HST savings elusive for consumers
In 2010, The Business Council of British Columbia, an association representing approximately 250 major business enterprises, circulated a report on consumer impacts of HST written by SFU Professor Jon Kesselman.…
2011
Porking it up, old style #nlpoli
Turns out that a seat on the offshore regulatory board is not Reg Bowers first Conservative pork appointment. In 2009, the provincial Conservatives re-appointed Bowers to a term on the…
Can’t Get a Decent Sandwich? Blame Subway’s Advertising Budget
Man am I getting sick of saturation Subway advertising. There is no nook or cranny they can’t squeeze themselves into. Canadian radio, American radio, TV, shows on my computer, you…
A Modest Reply to Margaret Wente
Four days have now passed since the dishon. Peter MacKay threatened to sue his critics for libel, and Sixth Estate has not received any requests to take down posts “attacking…
My Very Gay Message to Rick Perry
I’ve been taking a little heat recently, from some of my gay friends, for not having written anything about Rick Perry’s grotesque little video. But as I explain to those…
Molly’sBlog 2011-12-11 02:07:00
PERSONAL MOLLY DEBATES THE INSANE Most of Molly’s “action” is now over at her Facebook site. Over there there is an interesting “debate” if you can call it such. The…
McKee Uses Blood & Honour Arrests to Promote Violence
Paul Fromm protegee Kyle McKee did an interview with CTV concerning the assaults that took place in Vancouver and the arrest of the three Blood & Honour members suspected of…
Transforming regional representation in democracy
First Past the Post Ballot For reasons purely of pragmatism, our democracies are actually representative democracies where we elect a relatively tiny portion of our population as leaders to represent…
worlds collide: the high line meets the information
This photo is used in James Gleick’s The Information, in which I am currently engrossed. The building is Bell Labs, the hottest of hot spots for engineering and technology for…
Trashy’s World 2011-12-10 22:21:45
Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
Wankers of the Week: Second Badvent edition
Crappy weekend, everyone! Well, it’s that time again…Saturday night’s all right for fighting, and for exposing the blight on our world. There sure is a lot of it this week.…
Is this too Machiavellian? Maybe the Conservatives want the justice system to collapse?
Almost all justice system players say the Crime Bills won't work — maybe that certain failure is intentional? Maybe the Conservatives want the legislation to fail? Yesterday I had a…
Christie Blatchy Blatchford Misses John Wayne And Other Machismo–Plus Other Bonus Tracks
Poor Chrissie, down time from hanging around the Shafia trial and sounding “honour killing” dog whistles is proving not to suit her too much. Her latest column in the Nasty…
Pamela Geller loses it big time. Excitedly posts that LA shooter shouted "ALLAHU AKBAR!" as he randomly shot people.
Pamela Geller has more than lost it. Her paranoia has reached epic proportions only an Ayn Rand could imagine. She breathlessly whines in a blog post that the media is…
Broke-Back Perry
Another great parody of Republican ad; this time, Rick Perry’s pathetic attempt to rile up homophobic Bible-thumpers: You don’t need to be in the pew each Sunday to know that…
New box set from Canada’s most overlooked rocker, Michel Pagliaro
Of all the rock and rollers in Canada, Michel Pagliaro is probably at the top of the heap. That he is often overlooked has more to do with his Quebec…
Shades of Green: Breaking Contracts
Our environmental problems and our current economic problems both stem from breaking contracts. In the case of the environment, the contract is with nature; in the case of economics, the…
Shades of Green: Breaking Contracts
Our environmental problems and our current economic problems both stem from breaking contracts. In the case of the environment, the contract is with nature; in the case of economics, the…
More Photos of Blood & Honour (BC) Activities
It looks like our blog here is being used by the msm to do a little research on the B&H movement in Vancouver as evidenced by our last article and…