Oops: AM640 ‘s Lou Schizas calls Andrea Horwath a ‘whore’ | canada.com o.canada.com/2013/06/12/and… via @natnewswatch— Lorrie Goldstein (@sunlorrie) June 13, 2013 @mistervermin @natnewswatch Exactly.— Lorrie Goldstein (@sunlorrie) June 13, 2013 Filed under: Canadian politics Tagged: AM640, Andrea Horwath, Lorrie Goldstein, Lou Schizas, Ontario NDP, Ontario Politics, Sun Media, The Happy
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Oops: AM640 ‘s Lou Schizas calls Andrea Horwath a ‘whore’ | canada.com o.canada.com/2013/06/12/and… via @natnewswatch— Lorrie Goldstein (@sunlorrie) June 13, 2013 @mistervermin @natnewswatch Exactly.— Lorrie Goldstein (@sunlorrie) June 13, 2013 h/t Justin Stayshyn Filed under: Canadian politics Tagged: AM640, Andrea Horwath, Lorrie Goldstein, Lou Schizas, Ontario NDP, Ontario Politics, Sun
Continue readingmark a rayner | scribblings, squibs & sundry monkey joys: Batman Lashes Out at the Other Members of the Justice League of America After Spending the Weekend at the Jack Nicholson Film Festival
by Mark A. Rayner You know, I’m getting a little tired of all the snide remarks about the way I fight crime. We live in a world that has villains, and those villains have to be defeated by men with … Continue reading →
Continue readingIf Necessary Blogging But Not Necessarily Blogging: You don’t have to be an even duck to be a good P. M.
After all, Mackenzie King was a very odd duck and he did a lot to build the modern Canada. This piece about the crowning speech of his career is very interesting as an insight to the man. Harper on the other hand is just odd. That is all. What? You
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Susan Jacoby – The Age of American Unreason
I would recommend adding this to your reading lists, I’m only a third of the way though, but it has been a detailed and interesting account of genesis and growth of the large mean streak of anti-intellectualism that is currently dominating the zeitgeist of American society. Jacoby was interviewed
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Rob Ford scrambles to increase police budget by a million per cent (updated)
Massive raids and mysterious police moves completely unrelated to newfound desire to curry favour with drug and homicide squads, says Toronto mayor, adding: “I do not, nor have I ever, used crack cocaine at any point so far this morning.” UPDATE: Chief Blair is unmoved.
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Cooperation Between The Heartland Institute And The Chinese Academy Of Sciences: Much Less than Meets The Eye
Breitbart News has reported that the Heartland Institute–an infamous U.S. think-tank that shilled for both the oil and tobacco companies in times past–has teamed up the with Chinese Academy of Sciences to publish HI’s Climate Change Reconsidered documents, which are attempted “rebuttals” of the IPCC consensus report on global warming:The volumes,
Continue reading350 or bust: The Link Between Good Food & Good Health
It’s TED Talk Thursday on 350orbust, and I’m reposting this talk from TEDx Austin 2011. I’m presenting about GMO/GE foods at a regional diabetes conference this week, and as part of my preparation I listened to Ms. O’Brien’s talk again. Her journey from Wall Street executive to food activist is
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Inquiring Minds? You don’t want to know. #nlpoli
Denial and evasion, wrote Andrew Coyne last week, are only making worse three political scandals. He’s referring to Toronto Mayor Rob Ford and allegations of substance abuse, Prime Minister Stephen Harper and the Mike Duffy Affair, and former Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty and a police investigation into McGuinty’ s staff,
Continue readingWise Law Blog: Twenty Tips for Articling Students
In today`s post at SlawTips, I offer my top twenty tips for the new crop of articling students that is now beginning to arrive in the law offices of the nation. See the entire post: Articling Tips for Students-at-Law. And on a related note, a special welcome to Ms. Simran Bakshi,
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper’s Ghastly Con Cabaret Show
Well now we know how Stephen Harper was feeling only a few hours before he won his precious majority.How he turned a mike check into a cabaret act, when he thought the cameras weren't rolling.Because now somebody called Steve Harper has uploaded a video of that performance to YouTube.And it's SCARY.
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Wait for it
Has anyone else been following xkcd: Time?This xkcd cartoon has been changing by one frame an hour since the end of March, and has now posted more than 2000 pictures telling the story of Cueball and Megan first building an elaborate sandcastle and then setting out to explore their world. The
Continue readingSong of the Watermelon: Of the Greens and the Gutless
Those who know me know that I want nothing more than for the Green Party to succeed, but this objective is imperilled if the voting public does not think of the Greens as real contenders. Today, BC Premier Christy Clark announced July 10 as the date for the Westside-Kelowna byelection
Continue readingAlberta Diary: The way the cookie crumbled: Fred Horne fires Stephen Lockwood, entire AHS board
The former Alberta Health Services Board, fired yesterday by Health Minister Fred Horne, as seen by the 99 top executives of the provincial health care agency. Actual AHS board members may not appear exactly as portrayed by the health minister. Below: Former AHS CEO Stephen Duckett, former AHS board chair
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Spies Without Borders I: Using Domestic Networks to Spy on the World
The following article is cross-posted with the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), and was co-authored by Tamir Israel, Staff Lawyer at CIPPIC and Katitza Rodriguez, EFF International Rights Director. The article is part of the EFF’s Spy Without Borders series of blogs looking into how the information disclosed in the U.S
Continue readingDented Blue Mercedes: Nova Scotia Extends Health Care Coverage for Reassignment Surgery
After originally saying that it would not fund genital reassignment surgery, the Nova Scotia government has now said that it would extend health care funding coverage for the procedure. Health Minister Dave Wilson is quoted as saying, “This is the right thing to do.” I’ve written previously about why GRS
Continue readingKen Chapman: So What’s Happening in Edmonton For Picking Our Next Mayor?
So I have received information on a poll done on preferred candidates for the Edmonton Mayoralty race this October. This data is interesting as a provocation to conversation – not at all indicative or predicative of the outcome. I offer these results not to enhance the superficial horse-race analysis that
Continue readingKen Chapman: So What’s Happening in Edmonton For Picking Our Next Mayor?
So I have received information on a poll done on preferred candidates for the Edmonton Mayoralty race this October. This data is interesting as a provocation to conversation – not at all indicative or predicative of the outcome. I offer these res…
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 6138…Help For Homeless In Conn
Not by Cons. Two different kettles of fish. Of course we all know that the Conservatives consider being homeless a crime. In fact in B.C. and Ontario it is a crime thanks to the Safe Streets Act which in Ontario was passed by Mike Harris and his Conservative government in
Continue readingBuckdog: Toronto Talk Radio 640 AM Host Calls Ontario NDP Leader Horvath A ‘Whore’ On Morning Talk Show
Here’s the transcript, via this blog: Lou Schizas: Just to get back to our previous quick quotes on Andrea Horwath. I think whore is the operative syllable there. John Oakley: Well, well let’s not take it that far.Schizas: What do you mean? She was bought.Oakley: Alright, bought and paid for. Alright, it’s a
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