They’re Bandits. They’re Supposed to Make Out Like Bandits.
The Pentagon and the Iraqi government are giving up trying to locate $6.6 billion in greenbacks that went missing in the chaos after the American conquest of Iraq. Their conclusion…
2011
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Rhys Kesselman rightly points out how the populist message that propelled the Cons to power has given way to elitist policy-making:Once the federal budget…
Do you find it surprising?
I find it surprising not at all that even though many people who support politically right-of-centre parties (such as our current government, senate, and supreme court) often say things like:…
TEXT: Alfred Apps On A Charter Of Economic, Social & Cultural Rights
There were two major policy intiatives advanced by Liberal Party President Alfred Apps in his speech before The Empire Club of Canada last week. One was on electoral reform for…
Eating Local Is Delicious With Rhubarb Kuchen
Here in northern Ontario where I live, rhubarb is the first harvest from the garden that we look forward to. In anticipation of a meal of homemade pasta and grilled…
Hack Pundit Of The Week: Bronwyn Eyre
I often wonder if newspapers aren't better off publishing high school essays instead of paying columnists. The writing might suffer but the research would be much better.Case in point: Bronwyn…
Montreal Guerrilla Gardening: "Tour de Guerrilla" Silent Film
OuVert is an open urban sustainability lab that I'm helping to start here in Montreal. Below is an occasionally Chaplin-esque video of our first event - a seedbomb workshop and…
Parliament, not judges, should decide
Imagine a nation with rampant open, but unlawful, prostitution, a significant number of the poorest prostitutes coming from aboriginal backgrounds often with drug and alcohol addiction and a constant undercurrent…
My take on Senate reform
We need the Senate, but not as it is now. The current Senate is far too inefective, inefficient, and undemocratic. I don’t agree with Stephen Harper much, but I do…
My take on Senate reform
We need the Senate, but not as it is now. The current Senate is far too inefective, inefficient, and undemocratic. I don't agree with Stephen Harper much, but I do…
140 Law – Legal Headlines for June 13, 2011
Here are today's leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter:Witness to Innocence: 24 death row survivors speak at Virginia event - http://goo.gl/RF8HOIncredible Shrinking Workers’ Income - http://goo.gl/jF1E6Juror prosecuted over…
A Blast From Ezra’s Past:
Despite his constant criticism of CBC as a "state broadcaster" spouting propaganda "on the tax-payers dime", Ezra Levant sponged up government dough when he ran The Western Standard. And, when…
The CANARIE in the coalshaft: CPC cuts funding to Internet research network
Cross-posted from Mediamorphis I received an email this morning alerting me to something that had, well, been flying under my radar: CANARIE, or Canada’s Advanced Research and Innovation Network as…
Anthony Weiner Song
Anthony Weiner knows how to be famous. Enjoy.
The Harper Doctrine
Perhaps the starkest development from The Conservative convention was the enunciation of what John Ibbitson, in The Globe and Mail, calls the "Harper Doctrine." It is a radical departure from…
The Party Of Paranoia
Obviously, a sweeping generalization, but in totality I would argue Conservatives tend to be a paranoid bunch. The rest of the world is an enemy, a host of motivations comes…
the half-century mark
I was born on June 13, 1961. I've been alive on this planet for 50 years today. And I'm pretty fucking happy about it. In my belief system, we only…
Monday scotch blogging: a proposal
This series of short videos (and extremely annoying ads) at the Esquire website feature the actor Brian Cox demonstrating how to pronounce a large variety of scotch names. My modest…
Hate, violence at Croatian Pride event in Split
Just 24 hours after the European Commission announced that Croatia would be able to join the European Union, violence marred the first Gay Pride Parade to be staged in the…
I Stand Corrected on Tony Clement
I'm still unable to leave comments on my blog, or even respond to them, but several of my readers provided some vital insight into Clement's spending orgy.One dealt with bicycle…