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Another found artifact. From E. Captured, straight-up this time, by the wee microphone in her laptop. ______ Image at the top of the post: Mini-waterfall in Mt. Royal Park, Montreal from David Cure-Hryciuk’s most excellent Panoramio page… And did I mention that, once again, this tune ain’t no cover of

SerialShortcomings AsStrengthVille Yesterday, we noted that Robert Matas of The Globe caught Christy Clark and her handlers foreshadowing a prettybig lie in which they had their PoMoCo bye-bye candidate extolling her as the saviour of the Evergreen rapid-transit line when, in reality she almost killed it, twice, in the year

UnintendedConsequences OfRealConsequenceVille Regarding those wildcatters causing all that trouble down at your local high-priced fast-food and baggage-handling emporium: Air Canada ground crews and baggage handlers are holding an illegal strike at Toronto’s Pearson Airport, (and Montreal’s Pierre Trudeau) causing flight delays and cancellations. The CBC’s Redmond Shannon reported from the

. ….Is That Everything Is Uncertain. OK. I have finally read SFU Economics professor Anke Kessler’s draft academic paper titled, ‘Does misinformation demobilize the electorate? Measuring the impact of alleged ‘robocalls’ in the 2011 Canadian election?’ And, as long as you are willing to go along with one big assumption,

SonnyWannaTryTheBiggestTop OfThemAllVille The real America, where Americans really live, is a big, wide, loud, mean-streeted, good-hearted, sloppy drums kind of a place where things can go really, really well or, on a dime, go really, really bad. And I mean that in the best possible Kerouacian in the Nebraska Diner

WillQuebecHelpSaveUsToo? ROCVille From the notoriously biased CBC: Tens of thousands of Quebec students descended on downtown Montreal Thursday afternoon for the latest in a series of escalating protests against proposed tuition hikes. An imposing crowd, considerably larger than the one at Montreal’s famous 1995 pre-referendum rally, formed a kilometres-long sea

AllTheFreedomOfInformationThatDoesn’tFit RedactEverythingVille And The Record Is 1,751. Number of FOI requests by one person? ….Nope. Number for FOI requests aimed at one government department? ….Nope. Number of FOI requests involving other FOI requests that were never answered? …Who knows, that’s top secret? Number of pages completely redacted from Ian Reid’s

DillingTheBert AllTheWayToTheTopVille Non-club member Robert Matas has an interesting story in The Globe today about how Christy Clark did her best (or should that be worst?), more than once, to get the Evergreen rapid transit line to PoMoCo killed: …After she was chosen as premier by Liberal Party members in

Bids?WeDon’tNeedNoStinkin’Bids! SocializeAllMyFriendsPrivatelySmearAllMyEnemiesVille Well, at least it wasn’t ‘solicitor-client’ privilege. At least not yet. Jonathan Fowlie, in a post-FOI follow-up from last week has the story in the VSun: Why is the provincial government able to directly award a contract to a friend of Premier Christy Clark? That’s been the question

. …He Did It His Way. From the incomparable JimBobbySez! .

AllTheAnalysisThatWeNeed NotQuiteMainstreamVille The following are three things you should read, today, about the potential impact of a pan-Canadian voter suppression… First – Alison to get the gist of the thing. Second – Professor Anke Kessler’s draft academic paper wherein she does a statistical analysis on the differences in turnout in

BigTime,He’sOnHisWayHe’sMakin’It Cheney-O-MiteVille Remember when Ann Coulter came to Canada awhile back, in March of 2010, to be more precise? And remember how a single, pointed, intelligent question from a female undergraduate at the University of Western Ontario caused the conservative comedian to first debase herself and her audience before she

AllTheLinksThatMayOrMayNotFit EightPlusOneStillEqualsNineVille All kinds of folks appear to be searching high and low for one Mr. Rick McKnight, who apparently does/did all sorts of things for Mr. Matt Meier and his company RackNine. Unfortunately, however, when Postmedia reporters McGregor and Maher asked Mr. Meier and Mr. Meier’s lawyer about the

. ….Lone Bad Actor In Guelph Why, according to PostMedia’s McGregor and Maher, are all of Marty Burke’s former (Email) Chain Gang lawyering up? Allegedly: …Elections Canada has been on the trail of Poutine since the election, laboriously following his electronic trail with a series of subpeonas delivered to telephone

AreWeInStockholmNow StrangeSymptomsVille …In Which Saskboy Asks, Where Is The Outrage? “…For some reason unknown to this point, serious violations of the Elections Act all over the country were minimized, ignored, dismissed, and forgotten by most people and the authorities entrusted to uphold the crucial machinery of our democracy. A select

AllTheGumChewin’ThatFits Presser?WhatPresser?Ville Remember when Harperland Glimmer Twin #2 had a meltdown with members of the Vancouver Media last week as she repeatedly told said assembled reporters that the (not)Premier would not take their questions because she was not really standing 10 feet away from them. And throughout it all the

FoolUsOnce,ShameOnWe WeWon’tBeFooledAgainVille And what a fine I.D. it was… **** And apropos of absolutely nothing at all, it would appear that there is a RackNine mystery man afoot for whom no one can find any I.D. whatsoever, real or otherwise. And that fine fellow’s name is, allegedly…. …..McKnight. PostMedia’s McGregor

SomeHangoutsKnowNoLimits StillNoEndgameInSightVille Mr. Ian Brodie’s ‘Conservative Party of Canada’ bonafides are as solid as a rock. For example, he served as Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s Chief of Staff from 2006 to 2008. Heckfire, he was even running things for Mr. Harper back in the pre-fusion C.C.R.A.P. days. Given that, it

There’sNoSum LikeZeroSumVille Barbara Justason and friends have a new provincial voter pref poll out. The sample size is kinda small, it was done by phone/online hybrid, and the data were gathered before the Bloy and BC Placename blow-ups, etc. But. Who cares…Let’s just have a look at the raw numbers,

SomeFantasiesHave NoIslandToLandOnVille Brodie I – No Frame. Brodie II – All Frame. There sure is a lot riding on that bowl of congealed cheese-curd. (remember, T. Milewski’s report from last week was focussed on Robo AND Real Calls) .