Jim Flaherty: Cost cutting consultants
The Harper government is firm that they will save a lot of money by hiring the consulting firm of Deloitte Inc. at the cost of $90,000 a day - a…
September 2011
The Public Sector Pensions thing explained #nlpoli #nlvotes
People can’t understand the racket over provincial pensions, what the Liberals proposed, what the CBC reported but hasn’t explained and what the provincial Conservatives are attacking the Liberals over. Here’s…
Rocco Rossi’s Campaign of Illegal Tactics
As I said in the Toronto Mayoral race. Rocco Rossi is a piece of work. He's a scumbag for allowing this shit to go on and on and on.
Showdown: CRTC Vs. Rogers on Net Neutrality Enforcement
On Friday the CRTC released a letter to Rogers stating that the possibility of other games being affected by the ITMP misclassification bug maybe in fact against section 36 of…
Haunted animals – New doc project explores animal suffering
Liz Marshall, the director of Water on the Table, is working with photographer Jo-Anne McArthur on a new cross-platform documentary about the price animals pay as subjugated, commodified and oppressed…
Omnibus bill: ‘just the beginning’
Soon to be Enemy No 1Warning: full on rant, angst mode.I told you it's just a about sex and drugs.Bill C-10, tabled in the Commons on Tuesday, combines nine separate…
For me, it’s substance over style
I get emails. Most often from angry far-right lunatics who generally suggest that I’m either a lesbian (but that’s not the word they use) or so ugly that I could…
Big Red Machine Beatdown!
Come to PEI, and travel back to a simpler time… Here’s a fun fact about PEI. If Ontario had the same ratio of MLAs to population, its provincial legislature would…
Tories $20 Million Auditors Are Serial Fraudsters
If you're the government and you want to find "gravy" - to pick a random metaphor - that you can eliminate in the provision of services in order to reduce…
Deeper
There was vibration a gentle buzz from head to toe when I heard your voice when I felt your arms around me It was at once more than lust and…
Immigration and its Discontents | The Agenda
2 quotes from RD.http://theagenda.tvo.org/blog/agenda-blog/immigration-and-its-discontentsThe adventures of a Franco Ontarian Viz Min Woman in Ottawa.
Trade Unions Urge G20 Action on Jobs
I am attending the G20 labour ministers meeting next week, which is being held against the background of high unemployment in the advanced economies, and the prospect – highlighted by…
14 months later
Kathy Dunderdale, last year:"New buyer has eyes on mill" - CBCKathy Dunderdale, yesterday:"It'd be something of a miracle in the present climate" - CBCWe've never been stronger.
My Cat Book
cat is available as a free PDF download Filed under: art, book, digital, drawing, drawings, illustration, painting Tagged: art, book. pdf, Cat, cats, humor, humour, illustration, iPad, life, painting
A Just Society?
The phrase was Pierre Trudeau's, and it caught on. Canadians like to think of themselves as citizens of a Just Society. Certainly, they believe, things are better here than in…
Unions’ Self-Inflicted Problems
Allow me to be unequivocal from the start: I am a strong believer in unions as virtually the only effective means of countering the depredations that employers would inflict upon…
140 Law – Leading Legal Headlines for September 21, 2011
Here are today's leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter: New York’s Chief Judge Seeks New System for Juvenile Defendants - NYTimes.com - http://goo.gl/5hGtQ Lawyers as Social Media Influencers…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Munir Sheikh writes (PDF) about good data and intelligent government. I'll add the subtitle, "and other perceived threats to the Harper Conservatives".- Aside from…
BREAKING. Fox News North quotes Margaret Atwood: “Libaries (sic) cause cancer”
Well, not the real Sun News Network. But 22 Minutes’ Geri Hall does a bang-on impression of a Krista Erickson Fox News North type host ‘quizzing’ Margaret Atwood. It goes…