with my two hands... i can change the world
צֶדֶק צֶדֶק, תִּרְדֹּף
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I know I’ve posted her before, but Coeur de Pirate is just so fracking awesome. Please listen to this amazing Quebec indie artist, you’ll love her, I’m sure!
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Uhhh.. no shit sherlock.
Thank you CBC News. Or should I say… Captain oBvious Corporation. hehe.
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So my friend/ex-coworker Tariq is in Amsterdam and just ran into Michael Ignatieff.
Guess which Canadian is more baked right now. (Answer: BOTH.)
See, life now is way less stressful than being Opposition Leader again ever could be, right? So glad he’s doing okay.
Best. Ever.
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The university is showing CBC’s coverage of the royal visit. It’s awkward to watch, though, as the CBC is responding to that creepy Newsweek cover story by having an even creepier conversation about whether notable Canadians would be friends with her on Facebook. This is weird, right? It’s not just me?
I was SO displeased with CBCs coverage. Peter Mansbridge was just making really cynical and snide comments the whole time, and their “Royal Commentator” the lady from Hello Magazine, was just an airhead.
Very uncool CBC. -
We interrupt our regularly scheduled ranting for a brief Canadian indie music interlude.
Check out Said The Whale, about as Vancouver as a band can get. This Winter I Retire off their first/second album.
They’re on tour across Canada now. And of course, if you like it, check out CBC Radio 3 for more great independent Canadian music!
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You must watch this video. Rick Mercer’s ‘rant’ on bullying.
Every year in this country 300 kids take their own lives, it is a mind boggling number. And this past week, one of those kids was Jamie Hubley. He was 15, he was depressed, and he happened to be gay. And because this is 2011, we don’t just read about a kid like Jamie, we can Google him and then the next thing you know, you’re sitting at home watching his videos on Youtube and he was gay all right, he was a great, big, goofy, gay kid singing Lady Gaga on the internet. And as an adult you look at that and you go ‘You know what, that kid is going places.’
But for some reason, some kids, they looked at that and they attacked. And now he’s gone. And because this story is all too familiar we know exactly what’s going to happen next. Grief counsellors will go into the schools as they should.
But what about the old fashioned assembly? You know, where the cops show up and there is hell to pay, and they find out who’s responsible. You know, like when the lunchroom is vandalized because the kids who bullied this boy, they know who they are and more importantly, other kids know who they are.
It’s no longer good enough for us to tell kids who are different that it’s gonna get better. We have to make it better now. That’s every single one of us. Every teacher, every student, every adult has to step up to the plate and that’s gay adults too.
I know gay cops, soldiers, athletes, cabinet ministers, a lot of us do. But the problem is, adults, we don’t need role models, kids do. So if you’re gay and you’re in public life, I’m sorry, you don’t have to run around with a pride flag and bore the hell out of everyone, but you can’t be invisible, not anymore. 300 kids is 300 too many.
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Q | Is there a moral obligation to come out?
Stemming from Rick Mercer’s rant last week, Q had a really solid debate about whether or not there’s a moral obligation for queer public figures to come out. Brenda Cossman rocks the discussion. Wish they had a bit more time to discuss that the entire concept of “privacy” with regard to sexual orientation is a fiction, insofar as the sexual orientation of straight people isn’t private - it’s assumed. Anyway, worth a listen.
This is an excellent summary of the debate, and Brenda Cossman is incredibly eloquent. Worth a listen!
“By remaining closeted, they are empowering the bullies and disempowering the young LGBT folks who think, ‘oh my goodness, I better not come out.’”
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I would love to live in a world where [your sexuality] was no one’s business but your own. I would love to achieve that kind of equality where it was many kinds of identities and it really didn’t matter. As long as LGBT kids are committing suicide disproportionately, 16X the rate of other youth, 30% of all kids committing suicide, it is other people’s business. It isn’t private.
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I’m not sure what about this is more Winnipeg - the fact that he’s wearing a flannel shirt, shorts and running shoes in the snow, or the scenery itself.
And despite my personal opinion of the song (I am not a fan of Christmas songs, especially the religious ones), he’s pretty damn good.
Go Winnipeg!
(Source: cbc.ca)
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So a policeman, a judge and a stripper walk into a library. It sounds like the start of a bad joke but this is actually happening in Ottawa
Its part of the Human Library Project.
You can rent a real life person to talk to like a judge, a post op tran-sexual, or a refugee for 20minutes.
How bad do you think the fines are for returning the stripper late?
- Pete
lawyer (well, almost), academic, activist, political junkie, jew, geek.
it's all here.
