A lot of people, really. And the week isn’t even half finished. But here are some folks who’ve had it especially rough so far.
Shirley Sherrod. The former employee of the US Department of Agriculture was forced to resign after a misleading video of her was posted on a rather ironically-named website, and later picked up [...]
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God in politics (or, “how to lose my vote in two seconds”)
Oh Jesus, here we go.
Toronto mayoral candidate Giorgio Mammoliti has decided to demonstrate how out of touch he is with the demographic reality of the city by invoking “God’s law” as the reason why stores should be barred from opening on Christmas and Easter.
This follows hot on the heels of four other mayoral candidates — [...]
Connecting The Dots, Edition #3
In this hectic world, often we don’t have sufficient time to connect the dots between seemingly disconnected stories that flicked their way through our collective consciousness. To help bridge this gap, say hello to Connecting The Dots, where I’ll endeavour to bring together and seemingly disparate stories into a contextualized, cohesive whole. Or I’ll just [...]
Your sexuality doesn’t matter. Now let me talk about how little it matters.
Later this year, Canada’s largest city is probably, for the first time, going to elect a homosexual (an open one, at least) as its mayor.
And no, I’m not talking about Adam Giambrone.
Nope, I’m talking about recently-resigned-provincial-Liberal George Smitherman, who is the clear front-runner after the news broke earlier this morning that his anticipated main rival, [...]