These clowns will make me look more serious, right? Rob Ford look for new office staff MORE RobFordLooksAtThings
Continue readingLeDaro: Rob Ford: Welcome to Toronto
Harper and Ford will make a great political team.
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: PMO Slush Funds, Defecting Tories, The Prime Prevaricator’s Diction And Deflection Tactics
These are the main topics discussed on last night’s At Issue panel: BTW, Parliament rises in about a week. I hope the weather for Harper and his many enablers continues to be hot and uncomfortable, with heavy storms in the fall. Recommend this Post
Continue readingExcited Delirium: When Will the CPC Wake Up?
When will Conservatives wake up and get rid of their greatest liability: Stephen Harper?
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Canadians deserve to know if U.S. federal agencies are blanket-monitoring their communications
In the aftermath of yesterday’s revelations about the U.S. National Security Agency collecting the phone records of millions of Verizon customers, Canadians want to know if U.S. federal agencies are blanket-monitoring their communications. Without greater transparency, the answer is unclear. We deserve to know. Demand greater transparency: http://openmedia.ca/stand Article by
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 6112…Justin Trudeau Syracuse Fan
Go Orange! Love it! WFDS
Continue reading350 or bust: Ottawa: Buying Ads Is Easier Than Rooting Out CPC Corruption
Power, like a desolating pestilence, Pollutes whate’er it touches. Percy Bysshe Shelley, Queen Mab What a week in “Ottawapiskat”! In Canada’s capital city the embattled government of Stephen Harper is facing one scandal after another, topped yesterday by the very public exit from the CPC caucus of MP Brent Rathgeber.
Continue readingwmtc: healthy slow cooker recipe of the week: thai peanut chicken
In defiance of current internet rules, I am posting this on my own blog instead of on Pinterest – but please feel free to share this on Pinterest if you like. I’m going to post one slow-cooker recipe each week until I run out of ideas. Thai Peanut Chicken, adapted
Continue readingOPSEU Diablogue: Home care – it’s critical we get it right this time
Ontario’s Community Care Access Centres could have been very different had events unfolded differently in the early 1990s. At the beginning of that decade home care was considered to have more of a leg in social services than health care. … Continue reading →
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: In Praise of Political Cartoonists
Where would we be without their pithy insights? Recommend this Post
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: New Documents in West Virginia Coal Lawsuit Shine Light on Judicial Corruption Allegations
“Extreme by any measure.” Those four words were used by the U.S. Supreme Court in a landmark 2009 decision to describe judicial corruption and corporate influence in the West Virginia courts. That opinion by the nation’s highest court famously reversed the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals justices who had
Continue readingLeDaro: Stephen Harper’s empire: Is it falling apart?
Alberta MP Brent Rathgeber has resigned from the Conservative caucus and rumours are that three or more MPs will do the same. Partially crumbled already. CBC video on Harper’s troubles.
Continue readingMorton's Musings: Abandonment a defence in Canada
R. v. Gauthier, 2013 SCC 32 upholds the defence of abandonment from a common intent to commit a crime. Many, including this writer, doubted such defence existed in Canada. Well, it does and the Court holds: [38] Thus, it was held that a defence of abandonment has three essential elements: (1) there must be
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: On The Politically Compliant
Woke up this morning thinking of our friends in the animal kingdom, and their affinity for their counterparts in Ottawa. Recommend this Post
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: June 7: It’s hard to read this crap every day….
I’ve just noticed that Donald Savoie, at the head of his columns, is referred to as a policy expert. As a description. that is absurd. They never referred to Dr. Cleary as a medical expert. In fact, no critic of shale gas or of the Irvings, has ever been referred
Continue readingBuckdog: House Of Commons Speaker Andrew Scheer DEFIES The Canada Election Act And Allows Two Inelibible Conservative’s To Sit As Members Or Parliament ….
‘The [Canada Elections] Act provides that an elected candidate who fails to provide documents required … may not continue to sit or vote as a member until the corrections have been made.’(Excerpt from a letter from Elections Canada to Speaker Andrew Scheer .. a letter that Speaker Scheer has been
Continue readingwmtc: in which i remember what big life change feels like
Even though I’m following several important news stories – from the revelations about the massive NSA domestic spying campaign to the slow-motion implosion of the Conservative Party of Canada to the show-trial of Bradley Manning – I seem unable to blog about anything but my own life. I remember two other times
Continue readingTHE FIFTH COLUMN: Prince of Wales Bridge: Why Isn’t This a Bikeway
(click on image to enlarge) As early as 2005, after the rail line was discontinued and the City of Ottawa purchased the bridge for possible future public transit use the NCC proposed using the bridge as a pedestrian and cycling bridge (Wikipedia: The Ottawa Citizen. (15 November 2005), NCC plans
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