Let the awakening begin?
Times are good for sovereigntists… sorry for repeating myself. A new survey found that 44.5 percent of Québécois would still support separating from Canada if the Constitution could not be…
March 2012
Trans Contestant Booted From Beauty Contest For Being Born Male
Jenna Talackova, a contestant in this year’s Miss Universe Canada pageant, has been disqualified from the competition after organisers discovered that she’s trans. Pageant judges selected Talackova from numerous other…
$#*! politicians say: Jerome! edition #nlpoli
Everyone’s favourite natural resources minister outdid himself last week for saying things that were just so far removed from reality that they were just funny. He said them in the…
Mulcair mania
In the wake of Thomas Mulcair’s victory, here is his first interview as leader with Peter Mansbridge, and some commentary from the other party’s observers at the convention, like Scott…
Something is rotten in the state of PavCo
The government’s fiscal year ends in a few days so here’s a suggestion for more accurate financial reports in BC. Add a separate line item for “Fraud, Theft & Abuse.”…
A Dangerous Tuition-Raising Method
From A Dangerous Method: Yeah, about that… A law student of Fourah Bay College (FBC) University of Sierra Leone is in the nets of the police for defrauding Eco Bank…
News Remix: March 15-22, 2012 – Bricolage of (some of) last week’s headlines
This is the first in a new (ir)regular installment summing up last week’s news headlines using a ‘remix’ style — a quirky restless glance into the wreckless feckless immediate past.…
‘Everybody’s ready’ for an election call today … but is Alison Redford?
…Get set… GO! How the media sees the Alberta election race, starting today. On the right, Premier Alison Redford. To Ms. Redford’s right, Wildrose Leader Danielle Smith. In the background,…
Mitt’s Cousin Denounces Mormonism as a "Cult"
Park Romney was once a Mormon high priest. Unlike his more famous cousin, Mitt, Park Romney left the church that he now labels a fraud. “There’s compelling evidence that the…
Orange Blood
I bet you think this is about the NDP Leadership convention. Think again. This weekend I got to attend a convention of my own. A genuine Women’s Convention of closely…
The Magic 2C By 2100? We’ll Hit 3C by 2050.
A joint BBC/climateprediction.net simulation relying on mid-range emission scenarios concludes it’s likely global warming will exceed 3 degrees Celsius by 2050. That pretty much blows out the long-established target of…
lawTechCamp 2012 is Looking for Students
Are you interested in the intersection between law and technology? Here’s a message from the sponsors: After the great success we had last year with lawTechCamp,we are back again this…
The Casino-Industrial-Complexities….One Of These Things Is Not Like The Other.
AllFOI’sAreNot EquivalentVille Ian Reid, has already done a lot of digging into the process that led to the aborted attempt to shoehorn a Casino-Industrial-Complex right next to the Devil-Horned, Re-Roofed…
Mulcair Shows Liberals the Way to Do It
There is one reason I like Thomas Mulcair. It isn’t his politics, which while closer to me than any other possible NDP leader save for maybe Martin Singh, I still…
alberta’s tories could have already won another election.
Alberta Premier Alison Redford Premier Alison Redford is expected to call a provincial election today. Had Premier Alison Redford‘s Progressive Conservatives followed conventional political wisdom and dropped the writ shortly…
Understanding the Victory of Thomas Mulcair
Most of the mainstream media, with the help of the Mulcair and Topp campaigns, constructed the leadership battle at the NDP convention as a battle between those who wanted to…
Free Dominion Chimes in on Yesterday’s Events
If you pick a thread on Free Dominion, it seems like the posters there are a little schizophrenic in that they will hold any view, even if it might contradict…
Well, Time For a Post
So, there’s a few things to talk about. Firstly, we’re going to discuss the recent NDP Leadership convention. Secondly, we’ll look at the most recent developments regarding the Robocall Scandal,…