Convicted felon Conrad Black puts the Con in Conservative
A con can always con a Con but not everyone is a Con, as Conrad Black has found out. Back to the slammer, Mister.48 months and $125,000 fine. Has 16…
2011
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Plenty of observers have noted the Cons' complete lack of a reasonable explanation for standing in the way of a global consensus to at…
Fetus Billboard Boy Would Rather Go To Jail Than Take Down His Billboard
Remember that gawd awful image below? Is it just me? Or does he really look diabolical? He looks like he’s about to devour that invisible baby. Yes, #gregfultzisacreep, that…
Now available in Canada
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved, Used by Permission. GOD TV isn’t available on your cable TV, but if you’re a Canadian with a satellite dish, you may be able…
OJ Simpson: the never ending story
OJ Simpson. The althete. The rental car spokesperson. The wife beater. The trial of the centry that started Reality TV. Slow speed car chase. El Blanco Bronco. The Dream Team…
Impeaching Ahmadinejad
Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khameni, has a problem. He wholeheartedly supported incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in the 2009 presidential election, and now it turns out the flaky Ahmadinejad is being…
Winnipeg Jets it is!
Winnipeg has a new NHL team and now it has a name - Winnipeg Jets. The only name it could be.And now if Ottawa would only name its CFL team…
Americans tire of war spending
Americans have for some time seemed to have an insatiable appetite for military spending. Defence was the sacred cow of their federal budget. Now it seems they are losing that…
On maturing processes
Let's take a look at a couple of final issues from #vancon2011, starting with the series of machinations around resolutions ruling out merger or non-compete agreements with the Liberals.As I…
Canada’s New Partisanship
The dust has finally begun to settle on the great democratic ritual that culminated on the night of May 2nd. In the end, the results of the 2011 federal election…
Why You Should Care About Digital OTA Television
There is certainly a lot less confusion going around these days over the upcoming transition to digital television on August 31 than there was a few years ago. Unfortunately, a…
The Shipbuilding Conundrum…What Will It Really Cost Us In The End?
GenerationalProcurementGamesCanEverybodyWinVilleWhile I find it ironic in the extreme that a number of our current legislators who have demonstrated a penchant for union bashing in the past (and yes, we're looking…
Stevie Spends La Fete Nationale In, You Guessed It! Thetford Mines! Heart of Cancer Industries!
Yep! Stevie is celebrating that the folks around l’Arrondissement de l’Amiante can all rest easy so they can now continue to get cancer and sell cancer for profit! Yay! Chrissy!…
Here’s Your Sign
Greg Fultz has been ordered to remove the billboard he erected to harass his ex. His lawyer says there will be an appeal and the Futz is willing to go…
Not just blowing bubbles. Officer Bubbles’ victim sues police for $100K.
Not for the cop's comically threatening behaviour but for the treatment she received in the more than 50 hours she spent in police custody.Courtney Winkels, then a 20-year-old social worker…
Recall of the Saskatchewan Legislature Demonstrates Premier Brad Wall’s Irrational ANGER Towards Organized Labour
Saskatchewan Crop Insurance workers are conducting a rotating strike because after 2 years of bargaining, they have been unable to reach a collective agreement with the Saskatchewan provincial government. It…
Talking to little girls
This morning my friend Grace shared a link to an article by Lisa Bloom called How to Talk to Little Girls. In it, Ms. Bloom acknowledges her first instinct when…
The Most Useless Form on the Planet
Imagine this: you’ve had the shift from hell, no beds, every other patient is moments away from seeing Jesus/Allah/Buddha and to top it off, the department is down three nurses,…
Insidious
Insidious, or: How Nutella(TM) Roont My Children For some reason, The Captain thought it would be a Good Idea to take the *entire jar* of Nutella to school today, and…
Crown entitled to repudiate plea agreement
R. v. Nixon, 2011 SCC 34 seems to hold that the Crown may repudiate a plead agreement. A summary follows: The accused drove her…