Wot’s the big deel about ejucation anyway. Like tryin to fix that fony climate change, it’s only going to impeed the rappture.TORONTO – Canada has an “enormous vacuum” at the centre of its national education leadership and should fill it with an interg…
Continue readingA voice from Riverbend: Bigger cuts to services mean bigger bonuses?
Globe & Mail reports: “Axe-wielding executives in the public service stand to earn big bonuses based on how much they cut in the run-up to the 2012 federal budget.” How does this make you feel?Does this mean that if a bureaucrat fires 1000 people …
Continue readingA voice from Riverbend: Bigger cuts to services mean bigger bonuses?
Globe & Mail reports: “Axe-wielding executives in the public service stand to earn big bonuses based on how much they cut in the run-up to the 2012 federal budget.” How does this make you feel?Does this mean that if a bureaucrat fires 1000 people instead of 100, he gets a
Continue readingBC Place giant outdoor screen blares light into nearby residents’ homes
The new BC Place is a fine upgrade indeed. Its giant ‘crown’ atop the building is at once ugly and beautiful. Inside, the new seats, the windows around the upper part, the retractable roof, the giant video screen are all awe-inspiring.Outside is anothe…
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: The Older Generation Joins With the Young
For people of my generation, the following videos are heartening, depicting as they to the willingness of military veterans to put themselves at risk to protect the young people in the Occupy Boston Protest. Be sure to view both videos – the first exp…
Continue readingRedBedHead: Saint Jobs In Perspective
Been a bit swamped with work – and building a mud hut for my daughter – for the last week but even up to my elbows in mud and straw I knew about the iPhone 4S release and the death of Steve Jobs. As for the iPhone 4S, well, I think that the weird obs…
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 4076…Please Forward This To PM Harper
Then tell him to read it out loud to his caucus.This piece is from today’s Los Angeles Times:Stephen Downing, a retired deputy chief of the Los Angeles Police Department and board member of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, responds to The Times’ Oc…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On concealed agendas
Just because the Cons have no credibility in decrying popular protest as a means of political change doesn’t mean they won’t do their best to undermine activism now that they have full control over the levers of power. And they’re going out of their wa…
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 4075…Amber Miller: Mother Of The Year
Picked this up from the L. A. Times. Amber Miller, 39 weeks pregnant, ran/walked the Chicago Marathon, grabbed a bite to eat and then had a 7 pound, 13 ounce baby girl.I was going to run the Chicago Marathon but I get dizzy tying my shoes soooooooooo….
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 4074…More Unemployment Woes For Ontario
The NBA, a league which includes the Toronto Raptors, has cancelled the first two weeks of its season.Looks like the whole shebang could be cancelled.The players can afford to take the hit. But what about the little guys? The collateral damage folks,…
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 4073…Windsor Ontario Be Partying
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 […]
Continue readingBlast 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…