April 2011
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March 2011
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Vote, Young Canadians!
mcbek:
I don’t have a lot of people following this blog BUT … to any of the Canadians who by chance follow me … PLEASE spread word about this. I realize it’s only on Facebook but it’s a start. We need to get people voting. We need to tell people that hey, your vote matters. We’re on what … election 4 in how many years?
Vote, Young Canadians!
No matter who you vote for, Green, NDP, Bloq,...
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Canada's Best Places to Live - CityTV →
mcbek:
#10: Winnipeg, MB The capital of Manitoba and home to 60% of the province’s population slipped one spot from last year. It can boast of low pollution, great public transit and a thriving cultural scene, but crime is above average and the winters can be brutal. However, access to health care is good and unemployment is low. #9: Repentigny, QC Celine Dion’s hometown just outside of...
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“It is hard to believe that there is even a question about participation of the...”
– http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/elizabeth-may-the-case-for-democratic-debate/article1962702/ (via mcbek)
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Watchtimholtorf:
I think this’ll work!
Anyway, as I said in the video (or will about to be saying) reblog and/or like (or, as someone has already done… I’m looking at you hopeless-romantic-cynic… signal boost) and get your chance to win.
Reblogging this on my other blog because I know there’s people who follow on this one who don’t follow the other one.
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“Both liberty and democracy, in order to exist, require the other. Neither can...”
– Pierre Elliott Trudeau, on democracy and liberty (via defeatist)
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There's no debate: Elizabeth May belongs in the...
The Old Boys’ Club is at it again. Elizabeth May has been denied entry into the televised leaders’ debates. Instead of speaking up to defend true democracy, other party leaders seem relieved—perhaps due to the glowing reviews Elizabeth received after her first appearance in the 2008 debates. What kind of democracy excludes a party with the support of one million of its citizens? What kind of...
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Elizabeth May Excluded From Election Debates →
mcmenebek:
This is SO ANNOYING! At the last debate she was my favourite person. She handled herself amazingly, had excellent points and called Harper AND Igantieff out on their bullshit. If fucking QUEBEC* can have M. Duceppe there then the Green Party should be allowed as well! (And don’t give me any of that …”well the BLOQ have elected officals”. They’re a REGIONAL Party. Green Party is...
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“It is easier to leave angry words unspoken than mend a heart those words have...”
– author unknown
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“Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.”
– author unknown
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“Visits always give pleasure - if not the arrival, the departure.”
– Portugese proverb
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“An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.”
– Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
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“We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes.”
– John F. Kennedy, 1959
The Kill Team - Rolling Stone →
brooklynmutt:
How U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan murdered innocent civilians and mutilated their corpses – and how their officers failed to stop them. Plus: An exclusive look at the war crime photos censored by the Pentagon
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Change.org: Instructions to kill, from Gaddafi
In 1994, Hutu state radio played a massive role in the Rwandan genocide, inciting violence and giving direction on how and where to kill Tutsis.
Right now in Libya, Gaddafi is using state television much the same way. As a weapon. On his three state-run stations, supporters are urged to hunt the opposition “alley by alley, house by house, room by room.” It’s been reported that state...
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The blog is about to get very political
From Johan Hamels, Executive Director of the Green Party of Canada.
The Harper government is about to fall, with scandals dogging its heels. We’re in an election that will change Canadian political history—putting Green MPs in the House of Commons for the first time. The Green Party is a different kind of political party. We are Canadians who want an economy that works for us, a...
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Harper Government Defeated →
heatherrehtaeh:
TORONTO — Opposition parties toppled Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s government in a no confidence vote, triggering Canada’s fourth election in seven years.
The opposition parties held the Conservative government in contempt of Parliament on Friday for failing to disclose the full financial details of his tougher crime legislation, corporate tax cuts and plans to purchase...
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“Let me put it to you this way. Rape culture is a culture in which people who...”
– (via moonlitstreets)
If you believe in prayer. Or good thoughts. Or...
queercakes:
Anything. Please visit this blog and send good thoughts to the family.
astoryoftwomoms.blogspot.com
These two women are the mother’s of six month old triplets. And Linus is very sick. Very, very sick. So please, think good thoughts for this little boy. Or send out a prayer. Something.
Canada
justadifferentname:
Please stop snowing.
Thank you.
This cannot be said enough.
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“The past should be a springboard, not a hammock!”
– author unknown
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“Middle Age is when your age starts to show around your middle.”
– Bob Hope
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“Friendships are a lot like fine porcelain. They are a real treasure that can be...”
– author unknown
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Change.org: Justice for a Jim Crow-era rape victim
Nearly 70 years ago, in the small town of Abbeville, Alabama, a young woman named Recy Taylor experienced the worst of living under Jim Crow law. In 1944, Recy was gang raped by a group of men –– her neighbors.
Rosa Parks and the NAACP fought on Recy’s behalf to send her attackers to prison. But because Recy was black and the assailants were white, her rapists never even faced trial,...
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“All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching?”
– Nicholas Johnson
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Change.org: “Curing” gay people? There’s an app...
“Curing” gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people? Yep, there’s an app for that — unless we can convince Apple to get rid of it. A controversy is erupting around a new application for the iPhone that claims gay people can be “cured,” and that gay kids should be put through therapy to “fix” their sexual orientation. Believe it or not, Apple is...
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Change.org: Curing lesbianism with rape?
A small group of lesbian activists from the poverty-stricken townships of Cape Town walked into South African parliament on Monday and convinced their government to finally start fighting the country’s decades-old scourge of “corrective rape” — where men rape lesbian women to “turn” them straight. You made that moment possible.
Late last year, these activists...
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stereotypicalcanadianmoose:
Forgive Us We’re...
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Because it's wrong.: War Bonnet Appropriation... →
mycultureisnotatrend:
Via christinaaaah.tumblr.com
Do you mind if I ask why head-dresses on actresses and models offends you? :] I’m just curious, love. I like hearing your opinions.
Okay this may sound a little bitchy but this is going out to ALLLLLL of Tumblr.
First off, only about…
I’m just gonna leave this right here, because it explains the traditions of Native...
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Changing the channel on attack ads!
From the Green Party of Canada:
Thanks so much for helping us send a message to the other political parties that Canadians are sick and tired of attack ads.
By sharing our “Attack Ad on Attack Ads” with your friends and family, you contributed to a movement of almost 50,000 people who watched the ad on YouTube (46,264 at last count, and growing all the time!).
And...
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I think everyone needs to take a step back
Not talking about the people who are trying to make a difference, because they’re actions are noble and commendable.
So, you might ask, what am I talking about?
It’s about all these messages to Japan and for the plight of the Japanese people in the after effects of an 8.9 quake. That’s huge and I will attempt to not use a phrase which can be seen as a pun. Because this...
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“The Japanese government is by all accounts remarkably well organized and...”
– ginandtacos.com » Blog Archive » CULTURAL DIFFERENCES (via robot-heart-politics)
I was going to post something similar about the differences between the Japanese mindset and the American mindset, but this sums it up pretty well.
In Japan, it’s not usually about “ME ME ME” but rather “US... 