Parliament in Review – April 5, 2012
Thursday, April 5 was the final sitting day in the House of Commons before a two-week Easter break. And the debate was much less sharp than in previous days, as…
May 2012
Michael Moore: The Evolution of An Activist
Having suffered one of my fairly frequent bouts of insomnia last night, the blog post I had hoped to make is not yet complete, so just a quick entry here.…
Sixth Estate Dissents From CP Report on Parliamentary Secrecy
As they say, there are three kinds of statistics — and two of them are lies. On Sunday, a strange and surprising report began making the rounds of the Canadian…
Fixin’ to Execute Steve Staley
As though sane people are short of reasons to decry capital punishment. Steve Staley may be the new poster boy for state barbarism. Stanley is on Death Row in Texas…
Fat Nurses Need Not Apply Revisited
More on the Texas hospital, Citizens Medical Center, which banned fat people from being hired. Citizens Medical Center, you might remember, made it policy to exclude new hires with a…
Is The MSM Hungering For A Political Industrial Complex In Canada?
It’s interesting to note that the Canadian Media never called the NDP “dead” en masse when it sat at 20% in the polls. Sure, plenty of people wish for their…
Dinosaurs farting caused global warming
Past dinosaurs Modern day dinosaurs “In a major new climate finding, researchers have calculated that dinosaur flatulence could have put enough methane into the atmosphere to warm the planet during…
140Law – Legal Headlines for Monday, May 14, 2012
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Monday, May 14, 2012: The laws of employee leaves – Canadian HR Reporter (blog) Lights, Camera… Judgment! —…
Corrupt Practices
By the way, I recognize the headline is super misleading. Just wanted to highlight this article in which we find out that stimulus cash (which, let's remember, we had to…
Corrupt Practices
By the way, I recognize the headline is super misleading. Just wanted to highlight this article in which we find out that stimulus cash (which, let’s remember, we had to…
Corrupt Practices
By the way, I recognize the headline is super misleading.Just wanted to highlight this article in which we find out that stimulus cash (which, let's remember, we had to have…
Corrupt Practices
By the way, I recognize the headline is super misleading. Just wanted to highlight this article in which we find out that stimulus cash (which, let’s remember, we had to…
4636…Happy Bunny Not So Happy Anymore
The Guardian Online reports that 11,000 pounds of sex toys have been stolen from the Happy Bunny in Merry Ole England. BTW that is 11,000 pounds sterling not pounds pounds.…
Paul Reiter Asks To Be Removed From Heartland Experts List
This morning I received the following email from Paul Reiter, a well-known medical entomologist at the Pasteur Institute in Paris. He, like Chris Landsea, has some disagreements with very specific…
The Defining Battle
At some point in the future, historians will note that Bill C-38 — the Harper government’s four hundred and twenty page page Budget Implementation Bill — marked the beginning of…
A New Inuktitut Bible
Nunavut is a deeply religious — on Sundays the Territory is completely at rest, especially in the hamlets. This is a big event for Nunavut and Inuit everywhere: http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/05/13/inuit-language-bible-finished-after-34-year-project/ After…
Those Crazy Liberals, They Just Won’t Quit
Another day, another media moron writes an article like this. When I think about the future of Canadian Liberalism, I don’t look to the current upheaval in Greece or the…
healthy eating costs more. fact or fiction?
Conventional wisdom has it that healthy foods cost more than junk food, that buying and preparing nutritious food is more expensive than eating processed food. How many people bemoan the…
Pakenham, 137km, five hours, six minutes
Dear Garmin BaseCamp, when I say ‘avoid dirt roads’ I mean it. Also: no illegal left turns, please. BaseCamp, Garmin’s mapping software, send me down about 7km of dirt roads…