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In my view no matter what happens regarding the video, the hash vending by his brother, showing up pinned at public events, if Rob Ford runs for reelection in 2014, Rob Ford wins. Discuss. WFDS

It seems there’s nothing that Enbridge and its government underlings won’t do or say to mislead the public into believing that shipping bitumen via tankers through B.C.’s treacherous coastal waters is actually safe. One of their favourite lies is to claim that the product they’ll be shipping, diluted bitumen or

Pick on Justin Trudeau day. The stuff he said about the west, specifically Alberta, where the Libs have zero seats, is not playing well to James Moore and his posse.  The Honourable Mr. Moore was kind enough to point out that the Liberals have like four seats in the west.

It seems that a few unhappy Anglophones are trying to whip things up again by starting a new Equality party, version 2.0.  A rally was held on the weekend in the largely Anglophone area of Montreal’s West Island to launch it.  Somewhere between 40 and 50 people showed up, with

That is the headline that Forum Research says most Canadians want to see.  This info was shared with me and readers of The National Post this day. About half of Canadians think the Red Chamber sucks.  Only one in ten think that the Senate does a good job. They are

This morning’s Star Phoenix editorial Democracy under attack provides a stinging indictment of the gleeful Con response to last week’s court ruling on the election phone call scandal: No sooner had a federal court judge ruled that there had been widespread voter fraud in the last federal election involving a

Cojocaru v B.C 2013 SCC 30 deals with judicial “cut and paste” and, broadly put, approves it: [49]                          In summary, courts in Canada and elsewhere have held that copying in reasons for judgment is not, in itself, grounds for setting the judge’s decision aside.  However, if the incorporation of the material

 I had a good belly laugh at the headline on today’s Hill Times article:  “PM’s Conservative caucus ‘horrifically depressed’ about Senate expenses scandal, brand takes big hit, say Tories” “The majority-governing Conservative caucus is “horrifically depressed” and “disappointed” that three of their Senators appointed by Prime Minister Stephen Harper are embroiled

From Metro Halifax comes the news that a new record for crazy cat lady has been set. A senior citizen, female, of course, was taking care of/hoarding more than fifty, 50, cats in her one bedroom apartment in the HRM. The cats are going to a shelter and will be

Journalists can seem to be very sloppy in their use of words. Sometimes, it’s because there are lots of words they think they understand – but don’t. But it can be also part of a campaign to denigrate some groups by referring to them with a chosen word, thereby making it a sort