Taking shape
With the NDP's leadership rules now set, let's take a look at how the race is shaping up. As best I can tell, the Mark's list of candidates looks to…
September 2011
Video: 2011 Manitoba Election Environment Forum
Manitoba citizens will elect a new provincial government Oct. 4, 2011 and environmental issues will play an important role in determining which political party forms that government. Where should Manitoba…
CBC’s ‘level playing field’ has $1.1-billion taxpayer-funded turf by J. Serge Sasseville
Quebecor Media's vice president of corporate and institutional affairs says CBC's vice-president of brand, communications and corporate affairs is stating halftruths to mask its misguided attempts at avoiding accountability.
Spring hearing scheduled for Reitmeier and Sturrup
Hearing set for skinheads charged with murder By Daryl Slade, Calgary Herald September 16, 2011 A three-week preliminary hearing has been set to begin next spring for two known white…
The Brewing Revolution. . . . .
If history is any indication of future events I suspect that Europe is headed toward revolution.In the years leading up to the French Revolution, as France inched toward bankruptcy, one…
Reopen Swiss Air 111
Yesterday morning's explosive (pardon the expression) allegations by a former Mountie that the Swiss Air 111 crash in 1998 may have been a terrorist act and not an entertainment system…
children’s book too hot for U.S.
Evolution published by Kids Can Press in Cda. Way to go! I’m ordering it. http://ow.ly/6whmt Filed under: Miscellany
The Death Of "Compassionate Conservatism"
When George W. Bush was elected president in 2000, he proclaimed that he was a "compassionate conservative." This week, during the second Republican candidates debate, it became clear that the…
140 Law – Legal Headlines for September 16, 2011
Here are Friday's leading legal headlines, from Wise Law on Twitter:Steve Moore finally gets his day in court - Globe and Mail -http://goo.gl/jnyDvHudak's sex-offender registry a solution in search of…
Leadership 2012: Rulebook Review
As promised, let's take a quick look through the NDP's official leadership rules. On the whole, the regulations don't look to particularly favour any one candidate - but they do…
mandatory, warrantless internet spying coming to canada, unless we stop it
If Stephen Harper has his way, mandatory, warrantless, universal internet surveillance will be the norm in Canada. Once upon a time, I would have thought that statement was hyperbole; now…
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Willful Ignorance in the Ford Administration
Toronto Mayors Rob and Doug Ford and their minions, like so many of the extreme right, tend not to let facts, reason, and data interfere with the purity of their…
Fun, fun, fun
Nudity Probable from the irregulars on Vimeo. Alltop always walks into a room butt-first.
How do we help poor Sarah Grunfeld?
In the spirit of charity, I was going to suggest we take up a collection to buy this poor misunderstood child a hearing aid. We're not here to judge, after…
Hudak visits Toronto Star ed board
It's too bad that the Star only taped just under 3 minutes of the meeting they had with Tim Hudak. The Ottawa Citizen met with Dalton McGuinty the other day…
Ooh the Republicans!
Our Republicans to the south are at it again. It's a very simple equation. Tax increases destroy jobs. And the Joint Committee is a jobs committee. Its mission is to…
Vote For Hudak, And This Little Fellow Gets It
Seriously. Or at least Carleton-Mississippi Mills Tory candidate Jack MacLaren would allow roads to be built into the provincially endangered species' habitat. Useful, I think, to remind people of the…
Murderer appeals conviction: Jury did not get full story during trial, says lawyer
http://nnsl.com/northern-news-services/stories/papers/sep15_11bis-nun.htmlJeanne GagnonNorthern News ServicesNUNAVUTThe new lawyer for a man convicted of a triple-slaying in Cambridge Bay four years ago has launched an appeal, saying the jury did not g...
Should Canada Arrest George Bush When He Comes To Canada?
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