The Mop and Pail’s forlorn prayer for better privatization
The editorialists at the Globe and Mail took up the ORNGE disaster today and even they are vexed by the “Public Private Byzantinism” that went on there. Naturally, however, they…
August 2012
Another of Donald Trump’s Depredations
While watching this video, which accompanies a story on Salon.com about ‘the Donald’s’ depredations in Scotland, I couldn’t help but think of a well-known biblical rhetorical question. Recommend this Post
Fishing For an Alternative….?
How You can Have Your Healthy Environment and Eat Farmed Salmon Too Sue Scott, from the Atlantic Salmon Federation, has a column under this heading, in HuffPo today. It’s a…
Agrium Halves Potash Royalties
Agrium reports that it paid half as much to the people of Saskatchewan in the second quarter as it had in the same quarter of last year. The company’s quarterly…
Well, I Always Say I Feel 35 When I’m not Feeling 19
Congratuations to Braydon Beaulieu of Essex who just won the Litpop 2012 contest for fiction! But I must add that I was on the short list, as M.S. McGowan (the…
From an Anglo to the Anglophones in Quebec
It is odd being an Anglo in Quebec. But not because I feel apart from the Francophones. Indeed, it is Anglo community that I feel estranged from. I live in…
August 3: Hang out the flags….
The Moncton Times and Transcript for today rose to mediocre – with some sections actually quite decent. The stars of the day were the editorial and op ed pages. Not…
Abstract colour field cat
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Friday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to end your week. – Tim Harper suggests that the Cons are running out of options to try to push the Gateway pipeline on a thoroughly-opposed public in…
Harper’s Political Posturing
Given the recent spate of ‘bad luck’ experienced by Enbridge over its propensity for oil spills, the Harper regime knows it is facing an uphill battle to convince Canadians that…
SFH says: FREE PUSSY RIOT!
Tees made up by my man Hallice at tobeseen.ca! On sale at our Ottawa show tomorrow night at the Elmdale!
allaudin merali’s extravagant expenses a blow to alberta health services, redford government.
TweetThe highest echelons of Alberta Health Services are once again being rocked by a firestorm of public criticism after it was revealed that AHS Chief Financial Officer Allaudin Merali had…
Riding Herd On The Civil Service
Michael Harris reminds his readers that the RCMP has been a troubled organization for a very long time: There were all those sled dogs they slaughtered; there was that dynamite…
Charest and Nixon, Friends Indeed. . . .
Here are some interesting parallels – Jean Charest of Quebec is fighting an election in the midst of a major investigation into corruption, the results of which could easily drive…
ConCalls: Show The Cards Elections Canada #RoboCon
A lawyer is trying to compel Elections Canada to release more public details of its super slow investigation into the election fraud from May 2011. Apparently the next date we’ll…
Delaware Tax Haven: The Other Shale Gas Industry Loophole
shutterstock_30322192.jpg Most people think of downtown Houston, Texas as ground zero for the oil and gas industry. Houston, after all, serves as home base for corporate headquarters of oil and…
Bathtime Follies
Belinda was a notorious cheapskate, who was cloned from several ancient lines of DNA; not of any single species, Belinda’s genetic material was a chimera of strands originating with proto-humans…
Shelob Lives
That is all! .
Shelob Lives
That is all! .