Fraser Institute Reads Sixth Estate?
That definitely is the leading possibility, as a new report from the Fraser Institute has finally updated the listing of that group’s Editorial Advisory Board to reflect the total number…
July 2011
‘It is SO hot out’. ‘How hot out is it?’
We’re in the middle of a Canadian wide heat-wave here (with the exception of the east and west coasts); one of the more extensive ones we’ve had in a while.…
From Forlorn to Forbearing: Feminism Never Stood a Chance
I Burned my Bra For This? REAL Women of Canada and the Men Behind ThemWe all remember the scene in When Harry Met Sally, when Meg Ryan shows Billy Crystal…
Countdown to Moving: Let’s Hope It’s Not Like This
The clothes, rugs, linens and the like come back on Thursday. Monday it's the furniture, Wednesday the boxes (including 5,000 books.) Maybe it will all be over soon!BTW, the plumbers…
How To Fix Google+ Circles
What's the difference between what Google+ does and what I do now? Let me explain, and in so doing point to a way to 'fix' Google+.Before Google+ I had several…
Fight Fox
It’s the crime story of the decade, and maybe as important as Wikileaks. Help take down News Corp. to limit the power of Murdoch. The following is an email from…
Toulouse Le Grandfig’s Summer Vacation: Kiss-meat
SS Plotkin, circa. 1901 I separate the mists of time like the Great Jabber Monkey’s own cosmic speculum. The Fates glare at me as I slowly walk up the gangway:…
Nobody to blame: SIU bluerinsing continues
Why is the taxpayer continuing to shell out for this costly alibi machine?...
Could the Right-Wing Threat Get Any Worse?
High profile Scotland Yard officers have been forced to resign over the Rupert Murdoch scandal and the whistle blower is dead.An investigation is underway in Canada involving Fox News North/Sun…
Miliband’s moment
It has been fascinating to watch Ed Miliband over the past week or so as he's handled the Murdoch scandal. Miliband seems to be ahead of the curve, leading the…
Cadborosaurus, You Have Crushed My Soul!
The long-awaited footage of the Alaskan Cadborosaurus is just a freakin' wave. Discount the guys in the video. They're fishermen, after all. I hate you, Caddy! I hate you!Background here.…
How the audience disillusions itself
As the UK deals with the phone hacking scandal, Canada is also pondering the role of its mass media, thanks to a CTV bureau chief publicly expressing his disgust at…
Like Momma always said…Part Deux und Trois
The only funnier thing than a guy up on assault charges claiming he is a wannabe Tory candidate are opposition party politicos who campaign for the incumbents. In the past…
A tool likely to be ignored
The Parliamentary Budget Officer has created a new database to help MPs track government spending so that they have more timely information when it comes time to review expenditures for…
Schreyer v. Schreyer: Canada’s Divorce-Bankruptcy Loophole
In a unanimous decision in Schreyer v. Schreyer, released Thursday, June 14, 2011, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that that a bankrupt Manitoba man is not required to pay…
This is for guys like me
This is a riot. This is fabulous a “recruitment mockumentary, for Toronto's Gay Muddy York rugby team. If you ever felt you didn't fit in, then this is for you.…
Starbucks, Servus and St. Albert: just another P3, after all, and not a bad deal at that!
Starbucks and Servus Place: Both high on the hit list of St. Albert’s CAVE (Citizens Against Virtually Everything) people. Below: St. Albert Mayor Nolan Crouse.What’s wrong with the City of…
10th August fast approaches
Yours Truly has been invited to be one of the “Writers Reading” in Victoria Partk at Noon, I think, on Wednesday, 10th August. Which reminds me, I have to get…