return to the dome and inside baseball politics.
Alberta's Legislative Assembly Building With election withdrawal setting in like a bad hangover, much of the media attention this week focused on the 38 rookie MLA’s attending outgoing Speaker Ken…
May 2012
Plugging The CNIB’s May "Vision Health Month"
On a personal note … over the last two years, I have struggled with a number of surgeries to try and fix a detached retina in one of my eyes.…
Cabinet Speculation
Hey, I’m awful at predictions, but why not speculate on cabinet postings. Premier Alison Redford has discussed the possibility of some repositioning of portfolios and the possibility of a downsize…
Cabinet Speculation
Hey, I’m awful at predictions, but why not speculate on cabinet postings. Premier Alison Redford has discussed the possibility of some repositioning of portfolios and the possibility of a downsize…
Cabinet Speculation
Hey, I’m awful at predictions, but why not speculate on cabinet postings. Premier Alison Redford has discussed the possibility of some repositioning of portfolios and the possibility of a downsize…
Today in the Legislature
I urge you to read through this material provided by Gary Coons, NDP Critic for B.C. Ferries and Coastal Communities: In the bc legislature we asked questions about the spill…
Re: Huffington Post & the Quebec Spring (Again!)
I had previously been under the impression that the Huffington Post was a generally a left-liberal sort of enterprise. However, it appears that one does not win a Pulitzer these…
Disabled Parents Fight for Rights
I recently read about new parents, Maricyl Palisoc and Charles Wilton, who suffer with Cerebral Palsy and are fighting with Children’s Aid to keep their child. This couple isn’t even…
4581…51st State Cancelled
Sadness in America. Newt Gingrich has pulled out of the Presidential sweepstakes. One of his brilliant, and by brilliant I mean crazy ideas was to turn the moon into the…
4580…Young Boozer
Is the name of the State Treasurer of Alabama. Young Boozer. You cannot make this stuff up. WFDS
No, you can’t achieve anything you set your mind to
We all remember when we were kids or even adolescents how our parents used to tell us that we can accomplish anything we set our minds to, that we can…
It must be said, the Tories’ budget bill is a draconian heap of nasty
It’s amazing that they’ve found the hubris to throw several hundred pages of non-budget, non-monetary legislation into the budget bill. It’s all about gutting environmental protection regulation – nothing to…
Well That Didn’t Take Long
Americans believed in global warming/climate change. Then they didn’t. But now they do again. Mother Nature has been given the doubters, predominantly from the south and central states, extra lessons…
Video: Vancouver Council Takes On Kinder Morgan Pipeline, Tanker Expansion
Check out this video and report on Vancouver City Council’s decision to come out swinging against Texas pipeline giant Kinder Morgan’s plans to increase dramatically Tar Sands traffic to and…
"Just because a piece of evidence operates unfortunately for an accused does not of itself render the evidence inadmissible or the trial unfair "
R. v. Jesse, 2012 SCC 21
ConCalls: Evidence And Obstruction
Postmedia has reported that the Conservatives’ voter information database (CIMS), was being investigated along with other party’s databases, to determine who gave Pierre Poutine the thousands of phone numbers used…
Rebranding – easier than revision
Province columnist Michael Smyth writes the BC Liberal Party — “searching for any way out of its predicament” — believes a new name might be part of the answer to…
Rob Ford Issues Fatwa Against Star Reporter Daniel Dale
Now this is reaching absurdist proportions, even for the political circus that Toronto has become under its buffoon/mayor, Rob Ford. Recommend this Post