Yes, I remember Michael Sona and his actions from last May. At the time I was thinking about how strong a kool-aid dependency he must have. In my opinion, to have run in to disrupt a legitimate polling station requires a hyper-fanatical devotion to a cause. That sort of outburst didn’t appear to be
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Poutine Getting Stale – Facts Stay Fresh
Ezra Levant fans are taking the position that there is no scandal. Some go so far as to say there is no evidence, and the Conservative Party wasn’t the obvious benefactor of the Pierre Poutine Scheme to misdirect mostly non-CPC voters away from legitimate polls. Meanwhile, real journalists, who’ve uncovered
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Tell me again why Pro-Life isn’t Pro-Stupid?
Facts and science be damned! We have Jebus on our side… (and there was rejoicing). Well, at least the anti-woman crowd still has icky-graphical signs to wave around because they have lost yet another scientific leg to stand on. Thanks to the Guttmacher institute for advancing the rights of women,
Continue readingmark a rayner | scribblings, squibs & sundry monkey joys: Solar storms spur huge aurora borealis
Here’s some time-lapse video taken in Norway of the auroras caused by the solar flares. Gorgeous. And here’s a pic from of the Aurora Australis … from space! Taken by Dutch astronaut Andre Kuipers on board the International Space Station … Continue reading →
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Dang it – anyone at the scene of that fire, I dropped my keys fumbling with my lenses…
Continue readingScott's DiaTribes: Looking forward to covering the NDP Leadership Convention
The NDP is holding their leadership convention on March 23-24 in Toronto, and they put out the word a month or so back that they would be accrediting bloggers to cover their convention. After some consultations, instead of applying as representing my individual blog, I decided to apply to represent
Continue readingMorton's Musings: National Post column argues for the death penalty
One name: Guy Paul Morin. If the death penalty existed he would surely have been put to death for a crime he did not commit. (Guy Paul Morin was wrongly convicted of the October 1984 rape and murder of his eight-year-old next-door neighbour, Christine Jessop of Queensville, Ontario. DNA testing
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Real Women In The Senate
Senator Terry M. Mercer gives government Senate Leader Marjory LeBreton the gears over anti-Gay hate group Real Women’s being invited to help hand out Diamond Jubilee Medals in honour of Queen Elizabeth’s 60 years of service to Canada. I don’t think any of this has come up in the HOC; perhaps someone
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: It’s all about export, eh #nlpoli
On Tuesday, natural resources minister Jerome Kennedy told the House of Assembly: Essentially, what Muskrat Falls does, it allows 40 per cent of the power for the Island to meet the Island needs, 20 per cent for the export – 170 megawatts which allows us to then gain access to
Continue readingFacing Autism in New Brunswick: Heartless Canada Does It Again – Rejecting Another Immigrant Family Because of Son with Autism
Image by Kaz Novak, The Hamilton Spectator An immigrant South Korean family, Sungsoo Kim, wife Sunmi Kim, daughter Lisa and son Taehoon, have been living in Canada for the past 9 years. A permanent residency application has been rejected by Canadian officials because the 12 year old son is autistic. He received
Continue readingDigital locks still intact
For those of you keeping score, the copyright bill is headed back to the Commons after being amended in committee, but it only took amendments from Conservatives, not from the opposition. And that means that digital locks provisions remain in the bill. So if you break a digital lock to make a
Continue readingTrashy's World: Legitimizing myths and superstitions…
…And I have a Loblaws bag with the remains of a Leprechaun contained therein. Really! I do! An Israeli antiquities dealer has been acquitted of forging relics, including the contentious James ossuary — the casket said to have held the remains of the brother of Jesus. A judge acquitted Oded
Continue readingThe Sixth Estate: Inside the Conservative Voter Information Database (CIMS)
CIMS rocks. You can’t win without it. — Prescient Conservative campaigner in 2004 The centrepiece of whatever group perpetrated the robocall hoaxes, and is so far known to the public only by their alias “Pierre Poutine,” must be a voter information database. In Canada, these are called Liberalist (the Liberal
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 4346…March Madness In Hours
This is a good day. Go Orange. WFDS
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 4345…Mea Culpa Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein, the smarty pants of smarty pantses, had a birthday yesterday. He is still dead so no candles. Interesting fact: he was a big Soupy Sales fan. Soupy Sales was the inventor of the pie in the face. Hey, someone had to be the first, right? Another interesting fact
Continue readingDavid Climenhaga's Alberta Diary: Media focus on senior dumped at Emergency Ward signals more trouble for Redford Tories
Journalists focus on Beth Podgurny at yesterday morning’s news conference in Edmonton. Below: Grace Denver, her daughter Beth with husband Jackie Podgurny. As shocking as it is an ambulance crew was used by a for-profit Edmonton nursing home to evict an 80-year-old grandmother afflicted with dementia and dump her at
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. ….Coolin’ Up The Old Guy (v.XXIX) My oldest kid was out late last night. No music-making this time though. Instead, she went to a student rally with both her own kind (ie. the anglos), and, I would imagine, all those other kids (ie. the francos). The languageing went fine,
Continue readingCathiefromCanada: 3.14
Happy Pi Day (3.14) Domino Spiral:
Continue readingDriving The Porcelain Bus: Rob Ford’s Pattern of Knowingly Disobeying Conflict of Interest Rules
Ford’s pattern of disobeying conflict of interest rules at City Hall goes back to 2005. This list further proves that there is no way Ford can claim ignorance in the new case against him that could get him kicked out of the mayor’s position. See The Toronto Star: Ford’s conflicts
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