Sometimes I simply get caught up in the emotion of my ranting and say something stupid, or dangerous, or something I’ll regret later. I also might embellish it here and there for flavour. Rants are rants, and therefore don’t always have to be 100% fact-based when dealing with my own prejudiced opinions. I do, however, realize that the correct facts must be there, and that editing is often needed, especially when information needs to get updated. I also realize that my rants don’t always make sense, and can seem biased. Even I don’t always agree with what I write.
Tag: Activism
It was the perfect storm until the shit hit the fan: 2011 Canadian Election Results
By all accounts, this looked like it was going to be an election that would really change the political map in Canada, and it was. It looked like some political careers would be over, and a slew of new MPs would come to Ottawa. That happened too. It looked like an unstoppable wave would sweep through Quebec, then head west and not stop until we had a new Prime Minister with a new vision for a better Canada, and that’s exactly what happened – at least, the first part happened, then something went wrong, really wrong…
Picnics that Protect Womens’ Choices @ Parc Lahaie
“So what’d you do today?” I asked my friend last Sunday.
Her face perked up when she said, “I went to a pro-choice picnic at a park near Laurier metro!”
A pro-choice picnic! It rolls off the taste buds, doesn’t it? I didn’t think such a contentious issue could possibly sound so delightful and delicious. A pro-choice picnic in the park on a beautiful spring afternoon makes the Quebec Life Coalition’s 40 day vigil sound so very drab.
When I think about the pro-life versus pro-choice issue surrounding the topic of abortion, I automatically…
Crime at the Anti-Police Brutality March…and it’s not what you think
I’d like to report a crime. It happened during the Anti-Police Brutality March in Montreal last Tuesday. I’m not talking about breaking windows or anything so violent. Instead I’m talking about a crime that is a dire insult to the people of this city. The crime is littering. In particular, horseshit. Horseshit left on the ground in the brand-spanking new Quartier des Spectacles…
A Question of Choice: this Saturday’s Protest Against Charest
Tens of thousands of protesters gathered this past Saturday to send Premier Jean Charest a cautionary warning on the contents of the upcoming budget. After the shocking social cuts that were announced almost a year ago in Charest’s previous budget, social activists came out of winter hibernation to remind Charest that the people of Quebec will not tolerate a repeat.
The roughly 50,000 protesters, comprised of students, union members, women’s groups, les patriotes, the raging grannies and the average pissed-off citizen with baby in tow, gathered at…
Sweater-vests make me hurl: Young people and voting – not as boring as you might think!
Do you hate politics? Do attack ads and sweater-vests make you want to cap a bitch? Do you throw up a little in your mouth when you think about an election happening? Well you’re not alone. The trend in recent elections has been a sharp drop in participation, most noticeably among young voters. While seniors vote so often that they’ve been known to write-in the name of their favourite candidate…
Gaddafi: A two week diary of a madman
Following the revolutions to oust Mubarak and Ben Ali, the world has turned its focus on the country sandwiched right between Egypt and Tunisia. On the 15th of February, only four days after the resignation of Mubarak, an uprising began in the western Libyan city of Benghazi. At the onset of the uprising, Libya’s ruler of 41 years…
Wisconsin: The battle for the soul of America
Have you heard about Wisconsin? This Saturday crowds estimated at up to 100,000 descended on the state capitol of Madison to protest the most earth-shattering attack on unions and the middle class since Reagan fired the Air-Traffic controllers in 1981. Support demonstrations numbering in the tens of thousands were held in cities across the country. But you would be forgiven if you missed the news…
CKUT’s Homelessness Marathon: people -powered radio discussing homelessness in the open
CKUT 90.3 will be holding their 9th annual Homelessness Marathon starting at 5pm on Wednesday February 23rd until Thursday morning in front of the Native Friendship Center (2001 Saint-Laurent boulevard). Year after year, the CKUT Homelessness Marathon gives a voice to the homeless and those who work to help them. On the marathon’s agenda are topics addressing urban poverty and homelessness over a 14 hour stretch of people-powered radio…
The Kids are Alright! Youth in Revolt from Bahrain to Wisconsin
They say that the young shall inherit the earth and it appears they have no desire to follow in their fathers’ economic, social and political footsteps and who can blame them. The youth in revolt , already tired of life without employment prospects, decent food and freedom are taking to the streets in northern Africa, the Middle East and around the world. The revolutions in Egypt and Tunisia could never have been successful…