I wish I were in Vancouver for the NDP’s convention. Too bad I have too work at a regular job! The next best thing to being in Vancouver is the internet and my cell phone with a plan including free long distance.
The mood is exciting. The mood is heading forward. The mood is about what could be possible in just four more years. The NDP plan to go for it. &n…
Continue readingThe left has given up him, calling him far too empathetic to the right. Meanwhile, the right continues to paint Obama as a Marxist Socialist Muslim with the most savage of all language for any president in my lifetime. I can understand the frustration …
Continue readingUniversity of Sherbrooke economist and fiscal specialist Luc Godbout with Suzie St-Cerny and Michaël Robert-Angers has just published a timely research paper evaluating the net fiscal impact on households of Québec’s income tax system.Timely because, as discussed here be Armine Yalnizyan recent data from stats can shows that though globally income inequality has risen during […]
Continue readingGeorge Orwell, 1984: “She had without exception the most stupid, vulgar, empty mind that he had ever encountered. She had not a thought in her head that was not a slogan, and there was no imbecility, absolutely none that she was not capable of swallowing if the Party handed it
Continue readingAppallingly, all but CTV appears to have missed this week’s tabling of the annual report of the Information Commissioner, which makes for disturbing if characteristically dry reading. I’ll admit, I would have missed it myself but for the appearance of a fluff piece on the government newswire, claiming that the report highlighted “efforts to reverse […]
Continue readingYou’ve probably seen the advertisements for Ancestry.ca (or dot-com elsewhere). A few weeks ago I decided to give it a test-drive and I must say I’m hooked! The program isn’t doing all the work, mind you, as I leaf through two or thre…
Continue readingIt’s interesting that the street artists for the rebels in Libya decide to paint pictures of Gaddafi with a Star of David. I suppose it is not seen as anything other than a symbol of evil. Perhaps the rebels will not be uniformly progressive forces fo…
Continue readingThe headline in yesterday’s Globe (on-line edition) really says it all: Peel police officers fabricated evidence in prostitution case: judge
The story tells of how the two offending Peel officers claimed that a fake i.d. allowing a 17-year-old to wo…
Continue readingAfter this photo was taken an alien zygote burst from this child’s chest at a tremendous velocity, blasting through the watermelon slice a moment later, and then running down the street; the photographer experienced years of insomnia, heaving dr…
Continue readingGiven the hoops that Public Servants are forced to jump through to be able to have coffee available at a meeting, this type of stuff REALLY pisses me off!
Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s own department has repeatedly broken the government’s tough rules for hospitality spending.
An internal report on how the Privy Council Office spent $340,000 on […]
So I am browsing through the shelves at Argosy Books, which has become my favorite Ottawa Area bookstore, and the owner is showing me some old, hard-bound reports from various archaeological societies, and I see a copy of an early translation (1904, I …
Continue readingThis climate hawk is taking the day off – hope you enjoy this video, too, while you enjoy your Saturday!
Continue readingToday Liberals decide to not postpone the leadership election for 2013. The Leadership convention will be held in Fall. I think a convention in Fall with no money on hand especially (that candidates will have to fund raise the money to enter and …
Continue readingI had decided not to do any more posts about Anthony Weiner now that he has resigned but this one is too funny to pass it by. Jimmy Kimmel has a good one.
Continue readingI spent several years researching my family history, not only to create a genealogy, but to find the stories that brought my ancestors to Canada.The first arrived in 1632 as an army surgeon. His future wife would join the colony at Port Royal, a few ye…
Continue readingNalcor negotiating Muskrat transmission with Hydro-Quebec Cross Sheila off your list Titanic records available from UK National Archives 24 French Belize wants to buy out Fortis interest in Belize power company 15 ideas (and more) for…
Continue readingWell Henrik we’re pretty disgusted with you, too. You and your turn-the-other-cheek game 6 brother didn’t bother to show up in the Finals, leaving us losers once again. I defended you against all the barbs and garbage thrown at you by the eastern me…
Continue readingAt a recent event in Vancouver, biologist and Peace Valley Environment
Association representative Diane Culling discussed the enormous
consequences of the proposed Site C Dam – including the flooding of
prime farmland at a time when the province …
