by Linda McQuaig in my house i would

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I have been reading and keeping track of the blog posts on the "Big Brass Alliance" and the Downing Street memo. While a lot of Americans may not have come across it yet it is out in the US now just still not in mainstream publications. But The Nation has the memo and several articles regarding it and i think to a certain extent it will break. Only to the extent that Americans are interested or

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I got tagged by Rational Reasons with the latest meme (that is what they are called isn't it?) on book reading. So here are my answers:Number of Books I own: Lots and lots. Not likely in the thousand range yet…I live in a small apartment and in fact a number of them are in storage at the moment at two friends places (to been consolidatedd at one person's house since they bought a duplex and have

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Now i recognize that the vast majority people reading this are at least as computer literate as me if not more so. However the way i see the situation it is getting serious enough that a warning should be put on my blog.There are two new viruses (well one is a worm) that were identified on the 31st of May. If you haven't updated you virus checker DO IT NOW. I know it can sometimes be easy to skip

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France is voting today on the EU referendum [I started this entry on the 29th of May] (and i'm reading about it). One thing that struck me was in their pictures section. They have a picture of a voting machine.(i'm hoping to track it down soon but the article is just as interesting without the picture..It's from either the Guardian or the Observer). Now i don't know how that machine keeps tracks

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Given the large debate in Canada at the moment about same sex marriage, and how controversial it has been i thought it was quite interesting when i came across this article. While the statement is not a full approval (that gets decided by the director's in July) it was approved by a voice vote in their Annual meeting in Atlanta:Psychiatric group supports gay marriageMay 23, 2005ATLANTA --

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In all Likelihood you have noticed the new white and red ribbon on the sidebar of the blog. I noticed it on If not take a look at it. I found out about it from Sinister Thoughts but I've been aware of deep integration for a little while.When you get down to thinking of discussing it, it seems to get very complicated (or too simplified). I've decided that i'm going to try and look at it part by

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I noticed this in Bound By Gravity. The perma link doesn't seem to be working quite right. It's from May 20th if you want to look at it.It's about a Canadian version of the TTLB ecosystem that Angry in the Great White North is putting together. It is based on the TTLB system and if you want to be on it you need to join the TTLB system (click on my side link about which type of animal i am (right

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I get mail from the CBC online and at the moment i don't use RSS or Atom feeds and such. But i do remember coming across a blog entry recently (where i'm not sure) about Canadian news sources that lamented that CBC online did not have RSS feeds.Since i think CBC is a good news source and I've found this new way of accessing it i thought I'd go over the different ways you can get news from them. I

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Things have certainly changed in the last few days, in trying to figure out how the vote will be tomorrow on the budget since Belinda Stronach left the Conservatives and moved to the Liberals. However even before she left the Conservatives there were already other developments that were making the vote look like it would be more complicated than it would.The first thing i came across was before

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