The Liberals are UP!
A new poll shows that the Conservatives are at 36.2, The Liberals at 27.0% and the NDP at 26.8%. We are now just over a month past the last election…
2011
Clubs and Societies at Mount Allison University
20 Tips in 20 Days for first-year students: #2 – Choose a club that matches your interests Second in this 20-part video series is my friend Alex Dalton (fifth-year Honours…
140 Law – Legal Headlines for August 9, 2011
Here are today's leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter:Bribery Got Bin Laden - http://goo.gl/j7r49Wage gap growing between male, female lawyers - Canadian Lawyer Magazine - http://goo.gl/FyEGUUS Supreme Court…
Of course they support us to have massive colourful orgiastic ecstatic street fetes…
when we do not laugh and gyrate and forget... we remember and rage and resist and their streets burn... if what you're reading here grips you, holds you, fascinates you,…
Ask General Kang: Is it a correction? Please tell me it’s a correction! Should I sell?
Yep, there’s nothing trickier to manipulate than a system based on fear and greed. You humans should consider changing your approach to markets. Back on my home planet, I changed…
DOMA to break up seven-year marriage and 19-year relationship
This is why the American Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) needs to be repealed. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services have denied immigration benefits to a bi-national married gay couple in…
Does London have an NHL team?
The editorials about London and the ongoing riots reflect, as always, the writers' predisposition. The riots are a sign of moral decay, failed government cutbacks, racism, British national character, global…
Yes, i think it is…
from scission... THE FUTURE IS TOTTENHAM? As the USA rapidly continues its rapid descent today, we turn instead to England which went down a whiles back and is a hint…
Shaidle’s Hubby Still Getting Sued
Arnie Lemaire, of Imaginit Technologies, is still in trouble with Richard Warman:Latest – Warman v. Arnie Lemaire (aka Blazingcatfur and husband of Kathy Shaidle). In December of 2010, this libel…
Carbon taxes may be the new debt reducers
There is an op-ed in the Globe today by Todd Hirsch, a Calgary-based senior economist at a financial firm out there: "Debt is the new carbon." His premise is essentially…
Changing the game
Politics, Don Jamieson once said, is no place for fools. But you don’t have to be a fool to expect that people act with basic human decency. Definitely not acting…
Give Me Liberty, Or Give Me Piss
Drought-Stricken Texas Town faces choice between conserving water or drinking own waste products, chooses to drink own waste products. The American spirit is strong in these ones. Not that I…
Acadie Nouvelle gratuit via le site de la bibliothèque
Des photos en noire et blanc, en 2011, c'est plutôt triste. Surtout sur un iPad!Ceci-dit, lorsqu'on lie quelques chose sur l'app Kobo en mode "nuit",et qu'il y a une photo…
Libya, Australia, Brazil
The Foreign Affairs committee met yesterday afternoon to discuss the situation in Libya. The progress is largely halting, with mere incremental progress, and small surprise, the NDP don’t want to…
The London Riots: When Anger Burns
You may have noticed that London is burning. The flames of anger are spreading .The violence, which began in Tottenham, north London, on Saturday spread south and east to Brixton,…
Coalition Calls on Harper to Cut Online Spying Mandate from Omnibus Crime Package
SOS_100xx100.png Joint letter questions why government is avoiding debate on 'chilling' legislation August 9, 2011 – A group of academics and public interest organizations released a joint lett...
Preparing for the Greatest Recession
It was another hot and humid day in Hogtown. But that didn't stop me from running down to the golden towers of Bay Street. I wanted to see if the…
Would the prime minister please shut up: senior Conservative cabinet minister was BQ member for 7+ years
Separatist Conservative cabinet minister Denis Lebel being sworn in while Prime Minister Stephen Harper lovingly gazes on. That was then, from the prime minister’s web page. Is this now? Below:…
A rundown on Alberta’s future
So the deed is done, the U.S. has now officially been rated AA+ for an entire trading day during which the S&P took the ratings axe to many U.S. institutions.…