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March 2012
Toronto’s transit future: avoiding the Team Ford Disaster | #TOpoli
Next Wednesday, city council will meet to debate the shape public transit will take for the next several decades. We’ve seen a fair amount of sound and fury regarding the…
Another Victory for the Star: The Harper Government Blinks
The Globe and Mail arrogantly proclaims itself to be ‘Canada’s national newspaper’ and ‘Canada’s paper of record.’ It is a self-proclaimed designation that I have longed disagreed with, so much…
Saturday At The Movies
This weekend’s movie is dedicated to my lively sister-in-law Sharon, lover of all things “piggy”
Prairie Bible Institute Survivor Fund Project begs for more money – where did funds go and who gave them?
A group of PBI alumni who are working with Prairie Bible Institute are asking alumni for more money, without disclosing where their initial funds came from, where the funds went,…
Meet Your New Sun Media Newspapers
This announcement is less than it seems: Sun Media is converting Smart Shopper products into editorial newspapers. Funny how the company doesn’t acknowledge that in its propaganda material.
For Kevin Falcon, There Seems to be a Disconnect From Reality
BC Finance Minister Kevin Falcon recently announced a welfare-to-work program where, if you agree of course, you will be put on a plane and sent north to be trained and…
Could The Robo/Real Call Subversion Trigger a Federal Election?
AllThePredictionsThatFit NotSoCrazyTrainVille The BC Iconoclast, Bernard von Schulmann, who is no waterhead when it comes to making carefully considered predictions, thinks it just might happen. But that is not the…
Delay, degradation, and blind eyes
Julian Fantino is now musing that they could put off the F-35 purchase for a few more years to save some money, given the production costs, and so on. Err,…
A Multisensory St. Patrick’s Day
For your listening pleasure: the definitive version of “Arthur McBride”, sung and played by Paul Brady. Perfect song, perfect vocal, and an accompaniment that drove all of us three-chord strummers…
Raj Rescues Folks in Rollover
Earlier today Raj Sherman help rescue three people who had rolled off the road on Highway 2 (Calgary Herald). This is one of the reasons why I really like Raj…
Notwithstanding Dean Del Mastro’s wonderment, the robo-call dots are easy to connect
Dean Del Mastro on those robo-calls: Maybe a giant did it! Unnamed conservative voter-suppression operatives may not appear exactly as illustrated. Below: The credulous Mr. Del Maestro. Conservative robo-calls point…
Harper Cons – Sucked In Again by DND
A Con conned? Say it ain’t so. But it’s now emerging that those grifters at Canada’s Department of National Defence knew a couple of marks when they saw them and…
"I’m fine with the violent thug part": Kyle McKee talks about the use of violence
We suppose that this is probably as close to an interview with McKee as we will ever have. Earlier today, Kyle McKee and Lee Ebel began trolling a Facebook group…
4348…Happy Birthday Patrick
St. Patrick that is. The patron Saint of Ireland turns, uh, I dunno, like 1,600 hundred or something today. Same a prayer for me when you are at church, k?…
The Undemocratic Conservative Coalition
There is only one federal party in Canada that calls for the creation of a coalition. Of the four major political organizations, there is only one that has in its…
Invisible Children KONY 2012 director detained after public breakdown
If you spend anytime online, you’re aware of the Kony 2012 video, directed by Jason Russell, co-founder of Invisible Children. The video, which draws attention to Ugandan guerrilla group leader…
Musical interlude
Kaskade – Steppin’ Out Update: Also, this:
Just how broken is the document management system of the Superior Court of Justice?
Romspen Investment Corp. v. 6176666 Canada Ltée., 2012 ONSC 1727 deals with, among other things, problems with the court system. It tells a common tale — last week I learned…