Canadian Malcontent

• Hezbollah leader vows to stand by Syrian regime in fight against rebels - 25 May
• Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah's comments come as Assad's forces and Hezbollah intensify campaign for town of QusairThe leader of Hezbollah has warned that t...
• Police arrest 30 at gay pride rally in Moscow - 25 May
• Activists march to protest at rising Orthodox intolerance of homosexuality across RussiaRussian police arrested at least 30 activists in central Mosco...
• Pakistan school bus fire kills 16 children - 25 May
• Short-circuit next to leaking petrol tank caused blaze that also killed teacher in Gujrat, 120 miles north-west of IslamabadSixteen children and a tea...
• The new farm bill is an economic disaster | Heidi Moore - 26 May
• Just when you think Congress can't get any dumber, it crafts a $1tn farm bill that harms the poor and promotes unhealthy foodThe US Congress, its appr...
• Woolwich attack: 'Muslims are free of guilt. We had to condemn this killing' - 25 May
• A leading Islamic commentator and author reports on the swift reactions of Muslim groups to last week's killingAfter Friday prayers, at the scene of l...
• Gay marriage: news and teaching resources round up - 25 May
• As the House of Commons vote to allow same sex marriage in England and Wales, here's a selection of stories and teaching resources to explore the issu...

• A Man of the Pandas - 03 April
• Relapse - 27 March
• The Action Plan is to Advertise the Action Plan - 19 March
• What's the Big Idea? - 05 March
• Silence Science - 26 February

• Cyclist dies in collision with bus on Stanley Park Causeway - 26 May
• A cyclist has died on the Stanley Park Causeway and collision experts with the Vancouver Police are investigating the cause. Shortly before 7:00 p....
• Rob Ford's virtual lynching - 25 May
• Things get worse for Rob Ford: he can't sue the Star or Gawker for libel over crack-smoking stories.read more
• Climate change believer to oil sands promoter: Peter Kent's journey from journalist to Environment Minister - 25 May
• How Environment Minister Peter Kent went from brilliant award-winning journalist to oil sands promoter and Harper government mouthpiece.read more
• Body found burned in van in East Vancouver - 25 May
• Police are investigating after a body has been found inside a van in East Vancouver. Shortly before 6:00 this morning, a van parked on Victoria Drive ...
• Port of Metro Vancouver breaks promise to youth - 25 May
• Last February, the Port of Metro Vancouver promised Kids for Climate Action a forum for a full debate on the Surrey-Fraser coal terminal proposal. Did...
• UFood Grill and the changing face of fast food - 24 May
• An obvious trend has emerged in the field of fast food. Formerly the domain of burgers and fries, along with various shapes of fried chicken, market p...

If you use an RSS reader, you can link to Canadian Malcontent with this line:

http://www.canadianmalcontent.net/forum/index.php?type=rss;action=.xml

Re: AUSTLAND by daffyd
[Today at 12:21:30 PM]
Re: Canada ranks 3rd last when it comes to paid vacation days. by Canadian
[Today at 11:39:40 AM]
Re: Calgarys mayor under attack from the Cons. by eriatilos
[Today at 07:17:08 AM]
Re: Opinion How Rob Ford's Meltdown Could Save Toronto by osscan
[Today at 06:40:30 AM]
Re: Mike Duffy made secret deal with Harper's chief of staff during audit by Canadian
[Today at 05:58:01 AM]
Harper's Global Austerity Agenda by Canadian
[Today at 05:51:14 AM]
Re: Canada ranks 3rd last when it comes to paid vacation days. by Canadian
[Today at 05:02:06 AM]

• In Praise of Slow Sex (in Life) - 25 May
• For female orgasm guru Nicole Daedone, it's about the journey, not the destination.
• Harper's Global Austerity Agenda (in Opinion) - 25 May
• Conservatives' response to EU debt crisis? Block bank taxes, cut social services. Related StoriesTesting the Right to Frack (in Opinion)Trudeau Bea...
• BC Minister's Son Beat Odds to Win Residency Spot (in News) - 24 May
• Graduating from an Irish medical school, he'll finish training in UBC division his father heads. Related StoriesHeavy Files Sit on Premier Clark's D...
• Put Down That Newspaper! (in Mediacheck) - 24 May
• Websites like Gawker are the news-breakers today. Here's how to stay on top of the online information flux. Related StoriesPut Down That Newspaper!...

