As with my last post, I just drew some basic attention to the Conservative/former Reform party connections of nearly half the faculty at the new Clayton H. Riddell Graduate Program…
Earlier this week Mr. Del Mastro, the Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister and MP for Peterborough, complained about an Elections Canada investigation into his 2008 campaign, saying he’s frustrated…
“I may be an idiot…” WFDS
There are mea culpas and there are mea culpas. The report by an independent commission on the nuclear disaster at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant is a dandy. In the preface…
In the Twitter race. @mentionmachine in The Washington Post has Mitt Romney being mentioned in the Twitterverse 167,633 times; da Prez got 212,915 mentions last week. WFDS
Firefighters are nice to have but, they take away from private sector jobs and contribute nothing to the economy. WFDS
The Smashing Pumpkins were my favourite band in my late teens and early twenties. Their music was angst-ridden and full of aggressive, catchy instrumentation that included countless sizzling guitar solos.…
Telling the world that tourism Derrick Dalley will attend a play – no matter what play it is – would not be considered news and it sure as hell would…
It is widely reported that yesterday one Victoria Azarenka, the number two woman in the world, made a fashion faux pas at the All England Club.She wore yellow in her…
In the summer months, Statistics Canada collects labour force data on students who were attending school full time in March, and who intend to return full time in the fall.…
Wanna know what climate change “looks like”? Well, here you go: Extreme weather events are textbook examples of an effect that an overall warming of the planet will have. But…
Miranda Holmes on the health impacts of Fukushima you haven’t been hearing about from your government or the mainstream media: “Even though it wasn’t reported in the Proceedings of the…
The electoral commission could have saved us a lot of time by painting this map blue The new riding maps are out! The new riding maps are out! It’s Christmas…
I don’t much care for the ideologies of either the so called anarchist right (libertarianism) or the anarchist left (a hodgepodge of post- and proto-communist, syndicalist, participatory economic, and other…
That is what Match Canada says. I always take boasts and bullsh*t and divide it by half but still, one in ten, pretty impressive. Works for moi. WFDS
R. v. Venneri, 2012 SCC 33 was released a few moments ago. While dealing in large part with criminal organizations, it has useful language pointing out that merely being a party to…
Stampede celebrates 100th anniversary For all those barbaric yahoos who enjoy torturing animals for fun, entertainment, and most of all – profit..you can keep your little circus…leave the rest of…
Captain Paul Watson describes the political and legal limbo in which he finds himself in Germany, as Costa Rica continues to push for his extradition to face charges stemming from…
David Akin is apparently out At Sun TV. Instead we’ll be getting three hours of: …which, frankly, is still not enough to make me watch. Good luck to David Akin,…
It may be hot today in Toronto, but that doesn’t mean we can’t do something with it. The Hold Steady understands.
