4396…I’m Bobby Knight And I Won’t Say Kentucky
Bobby Knight is, of course, one of the greatest coaches in college hoop history. He is also Bobby Knight. Bobby Knight is now a commentator for ESPN, college hoops specifically.…
March 2012
An employee’s duty to accept a different position with employer to mitigate damages after being terminated from another position
Chandran v. National Bank of Canada, 2012 ONCA 205 deals with an employee's duty to accept a different position with their employer to mitigate damages after being terminated from another position. The decision…
Nails It Again
With the Mulcair NDP and the Harper Conservative ground so clearly staked, Liberals now have a unique opportunity to define the vital center without kowtowing to the left or the…
O America – Health Care and Gay Marriage
I usually stick to writing about Canadian politics but since I am on temporary exile in the “Land of the Free”™ for my postdoc I have been meaning to add…
O America – Health Care and Gay Marriage
I usually stick to writing about Canadian politics but since I am on temporary exile in the “Land of the Free”™ for my postdoc I have been meaning to add…
Alert! Episode 209
From Chiapas Mexico, Vancouver journalist Dawn Paley talks about the murder of Bernardo Vasquez, a community leader who led the protests against a Canadian mining company, Fortuna Silva in San…
RoboCoke: Fun Contest to Celebrate Dying Democracy
I dislike both Coke and iTunes, thinking the world would be a better place without either of them. I hate RoboCon a lot more though, because our country would be…
4395…FYI Nurse Jackie Is Back
The house of cards is collapsing. Addicts are entertaining if you don’t have a stake. I don’t. WFDS
Two tweets | #TOpoli
Media apologist @MarcusGee tries to smear me for smearing his beloved Pammy. Predictable. Perhaps try some real research next time. — Sue-Ann Levy (@SueAnnLevy) March 29, 2012 @SueAnnLevy Actually, his…
4394…Becuz If They Don’t Like It In Dearborn
They won’t like it anywhere else in the United States of America. It is Little Mosque On The Prairie and Dearborn is a city in the Detroit Metro that has…
Free Speech!
“Speechies“? Hello?? Is this thing on?
Last of Three Part Series: What progressive groups must do to defeat, or stymie, the Harper regime
Canada’s progressive community, which includes labour and grassroots groups, needs to make some significant changes if it hopes to slow down the assault being carried out on the country by…
For The Turnstiles…
AllTheConflagurationThatFits OutrageVille So. Suddenly we must deal with Translink fare evasion again. Right now! Either by stringing up every kid without a ticket that hops on the 99 B-Line through…
Santorum’s House of Fear
That dull roar you hear is the sound of All The Internets laughing uproariously at Rick Santorum’s new, desperately dramatic campaign commercial, “Obamaville”, a glimpse at America’s dystopian future under…
On the tarmac…
… In Montreal… on our way to Paris… Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
Conservative Senators bring the optics on budget eve
Conservative Senators are complaining today about news that they’ll be losing a cafeteria in one of the buildings in which Senators work, the Victoria Building. Former Conservative party president, Don…
Leger and Forum Poll Show Alberta’s Close Race
Leger Marketing and Forum Research have polls out, one which shows a close race and one that shows a blowout for the Wildrosers. Let’s go through them: Forum Research: WRP:…
Climate Change: The Answer is Blowin’ in the Wind
“The answer,” wrote Bob Dylan in his iconic ’60s anti-war song, “is blowin’ in the wind.” So the vicious winds that ravaged coastal BC on the morning of March 12th…
Cats
It would appear from this graph that as the cat threat makes it into the news more, there are fewer people searching the word “cat” on the Internet. Curious. I’m…
I was wondering when THEY would show up…
Hot on the heels of Trayvon Martin’s murder by an armed white vigilante, we get…this: And this is what THAT was all about: A member of the Ku Klux Klan…