97 Ave Construction Begins Thursday
Starting Thursday, 97 Ave. traffic between Wapiti Road and 112 St. will be restricted to one lane to allow for major construction work.Use of alternative routes to avoid the area…
June 2011
Thanks for the teeth
I have finally found the man I owe my teeth to.He was Dr. Irwin Mandel, who just died in New York at age 89. I was one of those kids…
Setting Up Windows 7
Day One So I've upgraded my desktop to Windows 7 in my office today, and this is what I'm doing to personalize it after I've got the basic system installed.…
Welwyn
On Friday me and my friends went to Jesse’s parent’s farm outside of Welwyn, SK. Along the way we saw the wind farm at Moosimin, including a vertical axis turbine…
Crunching the numbers, who Canadians voted for in the 2011 federal election
As previously stated by many liberal bloggers the Conservatives now dominate the rich west, where most of their votes, that put them in a majority government, came from, the NDP…
Turn A Page
The contemptible actions of the Harper government have reaped a little more protest in the chambers of Parliament. A few years ago it was a Gallery protest in the House…
The Conservative and Government Websites May be the Same But The Slogan Belongs to Neither
Dan Gardner pointed out today on Twitter that the Conservative Party's and the Government of Canada's, websites were almost identical.Conservative Site.Government'sBut the slogan they are using Stability, Security, Prosperity; is…
Au Revoir
The Parti Quebecois have basically been handed the next provincial election if they want it. But much like the BC NDP, all indications are their answer is "thanks, but no…
Globe & Mail: "Yellow Media continues to disappoint"
Talk about disappointment. I clicked on this link expected an expose on the shoddy journalistic practices of our national yellow media - Post, Sun and G&M itself - but no,…
This week’s Spin Doctors piece – my advice to new MPs
The question of the week for my Hill Times Spin Doctors piece is a good one: “What one piece of advice would you give new MPs?” Here are my thoughts…
Report to the LPC Membership…
...by ALF APPS. As posted on Facebook earlier today:REPORT TO THE MEMBERSHIPfrom the NATIONAL PRESIDENT of the LIBERAL PARTY OF CANADAJune 3, 2011FELLOW LIBERALS:I AM PLEASED TO REPORT TO YOU…
Harris Centre: A prosperity plan for Newfoundland and Labrador
Mark this one on your calendar: “Over the past ten years, Newfoundland and Labrador has gone from poverty to prosperity, all due to revenues from non-renewable natural resources, especially petroleum.…
Palin’s ‘One Nation’ tour hits a bump
Sarah Palin is traveling across the US on something called a 'One Nation' tour - by any other name a publicity-seeking stunt. The historical sites she is taking in during…
Yes, so I was gonna post this stuff…
… about David Warren or the end results of my root canal (which was a lot like reading one of DW’s columns – whooooaaa!!)… or the weather or something… but…
Political prisoner Bassem Tamimi’s statement at trial opening
PSCC-logo.jpg http://www.popularstruggle.org/free-tamimis Press release Monday, 6 June 2011 West Bank Protest Organizer, Bassem Tamimi, to Judge: “Your Military Laws Are Non-Legit. Our Peaceful...
The Case Against Wage Insurance
At the CEA meetings I participated on a panel organized by IRPP to discuss a recent paper – by Finnie and Gray - on older laid-off workers and the policy…
Sentence reduced (very slightly) for immigration reasons
R. v. Duhra, 2011 ABCA 165 is another decision in which an appeal court reduced a sentence imposed at the trial level because of the immigration consequences of such sentence.…
The Face Of The Conservative Revolution
Two stories this morning -- one in The Globe and Mail and the other in The National Post -- put the Conservative Revolution in perspective. In The Globe, John Ibbitson…
Israel Is No Different Than Syria
Israel likes to tout itself as the "plucky little democracy" in the Middle East, and as an island of European-style democracy besieged by a sea of dictatorships and dark, Arabic…