Americans have for some time seemed to have an insatiable appetite for military spending. Defence was the sacred cow of their federal budget. Now it seems they are losing that appetite for at least one form of military expense—waging war.The Afghan w…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On maturing processes
Let’s take a look at a couple of final issues from #vancon2011, starting with the series of machinations around resolutions ruling out merger or non-compete agreements with the Liberals.As I noted at the time, the convention planners gave a prominent p…
Continue readingCanadian Dimension Feed: Canada’s New Partisanship
The dust has finally begun to settle on the great democratic ritual that
culminated on the night of May 2nd. In the end, the results of the 2011
federal election were as much of a surprise to media commentators as they
were to ordinary citizens. On the…
OpenMedia.ca: Why You Should Care About Digital OTA Television
There is certainly a lot less confusion going around these days over the upcoming transition to digital television on August 31 than there was a few years ago. Unfortunately, a good portion of the public, namely those who have become perfectly content …
Continue readingThe Shipbuilding Conundrum…What Will It Really Cost Us In The End?
GenerationalProcurementGamesCanEverybodyWinVilleWhile I find it ironic in the extreme that a number of our current legislators who have demonstrated a penchant for union bashing in the past (and yes, we’re looking at you cookie boy) are now pitching th…
Continue readingStevie Spends La Fete Nationale In, You Guessed It! Thetford Mines! Heart of Cancer Industries!
Yep! Stevie is celebrating that the folks around l’Arrondissement de l’Amiante can all rest easy so they can now continue to get cancer and sell cancer for profit! Yay! Chrissy! Stevie! Ain’t that special? Stevie and Chrissy saved their precious chrysotile asbestos from the big bad Rotterdam Convention, yet again. Three cheers . . . → Read More: Stevie Spends La Fete Nationale In, You Guessed It! Thetford Mines! Heart of Cancer Industries!
Continue readingBirth Pangs: Here’s Your Sign
Greg Fultz has been ordered to remove the billboard he erected to harass his ex. His lawyer says there will be an appeal and the Futz is willing to go to jail to protect is his right to be a complete douchebag free speech. Source ©2011 Birth Pangs. All Rights Reserved..
Continue readingNot just blowing bubbles. Officer Bubbles’ victim sues police for $100K.
Not for the cop’s comically threatening behaviour but for the treatment she received in the more than 50 hours she spent in police custody.Courtney Winkels, then a 20-year-old social worker volunteering as a street medic during the G20, was on the…
Continue readingBuckdog: Recall of the Saskatchewan Legislature Demonstrates Premier Brad Wall’s Irrational ANGER Towards Organized Labour
Saskatchewan Crop Insurance workers are conducting a rotating strike because after 2 years of bargaining, they have been unable to reach a collective agreement with the Saskatchewan provincial government. It just so happens that a lot of the province’…
Continue readingknitnut.net: Talking to little girls
This morning my friend Grace shared a link to an article by Lisa Bloom called How to Talk to Little Girls.
In it, Ms. Bloom acknowledges her first instinct when meeting little girls is to tell them how cute they are, since they generally are awfully cute. But she doesn’t allow herself to do that, […]
Continue readingThose Emergency Blues: The Most Useless Form on the Planet
Imagine this: you’ve had the shift from hell, no beds, every other patient is moments away from seeing Jesus/Allah/Buddha and to top it off, the department is down three nurses, another nurse is transporting the multisystem trauma downtown, and you feel really think working conditions were unsafe for both you and more importantly, your patients. […]
centre of the universe: Insidious
Insidious, or: How Nutella(TM) Roont My Children For some reason, The Captain thought it would be a Good Idea to take the *entire jar* of Nutella to school today, and then he thought it would be an *even better* idea to lie about it. Bloody ridiculous …
Continue readingMorton's Musings: Crown entitled to repudiate plea agreement
R. v. Nixon, 2011 SCC 34 seems to hold that the Crown may repudiate a plead agreement. A summary follows: The accused drove her motor home through an intersection and s…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Underestimated
Others have already noted how refreshing it is to have an Official Opposition which is willing to take a stand on issues of substance. But it’s also worth highlighting another important factor in the NDP’s strategy for this week.One of the main blind s…
Continue readingLeDaro: Asbestos: Bad for Canada but good for poor countries
This is an amazing and scary situation. Asbestos has not been used in Canada for the last 25 years and the buildings which already had asbestos proceeded to remove it because it is an established fact that it is a very dangerous substance to human heal…
Continue reading350 or bust: Alberta Tar Sands Destruction: Haven’t We Killed Enough Indigenous People On This Continent?
“With everything in my heart I said I don’t want the death of the Lubicon and Chippewayan Cree on my hands. Haven’t we killed enough people on this continent already?” This was the question posed to a Republican Congress Person …
Continue readingMistakes were made, Bill Blair says | #G20
So Bill Blair’s had some time to reflect on last summer’s G20 clusterfuck, and good and loyal servant he is, he’s graced us with a report. Among other things, he praises his officers for “facing danger and extreme provocation.”Indeed. Takes a special k…
Continue readingLeDaro: Aimi Eguchi: Japan’s Pop Idol and heart-throb is not human
This is a true story. The beautiful girl below is not human. Read the story here.
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: Facing Facts
My wife and I used to live a half hour away from the Jeffrey Mine in Asbestos, Quebec. My grandmother grew up on a farm just outside Thetford Mines. So asbestos is part of the family history. The problem is that the history of asbestos is fraught with …
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: Why Friedrich Von Hayek Must be Barred From Canada
A CULTURE OF DEFIANCE: History of the Reform-Conservative Party of Canada I realize that Friedrich Von Hayek died in 1992, but he is one of the “scholars” who helped to draft neoconservative theory.In Lawrence Martin’s book Harperland, he states that h…
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