Today’s Star has a story ( click here ) saying proposed government legislation could “exile ‘thousands’ of permanent residents for minor crimes”. Is that true? I think not. The actual…
I won’t disagree with those who have criticized Barack Obama’s debate performance last night as listless. But did nobody else notice that the candidate who’s rightly been criticized for his…
Remember the World the Old Man Lived In? Apparently, Kathy Dunderdale lives in the same place. -srbp-
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Thursday October 4, 2012: Three Reasons Romney Lost the Debate Assange supporters plea to keep £140,000 in bail…
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Mitchell Anderson’s final report on Norway’s highly successful management of its oil resources puts Canada’s current philosophy to the test: Seen through…
Here’s my, uh, rather ‘brief’ recap of last night’s Friends of Central Park meeting. And here’s just a few of my other thoughts: Thumb’s Up: Acting-CAO Ed Houghton gets a…
You may recall that we switched our internet provider from Rogers to TekSavvy in order to get more bandwidth, then dumped Rogers altogether by switching from cable to streaming. >We…
Tom Walkom writes in this morning’s Toronto Star that the ever widening meat recall is Stephen Harper’s “Walkerton Moment.” The tainted water scandal in that small Ontario town marked the…
I am somewhat bemused by the surprised being expressed by many people concerning Obama’s rather poor performance in the presidential debates last night. Have people simply not been paying attention…
Since closing 30 beds designed for non-acute patients in March, the number of non-acute patients occupying acute care beds at Health Sciences North in Sudbury has more than doubled. In…
Early efforts at creating a human-machine hybrid were unsuccessful. The subject did not gain any of the benefits of cyborgism — extended lifespan, bone-crushing strength, heightened mental faculties — and…
I got this under the title "your life is at stake" from Ray Cheng. It's an interesting scam. It depends on fear rather than greed. And I fear some will…
…but I hear Mitt Romney, in his first act as president, promised to smash Big Bird’s skull in with a tire iron. If I were the Obama campaign, I would…
That video doesn’t make it seem so bad for Obama after all, does it? I had two experiences watching that debate last night. The first, with the sound on, left…
As she launched the first salvo in the final battle of the War for Muskrat Falls, Premier Kathy Dunderdale decided to prove the old maxim correct: she put Truth up…
Republican nominee Mitt Romney has defeated President Barack Obama in the first presidential debate, according to a CNN poll conducted Wednesday night. The poll, conducted following the debate in Denver,…
When Gordon Campbell was Premier, advantaging insiders and friends became the BC Government’s raison d’etre. Liberals were damn good at it too. When that sated Premier moved on, he left…
That should sound like a very straightforward and pedestrian proposition, given all I’ve had to say on the subject of Globe & Mail scribbler Margaret Wente’s plagiarizing ways over the…
I couldn't believe what I was seeing. Obama and Mitt Romney had a debate but only Romney showed up. Mitt Romney pressed the reset button last night on his campaign.…
