The Case of Tony Clement and the Muskoka Millions
Golly Sherlock. I see the strange case of Tony Clement and the Muskoka Millions has taken another sensational and porky turn.Inspector Angus may finally have solved the baffling mystery of…
2011
New National Post Climate Change Denialist Says: Don’t Worry, God Will Fix It
The latest gambit in the National Post‘s campaign against science education in Canada (specifically, against an informed understanding of climate change in Canada) is the printing of a piece by…
Royally Screwed.
The Government that has slashed millions of dollars for the protection of the environment, the regulation of air transportation, women’s programming, scientific research, food security, water monitoring, parks management, arts…
BC Libs, IPPs Can’t Distance Themselves from Hydro’s Woes
The response of the private power industry (IPPs) to the recently released study on BC Hydro is goofy even against other barmy statements they make. The defence against the charge…
Out of scope
Following up on this morning's post, there's actually another notable bit of misdirection involved in Tony Clement's G8 pork-barrelling which helps to explain why the Auditor General was led astray…
The Prairie tour begins tomorrow
So I'm heading out west for a three day Drupal training tour starting tomorrow evening. Winnipeg tomorrow, then Saskatoon, then Calgary. Back home on Friday. When we arranged this tour…
Women don’t trust Tim Hudak
And they shouldn’t. Check it out, here. Not surprising at all.
mob of flower wielding men
Flower power got two gay men released from jail in 1968. The Los Angeles police vice squad arrested two men in the Wilmington Gay bar in August 1968. The police…
Let’s talk to, instead of shouting at, the Conservative government
Today's news has been filled with the open dispute between the Conservative government and the Canadian Bar Association. The CBA has passed a number of resolutions deploring the Conservatives' justice…
Radio Topics, August 16th
Welcome to the middle of August! Adam has found a good deal to go to Quebec City for a few days, so I’ll be flying solo. Tune in nonetheless, as…
The dubious achievement of renaming things
Stephen Harper and his party seem to have a real urge to rename objects and organizations, place labels and signs on things, and do all of this in the name…
My Birthday Present
Filed under: Beautiful, Personal Tagged: serendipity
Debt Refinancing, the Federal Government and the Provinces
Ok this post is in the form of a naive question. And it goes like this: If the Federal Government can borrow (OK MMTers don’t vide your back-end here, I…
FreeD Proves Useful: New Hate Speech Provisions Clarified
The veritable "penny in the poop"--a genuine contribution to political discourse from Free Dominion. Because Rob Nicholson will tell the wing-nuts there what he won't tell us normal folk. Not…
This is another paradox: what is soft is strong
Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever…
Remembering Randy Echlin
Only today I learned of the death of Justice Randy Echlin, a judge of the Ontario Superior Court. He had been fighting cancer for nearly two years and when I…
A Québec colony in the USA?
Hmmm... what's this ?... the city of Burlington, Vermont, just passed a resolution to heighten the presence of French?... interesting... Turns out one of the municipal councilors thought that it…
Stephane Dion: Fighting For United And Better Canada
On August 6, Stephane Dion received the 2011 Couchiching Award for Leadership in Public Policy. The following is an excerpt from the speech Mr. Dion delivered at the event. Fighting…
Westcott packs it in
Craig Westcott confirmed Monday he’ll be leaving the opposition office and returning to run his newspapers. Here’s the statement he released: Yvonne and I have agreed that my position will…