The Motts
I was on the Motts today. A podcast of the show is at: http://www.themotts.ca/listen.php Just click on the podcast for October 31st.
October 2011
Happy Halloween!
I have discovered something horrible this year. My littlest gurlies, the ones who have lived with me in my Halloween themed house their whole lives, are suddenly petrified of many…
Mayor McPanic?? Hahahaha!
The fallout from Mayor Effingford’s little fracas with Marg Delahunty/Mary Walsh just keeps getting better. Olbermann tweets: HAHAHAHA! One of the Worst Persons in the World 2 days in a…
Boundless Irony on Route 91
A Miami police officer is accused of driving 120 mph on a turnpike because he was late for his off-duty job working security at a school. According to the website…
Finally….
THE POLICE The ones who beat Rodney King, who gunned down Sean Bell and Amadou Diallo and Oscar Grant, who murdered Fred Hampton in his bed. The ones who broke…
Once Again, Words Fail
...I'm just going to post this sequence of shocking pics of Rob Ford and Ezra Levant without comment, because I am quite defeated by their apparent depravity:Have we just witnessed…
former fort saskatchewan mayor jim sheasgreen seeking pc nomination.
Jim Sheasgreen, former Mayor of the City of Fort Saskatchewan, has announced his intention to seek the Progressive Conservative nomination in the Fort Saskatchewan-Vegreville constituency. Mr. Sheasgreen served as Mayor…
Ontario’s Privacy Commissioner Points Out Serious Faults of Proposed Online Spying Bills
Today, Ontario's Information and Privacy Commissioner Ann Cavoukian wrote an open letter to Ministers Vic Toews and Robert Nicholson in which she voiced concerns about the proposed online spying...
Privacy alarm bell tolls for thee, Harper government
On the heels of the statement from the Canadian Privacy Commissioner last week, the Privacy Commissioner of Ontario adds her voice to the chorus warning of the dangers of the…
Spooky stats…
… but aren’t they all? No word on the number of human / vampire children, tho’… 100% disgusting! $616 million — The value of “other miscellaneous by-products, including other processed,…
QP: Cultural problems
Despite it being Halloween, MPs declined to turn up in costume, unless “bland” was the theme they were going for. But more on that later. Nycole Turmel kicked it off…
Right on Crime
CONSERVATIVE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SOLUTIONS — http://bit.ly/sNSUR5 A very interesting website where Conservative Americans set out (what look like Liberal) justice reforms
Court date rapidly approaching
All legal arguments have now been filed in the unprecedented case against the Sask. Party governments’ anti-worker, anti-democratic, unconstitutional labour laws. As reported earlier in this blog, the Saskatchewan Federation…
Viewing mining’s effects on First Nations through the lens of aboriginal rights
Monday, October 31, 2011 A Guest Post by Bonnie Docherty, Lecturer on Law and Senior Clinical Inst...
Happy Halloween
If anyone is still looking for last minute Halloween costumes, here are a few politically-themed ideas:At the Party...Senate Page: Black dress, white gloves, and long braided pony tail. Be sure…
Don’t Look At This Picture
Words fail me. Although, just to get the obvious out of the way: he's taken, fellas. Or gals. Or whatever.
A Prime Minister challenges a Chancellor: Could this be the end of the EU?
An epic struggle for the future of the EU was started this morning when a Greek politician threw down the gauntlet, challenging both those within his country who opposed his…
Baby Bullshit
The world's 7,000,000,000th baby was not born this morning in Ottawa. Or rather, there's no way to tell which of the baby's delivered on October 31st, 2011 is the 7,000,000,000th,…
Congratulations to the Palestinians … and UNESCO
Allow me to add my cheer to those that went up at the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) 36th General Conference after delegates approved Palestinian membership. The…
Profit, wage, NDP, and tax revenue growth in Newfoundland and Labrador
Although I covered it off in my rebuttal to the Minister of Finance Thomas Marshall in the last post I thought maybe a graphic would be a more compelling way…