The last word on rec facilities…
Maybe… Does anyone realize that had council gone ahead with the recommendation to do a market sounding back in May when it had the chance, on Monday night it would…
August 2012
More legislative attacks from the Liberal/PC twins coming?
It’s now apparent that the Pogressive Conservatives will allow the Liberals to batter teachers and school support staff with legislation imposing takeaways. Even if this legislation does pass, the question…
Harsher criminal justice sanctions had no deterrent effect on recidivism
http://www.publicsafety.gc.ca/res/cor/sum/cprs200205_1-eng.aspx The overall findings showed that harsher criminal justice sanctions had no deterrent effect on recidivism. On the contrary, punishment produced a slight (3%) increase in recidivism. These findings were…
It Is All About Christy Clark! Not!
Richard Hub Hughes-Political Blogger The Village of Lions Bay’s Most Prominent Political Commentator is calling for Premier Clark to step aside for the good of the BC Liberal Party and…
Harper’s Lack of Vision and Corporate Timidity
Canada is cursed with a Prime Minister who pretends to be an economist, one apparently intent on returning us to an era when the country was primarily a hewer of…
Again,
Ottawa’s Live 88.5′s Sunday night show… Really rox. (8) Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
Review: The Measure of a Man
The Measure of a Man is a delightful, well-written memoir about a man, the family he grew up in, and clothes. There are a number of different ways I could…
Réveillez-vous!
Michael Ignatieff got slammed for suggesting in a BBC interview that Quebec and the Rest of Canada are almost two separate countries floating towards a breakup (that’s a bit of…
The car dancer
My eldest son – now about to return early to Toronto for hockey camp – shot this video a few days ago when we were driving into Kittery. You can…
The state of my brain 3
Filed under: art, life Tagged: Concussion
Well They Need the Money to Buy Canadian Bitumen
China is flooding sub-Saharan Africa with cheap assault rifles and ammunition. Weapons from China have surfaced in a string of U.N. investigations in war zones stretching from the Democratic Republic…
If You’re a Liberal, Explain It To Me
If you’re a real, committed Liberal, I could use your help. As a truly disaffected Lib, I’ve become disconnected from the party, detached from whatever it supposedly stands for today.…
CHALK 4 Peace Winnipeg 2012
Aug. 25, 2012: One of the messages adorning the walkways of Vimy Ridge Park. Photo: Paul S. Graham The underlying premise of CHALK 4 Peace might best be summed up…
August 26: Words, words, words,….
I write today because after a far too lazy summer, I may go to the shore for Tuesday and Wednesday to do something manly and strenuous and athletic and brave…
Folk Festival Saturday
Some more photos from the Wood Mountain Folk Festival, with videos to come when I send some to YouTube. Little Miss Higgins The backdrop over the audience Scene from that…
North America’s North Koreans
When I see Tea Party rank and file interviewed on television I’m often struck by how thoroughly indoctrinated they are. They’re sort of the white bread equivalent of North Koreans…
On political legacies
Ready the fainting couch for Warren Kinsella, because I’ve got a scoop that he’ll find shocking and appalling. The NDP has been fund-raising for years based on appeals to Jack…
Don’t sweat it, Phony Tony
One’s the flip-floppin’ Ontario PC candidate. The other is the cool and collected Ontario Liberal candidate. Can you spot the winner? (HT to GritChik for the photo montage!)