Jonathan Kay and Toronto Life: What’s the point?
I have no idea what point Jonathan Kay and the editors of Toronto Life were trying to make with their “almost rich” feature. The package takes a look at what…
February 2012
Liberals dig giant hole in NDP budget
According to Finance Minister Kevin Falcon, B.C. will scrap the HST, return to the PST on April 1 2013 and repay $320 million per year to the federal government in…
The power of citizens media at Vancouver Olympics – Friday Film Pick: With Glowing Hearts
This week’s Friday Film Pick is a documentary about the power citizen’s media has to diversify representation, tell under-represented stories, and contribute to community. With Glowing Hearts looks at the…
Gastroenteritis and Other Trials…
Jeanne had a stomach flu earlier in the week, but seems to be better. Her mother, however, came down with it shortly after the two of them arrived to spend…
The Parliamentary Pitbull
Doesn’t John Baird ever get tired of hearing himself harangue? Recommend this Post
Climategate victims chide Heartland double standard
A group of top-tier climate scientists who were victimized in the email theft known as Climategate has written to the Heartland Institute, sympathizing that the Institute is reading its own…
4241…Sad Day For Freedom Of The Press
It is widely reported that Pat Buchanan has been blown out the doors by the left leaning newsish channel MSNBC in the States. The reason I feel it is sad…
Actus and intoxication for first degree murder
One branch of first degree murder, s. 231(2) holds "Murder is first degree murder when it is planned and deliberate". This means, among other things, that the act for first…
4240…The Justin Trudeau Of Showbiz
Has to be, if one is to follow Ezra Newman Levant of SUN TV’s logic, Paris Hilton. She has 31 candles on her cake today. Par tay. WFDS
Hey John Baird … PROBE What?
John Baird and the Ottawa Citizen seem to want a ‘probe’ to determine the source of @Vikileaks30. Probe what? … the republishing of documents from the public record??-Ottawa Citizen seems…
Going Around with Girls
People always ask me, “what do you believe in?” Actually, they don’t. Not always. Sometimes, people ask me, “what do you believe in?” Or, if they’re persnickety about dangling participles,…
Makes Me Furious
This sort of bullying story should not exist in a budding police state, err, I mean civilized Canada. How are the “bullies” who assaulted this girl multiple times not expelled…
LOL!
It DOES look a bit like the Robot!!! Freaky! Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
How the Next Two Weeks Will Play Out: A Thought Experiment
A little while ago, you may recall, the Conservative Party was calling up people in Montreal to deliver the false rumour that Liberal MP Irwin Cotler was about to resign…
On hypocrisy, politicians and the media
Vic Toews is mad as hell. He wants a House of Commons probe into who “leaked” publicly-available documents about his messy divorce and his spending habits. If he had gotten…
No means no
R. v. Potvin, 2012 ONCA 113 is a useful case setting out the principle that only where reasonable steps to investigate consent are taken can a mistaken belief claim success: On behalf…
New app: ‘Angry Bairds’
Just what we needed, John Baird catapulting from CPC slingshot into Toews shitstorm.
China Doesn’t Not Not Disapprove Of Gays
A dating website in China is claiming that over 80% of Chinese people born after 1980 “don’t disapprove of homosexuality.” I didn’t not hesitate to not withhold this story, since…