Update- looks like there were two quakes at 9:43 (4.8) and 9:53 am (4.3) outside of Arnprior, Ontario. —————————————- Did anyone else feel that? (8) Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
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The following twitter exchange exemplifies Mayor Jimmy’s petty reaction to criticism. I suppose I should be thankful I have not been blocked yet, like so many of the mayor’s critics. Jim Watson @JimWatsonOttawa Pleased to join @Eli_Ward5 and @AllanHubley_23 and Cyril Leeder at Tanger Outlet ground breaking in Kanata pic.twitter.com/RXzKKT46gZ Richard W. Woodley @the5thColumnist @ Awesome coach training session tonight! Loved it! CRUSHED IT! Some notes: 1) The other coaches were at least 5 yrs younger than me. The majority were 25-35. I guess most guys don’t father a child at 44. Testosterone-challenged woosies. 2) Being one step above sedentary for a year and then, well, doing wind sprints for [...] By: Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive: The Idle No More movement for Indigenous rights and sovereignty is scheduled to spearhead the commemoration of Mother Earth Day in Ottawa. Activists are expected to confront the Harper government’s agenda against Canada’s Aboriginal peoples. In an earlier press release, Idle No More explained this insidious agenda: to weaken all [...] The post Idle No More to spearhead Mother Earth Day commemoration in Ottawa appeared first on The Canadian Progressive. By: Canadian Committee for World Press Freedom | Press Release: OTTAWA, April 2, 2013 – On May 3, 2013, editors, writers, politicians and policymakers from across Canada will celebrate freedom of expression and its champions during a luncheon at the Ottawa Convention Centre. The lunch and awards ceremony mark UNESCO-designated World Press Freedom Day and will [...] The post World Press Freedom Day celebration to highlight free expression in tough times appeared first on The Canadian Progressive | News & Analysis. Canada has no real national monuments. Mostly it’s because of the irony; towering statues and obelisks that promote pride in Canadian humbleness or simplicity would tend to miss the point. But that problem assumes Canadians would look upon a 100ft copper maple leaf with arrogance and not their common reverence for the natural world around them. Some may say we don’t need any large showy structures, that national monuments are grandiose and idealistic. However there’s nothing more idealistic than believing Canadians are so above human nature that they have no need for symbols to inspire them. We are known for . . . → Read More: The Scott Ross: The Need of a Canadian National Monument By: BC Civil Liberties Association | Press Release: OTTAWA – The Supreme Court of Canada will be hearing arguments on March 27, 2013 in R. v. Vu. The Court will look at whether a search warrant for documents can also allow the search and seizure of personal computers and mobile phones [...] The post Supreme Court hears laptops and cell phones search and seizure case appeared first on The Canadian Progressive | News & Analysis. A quest undertaken by the youth of Great Whale to solidify the traditional bonds between First Nations By: Chief Stan George Accompanied by one experienced guide, 6 youths from the community of Great Whale, located in Northern Quebec on the shores of Hudson’s Bay, have commenced a sacred quest that is [...] The post Journey of Nishiyuu: A quest to solidify bonds between First Nations appeared first on The Canadian Progressive | News & Analysis. 
 Activism, Canada, Canada Politics, Chief Stan George, Creator, Cree Nation, Culture, Featured, First Nations, Great Whale, Guest Blog, Idle No More movement, Indigenous Rights, Journey of Nishiyuu, language, News, Northern Quebec, Ottawa, Traditions, Whapmagoostui First Nation, Whapmagoostui-Kuujjuaraapik Farewell to a Canadian music legend who made folk music cool. Stompin’ Tom is bound to provoke cultural references for years to come. Listen to Corb Lund’s cover of Stompin’ Tom’s Hockey Song. It has a bonus verse too. “It’s culturally important to hear that song.” Here’s one of my oldest blog posts: June 16, 2002 I just got back from the Live from Rideau Hall concert. WOW! I had great fun despite the drizzling rain. Look at Stompin’ Tom in action. ADDED from 2002: Conservative Senator Pierre-Hugues Boisvenu in spotlight over reports he is in romantic relationship with one of his employees on Parliament Hill. By: Joanna Smith | Published by Toronto Star on Tue Mar 05 2013: OTTAWA – A Quebec senator is in the spotlight over reports that he is in a romantic relationship with one of his employees READ MORE Wrote this a couple weeks ago, and forgot to publish it. Here it is, in some hindsight. *** The math outlines the extreme expense incurred by Conservative Senator Pamela Wallin to travel. Wallin’s travel expenses, which total more than $350,000 over the past 27 months, are currently the subject of an audit. 