Mostly competent government
It's been almost exactly a year since then Industry Minister Tony Clement announced that the census long form would no longer be mandatory. Among the lies he told us at…
2011
Ontario
Flew to Toronto on Monday morning, and slept along the way, still only giving me a few hours of sleep, as I was wound up and doing chores I hadn’t…
Cyclist fractures pedestrian’s skull, gets $400 fine
The story below certainly suggests the cyclist could have been charged with a criminal offence - perhaps criminal negligence. But the fact remains accidents, sometimes tragic, do happen. And when…
The Republicans are Getting Old part 3
Other issue's the Republicans stay constant is there obsessive ideology that if you have free markets everything will be okay. Free Market: Is the corner stone of any good Republican.…
Checking in on the Wheat Board plebiscite
A Wheat Board commissioned poll shows support for the single desk system in advance of the plebiscite:According to the CWB's 2011 producer survey, 59 per cent of prairie farmers support…
Orphaned polar bear cub, Qannik, arrives at Louisville Zoo
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The Levels of Drinking Consciousness: A Unified Theory
Yesterday we looked at Larry Miller’s routine, “the five levels of drinking”, which while entertaining, does not look the levels systematically. He also really only discusses the first three levels…
Don Cherry Should Stick to Hockey and Stay Out of Politics
My right-wing followers keep sending me links to Sun TV and to articles by right-wing columnists, but this interview with Don Cherry on Fox News North just makes me incredibly…
Skinner throws AG under bus
Natural resources minister Shawn Skinner threw outgoing Attorney General John Noseworthy under the bus on Wednesday as he contradicted the AG’s claim he can’t get access to some of the…
And there goes another one
Jim Baker, incumbent Conservative in Labrador west announced today he won’t be seeking re-election in the fall. Baker claims he made the decision in 2007. Odds are you’d have a…
The news of the world
The other big story in the world, beyond the debt ceiling biggie in the U.S., is the unfolding U.K. phone-hacking scandal involving Rupert Murdoch's tabloid News of the World. Some…
From bad policy to useless data
Remember this government’s oh-so-inspired decision to scrap the mandatory long-form census in favour of a voluntary “national household survey”? Well, a lot of those surveys are coming back incomplete, which…
Tory leadership frontrunner Gary Mar’s call for P3s closely follows public P3 flop
Gary Mar at his campaign launch. Actually, he’s illustrated exactly as he appeared!What’s with these “conservative” politicians, anyway? I thought conservative was supposed to mean “disposed to preserve existing conditions,…
Wedding
Note the Saskatchewan and Roughtider flags over the wedding? The Imperial March was my entrance music. No, I forgot to do Live Long and Prosper in my vows.
Wonderful, wonderful site – Yggdrasil Distro…
i went looking for more work by ward churchill and came across these purveyors of free anarchist literature which has a reading of churchill's work in their list of audiobooks...Pacifism…
Web hosting: how the other 90 per cent live
Lately I've been doing some work on other people's websites, hosted elsewhere. It's a bit new to me how things are done these days, so forgive me if I show…
This is…breathtaking in its scope and power…
i was directed to this piece of writing by ward churchill via a post on mostly water. i tracked it and him back to znet. really should be reading more…
Augusto Pinochet…marijuanero?
Pothead? For some odd reason, this article in Patria Grande makes me giggle uncontrollably: A marijuana plantation has been found in a sector of a hacienda where lie the ashes…