The Wicked Witch of the West from the Wizard of Oz. Below, Ezra Levant in an orange wig with a can of Orange Crush mocks Jack Layton’s funeral. RIP or give it a rest? Oh my – quelle horreur! – naughty Britons still appalled by the depredations visited upon their
Continue readingCathie from Canada: "Those" people, Premier Wall?
Premier Wall gets called out by NDP leader Cam Broten for incoherent blather about gay people — but of course Wall is not homophobic because some of his staff are gay or some gay person is nearby or freedom or something….First Broten asked Wall about whether the Saskatchewan Education department
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper and the War on Alexandre
Alexandre Boulerice is one of my favourite MPs.He's a big guy, and when he gets up in the Commons and shouts at Stephen Harper, you can see the tyrant flinch wince wobble.Which is a spectacle I rather enjoy eh?So you can imagine how outraged I was to see Great Wobbly Leader launch
Continue readingYappa Ding Ding: Fingers crossed
I admit it: I’m a worrywart. At our last leadership convention in 2006 Conservatives played dirty tricks, circulating fake buttons and posters to try to discourage delegates from voting for Bob Rae. Has Harper dropped another little turd to surprise us with on Sunday? It’s probably fine; I haven’t heard
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Continue readingMorton's Musings: Acid reflux provides a defence to Over 80
R. v. Coffey, 2013 ONCJ 178 holds: [32] I find that I accept Mr. Coffey’s evidence that he was actually experiencing acid reflux symptoms during the breath tests. I found his evidence credible and he was unshaken in cross-examination. Having come to this conclusion, I find that
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: #mtlqc13 – Day 1 Review
Based on my posts leading up to the NDP’s federal convention, it shouldn’t come as much surprise that my main focus is on the substantive policy debates. And the first day saw some positive developments on that front. Rather than sticking to the party’s chosen list of topics for discussion,
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Almost there!
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Continue readingAutonomy For All: Irony Collapses After Desperate Sprint to Not Get Lapped
Thin skinned anti-science idiot Chrisopher Monckton has a big sad that a bunch of actually smart people called out his errant nonsense as nonsense so he’s naturally doing what real intellectuals do when their ideas are challenged: Defend them, I mean complain to authorities and try to have the critics
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: The Impacts of the Neighbourhood Immigrant Settlement Worker In Canada
She Fixes So Many Problems By: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives: The Neighbourhood Immigrant Settlement Worker (NISW) is one of the programs established by the Province of Manitoba to help newcomers adjust to life in Canada. The program is funded by Citizenship and Immigration Canada and Manitoba Immigration and Multiculturalism,
Continue readingBlunt Objects Blog: EKOS Poll: 29.1% Liberal, 28.8% Con, 23.3% NDP
Just to prove that good news come in threes (or is that bad news?), Frank Graves’ polling company EKOS Research has come out with a new poll that, again, sort-of conforms to the recent jump in support for the Liberals. The big difference of course is EKOS’ odd numbers where
Continue readingPeace, order and good government, eh?: Friday night
This is an instrumental by Kelly Joe Phelps called Spit Me Outta the Whale. The instrument is a National Steel Guitar. This is the Band of Heathens with Medicine Man, a link I stashed away a long time ago and haven’t gotten back to ’til now but this seems like
Continue readingStaffroom Confidential: #C21Can and the "skills" debate
This is a very good response from Tobey Steeves to a post on the C21 website by John Kershaw, the President of C21 Canada – a corporate financed education reform lobby group. The original blog post that Tobey is critiquing is here: http://www.c21canada.org/2013/03/26/canadas-skills-gap-and-the-federal-budget/ Dear @C21Can, saw your post on 21CL
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 5849…Stephen Harper Calls It As It Is
Back home in Calgary to do a little constit work out beloved Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, took a min out of his busy schedule to comment about the Rehtaeh Parsons case. In case you missed the story let me and The Canadian Press refresh your brain cells. “The Nova Scotia
Continue readingcentre of the universe: Unbelievable
Something ridiculous happened today. Before I get to that, though, I’m’a set some ground rules, because this is the kind of discussion that gets out of hand really, really fast. 1) I’m not interested in any anti-religion comments. What follows did not happen because people believe in God. This isn’t
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 5848…Smart Meets Smart
That will be tomorrow in the final of the NCAA hockey season when Yale, George W. Bush’s alma mater, plays fellow Connecticut smarty pants school Quinnipiac. It is reported widely that the game, the climax of the cleverly named Frozen Four, will be played in Sidney Crosby’s barn in Pittsburg. My
Continue readingMorton's Musings: Judicial notice in sentencing
R. v. Sansalone, 2013 ONCA 226 deals, albeit obliquely, with the use of judicial notice in sentencing. The Court approves of its use where a fact is “notorious”. This seems quite consistent with established principles. The Court holds: [15] The appellant raises one issue on his sentence appeal. He submits that the trial judge
Continue readingRecreating Eden: Day One of NDP Convention: Health Resolution Gets Good Priority
Just spent the day at the NDP Convention in Montreal. As some may know, I’ve spent years working for the party, but for the last several months I’ve taken a backseat, since there are a number of other projects I’d like to see finished. But I couldn’t resist a convention,
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: Rehtaeh Parsons: Anonymous Says It Has Rape Confession
By: Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive: Rehtaeh Parsons, a 17-year old Canadian teen, committed suicide last week after being gang-raped and shamed online. Anonymous says one of the three boys involved in the assault has confessed and is willing to name his alleged accomplices. The hactivist collective issued the following statement on Friday: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Will the Greens Back Trudeau, Shun Mulcair?
Tom Mulcair and the NDP will need all the help they can get for the 2015 election. It’s too bad Tommy burned his bridge to the Green Party. “Over the last two years, I found Justin Trudeau to be collaborative and friendly,” May told the Georgia Straight in a phone
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