On the same day the Coroner investigates Toronto police for... more
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Sunday 24.2011
If Kate Middleton’s ascension to the official but ridiculous status of princess consort gives us the glitz and sparkle of monarchy, then Saudi Arabia’s recent invasion of Bahrain is the reminder that the crown will stamp a few faces if it needs to. Between being enwrapped by the Kingdom of Saudi ...
Wednesday 13.2011
"The millionaire populism of the Rob Ford variety is only successful if a mass-psychology can be masterfully kneaded into the embittered and the ill-educated. Ford’s ‘tele-town hall’ democracy was the cunning cultivation of a herd of voters known as Ford Nation—the membership to which is subject to no other requirement ...
Thursday 7.2011
City workers have had their rights revoked because they could potentially do what the Mayor actually did—cost the Toronto $50 million in lost revenue in one day. Condemnation for the innocent and exculpation of the guilty, these are the breaks in Ford Nation. One December morning, on AM640, Rob Ford ...
Tuesday 29.2011
When a former Member of Parliament, ‘crossed the floor’ from the Conservatives to the Liberal Party, someone remarked devilishly that they weren’t surprised because she didn’t have a conservative bone inside her body…except occasionally when the Minister of Defense would venture to her house. While this quip is mostly irrelevant, the ...
Monday 21.2011
Middle East dictatorships are being phased out by anxious citizens and interested super powers. As Rebels fight on the ground, world powers enforce a No Fly Zone. On March 17, the UN Security Council voted to enforce a no-fly zone (NFZ) over Libya. As the wrinkled Gaddafi and loyal forces ...
Thursday 17.2011
On March 11 at 14 minutes to 3PM local time, the Earth released a mighty 8.9 magnitude belch 24 kilometers beneath the Pacific Ocean surface and 128 kilometers off the coast of Sendai, Japan. A rampageous and unforgiving wall of salt water accumulated and accelerated towards land. The dead are ...
Tuesday 15.2011
It is unsettlingly ironic that some of the Iraq anti-war movement simultaneously proclaim themselves champions of environmental causes. This faction should have been the first to call for regime change. Saddam Hussein was guilty of deliberate ecocide on a grand scale. In 1991, to pay for his decade long war with ...
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