In today’s Sun: Jason Kenney is a thug
You can judge a nation sometimes on how it treats its weakest citizens. Canada, historically, has always known itself to be a nation of immigrants and refugees. All of us…
July 2012
POLL: What Exactly Did You Celebrate on Canada Day?
Opinion polls are a great and simple way for you to express your big opinion on the issues of the day. A few clicks, you’ve spoken! Our current poll on…
No shock here on the Conservative foot-dragging on Omar Khadr
A column in the Star today about how the Canadian government has been doing nothing to live up to its agreement it made with the US and Omar Khadr’s lawyers…
4888…Kitty Wells Gone Like A Hurricane
She played Barrymore’s, a wonderful old theatre/dump in the skidish part of downtown Ottawa, about fifteen blocks south of The Hill, when she was in her 80’s. The Queen of…
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ENVIRONMENT: A TASTE OF SHELL GAMES TO COME IN THE ARTIC: Shell Loses Control Of Arctic Drilling Rig In Alaskan Harbor By Climate Guest Blogger on Jul 16, 2012 at…
The Cons and the Attack of the Angry Doctors
OMG. I don't blame the Cons for thinking that Canada's doctors are after them. But that'll teach them to treat sick refugees as less than human. “There is a new…
Google Street View Circa 1907
It seems Google didn’t invent Street View The idea was 100 years old when it first started to become popular on the Internet! Behold Vancouver, street view from 1907 Barcelona,…
Cost Over-Runs and Muskrat Falls #nlpoli
When announced in November 2010, the Muskrat Falls dam, the line to the island the connection to Nova Scotia were supposed to cost $6.2 billion. The dam and the line…
July 16 addendum: what won’t be in the TandT July17
For July 16, the Washington Post web site carries a story that a former CIA contractor who had access to top level information has published an on-line book saying that…
Names for ex-Capital Ex fail to inspire, but still ….
Northlands is trying to get the public engaged in renaming its annual summer fair by holding a naming contest to replace the unloved title Capital Ex, which itself replaced the…
Growing up as a teen in the 1970′s…
… I knew the first few chords of Deep Purple’s “Smoke on the Water”. Every teenage boy did. It was the law. Jon Lord was one of the best a…
When WalMart meets GO Transit
A little while back I wrote about how there are dozens of bridges in the Hamilton megacity (read: consolidated city-county), most of them in a horrible state of disrepair; and…
The real “gateway drug” is alcohol, not marijuana
With the recent passage of crime Bill C-10 into law, we can expect a lot of young and first-time Canadian marijuana users in our high school system to do real…
Ocean acidification: global warming’s ‘evil twin’
Anthropogenic (man-made) carbon dioxide is responsible for adding to global warming and triggering a host of attendant environmental problems. CO2 has also contributed to a dramatic spike in the acid…
Albertans Seek Pipeline Safety Investigation, Launch Spill Tipline
Picture 3.png After three major spills in Alberta occurred over the span of one month, questions are surfacing regarding the integrity of the province’s aging pipeline infrastructure. Last week, a…
4887…National Ice Cream Day Was Yesterday!
So embarrassed I am. So embarrassed. To the level that I had two litres of Breyer’s Apple Pie Ice Cream, on sale for 2.99$ at Shopper’s Drug Mart til Thursday,…
It bears repeating, bluntly: Adrian Dix Is Being Rewarded For His Bad Behaviour–and Encouraged to Repeat It
{When I saw a TV clip of Adrian Dix receiving a standing ovation at last February's NDP Convention, I felt an eerie sense of deja vu---viz. the final scene of…
MPs in the dark about the billions in Conservative government spending
Now we know why Treasury Board President Tony Clement did not think twice before spending $50-million of G8 funds in his Muskoka riding. Why Parliamentary Budget Officer Kevin Page threatened…
Michael Geist – Canada Excluded From Next Round of TPP Negotiations
The next round of TPP negotiations will again have a distinct lack of Canadian input. What this means is that decisions that are made during the coming TPP negotiations won’t…