tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79833968202122958272024-03-12T17:34:53.635-07:00Desolation Sound- by Dave BrindleDave Brindlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14874954092511803406noreply@blogger.comBlogger42125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7983396820212295827.post-9776329573637728962011-05-20T09:04:00.000-07:002011-05-20T09:04:28.474-07:00George Takei vs. Tennessee's 'Don't say gay' bill | rabble.caGeorge Takei vs. Tennessee's 'Don't say gay' bill | rabble.caDave Brindlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14874954092511803406noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7983396820212295827.post-78982465077104687972011-05-19T16:21:00.000-07:002011-05-19T16:21:10.259-07:00Deportation: the Rapture and the refugeeIt was only up to a few hundred years ago that the Rapture was certain in the minds of most Christians. They took the end of days very seriously. This was no joking matter, unlike today.
And, unlike today, when I wrote the blog They are coming for us, again a few days ago, the latest proclamation of the Apocalypse: Redux, redux, redux had not begun to trend. Nor had the blame for Doomsday Dave Brindlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14874954092511803406noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7983396820212295827.post-28505116753127125592011-05-19T10:23:00.000-07:002011-05-19T10:23:05.385-07:00Open letter to Hon. Jason Kenney on behalf of Alvaro OrozcoOpen letter to Hon. Jason Kenney on behalf of Alvaro OrozcoDave Brindlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14874954092511803406noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7983396820212295827.post-52201714325796947582011-05-13T14:54:00.000-07:002011-05-16T13:45:42.387-07:00They are coming for us, again
It isn’t easy being gay. There’s the day-to-day drudgery of being fun, fit, fabulous and fashionable. Everyone wants to be your bf or bff. At this time of year, the logistics of planning for pride season - what-to-wear, hows-my-hair and party favs - which begins in important earnest in June, can make even the spinniest of us so spun out, like a sweaty, whirling dervish huffing helium on a Dave Brindlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14874954092511803406noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7983396820212295827.post-43941034813324168622011-04-27T12:12:00.000-07:002011-04-27T20:26:17.177-07:00A vote for AdamCousin Gordon and I – he, the country boy, and me, from the city – talked before his oldest son, Adam's birthday this winter.
“Adam turns 18,” Gordon said. “He’ll be able to vote.” Not that his son was eligible for a draft or his plans to attend university, or that he could now look forward to his son moving out of the house. That Adam will be able to vote is all Gordon needed to say about his Dave Brindlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14874954092511803406noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7983396820212295827.post-16374189902681793342011-03-29T15:42:00.000-07:002011-03-29T15:42:24.605-07:00Half-million Canadians lostCanadians are so lost in the political wilderness that we need a compass. Unfortunately, by some accounts, its giving the wrong directions.
We accuse our politicians of playing games, which has led Canadians to tune out of politics, which has contributed to declining voter turnout, which has... blah-blah-blah. Who gives a crap?
What do Canadians do, this nation that boasts of being among the top Dave Brindlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14874954092511803406noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7983396820212295827.post-28725164551013253922011-02-16T13:33:00.000-08:002011-02-17T00:42:22.238-08:00Smoking Oda stinksThe Bev Oda affair is odious. Whether or not the embattled Conservative cabinet minister is oda-here will be decided in the next two days before Canada's MPS take the mid-winter break from the current session.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper has stood firm in the House of Commons in supporting his International Cooperation Minister. The opposition parties have been unrelenting in demanding her Dave Brindlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14874954092511803406noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7983396820212295827.post-91722687225482147782011-02-16T02:06:00.000-08:002011-02-16T19:33:37.569-08:00We have joined your revolution; except CanadaUPDATE: An unprecedented cyberattack on the Canadian government from China has given foreign hackers access to highly classified federal information, and forced at least two key departments off the internet, the CBC has learned.
The information war has begun.
