No Post Today: On the Phone, Getting out the Vote
Yeah, Quebec goes to the polls, and I’m calling folks we’ve pointed as be on our side. So no post longer than this….
September 2012
Would you like to come up and see my #etchings?
Click to view slideshow. Laying about being bored, and somewhat on an enforced vacation, I downloaded Etchings app and ran a number of randomly chosen images through the filters. Some…
Then or now? #nlpoli
Simple quiz. When did someone make the following claims about an energy megaproject in Labrador: 1965 or 2012? Here are the claims. The project will create thousands of jobs. It…
140Law – Legal Headlines for Tuesday, September 04, 2012
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Tuesday, September 04, 2012: Romney Ontario getaway’s dark legal past – Law Times Just cause is not necessarily…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Matt Taibbi provides what may be the definitive take on Mitt Romney – as the plutocrat running as a deficit nag made…
Propaganda From Vic Toews
There are two letters of particular note in this morning’s edition of The Toronto Star, one a propaganda piece from our much beleaguered Minister of Public Safety, Vic Toews, the…
Politicizing The RCMP
On Saturday, the RCMP forced a plane which was flying over Ottawa and Gatineau to land. The plane carried the banner “Stephen Harper Nous Deteste” — Stephen Harper hates us.…
The Terrible Twos
My son never went through the Terrible Twos. He breezed through two just as sweetly as he breezed through one. He was friendly and agreeable, and we got along happily…
Open Possibilities
Fourteen years ago last night I was laying in a new bed, on my own as an adult in the wider world for the first time. Besides my worry and…
RCMP Grounds Aircraft Carrying Anti-Harper Labour Protest Message
If your progressive message is truthful but critical of Prime Minister Stephen Harper, it automatically qualifies for a “threat” and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) won’t allow it to…
On Fossil Fools And Fracking Lies
Yes, there is oil in the ground – we just can’t afford it. The folks over at the Post Carbon Institute have just put out this video on the propaganda…
Back to school today!
And if I see one vehicle ignore the flashing lights of a school bus, I will chase you and hunt you down., I will. Please be mindful of buses, students…
Why does the RCMP insist on making itself look foolish?
OTTAWA — A pilot hired by the Public Service Alliance of Canada to fly over Ottawa and Gatineau with a political banner was ordered to land his plane, the RCMP…
5127…As I Was Saying Re Quebec Elex
Here is something I pulled from Facebook. Julien Feldman Another Quebec election shocker from Forum Research?Of 125 seats – PQ: 36% (72 seats), Lib: 29% (38 seats), CAQ: 25% (13…
5126…Today Is The Day In La Belle
According to what I saw on CBC’s The National last night the race is tight but with the PQ in the lead. Still something David Herle from The Gandalf Group…
Kenney Among The Bishops
Denni Gruending offers this guest piece by ex-Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishop director Joe Gunn: In a move that has no precedent in recent memory, the Canadian Conference of Catholic…
Up her nose, sideways #nlpoli
For some reason, Kathy Dunderdale wants to know who is criticising her pet project. Now she doesn’t come flat out and say that, but you can tell someone got her…
The Quebec Election and the Angry Canadians
On a sunny afternoon, in my favourite Montreal neighbourhood, both the Quebec election and the hysterical reaction in English Canada, seemed very far away.Which was a good thing eh?Because following…
Where have I heard this before?
Take a guess what the conspiracy is: The experimental evidence does not agree with ______, and an elite knows it does not agree, but because its political they cover it…