reality.jpg Last week, I took to task a really poor USA Today op-ed making the following claim: "In short, for every anti-science Republican that exists, there is at least one…
It's been blogged about again and again, but that is because it's so stupid and at the same time, scary. With their majority government, the Tories are looking to spearhead…
R. v. Lawrence, 2011 NSCA 84 deals with the responsibility of a Court to give very strong consideration to jointly recommended proposals for disposition in a criminal matter. A joint…
Several weeks ago, the first results of CERN's Cosmics Leaving OUtdoor Droplets (or CLOUD) experiment were revealed. This experiment was designed to study the chemical factors behind cloud formation and,…
Baird was the attack dog for the Harper government at the UN yesterday with his meandering rant that read like it was written by the Israeli ministry of international propaganda.…
He said. She said. Claim. Counter-claim. Simple conflict. Simple news story. No problem? Problem. Well, maybe. You decide. Jay Rosen is a journalism professor at New York University. He doesn’t…
Certainly not Talia herself, obviously: Rather, its the footwear and what's on the t-shirt. From the Sun Family Blog:Speaking of the Toronto Sun crashing, it hit bottom (again) today (Sept…
Thanks to a bit of clever wordplay and misdirection aided and abetted by certain clueless media types, the government now touts how Parliament voted to extend the mission in Libya.…
US Capitol, Source: Autism Society of North Carolina Excellent! The US Senate has now passed CARA, the Combating Autism Reauthorization Act, and it should soon be headed to President Obama's…
Gary Mar at the wheel of the new, improved, “reinvented” Alberta Conservative Party. Alberta politicians and the parties they lead may not appear exactly as illustrated. Below: Mr. Mar, Ralph…
Hugh MacDonald with your blogger at the Sept. 10 Liberal leadership vote. Everything is exactly as it appears.With wild-eyed Alberta Liberal party officials about to launch an unexpected search for…
dickhead cheney came to The Vancouver Club tonight to promote his book.Of course I participated to see Vancouverites welcome him in style.To the best of my knowledge, he signed no…
Sometimes, we just have the sit back, smile, and marvel at the thought process that boneheads undergo when trying to be all strategic and junk. A recent example is Tomasz…
Well, here’s something rather unusual… Appearing earlier today on BBC, Alessio Rastani, an independent stock trader, confessed to a stunned interviewer that, like most of his colleagues on Wall Street…
Hello! I’m back in the host’s seat after a couple of weeks away. We’ve got an exciting show as always. At 8, I’ll speak with Wayne Smith from Fair Vote…
Via Canadian Lawyer's Legal Feeds Blog, Ontario Superior Court Justice David Brown recently offered a stinging criticism of the inability of the Province's courts to accommodate electronic document filings: “It…
The EKOS survey taken after the election throws some interesting light on the Changers. The G&M article is here, and the poll results are herehttp://www.ekospolitics.com/wp-content/uploads/41st_election.pdf.Scott's Diatribes deals with another face...
Spent a little over an hour at the protest. Here are some quick observations:Stunned at how few cops there were - maybe a dozen or so uniformed police standing in…
I wanted to wait on this particular post for a little while to let peoples’ emotions die down a bit, but I would like to write about the death of…
“Canadian Klansman” tapestry by Barbara Heller. O, Canada. You’ve certainly seen more than your share of imports from our neighbors to the south. Some, like the Vietnam-era draft dodgers and…