Note to The New Yorker's Malcolm Gladwell, academics and professors of journalism who continue to hold to Gladwell's assertion that Dave Brindlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14874954092511803406noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7983396820212295827.post-1218176134815626522011-02-13T11:49:00.000-08:002011-02-13T20:49:06.554-08:00We are all Egyptians
"Just back from celeberations in the street. My voice is completely gone from shouting & chanting. It's an incredible day in Egyptians life. Incredible day in Egypt's history. We will build a new Egypt. A new fair, free just Egypt for all. I can feel bit change in how Egyptians are dealing with each other with care love." - Wael Ghonim, "We are all Khaled Said", Facebook, February 12, Dave Brindlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14874954092511803406noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7983396820212295827.post-90674827365571740892011-02-10T16:28:00.000-08:002011-02-12T22:57:28.810-08:00Egypt: lines drawn in shifting sands
Angry Egyptians in Tahrir Square, Cairo raise shoes in the air after President Hosni Mubarak's insulting speech (CBC)
February 10, 2011
8-9 a.m. (PT)
Retired general tells AJE Mubarak's absence from meeting of military council a clear indication that "is no longer president." - Stephen Maher, Ottawa Bureau Chief for the Chronicle Herald
Mass celebrations Tahrir Square. - David Common, Dave Brindlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14874954092511803406noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7983396820212295827.post-67698449493695265772011-02-03T10:23:00.000-08:002011-02-06T23:02:43.887-08:00Christy Clark’s deep thoughts?
B.C. Liberal leadership candidate Christy Clark
As one crusty but well-connected B.C. political tweeter put it, Christy Clark is not a deep thinker.
Maybe her chief rival to become leader of the B.C. Liberals and premier, Kevin Falcon, had it right when he shot back at Ms. Clark's criticism his business backers as "insiders," “Glib, off-the-cuff comments might make for good ratings on a Dave Brindlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14874954092511803406noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7983396820212295827.post-27934510364343886412011-01-22T10:10:00.000-08:002011-01-23T16:48:17.167-08:00Is B.C. ready for a story asking if it's ready for a gay leader?
"A column that some will find contentious
... but people are talking about nonetheless."
- Gary Mason (Facebook)
It is the story that not only Mike Farnworth (pictured right), a leading contender to replace the deposed Carole James as leader of B.C.’s NDP, knew would be told before he announced his candidacy. A story that I, along with NDP MLA Spencer Chandra Herbert and Dave Brindlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14874954092511803406noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7983396820212295827.post-86548487900668418542011-01-22T01:22:00.000-08:002011-01-22T01:39:42.721-08:00Christy Clark can wait
Common Sense Canadian carton by Gerry Hummel
Plans to post on B.C. Liberal leadership front-runner Christy Clark's unfathomably shallow campaign have been derailed to expand on my quote in friend and colleague Gary Mason's Globe and Mail column, Is B.C. ready for an openly gay party leader?
"...the idea of an openly gay leader of one of the province’s political parties, let alone a gay Dave Brindlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14874954092511803406noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7983396820212295827.post-43821313781335580502010-12-30T12:59:00.000-08:002010-12-30T12:59:52.977-08:00You need to get off Facebook"I'm impressed that your attention span has stretched this far."
Dave Brindlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14874954092511803406noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7983396820212295827.post-18858437678961332772010-12-14T00:41:00.000-08:002010-12-14T00:57:34.263-08:00Ambassador Richard Holbrooke: statesman
Ambassador Richard Holbrook 1941-2010
It is on days such as this that I regret not having kept a tape. It is on such says as this that I observe the passing of an individual who strove to end inhumanity, and with whom I had the great fortune to talk.
When I left the CBC Newsworld studios on Memorial Drive in Calgary at the end of 1998, I never returned. The tapes of the programs and coverage Dave Brindlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14874954092511803406noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7983396820212295827.post-2880595566120622802010-12-13T10:04:00.000-08:002010-12-13T11:17:54.577-08:00The Bill and Christy Show
Bill Good, CKNW
BC Liberal leadership candidate Christy Clark appeared on the Bill Good Show (CKNW) this morning. Here are some of the highlights from her answers to Good's softball questions. (If Ms. Clark loses the race at the end of February, she has said she'll return to her former radio show on NW, but a better fit would be to liven up Mr. Good's tired, old jalopy. The pair sounded more Dave Brindlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14874954092511803406noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7983396820212295827.post-48751602760208614602010-12-10T08:59:00.000-08:002010-12-10T08:59:53.649-08:00"Are leaders strictly necessary?" - Andrew Coyne
Further to yesterday's blog where I posited "the west coast prefers its politics leaderless:"
"My latest, on the current insanity in British Columbia. Naturally, I'm in favour of it." (Read: Andrew Coyne in Maclean's.ca)Dave Brindlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14874954092511803406noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7983396820212295827.post-59474475146117224472010-12-09T18:54:00.000-08:002010-12-09T21:55:32.956-08:00Thar blows the pollBritish Columbia political tides are shifting and there are unseen sandbars, deadheads and submerged rocks ahead.
