Rob Ford has nothing to fear. Pride 2011 is history. He can slink back to his office at City Hall.
I can report to the Mayor that nothing untoward happened at the great Pride Parade. A million plus people packed the streets on a brilliant day to celeb…
Continue reading¡Qué tubazo! Look who’s ba-ack in Venezuela, right in time for his country’s bicentennial independence day celebrations tomorrow: Chavecito converses with VTV reporter Ernesto Villegas on his return from Cuba, where he’s had surgery and other medical treatments for a pelvic abscess and tumor. He’s now on a strict diet (doctor’s orders), which might explain […]
Continue readingIslam, which according to a 2006 Statistics Canada poll is the fastest growing religion in the country, is associated, quite often by our youth, with oppression, terrorism and barbarism.
I would imagine an eighteen year old saying that an Islamic coun…
This Wednesday, July 6 TVO, Ontario’s public television station, will broadcast “War in the Mind,” a Canadian documentary about post-traumatic stress, depression and the rising suicide rate among soldiers and veterans. “War in the Mind,” by British Col…
Continue readingDoes anyone else find it odd that a free-market-worshipping government can happily leap into the fray to micro-manage a labour market outcome (deciding, for example, that postal workers must get 1.75%, not 1.9%, in the first year of their new contract), yet pleads powerlessness when it comes to interfering with market outcomes that are genuinely […]
Continue readingExcerpted below is the portion of the Elections Act 1991, SNL 1992, c E-3.1 which essentially makes relevant portions of that Act applicable to public consultation of electors by way of plebiscite:217. (1) Where it appears to the Lieutenant-Governor in…
Continue reading… about seeing the greatest band in the world over the past 20 years or so – U2!!!!
Yup! Heading to the Hippodrome in Montréal this Saturday to see Bono and the boyz… Been a long time since I took in one of their gigs… last saw them on the 1992 Zoo TV tour in T.O.
Too […]
What Canadians Need to Know About Canada Canada is a country the world can be proud of. This is despite our numerous shortcomings and mistakes over our 144 years of history as a nation of many co-operative nations. Not everyone in the world is impressed with Canada, some because they don’t know the first thing […]
At a glance, a painting by Jackson Pollock (1912 – 1956) can look deceptively accidental: just a quick flick of color on a canvas. A quantitative analysis of Pollock’s streams, drips, and coils, by Harvard mathematician L. Mahadevan and collaborators at Boston College, reveals, however, that the artist had to be slow—he had to be […]
I have long filed the 300 under the category of movies that I like. I enjoyed the theme of the many versus the few and of course the super slow motion battle sequences that make killing look like its superawesome cool. http://youtu.be/VW4d3Kukcu8 Superawesomeness aside though I did not think too much of the rest of […]
We hope that all of our readers had a lovely Canada Day long weekend! Here are today’s leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter:Macomb Co. inmate suing state over porn ban in prison | The Detroit News – http://goo.gl/tIU6xMladic says he’ll boyc…
Continue readingWas the Gordon Campbell government corrupt? Does it matter? The answer to both questions is a resounding YES! For the purposes of this article I define corruption as “acting against the public good for political or other gains for the gover…
Continue readingJim Standford has an interesting piece in today’s Globe and Mail. He notes that the Harper government justified its imposed settlement on Canada Post by claiming that the economy was at risk. Apparently, a government which believes in free markets has …
Continue readingAllTheDeputiesThatFitCampbellClarksVilleSo.Not everything Auditor General John Doyle will be using to put together his report on the Six Million Dollar RailGate Payoff need come from super secret client-privileged sources.For example, while Vaughn Palm…
Continue readingA number of citizens and organizations – including the BC Public
Interest Advocacy Centre and the Clean Energy Foundation – gathered
recently in Vancouver at the headquarters of BC Hydro to speak out
against BC Liberal government’s Billion-dollar…
In my Southern California childhood, the Fourth of July was a big holiday, right up there with Thanksgiving, not far behind Christimas. We were taught that it celebrated the birth of the greatest nation on the face of the earth, that the principles b…
Continue readingTo say it’s quiet at 8:00 am would be an understatement…
Continue readingHello, Teddy here. First, I want to sadly announce that due to problems, our sister blog, Riding by Riding has suffered a complete data loss. Due to the fact the site is down, I’d like to share my analysis of the provinces over here.The PQ lost a total…
Continue readingCanadian involvement in the war in Libya has been extended.
Why?
What is Canada's strategic (or even tactical) reason to be in Libya? How does bombing one side in a local civil war make sense?
One can only hope that (1) the rebels win, (2) L…
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