350K/27mon/30days/mon= $432.09/day roughly She must be absolutely exhausted, because it would take me flying between Ottawa and Regina, and staying in a hotel nearly every other day to make that kind of expense work. The senator from Wadena really must be a workaholic. This amount doesn’t consider . . . → Read More: Saskboy’s Abandoned Stuff: Over $400 a day to Travel (Edited) by Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive | Jan. 26, 2013: The Eco Tour comes to Ottawa! Join award-winning geneticist and broadcaster David Suzuki and award-winning, bestselling author and economist Jeff Rubin for an evening of discussion of how to create a truly sustainable future. The finer details: What: An Evening with David Suzuki and Jeff Rubin: The ECO READ MORE The Carbon Bubble has arrived. It has finally emerged as a subject for consideration and debate. Hardly a day goes by that there isn’t some discussion of the Carbon Bubble. In case you’re not familiar with it, the Carbon Bubble arises out of the calculation, based on pure physics, of how much CO2 our atmosphere can carry if we’re to have much hope of staying within the 2C safety limit for global warming. You see, once you know the maximum greenhouse-gas carrying capacity the atmosphere can be permitted to hold, you can subtract the amount of atmospheric CO2 . . . → Read More: The Disaffected Lib: The Power of the Carbon Bubble By Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive, Feb. 11, 2013: Senator Patrick Brazeau: Brazeau symbolic of Harper’s indifference to First Nations – Winnipeg Free Press Brazeau, Harper and Idle No More – The Tyee Let’s talk about punishing mentally ill – Winnipeg Free Press Brazeau Just Latest Thrown Under Bus by Harper – The Tyee Editorial: Unreformed senator – Calgary Herald Canadian Senate: READ MORE
Alberta, Canada, Canada Politics, Canadian government, Canadian Senate, Featured, First Nations, Headlines, Idle No More, Keystone XL Pipeline, media, mike duffy, NDP, News, News Watch, Now Magazine, Ottawa, Rabble.ca, RCMP, robocalls, Senator Mike Duffy, Senator Patrick Brazeau, Sovereignty, stephen harper, Tar Sands * Paul Beckwith is a part-time professor and PhD student of abrupt climate change in the Department of Geography at the University of Ottawa. He recently wrote this paragraph in response to a shift of 40 degrees Celsius in two days in Ottawa: Not a typical January in Ottawa. 10 degrees C for several days [...] …shorts and sandals temps! (3) Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario The comments sections on some newspapers and online news sites can be infamously bad. The Calgary Herald’s commenters, many of them frequent enough to be “top commenters”, put on a despicable display today. Chief Spence ended her hunger strike, and was hospitalized as a precaution because she’s been without proper nutrition for six weeks. Obviously such a drastic diet, with the purpose of forcing an emotional outpouring of support for political ends, is not healthy. Mike Neumeier · Top Commenter Look at her, there’s no way she was on a liquid-only diet – stop lying already. I’m pretty sure I . . . → Read More: Saskboy’s Abandoned Stuff: Newspaper Comments Highlight Canadian Racism Life is hard when political leaders are corrupt. Election cheats, pork politics, and pocket padding is not limited to some corrupt leaders on First Nations (Reserves). Corruption exists where ever citizen oversight has failed to keep the power, leaders of nations wield, in check. Since #IdleNoMore made First Nations poverty, inequality, and (even) corruption an international hot topic, it’s understandable that some people focus on what they know of First Nation people. What Canada’s segregated culture, and corporate non-aboriginal media has told Canadians about First Nations, is generally nothing too positive. Some people I know feel victimized by under-parented First . . . → Read More: Saskboy’s Abandoned Stuff: #Ottawapiskat Mirrors Attawapiskat So the other day I found this article popping up on my feed. In this article Liberal leadership candidates Ms. Murray and Ms. Coyne allege that the party is “undermining” the leadership election process by keeping the supporter lists of each candidate separate until March 3rd — some six weeks before the actual vote for the Liberal leadership. [...] Former prime minister was the architect of the 2005 Kelowna Accord By Jennifer Clibbon | CBC News, Jan 17, 2013 4:58 AM ET Few Canadian leaders know the issues raised by Idle No More better than former prime minister Paul Martin. As Canada’s 21st prime minister, Martin will be remembered as the architect of the 2005 Kelowna Accord, which READ MORE You’ll get a kick out of this post. I guarantee it! Recently exposed: Gross mismanagement of funds and lewd sense of entitlement by #Ottawapiskat Chief Harper. #idlenomore twitter.com/shootsleft/sta… — Joanne DiNova (@shootsleft) January 14, 2013 Last week, right-wing character assassins in the corporate and social media universes mounted an unprecedented attack on hunger-striking Chief Theresa READ MORE
#Ottawapiskat, Activism News, Canada, Canada Politics, Chief Harper, Conservatives, election fraud, Featured, First Nations, HARPER V. CANADA, Humor, internet, Internet activism, May 2011 federal election, Ottawa, Political Satire, satire, social media, stephen harper, transparency, Twitter More than five thousand #IdleNoMore protesters gathered in Ottawa Friday as Prime Minister Stephen Harper and First Nations leaders held a closed-door meeting. Meanwhile, in Paris, street art in solidarity with Idle No More: RELATED: AFN call for “real change”, “remedies and actions” for First Nations In Ottawa, thousands of #IdleNoMore and allied protesters demand real change What Chief Spence’s Hunger READ MORE … even if the teacher’s action tomorrow is declared illegal, do NOT reverse yesterday’s decision to close all elementary schools. And here is why: Student safety – if told to go to work as usual or face consequences, many teachers will NOT and there is no way to anticipate how many, where and in which grades. How [...] The Director of Education has just announced that all OCDSB elementary schools will be closed on Friday. All Ottawa peeps in the English public system should plan accordingly. (0) Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario For immediate release: January 4, 2013, Victoria Island, traditional territory of the Algonquian Peoples: As Chief Theresa Spence enters into her twenty fifth day of her hunger strike, her message is becoming more crucial. “We are calling on the Prime Minister and the Governor General to meet with us. This is a crisis and we READ MORE
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