4502…The World’s Oldest Teenager Is Gone
Dick Clark, American Bandstand, dead at 82. He worked for the same network, ABC, for over 50 years ushering in New Years for the last four decades or so. He…
April 2012
Lean Management & Swear to Tell the Truth
There are a few things to talk about today, mostly Federal issues but let’s focus on the provincial issues first. The Primary provincial issue revolves around Premier Brad Wall’s comments…
Link Byfield – Another Thorn On The Wildrose
Though it took longer than I anticipated, it seems Wildrose leader Danielle Smith, gag order and all, has failed to contain the radical views held by some in her party…
Yes, you can pass a tooth through… you know where
I’ll spare you the photo and even the details but sufficeth to say that the tooth fairy believed the note, and the tooth caused no further complications or unhappiness. And…
Alert! Episode 212
Researcher Jack Hicks decries the Conservative governments cut backs to NAHO and other Aboriginal Health initiatives. Trevor Harrison dissects the Alberta Provincial Election race. High school teacher and part time…
US anti-immigrant group blames immigrants for global warming
Californians for Population Stabilization (CAPS), an anti-immigrant group, blames Mexican immigrants for increasing carbon emissions in the U.S. The group bases its startling claim on a bogus report by the…
Hey Ho. LETS GO!
A version of Blitzkrieg Bop from 1976. We want the airwaves…. Just in that kinda mood.
Canada Live, April 18: the great Taube-Kinsella debate. I naturally win.
Michael Taube looks on in horror as I make yet another excellent point about Alberta’s Sarah Palin, Danielle Smith.
The Pope is Still Catholic
In all likelihood, Toronto mayor Rob Ford will not attend this year’s Pride parade. That’s not news. What should be news is the fact that, once again, he refuses to…
R.I.P. Dick Clark
Before the Internet and MTV and MuchMusic, he was pretty much the only game in town. When I heard, in Spring 1980, that Dick Clark had invited PIL onto his…
Canada Telecom Rule Changes Threaten National Security by Hugo Miller and Andrew Mayeda
Public Safety Canada warns that Canada’s plan to allow foreign companies such as VimpelCom Ltd. (VIP) to increase their stakes in the country’s telecommunications providers poses a “considerable risk” to…
A Bank for the Taxpayer’s Buck?
Hi all, I interrupt your regular blog viewing to bring you one of my infrequent posts, this time by a guest contributor — Alan Milner — who for reasons of…
This Saturday: Rockin’ for a Good Cause
Somerset West Community Health Centre is holding a great event this Saturday night (April 21) to raise money for children’s summer programming in our area. The Rock N Blues Review…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – In an excerpt from the Occupy Handbook, Paul Krugman and Robin Wells discuss how a right-wing obsession with exacerbating inequality led to the…
Mining and Climate Change, Part 4: The NDP and the Wrong Carbon Pricing Policy
Her Majesty’s Loyal Opposition, the New Democratic Party, should they form Canada’s next government (and let’s be frank here: there’s a very good chance that they will do just that),…
I never thought I’d vote (Alberta) P.C.
Brought to my attention by Brian Lilley (of all people), on-air. This is brilliant Gen X political marketing. Share it!
Dick Clark, ‘Bandstand’ Host, Dead At 82.
Sad but hardly unexpected. He was a big part of the lives of people like me — who remember him on flickering black and white screens powered through vacuum tubes……
Why I don’t Believe in a Merger. . . . .
I don’t think I am naive. Nor am I ignorant of contemporary or historical political issues; I have made a careful study of political philosophy and tried to stay abreast…
Raymond Taavel — when will enough be enough?
Raymond Taavel, of Halifax NS may not have had the profile that Harvey Milk of San Francisco CA did more than three decades ago; but the fact Taavel was murdered…
Jim Doak can’t see the ground from his lofty tower on Bay Street
The way Toronto financial analyst Jim Doak sees it, Ontario NDP leader Andrea Horwath and groups such as the Campaign to build ‘One Big Campaign’ (CBOBC) are, well, pretty much…