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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,…
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,…
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…
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…
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.…
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,…
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…
"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…
See his new ad. Has this man gone cuckoo?
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…
This is odd -- I have done a number of murder and attempt murder cases and only one involved a handgun...bit.ly/ubHPcO
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…
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…
George at his most prescient, ranting best. How he would have loved the occupy movement.
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…
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…
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, 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…
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…
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…
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…