corporate media ball chain.jpg North America just witnessed the hottest month in the history of record keeping (about 117 years). The month of July shattered every previous record, but was…
Elijah Porter of Newfoundland saw Canadian heroism even after the team lost its silver medal, and so he gave the athletes his own Timbits soccer medal.
R. v. Bjornson, 2012 ABCA 230, a recent Alberta Court of Appeal decision, holds that the fact an underage complainant was a "willing participation", is not a mitigating factor in…
… by renaming the Ottawa River Parkway to the Sir John A. Macdonald Parkway. Whoop-dee-doo. Seriously, is this really worth the trouble? Are there not already enough buildings and structures…
Today’s report on Syria is a gem of an example of bad reporting. You know, if you read every report on Syria that ever appeared in the Irving Press, you…
It’s not “a savings”. There’s no such thing as “a savings”. “Savings” means more than one. Know why? Because it’s fucking plural. Fucking plural means “more than one”. In fact,…
So, Tony Genco: was a federal Liberal, lost. Became a provincial Conservative, lost. Now he’s running again, although not for the NDP. He’s still a Conservative, although he’s a bit…
Rob Ford, Toronto’s mayor was caught reading a newspaper while driving on the Gardener Expressway: “On behalf of all the citizens of Toronto that value road safety, Mr. Mayor ……
“Blogger The Sixth Estate has the name, rank and serial number for the 1,135 Conservative donors and sympathizers who have received patronage appointments since 2006. (Versus the 78 Liberals, 4…
I don’t have many grievances with Ontario but Marineland is a huge exception. For some reason the ads run all summer out here on the coast. They highlight two things…
Inspired by this headline: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2012/08/14/caw-auto-industry-contract-talks.html
Len Berman’s That’s Sports reports that “First Chad Johnson was arrested for head-butting his wife, then the Miami Dolphins released him, then their reality show was canceled by VH1 and…
Even Google got in the act this morning with a cartoon of our Julia, cooking away. It would be Julia Child’s 100 birthday today, and the cooking and eating world…
580CFRA, the anglo news station in La Belle’s third largest market of Gatineau, tells all that “The Parti Québecois is promising Quebec voters it will forbid public employees from wearing…
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Tobi Cohen picks up on the possibility of a provincial NDP in Quebec, and notes that the federal party is considering what can…
Only two per cent of Canadians believe climate change is not happening. Two per cent, just one-in-fifty. The findings are in a survey conducted by Insightrix Research, Inc. for IPAC-CO2…
As election day, September 4, 2012, fast approaches in Quebec, I think it's appropriate to remind my fellow citizens of the horrendous leadership the province has had to undergo under…
As election day, September 4, 2012, fast approaches in Quebec, I think it’s appropriate to remind my fellow citizens of the horrendous leadership the province has had to undergo under…
As election day, September 4, 2012, fast approaches in Quebec, I think it's appropriate to remind my fellow citizens of the horrendous leadership the province has had to undergo under…
As election day, September 4, 2012, fast approaches in Quebec, I think it’s appropriate to remind my fellow citizens of the horrendous leadership the province has had to undergo under…
