Original Song #29: No Healing
Messing aroundDigging up tarpitsAnd we’ll burn it all away Mining that goldExporting asbestosTrade the future for today We don’t know whyBut I’ve got a feelingIt could be a long timeBefore…
August 2011
Talking economy without economists
The Commons finance committee met briefly yesterday at the behest of Liberal Scott Brison, and eventually the NDP’s committee members, in order to establish the parameters of a study on…
Michele Bachmann can’t help but lie. It’s in her genes.
Whenever I read some journo reprimanding progs to take Bachmann seriously, I sit back and wait for a new lie from her lips. It only takes days. Here's the latest…
Late night
Memories of TPaw. Heck of a video though, wonder how much it cost to make. Perhaps a lesson in having your video presentations match the quality and stature of your…
Gloria Steinem’s great advice
“If I had one piece of advice to give to young girls under 25, I would say do not listen to my advice, listen to the voice inside you and…
Rick Perry threatens Ben Bernanke with captial punishment?
Threat or simply another stupid Texan pet trick?Perry said, “If this guy prints more money between now and the election, I dunno what y’all would do to him in Iowa…
The Case of Tony Clement and the Muskoka Millions
Golly Sherlock. I see the strange case of Tony Clement and the Muskoka Millions has taken another sensational and porky turn.Inspector Angus may finally have solved the baffling mystery of…
New National Post Climate Change Denialist Says: Don’t Worry, God Will Fix It
The latest gambit in the National Post‘s campaign against science education in Canada (specifically, against an informed understanding of climate change in Canada) is the printing of a piece by…
Royally Screwed.
The Government that has slashed millions of dollars for the protection of the environment, the regulation of air transportation, women’s programming, scientific research, food security, water monitoring, parks management, arts…
BC Libs, IPPs Can’t Distance Themselves from Hydro’s Woes
The response of the private power industry (IPPs) to the recently released study on BC Hydro is goofy even against other barmy statements they make. The defence against the charge…
Out of scope
Following up on this morning's post, there's actually another notable bit of misdirection involved in Tony Clement's G8 pork-barrelling which helps to explain why the Auditor General was led astray…
The Prairie tour begins tomorrow
So I'm heading out west for a three day Drupal training tour starting tomorrow evening. Winnipeg tomorrow, then Saskatoon, then Calgary. Back home on Friday. When we arranged this tour…
Women don’t trust Tim Hudak
And they shouldn’t. Check it out, here. Not surprising at all.
mob of flower wielding men
Flower power got two gay men released from jail in 1968. The Los Angeles police vice squad arrested two men in the Wilmington Gay bar in August 1968. The police…
Let’s talk to, instead of shouting at, the Conservative government
Today's news has been filled with the open dispute between the Conservative government and the Canadian Bar Association. The CBA has passed a number of resolutions deploring the Conservatives' justice…
Radio Topics, August 16th
Welcome to the middle of August! Adam has found a good deal to go to Quebec City for a few days, so I’ll be flying solo. Tune in nonetheless, as…
The dubious achievement of renaming things
Stephen Harper and his party seem to have a real urge to rename objects and organizations, place labels and signs on things, and do all of this in the name…
My Birthday Present
Filed under: Beautiful, Personal Tagged: serendipity
Debt Refinancing, the Federal Government and the Provinces
Ok this post is in the form of a naive question. And it goes like this: If the Federal Government can borrow (OK MMTers don’t vide your back-end here, I…