The project is one of the most visible efforts to help this small prairie centre, population just under 200,000, deal with some awfully big-city problems. Inner-city Regina — effectively two neighbourhoods, North Central and the area east of the downtown known as the Core — is among the poorest spots in urban Canada. Thirty per [...]

The blogger, threatened with legal action, suggested a letter writing campaign to advertisers on KSFO out of San Francisco. From Online Blogintegrity:
KSFO is a Disney affiliate whose radio hosts broadcast violent rhetoric directed toward journalists, liberals, Democrats, Arabs and Muslims all over the SF Bay Area and to the world via the Internet. I commented [...]

For reporting these findings, Dr. Williams has been sued by McMaster University for $4 million plus punitive damages. This suit has been allowed to proceed in Canadian court despite the fact that Dr. Williams is an American citizen who should be protected by the Bill of Rights and American law which stipulates that truth is [...]

I think it is time to read Imperial Life in the Emerald City by Washington Post reporter Rajiv Chandrasekaran - released in September 2006.
It is the story of  the US Coalition Provisional Authority. I suspect many people depicted in the book have already read it. And I suppose many voters in the US that need to read it [...]

Commercial break. But I like many CSI fans, am watching to see why William Petersen is leaving the show. It took me awhile to warm up to his character, Grissom, but I did.
And if he is leaving the series for good, that’s it. I’m moving on. TV Squad -
A simple Google search for “William Petersen [...]

Oh. Yes. Well. There was  Cabinet shuffle today.
A glance at blog comments is like looking at the collective groan that the new environment minister is someone who can yell louder than Rona Ambrose.
Reading bloggers fighting over who is the source of a rumour a liberal will be shuffling across the floor tomorrow is somewhat entertaining. Traditional media isn’t picking this one [...]

Jeff Sharlet has an informative art post up at his blog, Call Me Ismael. He looks at the paintings of Ron DiCianni, probably best known for his 2003 commissioned piece from the Presidental Prayer Team called  Addressing the Almighty / Praying for Peace.