Celebrating a Bestseller in the Best Way
Here’s what my children did yesterday. First a creation by H landed on my desk. Pen holder by H, click to enlarge The congratulations section swivels to reveal To and…
March 2012
Steve Harper’s Personal Freak Show – the Senate of Canada
Steve Harper has some curious thoughts. Not a lot of them, admittedly, and what there are tend to be astonishingly shallow and always just a bit quirky. That certainly comes…
What did 94 Conservative candidates know, and when did they know it?
Sixth Estate has a brilliant roundup post gathering together all 94 of the ridings where fraudulent or harassing phone calls have now been reported: It’s become increasingly clear that there…
Sunday Morning Links
Random readings to occupy your time. – Stephen Maher and Glen McGregor are still digging into Robocon – with a focus on figuring out exactly how “Pierre Poutine” assembled lists…
The War on Women, English style
The teeth of patriarchy are bared in the Mother Country. Civilized West vs. backward Third World countries where victims of rape are the ones punished. Oh, wait… Meanwhile, someone impersonating…
Thomas Mulcair’s Stance On Israel
Thomas Mulcair, who has just been endorsed by The Star as the best candidate to lead the NDP to power, is an MP I became familiar with during the lead-up…
Mitt And The Common Man
Maureen Dowd has a column in this morning’s New York Times about the problems Mitt Romney has admitting publicly to the tenets of his faith. I have never been too…
Agendas
There is a story within the robocall story that is perhaps equally as fascinating, primarily because the dynamics of such have ramifications well beyond this one issue. Amazed implies surprise,…
google, facebook, twitter: corporate dictatorships, and we their willing subjects
I’m sure Canadian readers have noticed Blogger’s new blogspot.ca addresses. Blog-readers the world over are seeing country-specific domain addresses, as Google has decided to make it easy to aid government…
Randy Hillier Breaks With Ontario Landowners Association
…over Crown Land Patents. While IANAL, some of the powers ascribed to these documents by people at the OLA–wave it in front of a government official trying to gain access…
4352…Cures For Hangovers That Work
It is the day after the Alcoholic Super Bowl aka St. Patrick’s Day. There are only two known cures for hangovers that work. One is time. The other is to…
4351…Ed Broadbent Team Player
Ed Broadbent, former leader of the NDP and the worst, w o r s t MP in Canadian history, is trying to throw the probable new leader of the Dippers…
One progressive party under one banner?
“Nope,” I said. “They’re too goddamn stupid.” That’s what Warren Kinsella told Bobby Kennedy Jr. when asked if the NDP and Liberals could ever be persuaded to work together. And…
Electoral and Parliamentary Reform (part 4)
Parliamentaryreform There are basically three things thatgovern the procedures in the House of Commons, House Committees andthe Senate – Parliamentary Tradition, the House Standing Orders andthe current PMs willingness to…
Take Time To Renew Your Spirit
“If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write.” ~ Martin Luther
New Keystone XL Route Still Likely To Attract Protests
From Inside Climate News: “A relatively modest jog around the Sandhills”—that’s how one TransCanada executive describes the Keystone XL oil pipeline’s new route through Nebraska, which is expected to be…
Broken Convention possibility
Romney is the front runner again (and all is back to normal). At this point the only thing that can give Santorum enough delegates for a broken convention is if…
Sunday Blues Spotlight: Derek Miller
I first saw Derek Miller when he was featured on the live music TV program, ‘Arbor Live’, on the APTN (Aboriginal Peoples Television Network). Arbor Live is a fantastic show…
Remember It’s Not The Crime That’ll Get You In The End…
RoboCallRevival AllHangoutsOnDeckVille ….It’s The Cover-Up. _____ Update at the bottom of the post…. _____ Yesterday, we noted that the good Mr. John Ivison of the NaPo tried to go full-on…