All the news that’s fit to bury
Peter Kent certainly isn’t the first minister in the Harper cabinet to bury an inconvenient report for months, only to finally release it when he figures it’ll do the least…
2012
It’s Time To Out-Troll Dean Del Mastro
Harper Government Super Troll I give credit where credit is due: Dean Del Mastro is one hell of a troll. During Question Period on March 6th, 2012, he’s repeated a…
Killing time
Much is being made by folks on the left in the U.S. from Glenn Greenwald to the Rude Pundit about the speech this week by Attorney General Eric Holder on…
A short Update. . .
A short update on the post earlier today. Harpercon has claimed that he will relent on the issue of Elections Canada’s new proposed auditing power. No doubt the heat got…
Ottawa: a$$hole alert
Sorry, all, but I lose all sense of civility when friends of mine are threatened by vehicular cowboys. This is a public service announcement. Just this past Monday, Patrick Denny…
QP: Dusting off some old favourites
Many a Wednesday, Question Period is buzzing with energy, the MPs having just been pumped up by caucus meetings, and they’re ready to go and kick some butt. Today was…
I don’t usually read the horoscopes, but this one is spot on
Sagittarius It’s true that no man is an island, but all bullshit humanistic hand-wringing aside, it’s totally okay to be happy that malignant Breitbart asshole is gone forever. My sympathies…
Those were the days – Дорогой длинною
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HO1UKbyPRHs&feature=related
RoboCon: Fading
What are you kidding? RoboCon isn’t fading. This scandal started before May 2, 2011 with harassing phone calls to Liberals in Volpe’s riding (see CBC story if curious), and caught…
Manning Centre’s voter suppression school
Must read article from the Vancouver Observer on the creepy Manning Centre’s 2010 ‘campaign school’. Here’s a little of what one attendee, John Fryer, discovered. (emphasis mine). The conversation that…
A course on…
… how to commit fraud? Interesting piece in the Vancouver Observer that is making the rounds on Facebook describing a course given through the conservative think-tank Manning Institute. Again, no…
While The Globe and Mail Is Busy Doing PR for The PM …
…it appears that The Vancouver Observer is actually doing some journalism as it unearths the details of the campaign school that John Fryer wrote about last week in his letter…
Rush (band) pulls music from Rush (bigot)
North America has always been home to one good Rush and one evil Rush, but never have they engaged in battle … until now. Canadian prog rock legends Rush have…
Robocon: Were our laws broken?
Misinformation is in the air, from the Tory front and back benches to journalists. Some is deliberate, designed to distract the public’s attention from misdeeds; others are perhaps simply mistakes.…
A Little More G20 Justice
In one of the more despicable acts of police brutality during the G20 Summit in Toronto in June of 2010, a paraplegic man, Gabriel Jacobs, was “dragged” from his motorized…
The mercenary qualities of liberal economists
Here is Mankiw circa 2007: Thursday, July 19, 2007 The Taxation of Carried Interest Several people have asked me my views on the taxation of carried interest. It is a…
Crystal Cathedral fires Schuller family members
Orange County Register Three family members of Crystal Cathedral Founder Robert H. Schuller were fired from their leadership positions in the ministry, officials confirmed Tuesday. Schuller’s daughter, Gretchen Penner, was…
4322…Lin Sanity Ish
Jeremy Lin’s alma mater, Harvard, has made the NCAA tourney for the first time since 1946.WFDS
Foundation of New Brunswick Autism Success Is Being Abandoned
New Brunswick, Canada, like most jurisdictions, has some gaping holes in respect of autism services delivery. But there have also been some significant successes due largely to the UNB-CEL Autism…