Power back on? Check. Family coming home? Check.
Things are looking good. There is, however the small matter of getting the house ready. Putting away the pizza boxes, hiding the cases of empties, taking down the posters of…
July 2011
Radio Topics, July 19
Happy Tuesday! Adam is off to Toronto, where he will try not to fall a sleep while working in the United Church archives. I’m here, though, so tune into CKCU…
Elections Canada Suppressing “Inadvertent” Campaign Irregularities
So far only Postmedia seems to have noticed that Conservative York-Simcoe MP and Cabinet minister Peter Van Loan was caught by Elections Canada overspending his campaign finance limit in 2008.…
Short ‘n’ Stubby: Clan Murdoch circling the wagons
Did I hear a meow? Why yes, I did. And look who’s here! The Stumpy Cat has some juicy tidbits for us about the ongoing saga of a right-wing media…
SIU Concludes Reopened #G20 Nobody Investigation | #policebrutality
SIU Concludes Reopened G20 Nobody Investigation... aaaaand, guess what? Can't find any way to charge anyone else.Who could have foreseen such a thing?Oh, well. Maybe the Toronto Police will actually…
3936…Ottawa Bluesfest Stage Collapses Puzzler
Cheap Trick, still together, have fans, are they 100 yet?They almost went to heaven last night.Allright.WFDS
GPS for sex offenders
The criminal justice suggestions being made by Tim Hudak are so zany as to make me wonder 'is this pure theatre' or 'is there a deeper meaning here'? Let's look…
Only part of the story
Yes, it's absolutely appalling that federal prison costs have already shot up by 86% under the Harper Cons (by well over a billion per year), and only figure to escalate…
Michele Bachmann predicts end of the world in 2008
This is just too batshit crazy. This person wants to be president. Listen to her voice. Listen to the words. This is not the voice of a rational human being.…
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Whistleblower in phone-hacking scandal found dead
If this was in a novel it would be unbelievable: http://bit.ly/pXM8Kc Kenyon Wallace Toronto Star Sean Hoare, the first News of the World journalist to link the tabloid's f...
Pension Madness
The solution to the looming pension crisis is obvious, expand the CPP's scope to help out the self employed. But, that would mean government involvement (horror of horrors!) and as…
Canada’s Principled Stand Against the Alphabet Continues
As sort of an opening flourish to announce my return to full-time blogging, I’m happy to note that Canada’s official protest of the alphabet has been escalated to an all-out…
News of the World Whistle Blower Found Dead
Sean Hoare - the whistle blower who exposed the News of the World scandal - has been found dead.
Johnathant Baird talks trade, humant rights in China
Inspired by this story: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2011/07/18/baird-china-foreign.html
Just Say No To Terrorism
The Republican Party is holding the United States specifically and the world economy in general, hostage. Obama, if he had any stones at all, should never have negotiated with them…
"I invested in a company called News Corp .." "Dad, that’s Fox!" "Argh! Undo, undo!"
Funny line from the 1999 Simpsons episode "Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo" but it got terribly serious today with one of the whistle blowers being found dead and PM David Cameron…
Monckton Sent "Cease and Desist" Letter by the House of Lords
monckton_0.jpg The Guardian reports that UK parliament recently published a letter ordering Lord Christopher Monckton to "desist" from claiming to be a member of the House of Lords. This is...
Autism, Genes & Environment: Why It Took So Long for the Genetic Autism Myth To Die
Studies of twins have established that it is not 100 per cent genetic, since even among identical twins, when one has autism, the likelihood of both twins having autism is…