Honouring Dad for his birthday
This Sunday, yes April Fools Day, would have been my father’s eighty-fifth birthday. I last saw him when the whole family gathered in Perth to mark his seventy-fifth, within months…
2012
MP says CBC cuts too small by Kris Sims
Funding to the CBC will be trimmed by $27.8 million next year, $41.8 million in 2013-14 and by $45.4 million in 2014-15.
Mulcair – impressive in CBC interview
This is a day ago, but I thought it worthwhile to post for those who didn’t see it in it’s entirety. The new NDP and Official Opposition Leader is being…
4404…Free Booze & Swag Does Work On Journos
It really has to. Tell you why. Here in Ottawa we are having the Junos. I know. Who gives a f*ck? As it turns out the only people that give…
On Milton Acorn, on his birthday, Canada’s People’s Poet
The Silver Dollar Room at the Waverly Hotel, where Milton Acorn lived on Spadina Avenue in Toronto. Below: Milton Acorn (drawing found on the Internet). Today was the birthday of…
4403…Michael Harris CFRA Update
For starters Michael Harris, longtime 1 to 3 in the afternoon talker on Ottawa’s heritage station, 580 CFRA, is still on the beach. That is radio slang for he ain’t…
Ending the week on a positive note
I checked in with my doctor today to get results from my latest blood tests and the news was all good! CD-4: 310 (up from January) viral load: undetectable Hemoglobin…
OAS changes not Needed.
I will look at the budget over the next few days and offer some views. Today I want to focus on Old Age Security or OAS for short. The Harper…
GM Dumps Heartland Institute, Will No Longer Fund Climate-Denying Spinstitute
heartland logo.jpg General Motors is breaking up with the Heartland Institute, announcing recently that the company will discontinue funding to the notorious climate-denying spin shop. The move by GM comes…
BC Liberals: You reap what you sow…
Today the BCGEU, representing provincial government employees in BC, announced they will be holding a strike vote. They are seeking wage increases of 8% over 2 years and the government…
#Budget2012 Analysis – Part 3 – Economic Developments and Prospects
We will now take a look at the second chapter of the budget. The highlights listed are as follows: The global economic recovery remains fragile. The European sovereign debt and…
The Six Million Dollar BC Rail Deal….Mr. Plant Answers My Question.
Blogs,BlogsEverywhere ButNoTimeToEatLunchVille It’s noon on Friday, and the former BC Liberal Party government Attorney General, Mr. Geoff Plant, has been gracious enough to answer my question regarding his interpretation of…
The Idleness Of The Madness Of The (not) Premier’s March…
AllTheTerribleHorribleNoGoodBadDaysThatFit Connin’WithChristyVille. Bob Mackin has the story. And the day-by-day blow-by-blow of Ms. Clark’s horrible month of March. My favourite is the coda to March 26th, the day Mr. John…
A Trashy in Paris, deuxieme partie…
Dreams that Stephen Harper has… Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
The Bee’s Needs
When the final tally is done on humanity’s many post-Industrial Revolution screw ups, it is likely that the top of the list will be: They let the bees die. Consider…
The NDP Leadership vote: The Puzzle of just how many people voted
Trying topiece the numbers together to get a handle on the impact of voter suppressionduring the NDP leadership election is difficult because of the conflictingreports about just how many people…
NDP Leadership election: What happened to 8,000 live votes?
According toone report, there were about 11,000 live voters at the NDP convention: The attack over the weekend slowed down the voting processby several hours over two ballots, forcing the…
Federal Budget – Civil Service Cuts
Harper cutting the civil service? This is nonsense. I have long experience both provincially and federally with civil service and elected officials. What politicians do is get rid of civil…
Sixth Communications’ Puppet, Angie Perischilli Quits Harper in Less Than a Year! But is he Being Hypocritical?
It is time to start calling the job of Communications director to ol’ Stevie “The wives of Henry the 8th”. Number 6 has just decided to get outta dodge, boys…
Danielle Smith: Wrong for Alberta
What happens if a rigid, far right ideologue who’s only experience in a public service role is a tale of obstruction, fundamental lack of understanding of the facts, radical disdain…