Earlier today I tweeted a video featuring Gaudet telling, um, I’ll be generous here and call it an untruth. In case you’re unfamiliar with Gaudet, he’s the guy that dressed up as Pinocchio and followed McGuinty around in the 2007. Now it appears that Gaudet has stepped in it again with this now deleted Tweet, […]
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gritchik: Oops Tim Hudak did it again!
Yesterday, Kinsella posted a shot of the Hudak bus parked illegally in front of a fire hydrant. Tim just can’t seem to learn from his mistakes. Take a look at where the Team Hudak bus was spotted earlier today:
Being tough on crime means obeyin…
Continue readinggritchik: Tim Hudak loses the support of even more women
Said they feel “used.” A Leamington mom who spent months with nine others protesting when a convicted sex offender moved next to their neighbourhood elementary school is accusing Tory Leader Tim Hudak of using their group for political gain. Cynthia Raheb said before Hudak made a campaign stop in Leamington Wednesday, a PC spokesman contacted […]
Excited Delirium: File Complaints About Tim Hudak’s Robo-Calls
Stop Robo-Calls from the Tim Hudak Conservatives
Continue readingBlevkog: To Grunfeld
I’m proposing a new word for the internet lexicon: To Grunfeld: To carefully omit a portion of a person’s statement so that your version of the statement is the polar opposite of what the person stated, with the intent of causing them great…
Continue readingExcited Delirium: Libya: What Was Canada’s Role In This Crime?
Libya. What a mess we’ve made.
Continue readingCritical Brain Candy: High-frequency trading
Ran across this good explanation of the “high-frequency trading” term thrown around a lot: Algorithmic Trading is Not High Frequency Trading. The impact on the markets of HFT is very different compared to having computers aid in the execution of a human decision. Even when a human enters a simple order on a stock brokerage […]
Continue readingBlevkog: On shared-use paths
I love them, for the most part. They are much safer for cyclists. However, the city of Halifax Regional Municimouthful does not do them properly. Shared-use paths have people going many different speeds on many different modes of transport (walke…
Continue readinggritchik: Not all NDP candidates got the message
Yesterday, I posted this about Andrea Horwath ordering her candidates to stop “trading on” Jack Layton’s name. And to stop trying to “benefit from his legacy.”
So I was very surprised to see on last night’s Agenda Ch…
Slap Upside The Head: Canada Mulls Ending Gay Blood Ban
Hot on the heels of the United Kingdom, which ended their gay blood donor ban in favour of a one year deferral last week, Canadian Blood Services is now mulling a similar change. Canada’s permanent deferral on blood donations from men who have had sex with another man—even once—has never been scientifically sound; on top […]
Continue readinggritchik: Andrea Horwath: Do as I say, not as I do
NDP leader, Andrea Horwath, rightly told her candidates to stop “trading on” Jack Layton’s name.
Too bad she didn’t heed her own advice. Putting her face on the banner was unnecessary.
GOP debate: the ugly face of conservatism. Also, never fly on 9/11 if your skin is brown.
The horror continues. Here are two items that bring the American psyche post-9/11 into instant, ugly focus.
At the GOP debate tonight, the crowd loudly cheered a suggestion that society should let an uninsured man die. Alan Grayson: “It’s sadism”.
GOP debate crowd cheers letting uninsured die
The crowd also responded heartily to accusations that Ben Bernanke . . . → Read More: GOP debate: the ugly face of conservatism. Also, never fly on 9/11 if your skin is brown.
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: Word to the bland, blasé and banal – apathy is living death
A song came on the radio today that I have loved all my life – except this time, it was a cover, and it spoke something to me that I would like to share. It was a jazz cover of “Ode to Billy Joe.” That might be fine, and might work well, but the …
Continue readinggritchik: The media on Tim Hudak and abortion
“Hudak waffles on abortion issue” (Toronto Star, July 19, 2011) “When pressed by reporters Monday, Mr.Hudak refused to answer whether he still considers himself “pro-life.” (National Post, July 19, 2011) “Hudak opted not to answer when he was asked point blank if he was pro-life.” (The Sarnia Observer, July 19, 2011) “Hudak ducks questions on […]
Excited Delirium: Why Tim Hudak Is Done
Tim Hudak’s Conservatives get caught making mass calls from … New Brunswick.
Continue readingRed Tory v.3.0.3: Tea Party Republican Debate
Hey, there’s another thrilling GOP “debate” taking place tonight in Tampa, Florida.
This one is billed as the “Tea Party Republican Debate”… whatever that means. Presumably, the candidates will have to out-crazy one another. You know, mo…
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Transit Is For Suckers
If there’s one lesson Canadians can learn from the latest Stats Can study into public transit, it’s that losers take the bus. A whopping 82% of commuters know that the fastest way to get to work is by private automobile, preferably an SUV, and 12% of Canadians don’t agree. This makes the “12 percenter” Canadians […]
Slap Upside The Head: Dads Win Right To Remove Surrogate From Birth Certificate
Two same-sex fathers in Saskatchewan have won the right to amend their child’s birth certificate, removing the name of a surrogate mother. The surrogate, identified only as Mary, carried the child to term using an embryo created from the sperm of one of the fathers and an ova from an anonymous donor. Despite being neither the child’s […]
Continue readingProfessor: Harper most powerful executive in the world; there is nothing to restrain him
Astute observations about Harper and how he has complete domination over our laws and government.
Ralph Heintzman, a professor at the University of Ottawa and head of the federal Office of Public Service Values and Ethics, says Canada might just have the most centralized political system in the world.
“The . . . → Read More: Professor: Harper most powerful executive in the world; there is nothing to restrain him
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