I’m well stuck into what I hope is my last draft of my next novel, and I thought I’d share the occasional quotation from the book: The sirens were an old technology, originally invented so that everyone knew it was … Continue reading →
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 4416…I Thought Marty Burke Wanted Public Life
I mean, seriously, you ran for Parliament and everything. So you chose the public life but now you are being a b*tch about the whole thing. Federal Guelph Conservative candidate Marty Burke and his wife have filed a harassment complaint with the city police over a visit to their home
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 4415…If You Are In Kansas This Is Old News
But if you are with me in The Great White North it is as fresh as a daisy. MSNBC has a story out of the home of the 7 Nation Army, Witchita, Kansas about “A Kansas man [who] was struck by lightning hours after buying three Mega Millions lottery tickets,
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 4414…At Least He Is Pretty
David Beckham. He is a soccer star. Who is married to a pop star. Posh Spice. There in lies the problem. Let the Yahoo! Football blog Dirty Tackle fill in the spaces. Having a tattoo of the word ‘Victoria’ incorrectly spelled in Sanskrit clearly wasn’t enough for David Beckham, so
Continue readingMorton's Musings: Some recent cases on issue estoppel
Wolfe v. Pickar, 2011 ONCA 347 (per Goudge J.A., Gillese and Watt JJ.A. concurring) held that in determining whether the doctrine of issue estoppel applied, the Court of Appeal follows the framework established by the Supreme Court of Canada in Danyluk v. Ainsworth, [2001] 2 S.C.R. 460: (1) the same
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 4413…Juno Update
Still no buzz in Ottawa. As best I can figure the whole house is paper. That is show biz talk for no one paid for tickets. Except fools.WFDS
Continue readingcmkl: The pre-reading bookworm
Irene picked up a bunch of ‘chapter books’ aimed mostly at grade school kids from Boomerang Kids on Friday. Apart from demonstrating impeccable taste in child literature, Irene also demonstrate an uncanny read on the forecast.
Continue readingFrom Orangutan: Dear Premier Jean Charest,
Here are some words of advice. You may be making the biggest career mistake of your life by ignoring the hundreds of thousands of protesting students in your Canadian province of Quebec. From what I have read, you are currently the most unpopular provincial leader in Canada, and your Liberal party
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Investors: No More Flaring of Fracked Oil and Gas in Bakken Shale
exxon-gas-flaring-photo01.jpg The debate over flaring unconventional oil and gas in shale basins across the United States has suddenly heated up immensely (excuse the bad pun). On March 27, the Coalition for Environmentally Responsible Economy (CERES) penned a letter calling for an end to the practice, writing, We are a group of 37
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 4412…Dimitri Soudas’ Beard
Apparently the former head bully in the Prime Minister’s Office was out witted by Don Martin, a mere journalist. So the big girl threatened to go to Mr. Martin’s boss at Bell Media and tattle tale on him. Seriously, how old are you Dimitri Soudas? According to the article in
Continue readingPMMLiberal.ca: Celebrating the Charter of Rights and Freedoms
I recenlty wrote a blog entry for the Liberal Party of Canada in Pitt Meadows-Maple Ridge-Mission. On a blustery Saturday morning in 1982, the Right Hon. Pierre Elliot Trudeau sat beside Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II on Parliament Hill while she proclaimed, by letters patent and statuary instrument, the Canada
Continue readingPop The Stack: Conservative Budget Shows Us What is Important to Them
A common response from many pundits on the recent Conservative budget seems to be: sensible, dull, uncontroversial. David Frum recently published his analysis and went a bit further asking whether or not this budget definitively proves that Canada is the “best-governed country in the advanced democratic world”. He thinks it does. His question is especially
Continue readingPop The Stack: Conservative Budget Shows Us What is Important to Them
A common response from many pundits on the recent Conservative budget seems to be: sensible, dull, uncontroversial. David Frum recently published his analysis and went a bit further asking whether or not this budget definitively proves that Canada is the “best-governed country in the advanced democratic world”. He thinks it does. His question is especially
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Leadership 2012 Lessons Learned – Pundit Edition
With a week’s perspective on the NDP’s leadership campaign, I’ll take a quick look back to see – particularly in comparing my own impressions as to how the vote might play out to what actually happened. To start off with, let’s note that of all the publicly-available metrics available to
Continue readingHow to Stalk Girls for Fun and Profit.
Alison at Creekside alerted me to the existence of this app, and some of the increasing disquiet with regard to its possible use. From here: … Girls Around Me wasn’t actually doing anything wrong. Sure, on the surface, it looks like a hook-up app like Grindr for potential stalkers and
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 4411…Harper Knows Marketing Be Where It Is At
Which is why he was all over the place when in opposition, pre opp and now. About the only thing the Tories don’t have is a perfume/fragrance. This is not such a stretch sports fans, my buddy Len Berman reports that sports teams, specifically the most successful sports team on
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 4410…Rock, Chalk, Jayhawk
Plus six. In the bank. Bill Self. WFDS
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 4409…Beat Him Like A Rented Mule
Him is Senator Patrick Cash-For-Life [that is his native name] Brazeau and he got beaten by elected Papineau MP Justin Trudeau. I frankly did not see this coming and nor did the books who had Mr. er Senator Brazeau minus 500. I didn’t see the fight, Earth Day and the
Continue readingthe woodshed: Plus ca change, plus ca meme chose
Last weekend @TheBrazman was all over twitter challenging reporters to step into the ring with him and demanding to know how much they were paid and generally making an obnoxious ass of himself. Having seen last night’s fight, I believe Nelson Muntz said it best for all of us: Once
Continue readingcartoon life: The cult of the illusion of choice
At the No Frills, the Corn Flakes were difficult to spot. The display was all messed up. There were twenty or so boxes scattered about with Best Before dates of Feb 2013, but one last one with the Best Before date of March 2013. Filed under: life, London Tagged: Corn
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