GC and I went to a workshop about transgender people at Venus Envy on Sunday night. It was part of Radical Queer weekend. I think we were arguably the oldest and straightest looking people there. Not only that, but because we were so old we got sleepy and had to leave during the break, […]
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Last night CBC’s Sunday Edition hosted a community forum called “Tough Justice: Is the Harper agenda a phony war on crime?” It drew a full house at the Gladstone Theatre. The first hour consisted of questions and answers posed by Michael Enright to the six panelists. The second hour was questions from the audience. The panelists […] I just spent half an hour wandering around the interwebs and learning all kinds of interesting things. Like, for example, liberals are smarter than conservatives (average IQs of 106 vs 95 respectively, according to a British study at the London School of Economics and Political Science). Also, atheists tend to have higher IQs than religious […] Last night GC and I went to Loblaws and gathered a bunch of ingredients for a Cob Salad. Then we unshopped, putting all those ingredients back where we found them, and drove over to Farm Boy instead, because we love Farm Boy. (Sometimes when we can’t think of anything to do, one of us will […] Last night GC and I went to the so-called all-candidates meeting for the Ottawa West-Nepean provincial by-election. It’s GC’s riding, and he wanted to better acquaint himself with the issues and the candidates before deciding who to vote for. Two of the mainstream candidates – the Liberal and the Conservative – didn’t even bother […] Not too long ago I blogged about Ontario doctors being investigated for welfare abuse because they were completing paperwork that allowed some of their patients to “fraudulently” claim an additional dietary allowance intended for people with chronic illnesses. There’s now a movement afoot to impress upon the Ontario government the need to increase the welfare […] I’ve been a little delinquent on the blogging front lately because my brain fell out. Meanwhile, life has continued to unravel as life does, and now I’ve got a bit of a backlog of things to blog about. For example. Last night GC and I went to Paul Dewar’s art auction for Haiti at the Cube […]
John A Last night GC and I found ourselves at the Umi Cafe for a book launch and poetry reading. The author of the book, Akili Castlin, was not there, because he’s in Pelican Bay State Prison in California. He’s 37 years old. He’s been incarcerated since he was 23. He’s been in solitary […]
This is what democracy looks like I have to admit, I was worried. What if Stephen Harper was right? What if Canadians really didn’t care? I’ve been to poorly attended demonstrations before, and they can leave you feeling a little deflated. And this one? This one was so important, not just for democracy in Canada […] Rick Mercer says it best. At 1:00 pm tomorrow (Saturday), there will be protests in 50+ locations across Canada. Ottawa’s rally will be on Parliament Hill at 1:00. The times and locations of all the rallies are listed on the No Prorogue site. The purpose of these protests is to send a clear message to the Prime […] |
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