• The rest of us - 24 May
• When real estate lawyers worry about cash flow, we all should. Twice in the past week, four provinces apart, I?ve sat with guys I?ve known for years, ...
• Just say it - 23 May
• ?We do not have a bubble,? F said one night this week. ?I think if we had failed to take some action we would have had a bubble.? Well, that?s a relie...
• Common denominator - 22 May
• The lowest interest rates since ever have been with us for about four years now. Instead of using cheap money to retire debt, people have gorged on it...

• Politics and its Discontents : Rick Salutin on Civic Embarassment - 25 May
• The Disaffected Lib : Scandals of Steve Harper - An Album - 25 May
• One of the first things Stephen Harper did upon becoming prime minister was to redecorate the foyer of the House of Commons, replacing portraits of fo...
• Montreal Simon: Doug Ford, Drugs, Robocalls, and the Harper Mob - 25 May
• Dawg's Blawg: "Robocalls": the judge was not amused - 25 May
• A victory wrapped in a defeat, the judgement in the ?Robocalls? case (which actually included live calls too) should be no cause of sorrow for the Cou...
• Dawg's Blawg: Hypocrisy - 25 May
• I have no strong opinion on the rights or wrongs of this: ?I can?t believe MPs would be taking substantial speaking fees when it?s part of the job,? I...
• we move to canada: cantabria, day two - 25 May
• We've had another outstanding day of seeing cave paintings, an entirely different experience that complemented the other two cave tours.
  read mor...
• The Disaffected Lib : The Future is Staring Us in the Face. We Must Stop Looking Away. - 25 May
• As a civilization we're having enormous difficulty coming to grips with climate change in its full dimension and all of its aspects.  Part of that is ...
• LeDaro: Rob Ford's awesomeness is swelling - 25 May
• 
  read more

• Change of faith - 25 May
• AT FIRST glance, the religion of legal American immigrants over the past 20 years appears unremarkable: the vast majority are Christian. Much fewer ar...
• Why Americans love the IRS - 24 May
• America's Internal Revenue Service in numbers
  
  WHEN Barack Obama fired the acting head of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) earlier this month,...
• How Myanmar will connect up Asia - 23 May
• POLITICAL reform and the opening up of Myanmar will change the economic geography of the region. A frenzy of port, road and pipeline building will con...
• Taxing for some - 22 May
• America's corporation-tax receipts falter even as company profits soarTHE pressure on tax-avoiders is mounting. In the latest episode Tim Cook, Apple?...
• Brand value - 21 May
• BRANDS are basically a promise. They tell consumers what quality to expect from a product and show off its personality. Firms invest a lot on the imag...
• Game on - 21 May
• The most successful video-games consolesVIDEO games are big business. The industry is worth around $80 billion, and although games can be played on PC...
• Who's who in Syria's battlefield - 17 May
• A guide to the key rebel forces in SyriaAS THE civil war in Syria has dragged on, the rebels have become more Islamist and extreme. For Western govern...

• The best of Tumblr porn - 25 May
• Sex educators, writers and porn stars share their favorite adult Tumblrs    
• From global warming to fluoride: Why do people deny science? - 25 May
• The potent combination of our powerful intelligence with our massive reality denial has led to a dangerous world    
• What does it really feel like to fall out of a building? - 25 May
• Life speeds up when we get older and slows down when we are terrified. Unlocking the mysteries of time perception    
• How Dan Savage lost it - 25 May
• "When I was 15, I lost my virginity to my older brother’s ex-girlfriend. The point was to prove it to my family"    
• Diet soda rots your teeth “like meth and cocaine” - 25 May
• A new study claims a soda habit can damage your chompers as badly as a drug habit    
• Is the Environmental Defense Fund ruining environmentalism? - 25 May
• Sixty-eight grassroots groups are protesting the organization's decision to join a coalition of oil companies    

