Dear Prince Harry,
I was pleased to see you dancing in Jamaica. Indeed, dancing can bring out the best in many creatures. Perhaps someday you’ll dance to help save my species from extinction?…
2012
National Post: Jesse Kline on current threats to Internet freedom – The statists strike back
Combined, Bills C-30 and C11, threaten Canadians’ access to the open Internet. Together we’ve been building momentum against these Bills by sending Ottawa a clear message that such legislation will…
Journal hits ‘New’ high in its support of Redford.
So, what do you think of the new PC party slogan, ‘New Conservatives’? Pretty catchy, eh? You can take that into an election. What do you mean, you’ve never heard…
Last refuge of a scoundrel
Samuel Johnson said patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.These days, its setting up a website.
Women win one, lose one … and so it goes
The good news is that the European Union is considering mandatory quotas to get more women on corporate boards. They have tried the voluntary approach and, as is so often…
Little Shop Of Horrors
In honour of my dentist appointment today, here’s Steve Martin singing the “Dentist Song” from Little Shop Of Horrors (with my apologies to all the lovely and compassionate dentists out…
Enbridge linked to PNCIMA cancellation
Wednesday, March 7, 2012 Revelations on Sunday that Enbridge had actively, and successfully, lobbied the federal government to walk away from a decade long planning process with Coastal First Nations…
Another Fine Tribute To Our Friend Mary…
ThereWereNoMice LikeMary’sAnon-O-MiceVille This one is from Bill Tieleman. And it starts like this: BC Mary was one of Canada’s most tireless, prolific, dedicated and dogged bloggers – with an absolute…
Kony 2012
From Wikipedia: “Joseph Rao Kony (born 1961 in Odek, Uganda) is a Ugandan guerrilla group leader, head of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), a group engaged in a violent campaign…
RoboCon – Lets Examine Some Of The Facts
Elections Canada distributes voters lists to all parties that are running at the start of the election and a send update list three days before the official election date. Elections…
Douche of the week – Rush Limbaugh
Well, well, it certainly has taken a while to get back to writing here on oddbloke.ca. As many of you know, the operator of this site, after having me vetted…
Yes kids…
… that’s an almost 30 degree swing in the temperature in one day… For Americans, that’s about a 53 F swing! Whatta country! Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
Conversion and the defence of abandonment
Dean v. Kotsopoulos, 2012 ONCA 143 deals with conversion and abandonment: The trial judge correctly stated that conversion is a strict liability tort. It is no defence that the wrongful interference with…
Air Canada’s Pilots Scrutinized by the CRAPers
And here we go again… not content to agitate us further by unnecessary fancy “fighter” planes that are already said to be not the greatest, a touted prison system that…
Of June and High Water
British homeowners have been told they’ll have to fend for themselves come June when their government’s agreement with Brit insurers for provision of flood coverage lapses. Insurers are reacting to…
How Many Insults Will Canadians Take?
Any Tory that is still holding on to the pathological fantasy that the Harper government is in any way interested in accountability and democracy should be deeply shaken this week…
Six Brits Missing, Presumed Dead, in Afghanistan. Cameron Reacts Quickly to Declare Missing Soldiers Dead
A patrolling British Warrior armoured fighting vehicle was hit by an improvised explosive device in Afghanistan. The six soldiers who had been aboard are missing and, curiously, presumed dead. The…
Roboscam: Bob Rae has 13 days to protect Canada’s democracy by stopping the clock
The clock is ticking and there are less than three weeks to go (around 13 days as of today) before voters lose their right to appeal to the courts under…
OPINION: The CBC is already the best pay-TV station in the country by Greg O’Brien
Columnist says the paradox of the CBC is that it must broadly appeal to all Canadians but it also must reflect smaller groups, be they regional, linguistic or otherwise grouped,…