I figured out a problem with a site I’m meant to be supporting as part of my freelance business. It was a Drupal White Screen of Death which was not covered off by any of the possibilities listed in the documentation. It was pretty silly actually. The …
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Harry Potter in Syndey
Just after looking at the Sydney tar ponds, April and I watched another sort of dark magic: “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2″ [8/10]. I even had to stand in a lineup in the theatre for a few minutes. The crowd seemed to like it, and it was okay, but made for fans […]
Geoff at Mount Allison: Thank You NPR
I just posted a short thank you video to NPR and its fans because of the effect that their support had on my attitude towards social media. I’ve realized over the years that I’m much better at expressing myself by writing than by speaking. However…
Continue readingTrashy's World: Who needs EA’s?
Industry can police itself, right?
More bold-faced lies from the Cons during the May election campaign…
Sigh… environmental laggards indeed…
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Continue readingMorton's Musings: An inefficient virus kills its host. A clever virus stays with it.
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Continue readingTrashy's World: Heat. Humidity. Earthquakes. Where are the locusts?
I get the heat and humidity… but I swear I just felt the earth move. And no. The Resident Love Goddess is out with the kids at Shakespeare in the park! Pervs… I mean, if the Christian doomsayers are right… I’m thinkin’ I’ll have THOUSANDS of grasshooper-like insects gnawing at my bald head by dawn! […]
Continue readingFacing Autism in New Brunswick: When I Can No Longer Walk With Conor
My buddy, Conor, 15One thing about which I have no regrets is the time I have spent with my sons and, in the context of autism and this blog, my time with my 15 year old severely autistic son Conor. Many years ago I vowed to do whatever I …
Continue readingCalgaryGrit: This Week in Ontario – And They’re Off!
Political excitement at the federal level may have evaporated faster than water in downtown Toronto, but the provincial scene is still very much alive this summer across Ontario.Among this week’s highlights:1. The Liberals scored a big endorsement from…
Continue readingActs of Citizenship: Ontario Liberals in Free Fall: Add Disingenuousness and Hypocrisy to Campaign to Woo "Progressives"–Updated
In their desperate attempt to halt their slide down the polls, the Ontario Liberals are preparing to spread out across Toronto’s subway to distribute flyers charging the NDP with abandoning the environment while crowing about David Suzuki’s pat on the back. Oh the irony. The OLP is hardly known for its commitment to the environment. […]
BigCityLib Strikes Back: Lucian Freud Is Dead
As anyone who has read my ongoing analysis of Canada’s Group of 7 painters must realize, I don’t know much about art. But I do know my way around uncompromising assholes. Painter Lucian Freud was one, and his death today les…
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: PEI and Nova Scotia
Today we ate lunch at the Red Shoe Pub, owned by the Rankin Family sisters. We drove down the coast of Cape Breton to the PEI ferry at Caribou. Here is the sunset from Whale Cove Campground on Digby Neck. It’s a nice campsite, and the owners, the Tidds are nice people. We met Vaughn’s […]
Paper Dynamite Online: Carolyn Bennett Wants Your Suggestions
Carolyn Bennett has started a discussion over at the Liberal Party’s new blog:"Some have been asking me if there are things in the Change Commission Report that could/should be enshrined in the Constitution/By-Laws of the Party …. any thoughts ???"Join the discussion here.
Continue readingImpolitical: Random leadership notes
Alyssa Rosenberg offers a few leadership lessons from the Harry Potter series and one other: Both the Harry Potter series and Suzanne Collins’ Hunger Games books are about what happen when you use young people as mascots and as instruments for larger…
Continue readingThe Enlightened Savage: The Race to the Premier’s Office – 58 Days to the First Ballot
Nation, the race to replace Ed Stelmach as leader of the Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta is now, by any measure, under way. While nominations opened in mid-June, it was just 6 days ago that the nomination period ended. All 6 previously …
Continue readingThey Call Me "Mr. Sinister": The Meek May Inherit The Earth
But the accountants have first dibs on Toronto. Poor Toronto. Btw, the group responsible for the report calling for the gutting of Toronto has this as its company song. Surely, they must know what they are doing.
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Canada’s crime rate at lowest level in almost 40 years: StatsCan
Thus reads the headline in a story posted online by The Globe and Mail.Amongst the latest Statistics Canada findings, the following facts are worth noting:There were 554 homicides in 2010, down 56 from the year before. The decline in the homicide rate …
Continue readingCrime—the declining problem
Down, down, down it goes. According to Stats Can’s latest report, our crime rate has dropped again, down five per cent from 2009 to 2010, now in decline for 20 years. Particularly impressive was the 10 per cent drop in the murder rate, and perhaps even…
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 3942…John Martin You Have Made Your Point
John Martin, who you probably have never heard of, is an Ottawan who is costing you, that’s y o u, money.Let me set the stage. About 2 or 3 klicks south of Parliament Hill there is a fair grounds that was opened in the 1880’s called Lansdowne Park. L…
Continue readingMorton's Musings: Stay pending appeal
Granite Mortgage, 2011 MBCA 59 contains a helpful review of the law regarding a stay pending appeal: 2 In Labossiere et al. v. The Estate…
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