Miscellaneous material to start your week.
– The Halifax Chronicle Herald pushes back against the Cons’ and Libs’ anti-Bloc witch-hunt:
For partisan reasons, involvement with the Bloc has become a game of political football. The Tories and Grits feel …
She was monitored day and night by two “buddies,” girls who’d been there awhile and knew the drill. They accompanied her to the shower and toilet, and introduced her to a life of communal isolation and rigid discipline. Girls were not allowed to conver…
Continue reading“Funneling requests for taxpayer-funded projects in his riding directly through his political office in Huntsville”? Can’t be. Must be that commie Toronto Star doing the digging and reporting facts again. Conservatives – call out Sun and Post medi…
Continue readingJust as former Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty — probably the only guy who’s close enough to the centre that he could actually beat Barack Obama in next year’s presidential race — withdrew his candidacy, current Texas governor Rick Perry announced he…
Continue readingI can hear the Ministry of Natural Resources helicopter already up in the sky on this hazy Red Lake morning. The smoke from nearby forest fires continues to drift into town, depending on the wind direction. This morning it’s heavier than it has…
Continue readingSometimes I tell clients not to sue, especially in libel cases, because winning will be more costly than just overlooking the slight.
The CPC has a right to protect its own trademarks — that's just a legal point. Arguably there might be a free s…
Continue readingDuring the election campaign, the government explained that the lack of a paper trail for the G8 funding in Tony Clement’s riding was the consequence of necessary speed. Things needed to be done quickly, so the necessary checks in the system had to be …
Continue reading I love choir. The people, the music, the practising and the good stress of being put in a position where one has to focus and do a myriad of things well. How am I standing? Is my posture correct, is my belly loose and larynx low? Am I breathing correctly? What is the next […]
Last week, I noted the top-line results from Angus Reid’s latest federal polling. But perhaps even more important than the stability in Canada’s party polling numbers is the question of which party is living up to the expectations underlying its popula…
Continue readingIt's enough to make one cynical — maybe power does corrupt?
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OTTAWA—Tony Clement personally presided over the $50 million G8 legacy payouts, funneling requests for taxpayer-funded projects in his riding …
Last week a commenter was highly critical of my labelling of Sun TV’s token loudmouthed brat, Ezra Levant, as a loon. Said commenter referred to Levant’s seemingly solid-gold street cred as an innocent victim of our country’s totalitarian Human Rights Commissions, and even that my labelling him as loony might actually be evidence that I […]
Continue readingUp at the cottage last week we were drowning worms at a furious pace in a futile attempt to entice the exceedingly rare Doe Lake walleye to latch on to a hook and hence score a position of honour at the dinner table. By midweek we were out of worms, ha…
Continue readingWhile I have written previously about Canada’s ongoing indefensible export of death, also known as asbestos, a story in today’s Star puts this abominable practice back into the public consciousness.Entitled Tories tussle with asbestos widow over use of…
Continue readingWarren Buffett lends the Democrats a hand: “Stop Coddling the Super-Rich.” Twelve members of Congress will soon take on the crucial job of rearranging our country’s finances. They’ve been instructed to devise a plan that reduces the 10-year deficit…
Continue readingI’ve been posting all summer about Hudak’s record on abortion. (He’s pro-life and has pledged to defund abortions on a petition he first denied signing, then finally ‘fessed up to it). All summer this issue has dodged him but he stupidly refused to answer any questions from the media and now sees his party sliding […]
More unsettling polling news for the Ontario PC’s and their leader Tim Hudak:
With less than eight weeks to go before Ontarians head to the polls, the race between the Progressive Conservatives and the Liberals has tightened, with the Tories five points ahead among decided voters, a new poll suggests. The Nanos Research poll — conducted between August 10 and August 13 for CTV, The Globe and Mail and CP24 — found the Liberals are on an upswing, closing the gap slightly with the Tories. According to the poll, support sits at 42.1 per cent for the Progressive Conservatives, 37.6 per cent for the Liberals, 16.2 per cent for […]
Continue readingIn this 6th out of 20 video tips for incoming Mount Allison University students, fourth-year environmental studies student Avery Wheeler returns to discuss the academic transition from high school to university.
As I wrote…
Continue readingHere are today’s leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter:Regulations proposed under Canada’s new Fighting Internet and Wireless Spam Act – http://t.co/i8vX67TWoman’s 29-month wait for ruling ‘most regrettable,’ court says – Toronto Star – ht…
Continue readingLast Thursday, the Seattle Mariners released an “It Gets Better” video against anti-gay bullying to become the fifth Major League Baseball (MLB) team to do so and the first to include players from Seattle teams in the National Football League (NFL), …
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