An inefficient virus kills its host. A clever virus stays with it.
James Lovelock
July 2011
Heat. Humidity. Earthquakes. Where are the locusts?
I get the heat and humidity… but I swear I just felt the earth move. And no. The Resident Love Goddess is out with the kids at Shakespeare in the…
When I Can No Longer Walk With Conor
My buddy, Conor, 15One thing about which I have no regrets is the time I have spent with my sons and, in the context of autism and this blog, my…
This Week in Ontario – And They’re Off!
Political excitement at the federal level may have evaporated faster than water in downtown Toronto, but the provincial scene is still very much alive this summer across Ontario.Among this week's…
Ontario Liberals in Free Fall: Add Disingenuousness and Hypocrisy to Campaign to Woo "Progressives"–Updated
In their desperate attempt to halt their slide down the polls, the Ontario Liberals are preparing to spread out across Toronto’s subway to distribute flyers charging the NDP with abandoning…
Lucian Freud Is Dead
As anyone who has read my ongoing analysis of Canada's Group of 7 painters must realize, I don't know much about art. But I do know my way around uncompromising…
PEI and Nova Scotia
Today we ate lunch at the Red Shoe Pub, owned by the Rankin Family sisters. We drove down the coast of Cape Breton to the PEI ferry at Caribou. Here…
Carolyn Bennett Wants Your Suggestions
Carolyn Bennett has started a discussion over at the Liberal Party's new blog:"Some have been asking me if there are things in the Change Commission Report that could/should be enshrined…
Random leadership notes
Alyssa Rosenberg offers a few leadership lessons from the Harry Potter series and one other: Both the Harry Potter series and Suzanne Collins’ Hunger Games books are about what happen…
The Race to the Premier’s Office – 58 Days to the First Ballot
Nation, the race to replace Ed Stelmach as leader of the Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta is now, by any measure, under way. While nominations opened in mid-June, it was…
The Meek May Inherit The Earth
But the accountants have first dibs on Toronto. Poor Toronto. Btw, the group responsible for the report calling for the gutting of Toronto has this as its company song. Surely,…
Canada’s crime rate at lowest level in almost 40 years: StatsCan
Thus reads the headline in a story posted online by The Globe and Mail.Amongst the latest Statistics Canada findings, the following facts are worth noting:There were 554 homicides in 2010,…
Crime—the declining problem
Down, down, down it goes. According to Stats Can's latest report, our crime rate has dropped again, down five per cent from 2009 to 2010, now in decline for 20…
3942…John Martin You Have Made Your Point
John Martin, who you probably have never heard of, is an Ottawan who is costing you, that's y o u, money.Let me set the stage. About 2 or 3 klicks…
Stay pending appeal
Granite Mortgage, 2011 MBCA 59 contains a helpful review of the law regarding a stay pending appeal: 2 In Labossiere et al. v. The Estate...
Murdoch-gate meets “Climate-gate”
What we know so far about the Rupert Murdoch/News Corp scandal may just be the tip of the iceberg. Keith Olbermann wrote yesterday on his blog about the connection between…
Interesting Omissions
The government released a list of war criminals living in Canada, today. I note that the Prime Minister and the Minister of Defense were left off the list. A clerical…
3941…Kiwi Dead Kiwi
OMG.The Kiwi is no more.For those of you out of the loop, The Kiwi was a bar/bistro/bit-of-a-freak-show, in Hull, right across from Les Galleries.It was the first place I ever…
Trying Google+
Me, fooling around with a space on Google+ Filed under: comment, good stuff