For sale: 1870s farm house near Alton, Ontario
It’s official. We’re selling the farm. It’s a beautiful four bedroom home on 38 acres of rural property in Caledon, Ontario. The front lot is full of forty year old…
September 2012
Commit2Act a New Mobile App to Better the World
TakingITGlobal has released a new digital tool to make the world a better place through direct action. It’s a mobile app for iOS (Windows phones soon available) that has a…
History Repeats Itself
Jeffrey Simpson, in today’s Globe and Mail, refers to an essay written by British MP and historian Rory Stewart. The subject of the essay is the British invasion and occupation…
Liberals Should Revisit Carbon Tax
Almost absurd to even suggest, given the Conservatives are currently accusing the NDP of advocating, even though the party doesn’t support a carbon tax, a testament to how some see…
New PEI Schoolboard – A hope and a Prayer
PEI has decided to merge its two school boards into one centralized board. Leaving PEI with an English Speaking Schoolboard and a French Speaking Schoolboard. This has been done as…
Arrrrr… this be good readin’…
… for pirates and land lubbers too! Arrrrr…. (5) Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
47 %’ers
There’s a big hubbub in the US over the leaked Mitt Romney tape from a private fundraiser earlier this year, where he disparages 47% of the US people who support…
Judge declares part of 2008 Tory omnibus crime bill unconstitutional
This is less of a big deal than it might seem. Dangerous Offender applications are very rare and regardless of the onus are fought vigorously. As a practical matter this…
Cartwheels in The Legislature
Cartwheels at Parliament! So, I was walking by Queen’s Park the other day and saw something that immediately made me nostalgic: a bunch of kids teaching another kid how to…
Cheese Pyrates! Revenge of the Crimson Parrots
It were 2011, and a year had passed since the Le Fromage de Satan had sunk our frigate with an exploding cheese, killing all hands except for meself, Jim Quinn,…
Maybe Wente Should Just Go
Tell me that what Media Culpa illustrates here isn’t an example of what John Mashey refers to in the comments as “mosaic plagiarism”. MC concludes as follows: Like journalists, kids…
More mumbo on the mumbo-jumbo #nlpoli
Keith Russell apologized on Tuesday for comments he made a week ago about the religious beliefs of some aboriginal people in Labrador: I don’t buy into the mumbo jumbo about…
NDP and Conservatives cooperating to "screw" Liberals?
From John Ivison’s column last night: Nathan Cullen, the NDP House leader, and Peter Van Loan, his government counterpart, have apparently been having productive discussions about passage of C-21, the…
Banksy photos: Zapatista murals and ‘Cowboys’ football
Turns out the British graffiti artist Banksy was once a goalie – and a decent one at that by all accounts. He played for a cool football team called the…
Online Services are great for Canadians, but threaten Big Telecom
Big telecom companies are feeling the squeeze as online services are offering Canadians alternative, cheaper ways to communicate and get access to diverse media content. These include video services like…
Media Bias: Toronto Star Leans Left. Sort Of.
As part of my ongoing Media Bias study, I recently took a look at the Toronto Sun, and pointed out that the Sun Media stable of columnists has a distinct…
Be nice to the people you meet on the way up
Because you’ll meet them again on the way down, as Mitt Romney has now discovered — he shouldn’t have said all those mean things about Jimmy Carter: James Carter IV…
BC Opposition to Pipelines – Solid and Building
A new poll has discovered that British Columbians take bitumen pipelines very, very seriously. In fact, the pipelines come second only to the economy in priority and even ahead of…