Sooey Says

Hey, all you kids out there, the Order of Canada has never been something that unites us rather than divides us. It's usually just a nod to members of the wealthy elite in this country. Awarding it to Dr. Morgenthaler is overdue, but it's still nice to know that real political activism can sometimes, if rarely, make a difference in this country.

Power to the people.

Posted by Sooey at 06:46 AM | Permalink | Comments (1)

I dunno, after reading an absolutely crazy piece in the National Post lamenting Dr. Henry Morgenthaler's Order of Canada I just have to say - isn't it amazing how fundamentally religious our media actually is - still - in 2008?

Which is ironic because it's also incredibly and unrelentingly sexist, I find, and I was just thinking today how much better off women would be if organized religion had absolutely no say in the politics of our country - instead of more, as it does with this New Conservative Government of Canada. Meanwhile, in our media, a woman's right to reproductive control over her own body is news, but Christian fundamentalists running the government from behind the scenes - isn't. Colour me nostalgic, but didn't our media used to be more secular back in those '70s days?

So, while I'm here with this article: WhatAboutTheUnborn?! let me just lament that Dr. Morgenthaler, a hero to many Canadians, but also a hero by any definition, must share being awarded the Order of Canada with so many recipients who have been named solely for serving the mythical god of their brand name religion while actively campaigning to restrict the human rights of Canadians. So there, Ian Hunter. I guess we'll have to agree to disagree on who our heroes are in this life.

Posted by Sooey at 09:33 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Say, since all the doctors and engineers who immigrate to Canada from overseas end up working as taxi drivers and pizza delivery guys (except all the female doctors and engineers, who apparently can't even get jobs as taxi drivers or pizza delivery guys) why don't we just cut to the chase and only allow taxi drivers and pizza delivery guys to immigrate to Canada.

I mean, c'mon - if those are the employment gaps we need filled, why are we filling them doctors and engineers? Who is the charade for, anyway?

Posted by Sooey at 08:23 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

I just read an article on the CBC website wherein the Conference Board of Canada says we're losing ground. Which is great news as far as I'm concerned because I really don't give a rat's ass about the Conference Board of Canada and if WE'RE losing ground, IT'S losing ground, too.

Posted by Sooey at 12:59 PM | Permalink | Comments (2)

Dr. Henry Morgenthaler is to receive the Order of Canada. Finally. And how delicious that it comes at a time when Stephen Harper and the New Conservative Government of Canada are hard at work attempting to roll back abortion rights through Bill C-484.

Posted by Sooey at 11:37 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

I think I've finally put my finger on why I find the political Right so alarmingly shortsighted and tediously small of brain. It's because their solution to what they see with their xtra special vision as an attempt by Muslims to Islamicize Canadian society is to batten down the Christian hatches circa the late 1800s.

Call me crazy, but, if there IS an atempt by Muslims to Islamicize Canadian society, I'd say a better heading them off at the pass is to uncompromisingly secularize everything and relegate religion to the outer fringes, all the way out to complete and irrevocable irrelevancy to all things civilized - where it belongs.

Posted by Sooey at 10:41 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Well, as predicted by many defenders of the status quo with regards to the CHRC vis a vis the right to freedom of speech, the complaint against Macleans/MarkSteyn will not proceed past lots of free press for "America Alone" and money spent by Macleans, which will no doubt be recouped by Rogers in increased cable fees, and the Canadian taxpayer.

I guess that's what counts as a win for free speech rights in Canada these days. And it's not even like Macleans wasn't showcasing some pretty bigoted bullshit by its star pundit, either. It's just that, well, it wasn't really discrimination in any measurable way by a private business (that receives its fair share of government funding, of course) that should matter to an agency of the government.

And now that every drunken lesbian in the country knows about this avenue of complaint, it's probably time to disband the CHRC altogether. I mean, if it's just going to be used by citizens to shut up other citizens and put them in debt on the taxpayer's dime, it won't leave much room for complaint by citizens actually being discriminated against, anyway.

It's not that we're a grown up democracy so much as we're not that's the real problem and why the whole shebang should go the way of milk deliveries, foot x-rays and restricted beaches - if you ask this Feminist.

Posted by Sooey at 10:56 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)