New Angus Reid Public Opinion poll charts the latest waters in BC's political sea
Geezer newsrooms and political back rooms have their jibs aflutter about the poll (click here for: Angus Reid Public Opinion poll) showing the BC Liberal and NDP parties are dead-even Dave Brindlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14874954092511803406noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7983396820212295827.post-28905907437931422682010-12-08T12:27:00.000-08:002010-12-08T12:27:51.800-08:00Christy Clark shows guts; leaving one male clubhouse for another
Christy Clark - "This campaign is about offering our province
new leadership - leadership that extends beyond one person
and one way communication."
Bridgitte Anderson, Gordon Campbell's former press secretary - who always conducted herself politely and professionally - posted on my Facebook Wall after Christy Clark announced that she was entering the race to become leader of the BC Dave Brindlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14874954092511803406noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7983396820212295827.post-44614801610261613712010-12-07T17:05:00.000-08:002010-12-07T22:01:07.988-08:00The 'Kwan-dary' of NDP unity in BC
Kwan with James - Happier times
or eye-on-the-camera?
Catherine de'Medici left no
permanent legacy
Interviewed by Evan Solomon on CBC's Power and Politics today (watch: full interview), Jenny Kwan - speaking out of the left-side of her mouth about "values" being what unites the British Columbia NDP - brought to mind Catherine de' Medici. A dowager queen of the NDP, if you Dave Brindlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14874954092511803406noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7983396820212295827.post-52454045717207275392010-12-07T15:44:00.000-08:002010-12-07T15:44:06.839-08:00Nuovi Democratici di British Columbia cosa nostraBritish Columbia's New Democrats need a Joseph Valachi to reveal its inner workings after the hit on leader Carole James by the parties Gang of 13.
For the good of the party, there will be nothing like the "Valachi Papers" coming from Ms. James, Joseph 'Joe Cargo' Valachi's testimony before US Senate committees in the early 60s named names, gave history and structure,Dave Brindlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14874954092511803406noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7983396820212295827.post-26565353020402302682010-11-19T09:16:00.000-08:002010-11-19T09:16:33.691-08:00Desolation Sound: of the BC political toilet flushingBritish Columbia - The BC Liberals never anticapted a scenario in which a series of events, both within and beyond their control, would lead to the party's self-destruction.
An unscientific RT poll on globeandmail.com this week asked BC: Do you agree with former energy minister Bill Bennett?
Bennett was fired from cabinet and then fired back with a believable salvo denegrating Premier Gordon Dave Brindlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14874954092511803406noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7983396820212295827.post-57897890535029769012010-06-06T21:45:00.000-07:002010-06-06T22:38:42.004-07:00I learned today -Some days are meant to be Sundays spent in gardens.- djb
Dave Brindlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14874954092511803406noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7983396820212295827.post-89701644035381665452010-06-05T21:11:00.000-07:002010-06-05T21:11:09.783-07:00I learned today:Trust is irrational, but sensible.Thinking and feeling are incompatible.- Quirks and Quarks, CBC Radio
Dave Brindlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14874954092511803406noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7983396820212295827.post-65016455008388160272010-06-05T17:14:00.000-07:002010-06-05T17:15:29.868-07:00This diamond-dusted sapphire sea
LUND, BC - Gazing out on a lazy sun-drenched afternoon over the fluid jewel that is our very life on this Earth causes reflection - with every feeling of disgust, disappointment, dread, and despair - on what our ways have wrought in the Gulf.Dave Brindlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14874954092511803406noreply@blogger.com0