He said. She said. “Expenditure review” edition #nlpoli
Starve reporters for real news and you can apparently make them believe anything. That seems to be the case with the idea that Kathy Dunderdale’s Tories plan to actually cut…
2012
Huff Post: Sex’t Up Kids
Here’s an excerpt from my blog in Huffington Post Canada: Already wise and weary at age 15, the teenagers in Sex’t Up Kids talked about sending private photos to their…
Clean up Corruption at Home
By Wadner Pierre When will the U.S. Department go after U.S. officials for the $6.6 billion in “lost” for the reconstruction of Iraq in 2004? The U.S. Justice Department has…
Clean up Corruption at Home
By Wadner Pierre When will the U.S. Department go after U.S. officials for the $6.6 billion in “lost” for the reconstruction of Iraq in 2004? The U.S. Justice Department has…
Clean up Corruption at Home
By Wadner Pierre When will the U.S. Department go after U.S. officials for the $6.6 billion in “lost” for the reconstruction of Iraq in 2004? The U.S. Justice Department has…
Clean up Corruption at Home
By Wadner Pierre When will the U.S. Department go after U.S. officials for the $6.6 billion in “lost” for the reconstruction of Iraq in 2004? The U.S. Justice Department has…
Robocon: Bob Rae has 14 days to protect Canada’s democracy by stopping the clock
The clock is ticking and there are less than three weeks to go (around 14 days as of today) before voters lose their right to appeal to the courts under…
Super Tuesday proejections
A few hundred delegates will be up for grabs today and I have a few projection on who will win which state. In 2008 there was more than 20 states…
Italy’s Mason-Dixon Line
Their leaders have names such as Durnwalder, Klotz, Widmann, and Mair. Their neighbours include Swiss, Germans and Austrians. And at the moment a good many of them are wondering why…
Mic-check at AIPAC earns displeasure
Odd behaviour from folks who object to the term “Israel firsters.” Just saying. Shortly after the people’s mic began , the crowd of AIPAC attendees reacted forcefully. Some of them…
RoboCon and VikiLeaks
Surprisingly, the Canadian government is dealing with other scandals it’s instigated. Vikileaks was the subject again today, where the Speaker ruled that Anonymous (an unrepresented collective of hackers and political…
When More Is Less
The city budget passed which will mean fewer services and less maintenance for parks and recreation in Vancouver. While the city did increase the budget allocation to parks, it was…
Great Weekend Coming up in Toronto March 22-24: NDP and Making Waves (Or Should It Be, the NDP Makes Waves?)
For those of you in Toronto Thursday March 22, please come to a presentation of Making Waves: The Continuing Portuguese Adventure at the Centro de Lingua Portuguesa Camões at 5:30…
Of Polar Bears and Pond Hockey
Global warming is expected to devastate polar bear numbers but even down toward the 49th it may bring a similar fate to pond hockey or, as we called it when…
Sleepy Sleepy Nurse
MY EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT COLLEAGUES are a youngish group as a whole, compared to me, that is, and most of them have school-aged children. A subset of this group of have…
Anonymous to Scheer: thanks for the legitimacy!
Why is this man smiling? The Department of Stupid Moves is at it again. This is going to be fun for someone and it won’t be the Conservatives laughing. I…
Harper’s Speaker™ delivers again
Let’s juxtapose, shall we? December 13, 2011. Harper’s Speaker™ Andrew Scheer rules that Liberal Irving Cotler’s parliamentary privilege was not breached when the Conservatives blanketed his riding with deliberately false…
4320…Sad Day
I never thought I would see this. I was at Billings Bridge, a mall in Ottawa, and I saw Habs merchandise on sale. On Sale!!! In March!!! Like ridiculously on…
4219…Monte Solberg Says
In yesterday’s Ottawa Sun re the Robocall issue that, I paraphrase, there are so many more important issues to deal with and we, as in they, should not let Robocall…
Experts Air Serious Concerns Before New York Fracking Decision
120111frack.jpg Two recent court decisions in New York state upheld the right of towns to use zoning laws to limit or even ban fracking within their borders. Other states and…