Friday night
How can you not like that with all the kids around the world and all the athletics and the dancing, so fun. Great pump up song. Have a good night!
May 2012
Friday night: RIP "Duck" Dunn
Bass player Donald “Duck” Dunn passed away last Sunday at the age of 70. The list of Top 40 hits he played on is a long one but it all…
Toronto Riding Election overturned for irregularities
Wrzesnewskyj v. Opitz , 2012 ONSC 2873 was release today – see below for decision. The case was careful not to attach blame on the candidates but rather to focus…
From Doug Pyper
Hi Friends, I just sent a message to Premier Christy Clark recommending that the Government of British Columbia inform the Government of Canada that the province is now exercising its…
Arthur Topham Arrested
Not sure of the details, but boneheads are claiming online that Arthur Topham was arrested this past Wednesday: Arthur Topham, publisher of the Radical Press website, was arrested on May…
Quebec’s red square hits Cannes’ red carpet
The team behind 'Laurence Anyways' attends the film's premiere in Cannes, France. (Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images.) Although Québécois filmmaker and actor Xavier Dolan may be across the Atlantic at the Cannes…
4653…Toronto Police Chief Steps Up To The Plate
Bill Blair is the man’s name and CBC News Toronto reports that “… has asked for permission to discipline 30 of his officers, including two senior officers, in the wake…
Harper’s Conservative Government Funded Study Arguing Canada Suffers From ‘Dutch Disease’
Ooops! OTTAWA – The Harper government has funded research that argues Canada’s economy suffers from so-called Dutch Disease, an economic theory the prime minister and other senior officials ridiculed when…
Debt history of BC Hydro
BC Liberals and their media surrogates regularly accuse BC’s NDP government of responsibility for “skyrocketing spending and debt.” Not that it matters to Liberal supporters, but we can determine if…
Justice Cohen Refuses to Re-open Commission to Examine New Salmon Virus Evidence
Justice Cohen ruled today that he will not reopen his Inquiry into the Decline of the Fraser Sockeye citing the amount of work the commission team is faced with to…
ACTIVIST JUDGES!!!!
Scream, rant, rave!!!!! ‘Judge Overturns Election Result In Etobicoke-Centre: Defeated Toronto Liberal Borys Wrzesnewskyjhas won his legal case to have election results in Etobicoke-Centre thrown out, opening the way for…
Real Estate as Platform: Canadian Real Estate Industry looking for developers
As some readers know, I’ve been asked from time to time by members of the real estate industry to comment on the future of their industry, how technology might impact…
Judge overturns Etobicoke-Centre election result
“I declare the election null and void as contemplated under s.531(2) of the Canada Elections Act.” (para. 154) The overturned result is making the rounds all over, reported here at…
Tiannemen
A short vid of the drive through Tiannemen Square Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
By-election on the way!
Once legal appeals, in this case, at the SC level, are exhausted. This election will provide a bit of an insight about whether or not the good folks in Etobicoke…
Jury verdicts not to be lightly set aside
Morin c. The Gananoque Inn, 2012 ONCA 331 is a useful source for the, perhaps trite, law that a jury verdict will not be lightly set aside: L’appelante prétend également…
Gross Art
If you can call it art. It will be interesting what the Harper government’s response will be to this one as the Tory government is highly critical of the sex…
Trashy in China, 4.0
Some pics… I’ll post more later this weekend after some sight-seeing. Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
A better billboard
From the Climate Reality Project: (h/t David Appell) Related posts (randomly generated) Renewable energy is bullshit… literally
life after dutch disease: thomas mulcair to visit alberta on may 31.
Tweet Thomas Mulcair After weeks of warring words about the economic influence of Western Canadian oilsands development on the crumbling Central Canadian manufacturing sector, NDP leader Thomas Mulcair will visit…