• Yanked From The Cloud: Why Connectify Unplugged Its Switchboard Campaign - 25 May
• Editor?s note: Ross Rubin is principal analyst at Reticle Research and blogs at Techspressive.Connectify, a Philadelphia-based software company obsess...
• Making Sense Of The Internet Of Things - 25 May
• Editor's note: Matt Turck is a managing director of FirstMark Capital.The emerging Internet of Things is experiencing a burst of activity and creativi...
• CrunchWeek: Yahoo's $1.1B Tumblr Purchase, Lyft's Big Raise, And Microsoft's Xbox One - 25 May
• It?s that time of the week for CrunchWeek, the show where a few of us writers chat up the most interesting stories from the past seven days.Ryan Lawle...
• Misfit Wearables Drops Android Support For Its Shine Activity Tracker Ahead Of Summer Launch - 25 May
• Heads up, Android fans. If you took the plunge and backed the rather sleek Shine wearable activity tracker from Misfit Wearables, you may want to get ...
• Will The Xbox One Rule The Living Room? Price Will Determine The Size Of Its Kingdom - 25 May
• Price and ship date are always the biggest concerns when new gadgets or hardware hits the market, but in the case of the Xbox One, it's likely to help...
• What Games Are: Xbox One Is Microsoft's Spruce Goose - 25 May
• Microsoft's Xbox One presents a big and complicated machine whose primary purpose is a menu layer for watching television. This in an age where living...
• Gillmor Gang: Parlor Games & Metaphones - 25 May
• The Gillmor Gang ? Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, John Taschek, and Steve Gillmor ? neatly sidestepped the Yahoo Tumblr acquisition and segu...

Daily Trivia
Daily Horoscope

• Dix Takes 'Full Responsibility', Learns Nothing from Defeat - 24 May
• BC NDP Leader Adrian Dix issued a statement Tuesday, offering an explanation and form of apology for the surprise provincial election loss he presided...
• Ontario?s wildlife needs continued protection - 22 May
• Despite the evidence that endangered species laws are effective, governments in Canada are proceeding with deregulation and abdicating their responsib...
• Harper's War on Science - 21 May
• If Canadians knew the full extent of the Harper government?s war on science, they would be clamouring for the reinstatement and full funding of dozen...

• Support our membership drive and help us cover important social movements - 25 May
• Join rabble.ca today to help support independent media in Canada. Who will tell the stories of democratic struggles across...
• Asbestos and unions in Laos - 24 May
• Labour news from the Asia Pacific region. Interview with Vilada Phomduangsy, a project officer for APHEDA Union Aid Abroad, in Laos. She spoke about a...
• HEU: How our union works - 24 May
• The Hospital Employees Union has a new video out to explain how their union works. Video: How our union works!
• Obama interrupted: Why Guantanamo and the U.S. drone war are 'worth paying attention to' - 24 May
• Friday, May 24, 2013 After I interrupted the President's foreig...

• Bombs, Plots, and Laws - 17 May
• The Boston Marathon bombing highlighted two issues long debated by legislators and security professionals in the wake of 9/11 and the now infamous ?Gl...
• May Day: What?s Left of the Left - 03 May
• This past week a fortuitous stopover landed me in London on May 1st, historically ?May Day,? the day commemorating international working class solidar...
• Iran and Al-Qaeda: The Enemy of my Enemy is not always my Friend - 30 April
• The Iranian angle to Monday?s foiled terror plot will be interpreted by many through the prism of recent tensions between Tehran and Ottawa...
• The War on “The War on Drugs” - 08 April
• After witnessing first-hand the futility of the US government?s drug policies, retired police captain Peter Christ formed a pro-legalization group cal...

• US and allies step up war preparations against Syria, Lebanon, Iran - 24 May
• The United States and its allies continue to escalate their military aggression against Syria, behind the smokescreen of a proposed international peac...
• Government of, by, and for the banks - 24 May
• Not content to merely buy off politicians, banks in the US are increasingly writing the laws that are supposed to regulate them.
• Rioting hits Stockholm after police shoot Portuguese immigrant - 24 May
• Rioting has occurred nightly in the suburbs of Stockholm, the Swedish capital, after police shot and killed a 69-year-old immigrant man on Sunday.

• May 24 - The Council of Canadians raises concerns about fracking in Newfoundland - 24 May
• The Council of Canadians is expressing solidarity with communities who are fighting proposals to frack on the West Coast of Newfoundland, including n...
• May 24 - Election Fraud finding by Federal Court points directly at Conservative Party, says Council of Canadians - 24 May
• The Federal Court has found in no uncertain terms that widespread election fraud took place during the 2011 federal election. The ruling clearly state...
• May 23 - Fraud found in robocalls case; Supreme Court appeal being considered - 23 May
• The Federal Court has released its decision in the robocalls case. The decision vindicates the applicants' concerns, as the judge concludes that "frau...