A Really Good Ad Campaign
People For Good wants to remind you to do good things everyday. Throughout Canada mysterious ads have appeared promoting People For Good and it turns out it’s a few marketers…
August 2011
Watch: 2011 Queer of the Year Finalists at Montreal Pride
Meet (below) Célio, Christine, Eric, Jason, Tim and Yenna, the six finalists for the exciting 2011 international Queer of the Year competition in Montreal, which runs from Sunday, August 7,…
What Happens In The Bass Boat, Stays….
I think everyone was a bit surprised when we learned that Stephen Harper and Rob Ford are "fishing buddies". I think nobody is surprised in the least to learn the…
On the John Oakley Morning Show today at 8:10 am
Talking about appointing or electing judges.
140 Law – Legal Headlines for August 5, 2011
Here are today's leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter:Buffalo lawmakers irate at law firm ad set in council chambers -http://goo.gl/c3HHGThe Push for Judicial Diversity - http://goo.gl/n5PlHJustice Minister Nicholson…
Expanding the meaning of ‘dangerous offender’
Sensible piece in the National Post today on declaring the man who had HIV and had unprotected sex with numerous women a dangerous offender. A sensible use of prison is…
Breaking: PMO Censors Rob Ford’s BBQ Video !!!
OMG. The plot thickens. In my last post I told you how a video of Jimbo Flaherty getting a "Finance Minister's Championship Belt" from Rob Ford had mysteriously disappeared.And how…
Gay Archie Character Gets His Own Series
When I heard that Archie Comics was getting its first openly gay character last autumn, I was floored… that Archie Comics was still around. Not that I have anything against…
The medium of the bread and circuses message
How short is a news cycle? How long is a piece of string? Give any story a couple of days and odds are you won’t be reading or watching on…
Shared Services and unanswered questions
We all suspected this was coming, but perhaps not in this particular form. Tony Clement and Rona Ambrose held a press conference yesterday to announce that they were creating Shared…
Shared IT Services across the Canadian Government – three opportunities
Earlier this week the Canadian Federal Government announced it will be creating Shared Services Canada which will absorb the resources and functions associated with the delivery of email, data centres…
Jimbo Flaherty and the Championship Belt
Holy hobbit. How ironic eh? There was little Jimbo Flaherty the other day at Rob Ford's millionaire redneck BBQ. Being hee hawed as a financial genius, and awarded a "Finance…
alberta liberals boast boost in supporters.
Toasting the success of their open membership program, the Alberta Liberals have announced that over the course of the past few months, their party has signed up 15,500 “supporters” to…
alberta politics notes 8/05/2011
1. Progressive Conservative leadership candidate Alison Redford announced that she would raise monthly payments from the Assured Income for the Severely Handicapped (AISH) program from $400 to $1,588 and doubling…
Perfesser Dave explains the problems with separatists in the Canadian government
Bryan Mulroney having fun with his confidant and Quebec lieutenant Lucien Bouchard, one of many Conservative separatists who have spent time in the House of Commons. Below: Perfesser Dave; Western…
Guardian: Canadian government lobbying Europeans to protect tar sands
Nice to see the Guardian doing the heavy lifting while our media snoozes (aka doing Harper's bidding).The Canadian government has been accused of an "unprecedented" lobbying effort involving 110 meetings…
Frustrating evening with the machine
I'm trying to do two things with my computer. Actually now that I'm writing my post-of-the-day, it's three. Let's see if we can go Oh for Three.