A new full-length work of classical music by Paul McCartney, “Ecce Cor Meum” (Behold My Heart), will be released on September 26 after eight years of work. The libretto is entirely in Latin.
McCartney said his hope was for “a choral piece, which could be sung by young people the world over in the same […]

So far Harper has rebuffed Ethics Commissioner Shapiro, diluted the Accountability Act and shuffled the Access to Information provisions off to a Parliamentary Committee, snubbed the Press Gallery, gagged his cabinet ministers and muzzled caucus…here’s more of the same.

…. bombs and missiles fired random into residential areas to try and screw things up for the enemy; sounds like pretty damned familiar tactic doesn’t it? Isn’t that the same sort of shit Hezbollah does? The same sort of shit that a bunch of sanctimonious westerners say is deplorable? The same sort of shit that the Israeli government complains about so bitterly.

I’m sure these two stories reveal something profound about the vast psychological gap that separates the French from the English, but it just won’t come to me.

A couple of days ago Stageleft reported the heartening story of a partnership between Muslim and Jewish communities in Newfoundland and Labrador to fundraise victims of the conflict in the Middle East. Money raised will be donated to two sister organizations of the Red Cross - the Red Crescent and the Red Star of David.
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Friday afternoon about noon I hopped a ride out of town attend a very good friends wedding, it was probably the only thing, outside of a personal family emergency, that could have taken me out of the city this week-end…. because we’re moving to a new bunker.

The revolution is spreading!!

This is how all Canadians should conduct themselves

Dryden thinks Harper is some kind of “Mini-Me” on the international affairs stage. The accusation has more than some truth to it.

Without logic and morality what is loyalty?

An article at canada.com states that “Former students who suffered in native residential schools want to hear the prime minister say he’s sorry.” The executive director of the National Residential School Survivors Society stated that the group is looking for an unconditional policy.

Anyone who has been here a while knows that I have an addiction to talk radio, and I have a particular addiction (given my political stance you could almost call it a fetish) to the (Right)WingNuts of our time. That’s right folks, people like Lowell Green, Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, and Bill O’Reilly form a significant portion of my listening day…. some folks say that actually explains a lot :-)

A very interesting paragraph contained in a blog post out of Lebanon regarding where the Israeli soldiers actually were when they were taken by Hezbollah.

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Democracy Now! is reporting that Israel has used chemical weapons and dropped cluster bombs into residential neighbourhoods.