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Or Kwame Kirkpatrick.  He is the new mayor of Dorset, Minnesota and he is four.The mayor’s name is “…Robert Tufts, though known as Bobbie, was selected as Dorset’s mayor by raffle, according to the local television station WCCO.”  Dorset has a population of 22 btw.Yahoo! News reports that although Mayor Tufts

It’s been over five weeks since ExxonMobil’s Pegasus pipeline burst beneath a Mayflower, Arkansas subdivision, spilling diluted bitumen born of tar sands throughout the neighborhood. Five weeks later, and still the air carries noxious fumes. Residents complain of headaches, nausea, and worse. Meanwhile, these residents of Mayflower are getting mixed

H/T RossK, The Gazetteer

R. v. Bresnark, 2013 ONCA 320: [6]          Leave to appeal to this court from a summary conviction appeal pursuant to s. 839 is granted sparingly, and only when some exceptional circumstance justifies a further appeal. [7]          The alleged error must be a question of law. Moreover, either (1) the merits of the appeal must be

It turns out that the Chinese Communist leadership and the Canadian Conservative leadership believe in a lot of the same stuff. They both want economic liberalism but political conformity and suppression of dissent. China’s leadership has now sent out a notice to crack down on the introduction and spread of

Teddy here. Please note this post will be edited/updated apx every hour until the polls close, so, keep coming back for more! The 2pm (eastern) entry is as follows: What should we watch for in the BC Election tonight? Firstly, I’ll do “ridings to watch” a bit later, but in

There doesn’t seem to be a day that passes anymore that doesn’t bring some but today we have two outrages to pass along courtesy of the Sydney Morning Herald. First up is the mayor of Osaka, Toru Hashimoto.   Hashi, in a moment of splendid Japanese cultural sensitivity, chose to deliver

When right-wing provocateur Andrew Breitbart passed on, a good source at heaven’s gate tells me his meeting with gatekeeper St. Peter was not what Andrew expected. First of all, and to Breitbart’s shock, Peter is black. Tsk, tsking in admonition, Peter told Andrew that he could read the prankster’s thoughts and he

Harry Leslie Smith says he’s too old to fight those who today would wreck the civilization he and so many others fought and in too many cases died to protect.  In his closing years Harry sees his civilization again imperiled only, this time, not from some distant fascist monster but

Today is E-Day in British Columbia, and its also the day that we’ll see a turnover in that province’s government after 12 years of BC Liberal rule. Though they’ve put up a valiant fight over the last couple of weeks, evident by the rolling trend charts below, the BC Liberals

The Saskatchewan Water Security Agency recorded this amazing video of a massive ice surge along the Saskatchewan River.