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?…
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?…
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…
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…
Samuel Johnson said patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.These days, its setting up a website.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Kochtopus-3_0.png A new chapter is being added to the ongoing Kochtopus saga. On March 1 the Washington Post, in a story sure to fill the airwaves for the weeks and…
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…
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…
… 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
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…