Link of the Day: Rabble
The good people at Rabble are about to celebrate their tenth anniversary, if you can believe it, with a party at the Gladstone Hotel on Monday, 18 April 2011. But they’ve got a lot of work to do in the meantime, especially now that we’re entering into another election. You can check out their election […]
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It’s Friday, so here’s the video for “I Won’t Back Down” by Tom Petty
Why? Because it’s a great song, that’s why. Just look at how happy Tom Petty is about letting it out of that box and sharing it with us. Wouldn’t you be? This isn’t actually a Heartbreakers song, despite the video’s caption. It was the first single from Petty’s first solo album, 1989′s Full Moon Fever. […]
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Link of the Day: Feministing
“Feministing is an online community for feminists and their allies. The community aspect of Feministing – our community blog, campus blog, comment threads, and related social networking sites – exist to better connect feminists online and off, and to encourage activism. We hope that the Feministing community will provide a forum for a variety of […]
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Happy seventy-fifth birthday, David Suzuki!
Academic, activist and Canadian icon David Suzuki is seventy-five today. Feel free to send him a birthday greeting through his foundation’s website, if you like. And as long as you’re here, here’s a list of all the posts I’ve written that mention or reference Dr. Suzuki in some way: 1. Political parties are not convenience […]
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Link of the Day: Retrontario’s YouTube channel
If you grew up here in Ontario, then this is bound to take you back. It’s a collection of YouTube clips taped from local television during the seventies and eighties. If you ever find yourself missing Mark Dailey, for example, they’ve got a playlist just for him, featuring fully fifty-three videos at the time of […]
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I was joking when I said that Stephen Harper was probably racing to prorogue Parliament before Friday’s budget vote
In the wake of today’s news about the upcoming vote to defeat the budget and trigger an election, I said something that I’d now like to assure you was just a joke, with no evidence available to substantiate it. “The race is on: can the Tories shut the government down again by Friday, in time […]
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You ought to read “I Am the Market”
As long as I’m writing about decent music on a weekly basis, I figure I ought to do the same for good books. Let’s kick it off today with I Am the Market, a book by Italian journalist Luca Rastello that I recently read and thoroughly enjoyed. Subtitled “How to Smuggle Cocaine by the Ton […]
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The budget’s been rejected, and an election’s likely to follow
Following yesterday’s rejection of the budget presented to the House, Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff has announced that he will table a motion against the government later today. A vote on the motion will follow on Friday, with the NDP and the Bloc pledging to support it. “This is a government that’s lost the confidence of […]
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It’s not Friday, but it’s snowing, so here’s the video for “Make You Feel That Way” by Blackalicious
Once again, the skies are full of snow and my Twitter feed is full of people moping about it. Instead of another day of that, how about a bit of this?
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Link of the Day: The Heart and Stroke Foundation
“The Heart and Stroke Foundation, a volunteer-based health charity, leads in eliminating heart disease and stroke and reducing their impact through the advancement of research and its application; the promotion of healthy living; and advocacy.” Do check them out.
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