Bombs away!
Canadian Milos Raonic handed second seed Andy Murray a clay-court humiliation on Friday as the big-hitting youngster hammered the Scot 6-4, 7-6 (3) to reach the semi-finals of the Barcelona Open.
Raonic, ranked 25th, will be playing in his second career clay semi-final on Saturday against third seed David Ferrer who reached the last four for a sixth consecutive year by beating Spanish compatriot Feliciano Lopez 6-7 (4), 7-6 (9-7), 6-3.
(via nationalpost)
Notice to Citizens, Wednesday 28 January 1931
In the same issue of the Sun, columnist Bob Bouchette responds to Taylor’s notice:
If I were a citizen of Fascist Italy I would accept this statement without a murmur. Being a Canadian, I think it is damnable.
Apart from all consideration of its ethics, the issuance of this warning is, by inference, a misrepresentation of conditions in Vancouver. It is written with bated breath. It suggests an imminence of mob rule unless drastic measures are adopted. There has been nothing to indicate such a danger. These futile Communist demonstrations have been marked with the rapidity with which the demonstrators left the scene as soon as the police went into action. Why should the Mayor create the false impression that Vancouver is on the eve of upheaval? Is this a political gesture, calculated to picture Mayor Taylor as the strong man of the moment, protecting the persons of the citizenry? Are the merchants of the city benefited by advertising of this sort?
I don’t like the implied threat in the second sentence of the notice. The police have already used “firm hands.” To say that they intend to do so in future suggests the employment of more violent tactics. Very clearly it is intimidation. It may be quite legal to prevent the unemployed from assembling, but it is certainly no expression of the spirit of our constitution. It is a Mussolini way of meeting a situation.
Source: Vancouver Sun
Some things never change…
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Some Dumb Erratum of the Day: A perhaps-appropriate, though no-less-incorrect photo of a pot-leafed send-up of the Canadian flag was attached to a story on Canadian multiculturalism posted on The Guardian’s website.
According to deputy editor David Shariatmadari, the false flag “was labelled wrongly in our picture database as ‘Canadian flag’ and the rest is human error.”
Fittingly, Regret The Error managed to snag a screencap before the image was sadly switched. Of course, by then, plenty of people were already on to their third or fourth joke at The Guardian’s expense.
Wrote one witty commenter: “Truly the one thing that does bind us together in this country, is that we all like to smoke weed. Except the PM. Vote liberal.”
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Some Dumb Erratum of the Day: A perhaps-appropriate, though no-less-incorrect photo of a pot-leafed send-up of the Canadian flag was attached to a story on Canadian multiculturalism posted on The Guardian’s website.
According to deputy editor David Shariatmadari, the false flag “was labelled wrongly in our picture database as ‘Canadian flag’ and the rest is human error.”
Fittingly, Regret The Error managed to snag a screencap before the image was sadly switched. Of course, by then, plenty of people were already on to their third or fourth joke at The Guardian’s expense.
Wrote one witty commenter: “Truly the one thing that does bind us together in this country, is that we all like to smoke weed. Except the PM. Vote liberal.”
10 Reasons to #OccupyCanada from #ShitHarperDid
Sources:
- Globe & Mail
- Globe & Mail
- Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
- Macleans Magazine
- Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
- Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
- Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
- “Perspectives on Labour and Income, September 2007. High Income Canadians. Statistics Canada. Additional Data from Michael Wolfson.
- Democracy Watch Canada
- Our History
OR
More than 100 of Canada’s 615 First Nations must boil their drinking water.
OR
Military Spying on First Nations Groups
OR
United Nations Condemns Canada 6x for treatment of Lubcion Cree
Well there ya go, to those who think Canada is not as bad as the US and so Canadians shouldn’t bother participating in the Occupy movement. Less bad than the worst is not a very difficult standard to achieve. I think we can do better than that.
