In Sunday’s Sun today: dying to die
VANCOUVER – Cementing its reputation as the place where wild-eyed legal decisions are given the fullest possible expression, a British Columbia court last week decided to turn Canadian law on…
June 2012
4771…The Students’ Demos In MTL = Fail
They had me, they had progressives and they even had Pauline Marois and her gang on their side for the longest time. What they didn’t do was read Sun Tzu’s…
Quebec and the Movement That Will Not Die
In the last few days right-wingers in the media and the twittersphere have been going around claiming that the Quebec student movement is running out of steam. And if you…
Some scattered thoughts about Alan Turing
It is Alan Turing’s 100th birthday today, June 23. Earlier this week I went to a documentary about Turing at Waterloo’s Institute for Quantum Computing and then did some reading.…
Feminine discreet sensual my ass
Here is an interesting fact, FDS, was originally called Feminine Deodorant Spray, when it was introduced into Canada by the Alberto Culver company in 1970. This might not be one…
Video killed the radio star
Yeah, we’ve got you coming and going on the whole music thing this weekend. Just click on the control bar above the radio to pause the music stream and have…
Bonuses for bureaucrats – a phony scheme
Fine editorial from the best daily in British Columbia: CLBC bonuses call for inquiry, Times Colonist, June 22, 2012 “…Last fall, as reports of CLBC’s mismanagement and cover-ups mounted, the…
Skin
I have had a Thought. It is a Big Thought, so I might need a bit of time to work this out. It started this way: Would you rather look…
4770…She Cut Off His Penis: Then Things Got Bad
Move over Lorena Bobbit, the late night talk show punchline of two decades ago, you have been topped. Reuters reports that Catherine Kieu Becher, a 48-year-old Garden Grove, California woman,…
4769…Another Paper Dies
You know and I know and we know that this time next century paper newspapers will be few and far between. Earlier this month Postmedia, they run papers like The…
Christopher Monckton Described as "Loose Cannon" "17th Century Pamphleteer" By UKIP, Party Cuts Ties With Him
Christopher-Monckton-.jpg The Guardian reports that the UK Independence Party (UKIP) has distanced itself from "Lord" Christopher Monckton, the crazypants climate denier who thinks President Obama's birth certificate is fake, compared…
Friday night
Good evening. This would be one of those sets consisting of tunes I stumbled over while looking for other things. Let’s start with a funky guitar instrumental called Last Train…
Friday night
Have a good night!
Bernie Farber On Richard Warman
Two fellas I am proud to call friends. And I would just note that this fight is not yet over. To all you journos that teamed up with the CDN…
On a positive note
I tweeted the other day about Michael Harris at iPolitics.ca being one of the gutsiest columnists going in the Canadian political media scene. That was prompted by this column. There’s…
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BC Premier Clark Redefines Natural Gas as "Clean Energy" to Serve Political Interests
christy-clark-natural-gas-strategy.jpg Christy Clark, the premier of British Columbia, has joined the ranks of public officials the world over, which have clouded the definition of "clean energy" by using the term…
During the 16th Century Justices of the Peace presided with juries over criminal trials
There were 1,738 Justices for the whole of England in 1580. Chosen by the Lord Chancellor they did much the same work as they do today — except they also…
Winter is coming, but it isn’t coming fast enough
No, this is not a weather post. The weather in Southern Ontario has been great lately, hail storms notwithstanding. It has been in the mid 30s C, a little humid,…
Photos of Montreal Protest, June 22, 2012
The June 22, 2012 protest was awesome! Enjoy, share my photos if you like! Amir Khadir Solidarity from Iceland Solidarity from the Philippines