5156…Jean Charest To Lead Federal Liberals
I do believe that the great SUN TV and Sun Media man Warren Kinsella likes that. I personally like Jean Charest to succeed our beloved Prime Minister, Stephen Harper. But…
September 2012
Farewell to Peter Lougheed – A Real Common Sense Canadian
It was a more progressive development of the Tar Sands that happened on Lougheed’s watch. What a pity his policy wasn’t continued, for he stood squarely for this project be…
5155…Football In Your Capital
A bunch of clowns have done their best to stop Lansdowne, the former and future stadium of Ottawa’s CFL franchise to be refurbished. Problem is when it is refurbished will…
Fair Weather Friends: Western Reaction(s) to the Middle East Protests
The ongoing protests in the parts of the Middle East and North Africa, ostensibly in the wake of a Z-list anti-Islam film produced in the US, have elicited the same…
Friday night Sonny Boy Williamson blogging
Technically it’s Sonny Boy Williamson II but the “II” tends to get dropped in the YouTube listings. There was a Sonny Boy Williamson I but he passed in 1948 and…
Friday night
New Dave Matthews out just this week. Live version at Rolling Stone. Have a great night!
Brian Byrne at Swizzles
I Mother Earth front man Brian Byrne is making a triumphant return to Ottawa after the newly reformed act tore up the Bluesfest stage in July. Byrne, whose voice you…
CETA Trade Deal, Jumbo Resort Proposal and Water Privatization
Freelance writer and researcher Joyce Nelson connects the dots between the approval of the Jumbo Glacier Resort proposal in the Kootenays, a controversial trade deal between Canada and the European…
An art exhibition hidden in plain sight
Street artist JR’s pasted eye watches the corner of Berry St and South 5 in Williamsburg, NY. If you happen to be walking around Williamsburg this month, you’ll likely pass…
5154…Connecticut’s Highest Paid State Employee
Jim Calhoun, the uber successful coach of the very cleverly named UConn Huskies, is retiring after coaching the men’s basketball team to 3 national titles, the latest being last year.…
5153…Rock, Chalk, Jayhawk Be Nuts
The National Memo reports that “Kansas Secretary of State and Mitt Romney adviser Kris Kobach is considering removing President Barack Obama from his state’s ballot in November, in response to…
What to do during the lockout…
Thanks to CBC sports for this… See the bottom middle? That will be me. (5) Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
Why didn’t the teddy bear eat his lunch?
Because he was stuffed!
And Then There Were Four
Well, talk about a busy afternoon, or rather perhaps more accurately mid-morning. As of today, Dr. Ryan Meili and current Regina Rosemont MLA Trent Wotherspoon have thrown their hats into…
#NBCFail: A post-mortem
During the London 2012 Summer Olympic Games, viewers in the United States quickly became frustrated with the company given exclusive U.S. broadcasting rights to the games and used the hashtag…
Canada’s Export of Death to Cease
The Harper government is throwing in the towel on Quebec’s internationally-maligned asbestos industry now that the Parti Québécois is poised to take power and prohibit extraction of the cancer-causing mineral.…
Happy Crashiversary! Are you better off now than you were four years ago?
Four years after Lehman Brothers collapsed, it’s time to take stock of things by asking a stock political question: Are you better off now than you were four years ago?…
Neil Macdonald of CBC
What is wrong with this guy? He writes in an op-ed on the CBC website that the controversial movie “Innocence of Muslims” is merely an expression of freedom of speech.…
Georgia Straight: Competition Bureau slams Big Telecom for misleading Canadians about texting
We all know that telecom price-gouging is out of control in Canada. Big Telecom will do anything in its power to squeeze more from our wallets if they can get…
Kate Middleton’s topless pictures
This is an interesting reflection on human nature. A French magazine goes to great lengths to invade Kate Middleton’s and Prince William’s privacy to take these pictures, all to make…