The Lions are 5 and 0 for the first time since Louis St. Laurent was the Prime Minister.The Tagers are in the American League Championship.The Windsor Lancers, although they lost to Queen’s, are top 10 in Canuck College football.And don’t get me starte…
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Your Daily Nazi: A Regular Plethora Of Nazis
When discussing hate speech legislation, Section 13, and so on and so forth, its important to get a handle on the kind of people these tools are typically used against. ARC has compiled an extensive list of violent acts committed by Canadian Neo-Nazis …
Continue readingMorton's Musings: Review of a custody decision
N.E.R. v. J.D.M., 2011 NBCA 57 deals with the standard of reviewing a custody decision: [9] …
Continue readingHeroes for Today: Alan Grayson
Don’t you love how, in just a minute and a half, he shuts up a whole table full of rightards with nothing but the facts? (And yeah, how about that prick in the green, P.J. O’Rourke? He hauls out every tired right-wing media stereotype of hippies, but doesn’t describe a single leftist that I’ve actually […]
Continue readingBoaters need to be schooled on the rules of the water
What is it about a Personal Water Craft that give its rider an enhanced sense of entitlement? We constantly deal with it at the canoe club; idiots who scream up and down the harbour on those nefarious machines, oblivious to the huge signs that scream out in big red letters: No Wake; maximum speed 7 […]
Blast Furnace Canada Blog: Cherry in more hot water
To follow up on my last post about “Grapes”:The three NHL players that Don Cherry criticized last Thursday night — that three retired NHL players, namely Stu Grimsom, Chris Nilan and Jim Thomson were “pukes,” “turncoats,” and “hypocrites” for saying…
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: The Republican Debates Now Turning Into the Reform-Alliance Debates
Watching the Republican presidential hopefuls duke it out to determine who is the most absurd, I’m reminded of how far this party has fallen since the days of Eisenhower. I doubt they’d get anyone “normal” to run now.In the latest round of insanity, Ri…
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Belated September Traffic #nlpoli
In the rush of the uber-exciting election, your humble e-scribbler forgot to post the September stat porn list. Consider this your bit of exciting information during an otherwise dull voting day. Williams set to offer comms director plum patronage…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- No, it’s no huge surprise that the Cons are planning to launch systematic attacks against labour as the next step after making it clear they’ll treat any strike or lockout as both illegitimate and entirely the f…
Continue readingWise Law Blog: 140Law – Legal Headlines for October 11, 2011
We hope all of our reader’s had a lovely weekend! Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter:
B.C.’s missing women inquiry set to begin – http://goo.gl/YCmYP
Don Cherry comments draw legal threat from NHL trio -http://goo.g…
Accidental Deliberations: On mutual interests
As a general rule it’s fairly safe to say Gerry Nicholls’ advice to left-wing parties is based on something other than a desire to see them succeed – and his latest is no exception. But it’s worth pointing out one entirely valid observation behind his …
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Santa, The Easter Bunny, and God
[ed. I’d like to take this opportunity to welcome Bleatmop to Dead Wild Roses as a guest columnist. Please welcome him, and I would like to extend my thanks for his time in preparing this post (and hopefully more to come).] Earlier this year, shortly after Easter, several co-workers and I were sitting around the […]
350 or bust: Chris Hedges: At This Moment In History, Either You Are A Rebel Or A Slave
Chris Hedges, Pulitzer Prize-winning war correspondent and author, had this to say about the “Occupy Wall Street” movement last week: “The only word that these corporations know is ‘more’…There is no way within the A…
Continue readingwmtc: occupy wall street: the most important thing in the world right now
In case you missed any of these, here’s some great stuff on the Occupy Wall Street movement.Naomi Klein: Occupy Wall Street: The Most Important Thing in the World Now: If there is one thing I know, it is that the 1 percent loves a crisis. When people a…
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: Policy By Other Means
Lawrence Martin’s review of Murray Brewster’s book, The Savage War, illustrates yet again Von Clausewitz’s observation that war is “policy by other means.” Canada got into Afghanistan because the Martin government wanted to appease the United States fo…
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Civil Disobedience: The Courage of Tim DeChrisotpher
I had not heard of Tim DeChristopher, a brave young man who, in the dying days of the Bush administration in 2008, attended an oil and gas auction in Utah in 2008 and disrupted it by submitting winning bids on various tracts of land, with no intention …
Continue readinggay persons of color: Australian equality movement gains steam with support from Christian rugby star David Pocock
Support for marriage equality in Australia continues to gain momentum since the lower house of the state of Tasmania became the first in the country to formally support same-sex marriage last month. Add to this the declaration from leading rugby player…
Continue readingImpolitical: Cuts with consequences
The Harper government’s cuts to Environment Canada and their tinkering with our ozone monitoring systems deserve lots of ongoing attention. Note this from Climate Progress Saturday, the giant ozone hole that was detected and reported on recently may ha…
Continue readingFar and Wide: What’s Wrong With Canadian Politics?
A couple good reads this morning, digesting low voter turnout, the general malaise that is objectively putting our “democracy at risk”. I’d like to point to another story that came out last week, garnering little attention, but offering up a terrific …
Continue readingMorton's Musings: GAO GAO: ROAD TO RECOVERY
By Suzanne Hall – October 10, 2011Bai Yun is in the main viewing area while Gao Gao recovers.Giant panda Gao Gao has been secluded in the upper portion of the San Diego Zoo’s Giant Panda Research Station as he recovers from his procedure of last Th…
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