Joe Kapp, Angelo Mosca brawl most exciting thing about Grey Cup weekend
That may not be really true; I was sick during most of that time, taking in the TSN coverage from the confines of my bed with an almost-religious fervour befitting…
November 2011
Lost in Deep Time with Richard Alley
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Fixed election periods? Take your pick: hypocritical, cynical, impractical or all of the above
An Alberta monogamist with his many wives and children. Alberta’s “fixed election dates will be flexible.” Do we speak English here any more? Almost anything in Alberta may not be…
Fromm Upset That He and His Friends Aren’t Getting Any Credit
On November 26, Brian Storseth’s private member’s bill to repeal Sec. 13 from the Canadian Human Rights Act had it’s second reading. Should the Conservatives all get behind Bill C-304,…
Even if they don’t hear you on the ice
They usually hear you in the stands. I accidentally hollered “THE NEUTRAL ZONE IS NOT A HOT TUB!” because our players were a little dawdly in today’s game (which started…
alberta candidate nomination update – november 2011 (part 3)
For the past year I have been maintaining a list of declared and nominated candidates planning to stand in Alberta’s next provincial general election. To give readers a better idea…
Did the CFL invite Albertans Jann Arden and Nickelback to play the Grey Cup to please HMH (His Majesty Harper)?
It seems like Harper worms his way into almost any situation with which he is involved so that his cronies and compatriots reap the awards of his place of privilege.…
Grey Cup Night Night-Kapp…The Face Mask Factor
TheyAreAllSidewindersNow GogolakVille In the end the game did have a little of the ol’ CFL razzle-dazzle. And all those wild-eyed backfields in motion kept on keepin’ on until the last,…
BC Place, the Lions and the CFL: a ballet in incompetence. Roof not open on sunny Vancouver evening for Grey Cup.
The sun came out in glorious fashion this afternoon shortly before festivities began at the Grey Cup. It was a gorgeous late afternoon like only Vancouver can provide. It was…
Tweet tweet tweet
This is hilarious. During a school visit by the Kansas governor Sam Brownback, a teenager in the audience, Emma Sullivan, tweeted to her 65 followers that said governor “sucked” and…
Shorter
Shorter Globe and Mail: I’m shocked, SHOCKED, that the NDP are advertising between elections! Why, that’s just like what the Conservatives have done for the last five years! How unseemly!
Sam Brownback tweet insulter won’t apologzie
Hooray for Ellen Sullivan. After being commanded by her cowardly, as-licking principal Karl Krawitz.to apologize to Gov. Sam Brownshirt for a slightly insulting tweet, Sullivan has decided not to surrender…
Do We Need More Proof That Harper Doubts Global Warming?
First we had the cuts to ozone monitoring that saw the shuttering of 17 ozone monitoring stations across Canada. The reason? Ozone apparently wasn’t a concern anymore (see Canada’s newest…
Do We Need More Proof That Harper Doubts Global Warming?
First we had the cuts to ozone monitoring that saw the shuttering of 17 ozone monitoring stations across Canada. The reason? Ozone apparently wasn’t a concern anymore (see Canada’s newest…
The Sixth Estate on who pays for Canada’s right-wing think tanks | #cdnpoli
… where think tanks and the like are concerned, is that most of these groups routinely put themselves into a conflict of interest when they advocate policies which benefit their…
Skating and choir today
Mallory and I spent a couple of hours going around and around Brewer Arena, today. On skates, that is. Irene and Mallory went skating yesterday and they had so much…
Defiant Occupy Ottawa returns to Confederation Park
Occupy Ottawa’s tents are gone from Confederation Park. But the movement’s right to use the park to exercise its freedoms of assembly and expression, which are enshrined in Canada’s Charter…
Occupy Ottawa evicted from tents, Attawapiskat First Nations forced into tents
The irony of it all! At around 2.am Wednesday morning, more than 150 Ottawa Police officers pounced on eight Occupy Ottawa protesters peacefully resisting eviction from Confederation Park, where they’d…
So what exactly is a sniper rifle?
When bloggers write about the wrong headed Harper Tory plan to repeal the life saving long gun, self annointed gun language cops leap on any perceived diversion from their world…
Grey Cup Day Update…Whadd’ya Mean We Didn’t Miss…
…Nickelback?! After the sudden early Sunday change in the Lotuslandian weather officially ended the ‘Roof-Leak-Watch’, the Whack-A-Doodle and I figured we would skip the first half and, most importantly, the…