Rafe’s 80th Roast a Big Success!
Thank you to all those who helped make last night’s celebration of Rafe Mair’s 80th birthday a smashing success! A packed house at Vancouver’s Wise Hall was treated to entertaining…
2011
The landscape exhibition #20
A silk road Filed under: art, design, digital, painting Tagged: art, collage, digital, iPad, landscape, painting
On Good Authority
I was quoted in the House of Commons question period yesterday by Finance Minister Jim Flaherty. “Hon. Jim Flaherty (Minister of Finance, CPC): Mr. Speaker, I know the NDP bandies…
The Occupy Movement: More Wisdom From Star Readers
I wrote the other day that I normally refrain from excerpting large chunks of text from other sources, but here I go again, this time a reproduction of letters from…
Holland in Montreal: A Woofnerf in St. Henri
Elin spent three years at The Hague, living just off a canal on a street that ended with -laan: neither she nor I can remember the complete name but the…
Who Knew it was legal to Camp at Best Buy
Ken Sander’s photo TreeHugger
Kelly Block to Finally Reveal What Was Really Going on in Her Office
If only that were true. In December of 2010, a staffer in Kelly Block’s office, leaked details of a confidential pre-budget House Finance Committee report, to several key lobbyists. When…
Meeting Today
Today I’m meeting with my publicist and have a 3 page list of contacts gleaned from all the helpful suggestions and recommendations of people on my email address list who…
Don’t Mess up Like Texas – maybe too late?
We still have time to raise awareness on Bill C-10, the omnibus crime bill being rammed through the House of Commons by the Stephen Harper Conservatives. LeadNow.ca This would be…
The New Generation Gap
Yesterday, Elections Canada released a study on the problem of youthful apathy on voting day. The study suggests that “young Canadians don’t vote because politicians aren’t able to connect to…
Lawsuit headed to Supreme Court over judge’s "plagiarism"
This is a very weird story. Lawyers want judges to copy their submissions — indeed, the main reason to give submissions electronically is to encourage judges to 'cut and paste'.…
140 Law: Legal Headlines for November 25, 2011
It’s Black Friday in America, as we wish our American readers a happy Thanksgiving weekend, our busy week of tweets and headlines is almost at an end. I’ll be blogging…
Friday miscellany…
… double-decker edition… Saw this piece by Lawrence Martin on a possible run by Dalton McGuinty for the leadership of the federal Grits. Interesting. Personally, I’d like to see his…
Slater Street …
… in Ottawa while atop one of OC Transpo’s über-cool double deckers! Wheeeeee!!!! Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
Sad Spaceman worries about his tubes
More Sad Spaceman at the website. Alltop is the best humor aggregator on the intertubes.
"Climategate" 2.0: Anatomy Of A Fake Scandal
It’s dead, Jim. A combination of journalists not wanting to get fooled again–especially with the suspicious timing of the email release (to coincide with Durban)–and a quick response from within…
Statistics Canada Data to become OpenData – Background, Winners and Next Steps
As some of you learned last night, Embassy Magazine broke the story that all of Statistics Canada’s online data will not only be made free, but released under the Government…