Musical interlude
Dirty Vegas - Tonight (Above & Beyond Remix)
August 2011
Stephen Harper’s Plan To Rebrand Canada
Uh oh. Hold the fruit salad. It turns out Stephen Harper's obsession with everything royal isn't just another moment of madness. It's part of a Con Master Plan to lead…
Isn’t An Implied Threat to Assassinate the President of the United States Illegal?
Okay, so this deals exclusively with American boneheads, but as Paulie and April are friends, we sort of keep tabs on her too. A little backstory. April Gaede is best…
Festive Left Friday Blogging: LOLChe
Maradona meets his idol.
Friday night
Have been listening to that one for about two weeks now and it just keeps getting better! One of my faves of the year thus far. Best when turned up…
Syria bans face veils at universities
Remember this headline from 2010? Syria 'after' may well not be a secular state:http://bbc.in/p0NSP7 Wearing the full veil has caused controversy in Europe and the Middle EastFemale students wearing a…
Blue box on Maitland street
Filed under: art, digital, drawing Tagged: blue, blue box, box, curb, Grass, london, plastic
Next flight lands me in my own bed
I have never done this much flying all jammed together like this. It gives me a new appreciation for those who do. And it sorta makes me long for when…
Friday night
Apparently in all the time I've been posting music, I've never posted Dan Hicks and his Hot Licks. This is Milk Shakin' Mama....
Today in Finance Committee
So the big political news out of the Finance Committee meeting today where Jim Flaherty and Mark Carney provided updates on the state of economic affairs for Canada amidst this…
Saskatchewan Roughriders FIRE Coach Marshall And Assistant Coach Barry – Ken Miller Returns As Head Coach
(Ken Miller watches Rider practice on August 16th in Regina)Wow!There is NO BIGGER story in Saskatchewan than this one. Football and politics are the biggest things that happen in this…
@cityslikr lights @SueAnnLevy up like a pinball machine
(With an apology to pinball machines everywhere.)That @cityslikr fella can be wonderfully succinct sometimes. I retweeted this earlier, but it deserves a whole blog post.Word. If you're ever curious about…
Angry Voters
Jeff suggests a new app for the iPhone. I’d call it iVote, or Angry Voters. I used to be a hard-liner against e-voting, but now I’m starting to wonder if…
Casual racism; ritual humiliation
The new world order is upon us, and it isn’t pretty. Here’s conservative icon Rush Limbaugh, mainstreaming racism—just for the lulz. And here’s the Toronto police, who routinely strip nearly…
Outlook Darkens as Budget Debate Begins
Allow me to indulge myself just this once. Almost exactly one month ago I wrote a post arguing that the Bank of Canada was being too optimistic about our economic…
Strange Days Indeed: Nycole Turmel and the NDP Oppose Necessary Democratic Reforms
There used to be a time that the NDP could be counted on to put the democratic interests of our nation ahead of partisan politics. Apparently, that’s no longer the…
If you don’t stand behind our troops, feel free to stand in front of them.
An open letter to the Prime Minister and the Minister of Defence; The Canadian military says an error at the Department of National Defence resulted in tens of millions of…
No Kathy for Kent
Danny’s gone from Steve Kent’s website. In fact, the website that hadn’t been updated since 2007 is gone entirely, replaced with a new one. So hasty was the old one…