life, by keith richards, canadian content alert
This post - like its subject - is old but still relevant.Over the summer I read Life, Keith Richards' memoirs. When I blogged about it here, I was loving it,…
October 2011
Note on the eventual Toronto-Danforth by-election…
I agree with something posted awhile back by Globe and Mail columnist Robert Silver, that the upcoming by-election is a chance to do something different - specifically, the attempt at…
man of vanity, frank klees, goes out with a bang
The Ontario PC Party is up in arms now that one of their own, Newmarket-Aurora MPP Frank Klees, has put his name forward for the speakers chair. Dalton is just…
Privacy
The unelected premier of BC. Christie Clark and her caucus are trying to ram through changes to the Privacy Act. According to an article written by Rob Shaw, of Postmedia.…
4126…Ever Heard Of K-97?
Me neither.It is a classic rock station in Edmonton and now both of us have heard of it.I found out about K-97 in this morning's Ottawa Sun. Advertising Standards Canada,…
Rob Ford: Help! Call 911! Marg Delahunty is after my body!
Marg to cop, "Where's a man when you need him?" Cop, "Obviously not here, m'am". Too fucking hilarious. No wonder Conservatives are so afraid of the CBC. Marg Delahunty’s on…
On July 1, Conservatives booted CBC 75th anniversary tribute for a couple of Britwits
"Oh say dear Kate, you may want to have that growth on your head checked out." Ah Conservatives, so in love with our country. Not! Preferring to honour war and…
Herman Cain’s campaign is smoking
See his new ad. Has this man gone cuckoo?
The GOP field too extreme for Pat Robertson? Oh my god!
When you are too extreme for religious extremist Pat Robertson, you know you've crossed some kind of tenuous line into a netherworld of Beelzebub, Linda Blair's spinning head and your…
Criminals don’t use long guns, Tories say in scrapping registry
This is odd -- I have done a number of murder and attempt murder cases and only one involved a handgun...bit.ly/ubHPcO
It’s Jersey Shore meets The West Wing…
In another of those coming of the Apocalypse signs, the people that brought you (not me, as I don't watch it) The Jersey Shore are casting for a political reality…
In general in family law cases secretely recorded conversations should be excluded from evidence
Sordi v. Sordi, 2011 ONCA 665 is an interesting decision of the Court of Appeal suggesting there is a general principle that in family law cases secretly recorded conversations should…
The American Dream: You have to be Asleep to Believe It
George at his most prescient, ranting best. How he would have loved the occupy movement.
Tuesday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your afternoon reading.- Lawrence Martin argues that with an NDP Official Opposition at the same time as the effects of inequality and greed continue to send shockwaves…
Leonard Cohen Has New Meaning: First We Take Manhattan ….or Occupy Wall Street
A bard captures the spirit of his time. This song was written in the 1980s (the first time I heard it was in 1987 when driving across Sasketchewan) but ilt…
4125…CBC Needs Money? Here Is How To Get It
Of course they won't follow my advice but here goes.Infomercials.CBC covers a lot of big markets: Toronto, Calgary, Ottawa, Buffalo, Vancouver, Detroit, Montreal are all a million plus. Infomercials and…
Rob Ford threatened by princess with plastic toy sword
Rob Ford, co-mayor of Toronto, was today threatened by a middle-aged woman dressed as a princess. She was wearing a short red dress with breastplates, and offered Mr. Ford some…
And then right on cue… #nlpoli
Someone starts talking about dumping military infrastructure that serves no military purposes any longer. Then your humble e-scribbler reminds everyone not to worry since bases like Goose bay are far…
Chantal Hebert misstates Nathan Cullens electoral cooperation idea
In today's Toronto Star Chantal Hebert writes about Nathan Cullen's idea for electoral cooperation between the LPCC, NDP and Green Party. She is of the opinion that the idea is…
The Progressive Party of Ontario is Fundamentally Unrepresentative of Ontarians
Just about all of the pco seats won in the recent election are in rural ON, and all of those elected seem to be white. How representative of the people…