Friday night
Here’s an interesting combination of performers. Someone will have to let me know if it works. To begin, Doc Watson will explain the origins of this first song, which is…
September 2012
Harvest Festival postponed
Hintonburg’s annual Harvest Festival, which is supposed to be tomorrow afternoon, has been postponed to Sunday, September 9. It’s a great event – BBQ, games for the kids, bouncy slide…
Calling evidence a third party is liable for crime and nexus required
R. v. Murphy, 2012 ONCA 573 deals with calling evidence in a criminal defence that someone other than the accused is the guilty party. In order for such evidence to…
Here is a Weather Report That You Can Believe In!
TV Weather reports are absoltely boring, well usually. Check this out
Gregg: Too Long; Didn’t Read
TL;DR is a common refrain found on the Web now. It means that something was too long for for the comfort of the reader, so they didn’t bother. Reader’s Digest…
5139…Tim Hudak Not A Champion; He Be Lazy
Wanna know why? Coz champions don’t make excuses. All over the media today is the cry baby Tim Hudak, soon to be former leader of the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party…
Leave to appeal to Court of Appeal for Ontario under the POA
Antorisa Investments Ltd. v. Vaughan (City), 2012 ONCA 586, granting leave to appeal, sets out the test for leave to appeal to the Court of Appeal for Ontario: The Test…
Guest Lecture: Christy Touhey, @NewhouseSU’s Web Content Manager
On Wednesday, Christy Touhey, @NewhouseSU’s Web Content Manager was a guest lecture in our PRL 614: Advanced Public Relations Writing for Digital Platforms at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public…
The key to renewed Liberal Party power: The Untouched Constituency
Just started reading Fear and Loathing: One the Campaign Trail ’72, by Hunter S. Thompson, and came across this passage early on: There are only two ways to make it…
Desparate Ontario Liberals Deploy Justin Trudeau To Deliver National Unity-Themed Anti-NDP Pitch In Kitchener-Waterloo By-Election
(Click on above image to enlarge … ) I thought that Justin Trudeau had more class than to be used by Ontario Libs to fib to the voters of Kitchener-Waterloo…
"Northern Gateway Could Destroy This Country"
What the heck is this post from BigCityLib? In summary, BCL is saying that the next Liberal leader should oppose the Northern Gateway pipeline because most British Columbians oppose it.…
Quebec’s election – an initial balance sheet
The results of the September 4 general election in Quebec produce mixed reactions among supporters of all the major parties. The pro-sovereignty Parti Québécois becomes the government, and PQ leader…
Most super awesome…
Google doodle today! But maybe I’m just being a nerd. (7) Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
To know, know, know Mulcair, is to love, love, love him less
The tussle between the NDP, led by Thomas Mulcair, and the currently leaderless Liberal Party of Canada is heating up. And some Liberals are targeting the ambivalent positions of the…
Orly Weinerman: Gaddafi’s girlfriend
It is a strange love story. Orly Weinerman is an Israeli model and soap opera actress and in love with Saif Gaddafi who is Muammar Gaddafi’s son and is in…
Martha Hall Findlay Sure Does Have Some Stones
WTH! Like a drunken friend once pleaded: “help me pay my bar tab off…… so I can start a new one”. Are you kidding me? Here’s her letter. Not Left,…
Things I have learned about writing wills
One of the fun facts about my dad was that he was really thrifty. Crazy thrifty sometimes.
Using Sight and Smell to Sense Change
Ask a new mother how she knows the meaning of her baby’s different cries. Ask about today’s diaper rash compared to how it looked yesterday. All that detailed information is…
Best Google Doodle EVER
OMG this is genius. And, yes, I am and always shall be an unrepentant Trekkie.