(via becoming-wave)
I always see people using those ‘God Bless America’ eagle graphics ironically so I thought:
oh man, what if Canadians were equally as loud and overzealous with that sort of blind patriotism
what would our obnoxious graphic representation look like
haaaaaaaaaaahahahahahhaha!!
love
Michael J. Fox chats with other inductees after being awarded the rank of Officer in the Order of Canada at Rideau Hall in Ottawa, May 27, 2011. (Blair Gable/Reuters)
Bombs away!
Canadian Milos Raonic handed second seed Andy Murray a clay-court humiliation on Friday as the big-hitting youngster hammered the Scot 6-4, 7-6 (3) to reach the semi-finals of the Barcelona Open.
Raonic, ranked 25th, will be playing in his second career clay semi-final on Saturday against third seed David Ferrer who reached the last four for a sixth consecutive year by beating Spanish compatriot Feliciano Lopez 6-7 (4), 7-6 (9-7), 6-3.
(via nationalpost)
Notice to Citizens, Wednesday 28 January 1931
In the same issue of the Sun, columnist Bob Bouchette responds to Taylor’s notice:
If I were a citizen of Fascist Italy I would accept this statement without a murmur. Being a Canadian, I think it is damnable.
Apart from all consideration of its ethics, the issuance of this warning is, by inference, a misrepresentation of conditions in Vancouver. It is written with bated breath. It suggests an imminence of mob rule unless drastic measures are adopted. There has been nothing to indicate such a danger. These futile Communist demonstrations have been marked with the rapidity with which the demonstrators left the scene as soon as the police went into action. Why should the Mayor create the false impression that Vancouver is on the eve of upheaval? Is this a political gesture, calculated to picture Mayor Taylor as the strong man of the moment, protecting the persons of the citizenry? Are the merchants of the city benefited by advertising of this sort?
I don’t like the implied threat in the second sentence of the notice. The police have already used “firm hands.” To say that they intend to do so in future suggests the employment of more violent tactics. Very clearly it is intimidation. It may be quite legal to prevent the unemployed from assembling, but it is certainly no expression of the spirit of our constitution. It is a Mussolini way of meeting a situation.
Source: Vancouver Sun
Some things never change…
Some Dumb Erratum of the Day: A perhaps-appropriate, though no-less-incorrect photo of a pot-leafed send-up of the Canadian flag was attached to a story on Canadian multiculturalism posted on The Guardian’s website.
According to deputy editor David Shariatmadari, the false flag “was labelled wrongly in our picture database as ‘Canadian flag’ and the rest is human error.”
Fittingly, Regret The Error managed to snag a screencap before the image was sadly switched. Of course, by then, plenty of people were already on to their third or fourth joke at The Guardian’s expense.
Wrote one witty commenter: “Truly the one thing that does bind us together in this country, is that we all like to smoke weed. Except the PM. Vote liberal.”
10 Reasons to #OccupyCanada from #ShitHarperDid
Sources:
- Globe & Mail
- Globe & Mail
- Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
- Macleans Magazine
- Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
- Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
- Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
- “Perspectives on Labour and Income, September 2007. High Income Canadians. Statistics Canada. Additional Data from Michael Wolfson.
- Democracy Watch Canada
- Our History
OR
More than 100 of Canada’s 615 First Nations must boil their drinking water.
OR
Military Spying on First Nations Groups
OR
United Nations Condemns Canada 6x for treatment of Lubcion CreeWell there ya go, to those who think Canada is not as bad as the US and so Canadians shouldn’t bother participating in the Occupy movement. Less bad than the worst is not a very difficult standard to achieve. I think we can do better than that.
(via becoming-wave)
I always see people using those ‘God Bless America’ eagle graphics ironically so I thought:
oh man, what if Canadians were equally as loud and overzealous with that sort of blind patriotism
what would our obnoxious graphic representation look like
haaaaaaaaaaahahahahahhaha!!
love
Michael J. Fox chats with other inductees after being awarded the rank of Officer in the Order of Canada at Rideau Hall in Ottawa, May 27, 2011. (Blair Gable/Reuters)
