RoboCon – Lets Examine Some Of The Facts
Elections Canada distributes voters lists to all parties that are running at the start of the election and a send update list three days before the official election date. Elections…
March 2012
Douche of the week – Rush Limbaugh
Well, well, it certainly has taken a while to get back to writing here on oddbloke.ca. As many of you know, the operator of this site, after having me vetted…
Yes kids…
… that’s an almost 30 degree swing in the temperature in one day… For Americans, that’s about a 53 F swing! Whatta country! Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
Conversion and the defence of abandonment
Dean v. Kotsopoulos, 2012 ONCA 143 deals with conversion and abandonment: The trial judge correctly stated that conversion is a strict liability tort. It is no defence that the wrongful interference with…
Air Canada’s Pilots Scrutinized by the CRAPers
And here we go again… not content to agitate us further by unnecessary fancy “fighter” planes that are already said to be not the greatest, a touted prison system that…
Of June and High Water
British homeowners have been told they’ll have to fend for themselves come June when their government’s agreement with Brit insurers for provision of flood coverage lapses. Insurers are reacting to…
How Many Insults Will Canadians Take?
Any Tory that is still holding on to the pathological fantasy that the Harper government is in any way interested in accountability and democracy should be deeply shaken this week…
Six Brits Missing, Presumed Dead, in Afghanistan. Cameron Reacts Quickly to Declare Missing Soldiers Dead
A patrolling British Warrior armoured fighting vehicle was hit by an improvised explosive device in Afghanistan. The six soldiers who had been aboard are missing and, curiously, presumed dead. The…
Roboscam: Bob Rae has 13 days to protect Canada’s democracy by stopping the clock
The clock is ticking and there are less than three weeks to go (around 13 days as of today) before voters lose their right to appeal to the courts under…
OPINION: The CBC is already the best pay-TV station in the country by Greg O’Brien
Columnist says the paradox of the CBC is that it must broadly appeal to all Canadians but it also must reflect smaller groups, be they regional, linguistic or otherwise grouped,…
Mostly competent campaigning?
A number of my colleagues in the blogosphere are pointing to this interview with Conservative MP Maurice Vellacott this morning. As the Saskatchewan MP describes it, the Conservative Party of…
The Latest Drivel From John Ibbitson
But they went a long way to containing the damage when Prime Minister Stephen Harper, in the House, and the election campaign chair Guy Giorno, on television, declared emphatically that…
Cartt.ca INVESTIGATES: The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Columnist says that while on balance the CBC has done an admirable job reflecting Canada and Canadians back to ourselves, it is the advent of multiplatform media that will help…
Myth Busting Activity Based Funding
Activity Based Funding (ABF) is a benign sounding name for fee-for-service financing of hospitals and other health care organizations. It is usually advocated by fee market supporters as giving patients…
Dear Laura Coppens and Angelika Levi,
Anak-Anak Srikandi/ Children of Srikandi Official Trailer from Srikandi Films on Vimeo. It is admirable that your film, Children of Srikandi, is the first to address the lives of queer…
On best-case scenarios
Any organization faces questions in trying to make the best use of the resources available to it. And in most cases, a deliberative body should be able to consider who…
Reputation Mismanagement
A month ago, the governments of Canada and Alberta announced a $50 million program to monitor environmental impacts of the oil sands. The ministers boasted that this effort would prove…
Censorship @ Huffington Post re. Syria?
“he turmoil in the Middle East this past year has morphed into a battleground for much larger interests – economic, political, financial – and the players see this as an…
Maurice Vellacott on the MASSIVE Con-job
It was only a matter of time before a Conservative confirmed what we already know: The Conservative Party’s central campaign office in Ottawa takes charge of all Elections Canada voter…