From NDPer Chris Charlton:
The purpose of this enactment is to prohibit employers under the Canada Labour Code from hiring replacement workers to perform the duties of employees who are on strike or locked out.
The enactment also provides for the imp…
Continue reading…has been bulldozed, to make way for an LCBO, a paintball facility (including laser tag!), a No Frills, and maybe a Dollarama. Or so I’ve been told. But the abject humiliation does not end there! I hear that The Sun staff has been crammed onto floo…
Continue readingI’ve posted on this before, but the good Mr. Hicks gave me permission to host the image, and its worth another look. Forget Ipsos, forget Angus, forget Abacus. This dude knows Canada
Continue readingPM Stephen Harper and Heritage Minister James Moore pose with two new Senate appointees.
Continue readingAs Sharon notes in the comments, this guy did one photo-op and disappeared. Too damn Liberal?
Continue reading1) For all his “regular guy” posings, the PM treats these casual photo ops very seriously. In this picture, all his familiar tropes appear: staplers, folders, papers–the guy works hard, just not on one of them new-fangled computer thingies (and…
Continue readingA few points that might be helpful. The solar flare occurs at the very beginning of the event and is just the brief bright flash. The flare itself is not that big, or unusual. There is a loop of dark material that rises and expands; this is the filamen…
Continue readingCPoC MP Chris Alexander says this is the result of a hack, and Jesse Helmer thinks the bogus twitter message is the result of a hack at Conservative.ca resulting in all linked sites tweeting the false info. Bet we’ll see a lot of this in the near futur…
Continue readingVerdict: Civility is boring. We want blood. I give it a week until John Baird drops his pants and tells the opposition to witness his foreign policy. Also, The Sun has either shopped this photo out of bias so Mr. Layton looks like a pinhead, or he…
Continue reading….on the Keystone XL pipe-line. Nothing you haven’t heard before, other than his opinion that the State Dept. is likely to give its approval. In any case, its the Northern Gateway that really needs to be stopped. It’s the one o…
Continue readingGrandstanding does work. The babilicious Brigette DePape did it and she’s become internationally famous and probably refusing more job offers in the last day than James Morton gets in a year. Jack Layton has been doing it by flirting with separatists a…
Continue readingFrom a Tory blogger whose probably a guy (not that there’s anything wrong with that):Will this affect her career? Yep — but not in the way you might think.First, you have to note the details for before and after her altercation — the news rele…
Continue reading2nd one off The Moniter:Not the obvious choice, but anthemic enough in the end. PS. I think I’ve finally figured out band-leader Patrick Stickles’ thing with the beard. He’s not doing the Jihadi look; he’s doing the Starving American Civil …
Continue readingI’ve said many times that the security measures for some of these various social networking services are pitiful. Well, check this out:So, let’s say [Lepp]’s posting address was [Lepp].hacked@yfrog.com. If Lepp emailed a photo to t…
Continue readingI don’t normally go for braids, but in this case I say fire her if you must but then give her the Order of Canada. You can see her dancing around doing some kind of art thing here.
Continue readingThe recent poll also asked residents which party they would support should a provincial election be held today. Among those residents who were decided / leaning it was found that support was split between the Progressive Conservative and Liberals (34% …
Continue readingEnvironmental Defence has a nice take-down of John LaForet and the gang at Wind Concerns Ontario. Below is my favourite bit, because it answers a question that has bothered me for awhile:A big part of the anti-wind activists’ argument regarding viabi…
Continue readingThe following is the Elsevier retraction statement that will appear shortly. Retraction notice This article has been retracted at the request of the Editor in Chief and co‑Editors, as it contain portions of other authors’ writings on the same topic i…
Continue readingDets here! First Ezra did Shaidle, now Lemire. He must thinking giving these guys a platform is going to get some government somewhere to act.Update: The message on FreeD has been disappeared. Don’t know what that signifies. You …
Continue readingOnce a consultant for the salmon farming industry, these days Vivian Krause refers to herself as a “researcher”, and spends a fair bit of time attacking groups like the David Suzuki Foundation for their criticism of industry practi…
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