Alberta Diary: Tories try new union-bashing gambit to divert attention from their daily scandals, fiascos

Federal Treasury Board President Tony Clement, left, makes Duffygate disappear, while two reporters and Prime Minister Stephen Harper, at right, look on. Actual Canadian politicians and media personalities may not appear exactly as illustrated. Below: The real Tony Clement, Arthur Porter. Desperate to divert public attention from Mike “The Puffster”

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Walking Turcot Yards: Gravity’s Rainbow Illustrated

A screaming comes across the sky…Above him lift girders…the carriage, which is built on several levels…drunks, old veterans…hustlers…derelicts, exhausted women with more children… On a Giant’s Shoulders: Zak Smith Illustrates Gravity’s Rainbow By Creon Upton April, 2005 Illustrating Gravity’s Rainbow is like putting Ezra Pound’s Cantos to music, or writing

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Canadian Trends: 2013: Mid-year review

Well, it’s almost June. I figured we’d review the 2013 trends and see how we’re doing. The biggest result of “going off the cliff” as it were is going to be a complete destruction in confidence. Uncertainty is certain to take hold once the eurphoria of the “fiscal cliff deal”

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