For Those of You Telling me The Ref Shouldn’t Have Stopped the Fight
It wasn’t going to get any better for Brazeau.
April 2012
The #TellVicEverything sequel: #TellDaveEverything
I was half joking in my post yesterday about the need for a #TellDaveEverything hashtag in the U.K. on the occasion of the U.K. Tories introducing their own intrusive internet…
United States May Relax Customs Restrictions For Same-Sex Couples
The United States’ Department of Homeland Security has proposed finally lifting restrictions requiring same-sex couples to fill out separate customs declarations. Currently, heterosexual families are allowed to fill out one…
How stupid are voters, anyway? #nlpoli
Poke around some political websites over the past couple of months and you’ll find a few columns on the question of how much voters are paying attention to politics in…
Coming Soon To Sun TV
…this: Menzoid Mornings. And soon to be leaving the air shortly thereafter, I imagine. If you’ve never heard of him, and I’m sure you haven’t, David Menzies appears to have…
Bracing for cuts
If you work in the public service, brace yourselves – the government is expected to start releasing details about job cuts today. Because some people care about this, Justin Trudeau…
Why Trudeau’s smackdown of Brazeau is important
I admit to being skeptical of Justin Trudeau agreeing to fight a more experienced and better trained Conservative opponent at a Conservative gathering featured on a Conservative network. Not only…
Wildrose offers same old same old as Alison Redford’s fitted up for the Iggy treatment
Former federal Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff stands in front of the Reform-o-Con propaganda steamroller moments before it lurched forward. Flattened federal politicians may not be exactly as illustrated. Below: The…
News Remix: Mar 23 – April1, 2012 – A bricolage of (some of) last weeks news stories
Nairobi graffiti by artists Uhuru B, Swift, Smokilah and Bankslave Kenyan graffiti artists are painting the walls of Nairobi with reminders of government corruption. Executions are up in the Middle…
Will Free Speech in America Meet its Match in Lieberman?
Our American friends are at it again. A new legislative initiative by Senator Joseph Lieberman, a former Democratic Vice-Presidential candidate, is justifiably raising eyebrows sky-high among free speech advocates south…
Coleman Accuses van Dongen Of Being A Leaker Of Caucus Goods…
. …..To Bloggers! Surprised? Of course not. Although, I must confess that I was caught a little off-guard by the pluralization of the pejorative. Ha! ______ You can hear it…
Obert Madondo’s Bill C-10 Hunger Strike: Day 14 Update
This journal entry covers days 12, 13 and 14 (March 25, 26 and 27) my indefinite hunger strike against Prime Minister Stephen Harper and the Conservatives’ draconian Safe Streets and…
Save The Rio Theatre…
WhyIndependentsInTheArtsMatter OurNeighbourhoodVille So. If Rich Coleman himself tried to do the right thing, who is really working to keep the movie ban (without bar service) at the Rio Theatre from…
Economic growth and sustainability question
If people believe that sustainability and economic growth are incompatible then why would their place their bets with economic growth? I asked this on Twitter, Google+ and Facebook, but figured…
4417…WFDS Is Wrong Again
Double wrong. Back in the day, say September or October of last year, I said that a/ the Sens would suck soooooo bad and that b/ the Leafs were on…
The Final Countdown
It’s a little crazy but in 18 days I’ll be done with my undergraduate education. Today I finished up my involvement with ATLIS by handing the login information and giving…
The Final Countdown
It’s a little crazy but in 18 days I’ll be done with my undergraduate education. Today I finished up my involvement with ATLIS by handing the login information and giving…
NDP claims about voter suppression attempts doubtful?
The NDPis claiming that the massive voter suppression attacks – done during thesecond, third and final ballot, and over the course of several hours, andinvolving more false calls than the…
Autism Rates Reach New Epidemic Levels? Round Up the Usual Suspects!
“The usual suspects The people habitually suspected or arrested in response to a crime. The phrase is usually used in regard to scapegoats rather than actual perpetrators of the crime…