On the Ontario PCs’ platform
So, here we go with the Ontario PC Platform, the Changebook (warning: PDF). Or is that the Change Book? ChangeBook? I don't know, and I don't think they do, either.According...
July 2011
Liars at Sun Media remove last ounce of journalistic accountability, credibility
TheStar Sun Media ditches press council, citing issues with ‘political correctness’Now Sun Media is completely free in Ontario to continue to print fiction and make up stories without any way…
On the Ontario PCs’ platform.
So, here we go with the Ontario PC Platform, the Changebook. Or is that the Change Book? ChangeBook? I don't know, and I don't think they do, either.According to this,…
Thursday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your review.- Iglika Ivanova calculates the cost of poverty in British Columbia:My findings confirm what we’ve already suspected: poverty comes with a very high price tag. The…
Rupert Murdoch relents and agrees to answer questions from Commons committee
But only after he was served a summons.This should be quite a show: Rupert, James, Rebekah.Murdoch knows TV. Little did he know he would become a reality TV star. Something…
Veracity from Vermont
You can follow this link to CBC Radio's Radio Noon interview with Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin, talking about the proposed Lower Churchill hydro development at Muskrat Falls, and discussion around…
Who Is The Real Stephen Harper?
To his critics on the left, Stephen Harper is a right wing ideologue. To his critics on the right, he is a Liberal in disguise. Scott Stinson, in The National…
pupdate: mississauga squirrels continue to rejoice
We've just returned from our consult with an orthopedic specialist at the OVC in Guelph. Tal has been doing so well, she seems so improved, that I think many people…
Pesticide ban regulation not even written yet
While everyone may think the provincial has banned the cosmetic use of pesticides, a quick check with the province’s environment department confirmed this afternoon that not only haven’t they gazetted…
We All Support The Troops…
Until they come home and want us to spend money to mend them. Then they are just another obstacle to cutting taxes.
No, no . . . we don’t go there
I’ll play some classic Bob Newhart later, but this is just such a great (recent-ish) sketch he did on Mad TV. Alltop is compelled to be funny.
Jurisdictional concerns must be raised promptly
BTR Global Opportunity Trading Limited v. RBC Dexia Investor Services Trust, 2011 ONCA 518 deals with the need to assert jurisdictional concerns promptly. The Court holds: &...
The Herrera case: Negative results in the first round of testing
One chapter ends and another begins in the ongoing mystery of baby-theft and illicit adoptions in Argentina. This one, unfortunately, offers no easy answers for the time being: The DNA…
Conrad Black Eviscerates Rupert Murdoch!
"Fallen media baron Conrad Black is taking a swipe at News Corporation chair Rupert Murdoch, describing his former rival as untrustworthy, malicious, and someone who has “difficulty keeping friendships.”In a…
Obama, moderate Republican
That's Paul Krugman's view. He shares it with Ezra Klein and Digby. RedBedHead goes even further.End of the progressive dream in the US? Yep.
Italy Votes To Kill Its Economy To Save Its Debt Rating
The parasites and rumour-mongers who run the debt ratings agencies, having done their work getting the Greek government to screw their population, have moved on to Italy. Let's be honest,…
David Legates Asked To Step Down As Delaware State Climatologist
legates1.jpg David Legates announced this week that he was asked to step down as Delaware State Climatologist, a position he held for seven years. A long-time denier of the human…
Hugo Pinell Participating in the California Hungerstrike
Excerpted from a letter to Kiilu Nyasha:A hunger strike has been in effect since July 1 and I've been with it, altho is very hard to know what's going on?…
RCMP to investigate the Looters In Suits $50 million expenditure 100km from Huntsville (un-approved G8 spending)
RCMP finally investigates Muskoka’s G8 ‘Legacy Infrastructure’ « the reeves reportExcerpt from The Reeves Report:Because of an election-time early leak of the Auditor General’s G8 report which I wrote about…
Nameless and homeless: Affordable housing—if not now, when?
Remember their names: Eugene Upper Erwin Anderson Mirsalah Aldin-Kompani and hundreds more who died on Toronto streets since ‘97 From Nameless-Homeless, an unpublished rant in progress Here’s the grim context.…