Will You Break A Butterfly On A Wheel
There is a lot of clucking going on about Brigette DePape's protest in the Senate. First, let me say, I admire the hell out of that kid. What she did…
June 2011
Saturday Photo: What a Difference a Few Months Makes..
This is what it looked like from the terrace yesterday, with Mount Royal covered in green. Below you'll find pix taken from similar points in December and in March.
Saturday reads
Russell Wangersky in the Western Star, on Premier Dunderdale's announcing the findings of an independent study that hasn't even started yet."It’s one thing to be confident — it’s another, slightly…
pupdate and other updates
On Victoria Day, we met our friends James, Lori, Cobalt and Denim at Cherry Beach, which has an excellent leash-free dog park area right on Lake Ontario. Getting together at…
Grounds
Me on Twitter, May 28, 2011 (limited to 140 characters):It appears that smarter people than me seem to agree:Here's University of Ottawa Professor Errol Mendes, cited in a Toronto Star…
A good weekend to read your blog list
With PROBLOGS still in its debut state, this weekend I am actually reading the bloggers that I have pasted in my blog list. Good thing I choose some goods ones.…
"Restraining the welfare state"
This piece last Sunday in the Star, "Restraining the welfare state," by Stanford Professor Michael Boskin, a former Bush the first adviser, has evoked a fair response in letters to…
The "Page" Was Out Of Line!
In our democracy we are allowed to have opinions, and I encourage all those who have opinions to express them. I do on the other hand am against a page…
The Canonization of Laurier
You can rely on Brian Lilley for stupid columns, and the Sun published a corker yesterday. I won’t link to it but the title is Canada doesn’t need fixing and…
The Canonization of Laurier
You can rely on Brian Lilley for stupid columns, and the Sun published a corker yesterday. I won't link to it but the title is Canada doesn't need fixing and…
The Canonization of Laurier
You can rely on Brian Lilley for stupid columns, and the Sun published a corker yesterday. I won’t link to it but the title is Canada doesn’t need fixing and…
Woe Canada! More Canadian Shame as South Korean Family In Moncton Forced to Leave Canada Because of Son’s Autism and Epilepsy
VIKTOR PIVOVAROV/TIMES & TRANSCRIPT Canada's shameful and dishonorable conduct towards families and children with autism and other disabilities continues with the forced expulsion of a South Korean family because one…
A lesson in change
"USC's 21st Century Virtual Classroom": In the spring of 2008, John Katzman, the founder of the Princeton Review, approached the Masters of Arts in Teaching (MAT) program at at the…
Speech and silent protest
In all, the speech from the throne was a bit of a bust. Little more than a warmed-over rehash of election talking points, the only things missing were the constant…
White Peacock
Taken today at the Vancouver Zoo No related posts.
The Times They Are A Changin’
Elizabeth May and Carolyn Bennett think it was "inappropriate." But what Brigette Depape did yesterday is not a one day story. Her generation has the most to lose from a…
Die Politik ist die Lehre von Möglichen.
Politics is the art of the possible. Otto von Bismarck
Why Did Harold Snepts Wear #27 Anyway?
My oldest kid, the one with the virtuoso voice who can make even her laryngeally-challenged Dad sound good, had her high school graduation yesterday.She won a gold medal.Even better, she…
Long-shot candidacy by Employment Minister ‘Landslide Lukaszuk’ reappears on Alberta’s radar screen
Tougher than you thought: Premier Lukaszuk convenes his first Conservative cabinet meeting. … Alberta politicians may not appear exactly as illustrated. Below: Lukaszuk, Greystoke.Alberta Employment and Immigration Minister Thomas Lukaszuk…
3825…National Doughnut Day
Apparently that is today.I had a muffin and a butter tart instead.Still in the spirit though.WFDS