Human Rights…er, well, mostly.

Stu Murray is heading up the new Canadian Human Rights Museum in Winnipeg.  I hadn’t realized the vast experience he has with human rights – and by that I mean denying them to vast communities of people.
The gauzy glow of human rights, or, the crinoline of Canadian human rights
Murray was a member of the Conservative [...]

Change the ‘Hood

Featured in today’s Winnipeg Free Press are two articles based on the research that Elizabeth Comack and three other academics are doing on gang violence in Winnipeg’s inner city and north end.  They met with gang members back in August and discussed the ways in which they see gang violence changing in Winnipeg.  As per [...]

What a Nerd

I’m not usually inclined to post stuff like this, but I found this speech so charming and funny that I had to share.  It’s 14 minutes long, but worth it.
John Hodgman Roasts Obama at the Radio & TV Correspondents’ Dinner:

Flood this City, pt. 2

After hearing today that without the floodway, we would have flood waters this year as high as they were in 1950 (30 ft, which destroyed many houses in the city, not just in the Red River Valley), I went to CBC.ca to find photographs of the flooding happening outside of Winnipeg.  My photos really don’t [...]

Flood This City

The Red River was expected to crest this Saturday, but did so early this year, only two feet lower – at 22.5 feet – than the “Flood of the Century” in 1997.  Along Lyndale Drive, which follows the Red River, there are giant slabs of ice – some probably 7 feet wide and at least [...]

Smacked With His Righteous Hand…

I awoke this morning and prepared to get a few errands done before heading to April’s place to help sandbag, as she lives on the Red River, which is rising dangerously close to her house.  I was greeted with this in my inbox:
Thanks to Karen for sending me this!
I can only find this hilarious.  If [...]

Canadian Military: We’re Out.

My friend Peter sent me this link today: Fox’s response to the announcement by General Leslie that the Canadian military will be pulling out of Afghanistan and taking a year-long operational leave in 2011.

Oh, Canada.  You’re really not doing anything to negate our rep as the ever polite, resourceless, and least [...]

What Does a Trillion Dollars Look Like?

I’ve been trying to follow the recent AIG clusterfuck, and have been consistently amazed at the absolute irresponsibility and stupidity of the whole thing.  Providing their CEOs with billion dollar bonuses with the bailout money they just recieved from the U.S. government is not only wholely irresponsible, but fucking dumb as shit considering they cannot [...]

Obsessing

On Sunday night I made sure Matt and I were home in time to watch the hour and a half documentary on MTV, Britney: For the Record.  I am (shamefully) fascinated by her, the obsession with her, and the whole enterprise of “Britney.” I may even have a few of her songs on my gym [...]

Amazing.

The following 6 1/2 minutes sent chills up my spine and brought tears to my eyes.

Fucken eh, Keith Olbermann.  Fucken eh.