Trimming, digital TV over the air and a coyote
A hot humid day – more like July than Labour Day weekend – spent mostly doing chores and chit chatting. Sheila and I spent the morning wielding various gas-powered sharp-edged…
September 2011
Burning question
Sure, it's been fairly obvious that the Harper Cons have spent their time in office asking the world to think less of Canada. But did anybody suspect them to have…
There Are Some Things More Important Than Football And School Supplies This Weekend…
AllTheBuriedTreasuresThatFitClassicsTheRadioNeverRuinedVille Things like this.... Linkage for livestreaming and/or catching a ride with the pod, etc., can be found here. _____By the way....If you missed the WBEZ Boyz three act Dylan…
Ontario Student Debt
Last week, the CCPA released a paper by David Macdonald and Erika Shaker entitled Under Pressure: The Impact of Rising Tuition Fees on Ontario Families. The paper does a good…
Saturday Photo: The Return of the Pink Bicycle
As I make my rounds again in Outremont, I'm pleased to see that gardeners have done fun things again this year. To the left is the 2011 version of the…
Shrill Bitch Alert!
Video of Sarah Palin squawking at speaking to “supporters” of a newly formed group called “Tea Party of America” today at a rain-soaked rally in Iowa… and covered LIVE by…
TODAY’S SUNSHINE SHILL – New Co2 Art Feature
As Canadian journalism transforms from the rudderless, so-called objective ideals of people whose typewriters could almost be heard from the barrooms they so often frequented, into today's slick new, well-oiled…
Calling All Libertarians: Explain Randy Hillier To Me
So, if Libertarians co-ordinate their interests with other Libertarians, are they therefore commies? There's an interesting philosophical issue here re how Nominalists (here = Libertarians) can possibly justify the introduction…
On inexplicable delays
Yes, the positive media response signals how important the impending debate over the NDP's Bright Futures Fund proposal figures to be in the lead-up to Saskatchewan's November election. But the…
Cullen mulls NDP leadership?
As the next Parliament looms menacingly, the NDP must be weighing the pros and cons of a leaderless Opposition facing a bellicose and belligerent Conservative majority government, and coming up…
Funding for Federal Granting Councils
The Canadian Association of University Teachers represents 66,000 university and college teachers, academic librarians, researchers and staff at more than 120 universities and colleges in Canada. Their 2012 brief to…
The Hockey Season Cometh
Overheard in Fast Track: Grandmother: (pointing to hat on child with a Canadiens emblem) Who are they? Who’s your favourite hockey team? 3-year-old child: Habs! Some other patient: Losers! I…
4011…For Real
Football. N C A A. Today. WFDS
And on the 7th day, Mulcair gave media interviews
Thomas Mulcair has broken his silence and made it clear he will not run for his party's leadership, unless they select a timeline to his liking: OTTAWA — Thomas Mulcair…
Having problems with my blogger page…
My mainpage won't stay for me. Hoping it's not doing that for any of my 27 readers. :) Can't fix it now. Trying to head out of the house. But…
No votes for the poor
Emboldened by America’s drift to the right, a conservative columnist says in plain language what a heck of his political co-religionists likely think. Registering to vote is like handing out…
Shades of Green: A $50 Million Message to Coal
As heat records broke by the hundreds across the United States this summer, Michael Bloomberg braved the sweltering temperatures on a hot July morning, mounted a platform in front of…
Is there interest in a cat book?
At a recent prompting, that being an inquiry about sales, I fell into the book making portion of iPhoto. As such, I put together a few books of things. One…