RoboCon and VikiLeaks
Surprisingly, the Canadian government is dealing with other scandals it’s instigated. Vikileaks was the subject again today, where the Speaker ruled that Anonymous (an unrepresented collective of hackers and political…
March 2012
When More Is Less
The city budget passed which will mean fewer services and less maintenance for parks and recreation in Vancouver. While the city did increase the budget allocation to parks, it was…
Great Weekend Coming up in Toronto March 22-24: NDP and Making Waves (Or Should It Be, the NDP Makes Waves?)
For those of you in Toronto Thursday March 22, please come to a presentation of Making Waves: The Continuing Portuguese Adventure at the Centro de Lingua Portuguesa Camões at 5:30…
Of Polar Bears and Pond Hockey
Global warming is expected to devastate polar bear numbers but even down toward the 49th it may bring a similar fate to pond hockey or, as we called it when…
Sleepy Sleepy Nurse
MY EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT COLLEAGUES are a youngish group as a whole, compared to me, that is, and most of them have school-aged children. A subset of this group of have…
Anonymous to Scheer: thanks for the legitimacy!
Why is this man smiling? The Department of Stupid Moves is at it again. This is going to be fun for someone and it won’t be the Conservatives laughing. I…
Harper’s Speaker™ delivers again
Let’s juxtapose, shall we? December 13, 2011. Harper’s Speaker™ Andrew Scheer rules that Liberal Irving Cotler’s parliamentary privilege was not breached when the Conservatives blanketed his riding with deliberately false…
4320…Sad Day
I never thought I would see this. I was at Billings Bridge, a mall in Ottawa, and I saw Habs merchandise on sale. On Sale!!! In March!!! Like ridiculously on…
4219…Monte Solberg Says
In yesterday’s Ottawa Sun re the Robocall issue that, I paraphrase, there are so many more important issues to deal with and we, as in they, should not let Robocall…
Smoked meat, Céline-lean
It’s official – the families of Céline Dion and well–known restaurateur Paul Nakis have purchased the 84-year old Montréal institution Schwartz’s deli. Opened in 1928 on Montreal’s fabled “Main” (St. Laurent Boulevard) by…
Brad Wall And His Saskatchewan Party Appeal Court Ruling On A Persons Right To Withdraw Their Labour
Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall is an ‘unfettered free market’ kinda guy. He believes that a working person does not have a constitutional right to withhold their labour. In other words,…
My Underage Roommates
Sometimes, you just have to stop thinking of them as your own flesh and blood and start thinking of them as what they really are – your underage roommates. This…
Pet Therapy For Your Health
Any pet owner can attest that having a cute loving animal around can make you feel better, but did you know that having a pet can make you physically healthier?…
Cut $10-billion now by Niels Veldhuis and Charles Lammam
Economists say government spending needs to be prioritized so that important areas are spared deep cuts while lower priority areas carry a greater burden of the spending reductions.
New partners and new supplicants #nlpoli
After the throne speech, the leaders of the opposition parties get to have their say in the legislature. Just as the throne speech sets the government’s agenda, so too can…
Robocall Reset
It’s important to keep some perspective here, as the Conservatives play the “contain” game with robocalls. The frame emerging seems to be that if the Conservatives can isolate electoral fraud…
Jackasses Out Of Control?
The jackasses at Elections Canada are out of control,” Stephen Harper wrote when he was president of the National Citizens Coalition. Harper has hated Elections Canada for a long time.…
Not totally worthless: why videos go viral (on YouTube)
Factoids that stuck out for me: more than 48 hours of video uploaded to YouTube every minute the speaker, Kevin Allocca, is paid to watch this crap cats watching cats…
Leadership 2012 Roundup
As we enter the last few weeks of the NDP’s leadership race, we’re of course seeing loads of attention. But what from the flurry of activity might actually affect the…
Experts Air Serious Concerns Before New York Fracking Decision
120111frack.jpg Two recent court decisions in New York state upheld the right of towns to use zoning laws to limit or even ban fracking within their borders. Other states and…