Troy and Abed — Christmas Infiltration
Alltop enjoys “infiltrating” your funny bone.
2011
Your Daily Nazi: My Day Among The Nazis
So yesterday I went off to visit room 4D at 180 Queen West for the denouement of Warman Vs. Lemire. I wound up sitting two seats over from Lemire, who…
Public transit is a core government function
Public transit is not a "perk" as some have recently suggested — it is a core governmental function in a modern city akin to police, fire and roads. Ignoring or…
Outlaw door to door sales
So this guy comes to the door a couple of nights ago. Bang bang bang. I was making dinner. The birds were flying free, so we didn’t want to open…
George Clooney astonished by "second-class" treatment of American gays and lesbians
George Clooney has signed on to star in the West Coast premiere of 8, a stage play written by Dustin Lance Black that chronicles the historic federal court trial (Perry…
Harper and Kyoto a Bad History.
Harper since 2006 promised us that if he was prime minister he would scrap the Kyoto accord. He first just allowed Kyoto to stay alive, and just completely ignore it…
Reinventing Fire: Fuel Without Fear, Climate Change, & Oil Spills
If you haven’t read Reinventing Fire yet, put it on your Christmas list now! Like Amory Lovins says in the clip below, when you drop a sea crystal into a…
Cracks Appear In Multi-Faith Coalition
“Multi-Faith Coalition” are what the folks protesting Friday prayers at Valley Park Middle School. Looks like they have already started to come unravelled, or at least some elements within the…
A grain of salt #nlpoli
Around this time of year the country’s major banks issue their economic assessments of the current year and their forecasts of the coming one. Royal Bank issued the most recent…
Cotler incident may harm Conservative case for lawful access legislation
In the wake of the Speaker’s privilege ruling yesterday, the Conservatives are saying that “there will be no more phone calls to voters in Cotler’s riding, spreading the word that…
A reprehensible practice
“Reprehensible.” That is how the Speaker of the Commons termed the practice of calling Irwin Cotler’s constituents and intimating that he is resigning. In the course of the ruling, however,…
Young Stephen Harper benefitted from Affirmative Action for upper class white males
A young Stephen Harper got a job with Imperial Oil with the help of his father, Joseph, who was a top financial officer in Toronto. "I was virtually told to…
Is Jason Kenney still Roman Catholic, or does he actually accept women as equals now?
Right? I mean, that is the standard he’s claiming to set, isn’t it? The reason burkhas and niqabs have to be banned from Canada isn’t because they make women too…
New study dispels myths about public sector pay
OTTAWA – December 14, 2011: There is no evidence the average pay of public sector workers in Canada is consistently higher than comparable occupations in the private sector, reports a…
Rumoured Tory poll showing Alberta NDP surge: Orange Wave, or just orange hair dye?
Orange Wave, or just orange dye? Below: Alberta Premier Alison Redford with her Chief of Staff, Stephen Carter (photo borrowed from Calgary Herald); NDP Leader Brian Mason. What’s with the…
Have they no shame?
Apparently not.Do whatever you like, Conservatives. Andy’s got your back.
So Alterna has a new website, including online banking
I’ve been anticipating the relaunch of Alterna, the former CS-Co-op which bought some of the Capital Community Credit Union, where I do most of my banking for some time now.…
The religious nature of the Libertarian movement
In many ways, the modern libertarian movement is deeply religious. Not in the sense of believing some mystical metaphysical claims about the nature of the universe, but in its structure…
Cyclist Fatality Waiting/Designed to Happen
If you wanted to design a storm sewer grate to catch a bicycle wheel and throw the rider into fast heavy traffic you could not do better than this. These…