BC Votes On HST!
The year old tax is now being subjected to a vote. Even though Stephen Harper help get some provinces on with the tax I fully support the HST. It helps…
The year old tax is now being subjected to a vote. Even though Stephen Harper help get some provinces on with the tax I fully support the HST. It helps…
A great read today on Barack Obama's presidency given the events of this week, "What Happened to Obama?" It's by Drew Westen, professor and author of the acclaimed book "The…
They are already in an untenable political situation. And now the drug store owners are in an even worse situation as they fall to fighting with pharmacists. Here’s the way…
When trying to understand the political landscape it is often useful to figure out the various couplings and interdependencies between superficially disparate political positions. Politics divides itself into widespread factions,…
Nicole, Alvil, April, and I went a few minutes out of Regina on Dewdney Ave. last night, and got many photographs of the aurora from the massive solar storm that…
Here's a little corner of the internet I'll bet you didn't know about -- a bunch of people apparently learned how to play guitar on the Google Les Paul Doodle…
It seems we have yet another shocking, completely unprovoked attacked by Muslim thugs on yet another completely innocent white bystander. Before you struggle through the toxic amalgam of aggrieved self-righteousness,…
AllTheHonestAnalysisThatDoesn'tQuiteFitCentristPunditVilleDirect from the Horse's (ie. Standard and Poor's) Mouth...."...Compared with previous (AAA) projections, our revised base case scenario (AA+) now assumes that the 2001 and 2003 (Bush) tax cuts, ...
On July 22, Shaher Bano Shahdady, was strangled. Her estranged husband, Abdul Malik Rustam, 27, was charged with first-degree murder. The Shahdady murder at first seemed to be a typical,…
Imagine a time when it all began…Music, maestros: Ahem. Horrible Hiroshima Day, in a world where victims of the first nuclear strike are still dying of cancer 66 years later.…
"STOCKHOLM—A Swedish man who was arrested after trying to split atoms in his kitchen said Wednesday he was only doing it as a hobby.Richard Handl told the Associated Press that…
I really have to hand it to John Ibbitson, his timing couldn't be better. As the bloated capitalist pig stumbles around in its final agony. And threatens to plunge us…
The movie about Billy Beane and his revolutionizing of the Oakland A's and their baseball strategy is coming out soon, why I assume Patrick Lagace is writing about Beane today.…
TheProPunditWithTheMostPowerPullsHisPunches(Again)VilleIn his latest VSun piece, Vaughn Palmer explains that by pulling the plug on the HST 'initiative', which would have required 50% + 1 of all ELIGIBLE voters in all…
First special dinner since we've moved back. Jeanne and her parents, paella and fruit salad with Ontario peaches and BC cherries. What a nice prospect!
America's biggest creditor isn't amused by that country's newly downgraded, AA+ rating. Now China says the "good old days" are over for the U.S.China has renewed its demand for a…
Nope: Honduran police have turned professional arsonists. Their targets: Honduran peasant villagers. Their employers: Big illegal landowners who refuse to recognize the campesinos’ land claims under a 12-year-old agrarian reform…
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Shorter Jim Flaherty:Of course economic trouble elsewhere in the world will have negative consequences for Canada. But we won't let that stop us from pushing the same bad advice that's…