Video: Peter MacKay hears the word plane and runs up the stairs
I was in Ottawa earlier this week and spent some time on Parliament Hill with a media pass, attending a few question periods, a few scrums, and a meeting of…
June 2012
4767…Karla Homolka Re Surfaces
Paula Todd has found and written a book about Canada’s Sweetheart Karla Homolka. The National Post opens their piece in yesterday’s online paper thus: A new e-book says Karla Homolka…
Brown cat
Filed under: art, digital, drawing Tagged: 100 cats
PSW registry up and running despite unresolved key issues
Health Minister Deb Matthews rose in the legislature to announce June 13 the new PSW Registry is up and running. Initially PSWs (Personal Support Workers) in the home care sector…
A Look at Calgary Centre
My previous post on the federal riding of Calgary Centre, where Conservative MP Lee Richardson stepped down to pursue a more fruitful and nice job as Premier Redford’s principal secretary,…
If We’re Going To Talk About Agriculture In Canada, We Should Really Talk About It
We need a safe, sustainable food supply in Canada. Free markets are not about safety or sustainability, they are about money and profit. Presumably we get some benefit as individuals…
444 Squadron: answers to questions #nlpoli
As a general background on 444 Squadron at Goose Bay, here is the text of a question posed in the House of Commons by member of parliament Marc Garneau and…
A New Blog and a Must Read
A great Twitter contributor has started a new blog. You can check it out at http://andrewjyoung.ca/2012/06/21/why-narratives/
This Weekend in Quebec City
This weekend is the St-Jean, which i would guess probably resembles other nationalist holidays in nations-without-a-state: massive crowds, lots of partying, confused politics, often fights with cops or just between…
Health Warning Attached To Rio+20 Text: If You Care For The Future Of This Planet, This Document Will Make You Sick
Here in Canada, it’s hard to tell that there is even an Earth Summit happening in Rio De Janeiro at all. A quick scan of the major papers, from one…
140Law – Legal Headlines for Friday, June 22, 2012
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Friday, June 22, 2012: CBC: Karla Homolka a mom of 3 living in Caribbean, ebook says Magnotta to…
Provocateurs and Politicians
Not sure it’s always a good thing to be everywhere talking about everything.
Dahan phone hoax exposes Nadine Morano’s political sympathies
Back in 2008 Sarah Palin believed she was talking on the phone with French president Nicolas Sarkozy when in fact she was speaking with a Quebec comedian Marc-Antoine Audette. A…
boston mini-vacation, days 1 through 4
This must be a huge Skip It! for most readers, but I write this blog for myself as much as anyone else, and I must have a record of all…
The Star Continues Its Investigation
Unless the Toronto District School Board is staffed by a raft of incompetents, it has to have known what is going on. As I wrote in my blog post yesterday,…
Pirate Therapy – download for free!
My new(ish) collection of short stories, flash fictions and odd bitlets of absurdism is available for free on Kindle from June 21 to June 23. Seriously, it’s free – just…
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On the front page, too. Here’s the original wording:
Looking beyond the Hebron sandbox #nlpoli
ExxonMobil drew a line in the sand this morning, and the minister and I are here to draw another line in the sand, as far as this project is concerned.…
On the beach at Frobisher Bay
Note how the ice is melting
Reform of Pampered Public Service Must Begin at the Top
Okay, first of all, is there any real doubt where this mysterious leak of a confidential government report on public service sick leave actually comes from? Whether you agree with…