Faytene is ready for her close-up
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights reUsed By Permission. Faytene Grasseschi is apparently an actress. Yes, really. The former Faytene Kryskow is mentioning on her Facebook Wall this week that she…
2011
Real Fun With Maps….
AllTheDemographicsThatFitLotuslandiaRisingVille Here's something you may or may not know, but.... I am not a real Gazetteer. And while I don't even play one on the TeeVee, I do like to…
Last Movie night!
Tonight the last Hintonburg Movie night of the season! Head over to the Community Centure for Toy Story 2 at 7 and Ferris Bueller's Day off at 9. Second show…
Economics for Dummies: Mike Ruppert on provocateurs and the British riots
Mike Ruppert, a former drug-enforcement cop from Los Angeles who helped expose the CIA’s role in drug smuggling to the US, analyzes the London riots. These riots have an economic…
Dilma Rousseff, President of Brazil, welcomes Harper for a photo-op
By now we know the story of how Stephen Harper threw a potty tantrum because he wanted a photo-op before dinner. The reason was that he wanted to have the…
See the Cover!
I’ve been MIA this week as summer took over. Less than a month left and so much to do with kids and Web of Angels. Do you like the cover?…
@marcusbgee calls Ford on his bullshit, but who helped put him there? | #TOpoli
So a few people – Thor and Nancy for starters – are linking to this piece from the Globe's ideologically reliable urban affairs curmudgeon, who's arguing, not without reason, that…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. - Armine Yalnizyan discusses how inequality is no better for business than it is for society at large: Just a few months ago, two…
Quebecor Destaffing Newspapers To Keep Fox News North Afloat?
After the T.O. Sun's last round of layoffs, I speculated wildly that the point of it all might be to keep Ezra in grease-paint. Turns out I might have been…
Saturday PHoto: The Beauties of Mount Royal and the Cemetery
The gates to Mount Royal cemetery don't look like this now. About a year and a half ago fissures were found in the mortar holding the big stone blocks--put in…
End of the World Curriculum: Armageddon Vs. Global Warming
With tongue firmly in cheek, here’s a recent clip from the satirical news site The Onion: If you’d like to watch more from The Onion on global warming, click…
Putting a Myth To Bed
A particularly potent myth has been circulating for about a decade. It is that the world's economic problems began with the fall of the World Trade Center. But, as Jennifer…
Hamilton Libraries: Something To Answer For
The other day I wrote a post called Hamilton's Vindication, with a link to a story detailing Hamilton Mayor Bob Bratina's invitation to author Margaret Atwood to tour the Central…
When in Doubt, Blame the Poor
British Prime Minister, David Cameron, has responded to the rioting in London over his budget, by blaming parents and kids who live in social housing. He promises to evict, and…
Dog people versus non-dog people…
… I fall into the latter group. Disclaimer – the following should not be considered to be blanket statements about all dogs and dog people. I address this specifically to…
Conference Board of Canada Warns Tax Cuts Don’t Pay For Themselves
I regard the Conference Board of Canada with deep suspicion. It plagiarizes reports and opposes universal healthcare. Which is why I was so impressed to see an op-ed by its…
If it seems too good to be true, it usually is
Rob Ford is giving election promises a very bad name right about now: When he was running for mayor last year, Rob Ford made two explicit promises to the voters…
NDP MPs refuse to answer questions about separatism
http://bit.ly/r8zUQc Hmm, sounds like a direction from the Centre to me -- and the allegations of witch hunt is rather like a careful misdirection... . The NDP is learning from…
Tales From The Project – #2
Ain’t that a pretty view? And it’s mine, all mine! I’m still adjusting to life in the projects…the neighbourhood is sweet . I’ve gotten most of the bus routes downpat…
Gruending On The Breivik Killings And "The Right"
Dennis Gruending weighs in elegantly here.My view: if right-wing pundits like Steyn, and Tarrek Fatah, and Pam Geller aren't nuts, then Brevik's actions are sane. If dark-skinned Islamo-fascists really have…