The Business of Cancer
Every year, millions of people around the world run, jog, swim, roller blade, pogo hop and do all matter of other efforts to draw attention to the need to fund…
2011
"Pale Nimbus. White". "Impressive. Very nice. Let’s see Paul Allen’s card"
Kaiser Soze had nothing on Patrick Bateman. Good scripts always kill good concepts.
June Has Not Been a Good Month for Nazis in Calgary
The month of June 2011 began with the arrest of WEB founders Robert Reitmeier and Tyler Sturrup for allegedly murdering a man Crohn's disease. This alone would make June a…
Is the Wildrose Alliance’s loony fringe finally beginning to emerge at nomination meetings?
The Wildrose Alliance waits at the crossing (in the Buick, not the train). Below: Cory Morgan.It’s been said here that the biggest problem Danielle Smith’s Wildrose Alliance would ever have…
Parsons: OpenMedia.ca was the elephant in the room at the 2011 Telecom Summit
Cross-posted from Technology, Thoughts, and Trinkets Each year Canada’s leaders in telecommunications gather at the Canadian Telecommunications Summit to talk about ongoing policy issues, articulate their concerns about Canada’s status…
Former Harper Minister Monte Solberg Calls Layton “The Ax-Weilding Loon Who Lives Below”
The Conservatives, at their recent convention Blue Party, apparently played the “media hates us” card, something the Sixth Estate Media Bias Project conclusively disproved last month. More proof arrived today…
On warped incentives
Chris nicely highlights the Cons' stunningly quick resort to back-to-work legislation after a mere day of Air Canada's CAW strike, at a point where there's been little if any impact…
The Real Crime of Brigette DePape
Oh.My.Godzilla. Where's Barney when we need him? It seems the right-wingers in this country can't stop lumbering after Brigette DePape. When they're not bellowing "Canada is not EGYPT !!!!!!" they're…
Harper calls Liberals unprincipled
There are certain principles that an individual cannot break, no matter what the situation is. Principles like, I can never kill anyone unless its in self-defense or I will never…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Cats on the ledge.
New Blog about Ottawa
No blog posts since that incredible election (who says Canadian politics is boring!), but definitely hope to post more on how Harper is doing with his majority…. In the mean-time…
Reassessing Municipal By-laws and Practices: "Unsightly" May Be "Environmentally Friendly"
I received a registered letter in the mail today, from the City of Greater Sudbury. It wasn’t in fact a letter; it was a “Notice of Non-Conformity”, issued by a…
Canada Extends Libyan Mission, 293-1
Canada's House of Commons easily passed a motion today with nearly unanimous support from all officially recognized parties, plus some of those nice Bloc MPs, represented in the House to…
Decriminalizing prostitution won’t make it safer, Crown argues
http://bit.ly/meV37O Kirk Makin in the Globe does a good job setting out the case presented to the Court of Appeal today in the prostitution appeal. His article says: "Up to…
So this is how it’s going to be: CAW to be legislated back to work after one day on strike
After a single day of strike, labour minister Lisa Raitt has announced the government's plan to legislate CAW members at Air Canada back to work. Wow. Welcome to Stephen Harper's…
Legislating Air Canada back to work
http://bit.ly/j6noOh "The Harper government is threatening to legislate an end to the Air Canada strike if union negotiators and company management can't reach a deal." This is very odd indeed.…
While waiting for Harper to destroy the country…a bit about me
If you've only just stumbled upon this little corner of cyberspace, then you won't be aware of my political leanings. You see, like many who observe the political arena, I…
Beware the fury of a patient man
John Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel (1681)
The Fallacy of a United Left
Responding to Warren Kinsella, who waxes enthusiastic about a united left. The thing is, a united left will bleed support from its margins to the Conservatives. It would bleed those…
Johnny Boy Charest, Are You Insane??
I’m really convinced our premier has lost it. I’m seriously wondering if he’s on drugs. Sometimes I wonder if we have a need to do things so differently just for…