Here’s a few posts that caught my attention in the Vancouver blogosphere today.
In today’s selection of blog posts Darren talks about his hiking trip in Joshua Tree National Park.
Megan Cole introduces moovy.ca
Hermida says, “J-schools turn to digital tools to teach journalism“
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Posted by Atomic Joe
Here is my second federal election candidate in this Vancouver Candidate Series here I write about someone I don’t understand.
What a gay man such as Mayencourt is doing in a political party populated with evangelical loonies such as Charles McVety. link Maybe you could answer that question for me.
Here what he says on is site,
People in Vancouver Centre are looking for a different kind of politician to represent their views – the voters of our community know they can trust me to listen to them and achieve results on issues that matter to them.The Conservative Party, under the leadership of Stephen Harper, has achieved real results for people – cutting taxes, fighting crime and balancing Canada’s budget.
I am proud to join this team, and will take my passion to Ottawa on issues such as Safe Streets, Safe Schools, and finding innovative and effective solutions to deal with mental health and addiction.
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Posted by Atomic Joe
It’s been a little while since I wanted to participate in this Vancouver Candidate Series here I am with someone who will never get my vote. I must say that, years ago, Hedy Fry completely turned me off to even considering a vote for her.
I remember in 2002, at the French Cultural Centre on 7th Avenue in South Granville, when she announced herself as a “Cabinet Minister”. OMG, WTF, LOL! Really??? Are you serious??? She is an average MP who does not speak French properly! (She was a MP then too) Did she think we were too dumb to know the difference between a Minister and a MP (or Secretary of State)? I have a vivid memory of her, few years ago, at the Remembrance Day ceremony in downtown Vancouver. She was snubbing everyone! You should have seen her.
What has she done for her riding over her 5464 Days of service, aside claiming that crosses were being burned on lawns in Prince George? You must be kidding me! Can a majority of my fellow Vancouverites in her riding really have the ignorance to have her doing nothing in Ottawa ? Oh god, please, tell me that I’m not the only one suffering these thoughts of impending doom. I mean, I can see it happening. She is a snob!
Everything is in alignment, she gets elected simply because people are used to vote for her since 1993, the year she defeated former Prime Minister Kim Campbell. Sad to say, but its probably reality that there are too many uninformed people out in her riding. So Hedy Fry is a snob b*tch that gets elected and promptly gets busy doing nothing in Ottawa for four more years. BAM, worthlessly conceited, stuck on herself, Hedy Fry is now is representing us in Ottawa.
Oh god and how about the way she looks. So perfectly proper and made up with expensive clothes worn with an indecent air of superiority. Her ability to get away with simply not answering the questions posed and utilizing her time as a pulpit for whatever she had to say about how she was this that or the other. Gawd, I cannot believe a candidate like that in this day and age could get elected over and over again.
Here is a list of blogs talking about Hedy Fry:
Charting the Votes for Hedy Fry
October 5th: Hedy Fry Fundraiser with Irwin Cotler
Who needs politics? Apparantly artists.
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On 9 Oct 2008, John Lennon’s birthday, Yoko Ono asks the people of Iceland to join her and many others across the rest of the world in praying for peace and stability.
At 8pm, as IMAGINE PEACE TOWER is illuminated on the island of Viðey, she asks everyone to join together and let the power of light and prayer become a collective expression of the desire for peace and harmony on our planet. Dear Friends, Please join me not only in remembering John on October 9th but also in spreading the message of peace.
This is something that was so important to John - the fact that we could all work together for the positive good of our planet. He would have loved how we are all mobilizing ourselves in thought and in action. It’s time for action and the action is peace! with love, yoko Yoko Ono
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Posted by Frederic Desjardins in Vancouver
It’s crazy, after weeks of tense anticipation, I sat down in my living room to read about the elections. And by election I mean the Canadian elections , (not the American elections which are, by the way, far more entertaining than our own) and by tense anticipation I mean I was hoping one candidate would accidentally quote Stalin, or perhaps be seen sporting a visible erection. Assuming, of course none, of them suffers from erectile dysfunction. Neither of those things happened (though I am analyzing all the material I can get) because, as it turns out, the election campaign was carefully planned to the letter by operatives on all sides to make sure that, above all, nothing embarrassing would occur. On the Harper side, they figured the best way was to just make sure that virtually no real campaigning and/or occurred, either.
Harper called for election saying the Conservatives are better equipped to deal with governing during a downturn. Harper’s depicted himself as a Captain of a boat that will lead us through the storm that is the economic downturn to the shore of prosperity. We are in the F@#$% storm and Captain Harper is mute.
This is the first time I have really paid some attention to those squiggly lines on the independent voter torture table. DARN! The uncommitted voters of Quebec do not like this Stephen Harper character. The only time we’ve seen a real happy response to Harper was when he was talking very generally (and quite well) about his daughter’s piano skills. And then he had to snarl and accuse Dion of “talking down” the economy, and then his own popularity went down . What does it mean?
Liberal Leader Stephane Dion said today that his Green Shift plan featuring a controversial carbon tax is not a major part of his election platform. It’s kind of funny how Liberal pundits or strategists or whatever try incessantly to ease the voter “tax” fear to steal tory votes.
Seriously, what was up with that super boring Jack Layton guy? He’s suppose to call Harper a Nazi pal, and then Harper was supposed to say “Hey man that is just wrong” and rip off Layton’s moustaches and use them in a salad used to feed Lloyd Robertson on National News, which is precisely how an pro-elite like Harper is supposed to confront a grizzled working class hero in a Town Hall. Instead we got a lot of respectful disagreement, which is dull. Sure, some of the reactions are bad enough. But witness this election’s sad collection of headlines.
She said, “We are too close to the edge of the global apocalypse,” May said in an interview. “We have got to grab the opportunities we have. And, clearly, the contribution Canadians can make to a global solution is to get rid of Stephen Harper.”
It’s not surprising that a hot babe like Julie Couillard, the former girlfriend of the former foreign affairs minister Maxime Bernier is the talk of our national capital.
Couillard’s new book
The hot babe relives …
“[...] the most momentous times in her life: the happy years spent with Hells Angels sympathizer Gilles Giguère and the cruel aftermath of his 1996 murder; her brief but tumultuous marriage to Stéphane Sirois, a reformed member of the Rockers biker gang, who after their divorce turned police informant; and her close-up view of the corridors of power in the months during which she was romantically linked to Foreign Affairs Minister Maxime Bernier.”
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