The Con War on Information Continues
In most countries a budget is a tool to control expenses. In Great Robot Leader’s Canada it’s a weapon to control information. Exhibit A: Stats Canada. Statistics Canada, the national…
April 2012
Dumb and Dumber 2 announced
Word is it will be a Canadian production. From Montreal Simon
Sugar is toxic for you
Pretty well every food includes some sugar. What is left to eat??? 🙂 Source: CBS
A New Progressive Narrative: What Could Be Part Of It, And What Should Not
In the last couple of years, various Canadian commentators have remarked on the new conservative narrative of Canada that Stephen Harper and the federal Conservatives have been creating. Much of…
Wingnut alert!
REPLAY: First published Oct 22, 2010, this small piece, with minor updates, remains apropos. BC Liberals Keith “Fore!” Baldrey and Bill “That’s an old story” Good, with Mr. “I’ve Seen…
Conservative attacks on eco groups should give LPC an opportunity to reach out
A lot has been written about the attacks on environmental groups in the recent Conservative budget, most of it negative, such as this Globe and Mail editorial: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/editorials/budgets-new-rules-unfairly-target-environmental-groups/article2387590/ While the…
4422…Cool April Fool’s 2012 Joke
JUPITER, Fla. — A lucky fan was about to win a truck, and Adam Wainwright thought it was pretty cool. Until the St. Louis Cardinals pitcher realized it was his…
4421…Thirty Years Ago Today The Men With The
Really cool hats got their heads handed to them. The men with the really cool hats were the leaders of Argentina. The person that metaphorically handed them their hats was…
What Does Thomas Mulcair’s Leadership of the NDP Mean for the Green Party of Canada?
I’ve been giving a lot of thought lately to what Thomas Mulcair’s recent ascension to the position of Leader of the New Democratic Party (and to Her Majesty’s Loyal Opposition)…
Signs of spring
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A fundamental lack of competence #nlpoli
One crowd can’t even successfully rig a process they set out to rig from the start. So now the Premier wants to have a debate she earlier rejected as unnecessary…
Kitchen table talk: food in the schools
Here’s a really great event taking place Wednesday evening, for those interested in food policy and promoting healthy eating in our schools. How do we create healthy school food environments…
4420…My Crush Got Arrested
Lisa Robin Kelly. She is semi famous and now looks soooo cracked out. She was Eric Forman’s sister on FOX’s That 70’s Show. Ridiculously hot and fired for being ridiculously…
Still Learning
It’s important to keep learning things. Whether those things are new routines or sub-routines, or new choreography, or reading new books, I don’t think it’s the *what* that matters. I…
The Assault on Statistics Canada Continues
Soon we will live in a world where we lack an empirical basis for policy and political debate, leaving everyone even more free to invent their own facts. The Globe…
4419…Fab Melo Going Pro
He’s seven feet tall and if the ex Syracuse centre can stay away from the buffet he should have a nice Eric Montrossesque NBA career. He says he hasn’t signed…
4418…Your Tax Dollars In Action
The Ottawa Citizen reports that an Ontario study “…conducted by researchers at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Public Health Ontario, the University of Ottawa and the Ottawa Hospital Research…
Who Is Chris Vander Doelen?
He’s some Conservative-oriented hack who works as a “columnist,” and I use that word lightly, at the Windsor Star. Here’s what he had to say two days ago on the…
The State Of The Rusted Out, Fools’ Gold Era…
. …Who’s Crazy Now? A couple of months ago, when the all three polling sub-categories (eg. LINO’s Down/Dippers Up/BCCons Way, Way Up) first made it readily apparent that the BC…