New Job
The place I’ve been working since September – Centretown Citizens Ottawa Corporation – is great. It’s a private non-profit housing organization, and I was a tenant of theirs for years.…
2012
Environment Canada Lends A High Ranking Bureaucrat To The Oil Companies For One Year
As a concession to having its environmental policies dictated to by the oil companies, Environment Canada’s logo remained larger. Imagine if Peter Kent assigned a high ranking bureaucrat of Environment…
Our plastic history, utter contempt version #nlpoli
On Friday, the Telegram’s Brian Jones takes issue with fisheries minister Darin King: Fisheries Minister Darin King’s tantrum this week against the Fish, Food and Allied Workers’ (FFAW) union is…
The utter hypocrisy of…
… conservative supporters of corporate welfare astounds me sometimes! And what astounds me even more is that regular middle-class Joes and Joettes side with the zillionaires! Incredible! Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
The deluge of complaints
On the Robocon front today, Elections Canada has confirmed that they have received over 31,000 contacts regarding these kinds of calls in the last election. Expect this investigation to start…
First They Sever Our Connection With OUR Public Service, Now They Want To Stifle Opposition Queries
An Alberta MP, Tory naturally, thinks it’s high time the Harper tyranny put an end to opposition questions. A supposed million dollar cost of responding to a few hundred written…
CPC: Deceivers, deluders, dissimulators
“Losers lose, winners win, cheaters cheat, and sinners sin; Dreamers dream, cryers cry, fools believe, and Liars Lie.” Conservative MPs used U.S.-based telemarketers, Greg Weston, CBC News The prime minister…
Late night
Have a good one!
"Mistakes were made"
Ken Mehlman’s apology for going along with the Bush campaign’s anti-gay ballot initiatives in 2004 isn’t quite to the scale of McNamara’s apology for lying about Vietnam, but in terms…
4304…Maybe He Was Hungover
People are so quick to judge. It is galling. Take the current case of Rob Anders. Mr. Anders, the hard working MP for Calgary West, a Tory he is, is…
4303…Tories Tell A Nosestretcher
Blaming the victim, and this was reported everywhere, everywhere, “Prime Minister Stephen Harper said it is up to the Liberals to prove that they were not the real culprits.” in…
Digital Star Credit Card Scam
I’m a recent victim of Credit Card Crime. I’m actually kind of amused/intrigued by it. My Visa was used by criminals to send ~$75 to “Digital Star” in the UK.…
4302…Thomas Mulcair: Opportunist
John Ivison in Friday’s National Post says as much. Imagine. A politician, a Quebec politician, being opportunistic. Non issue folks. WFDS
Is Stephen Harper Going Off the Deep End?
In all my years of studying Stephen Harper, like a bug, I have never seen him look and act so crazy. Blaming the RoboCon scandal on the Liberals. As only…
Free little pigs!
I’ve read and re-read this article in The Guardian about “open journalism,” and I’ll admit I’m still not all that clear on the concept. It sounds like a mixture of…
When Is A Target Just A Target….
DidTheyHearTheBullseyesSwinging ConVille ….And When Does It Need ‘Managing’? Well….. Apparently, if you are the Conservative Party of Canada, and you need to identify and then manage ‘target seats’, you’ve been…
Happy birthday to my sister, Sheila
So both Sheila and I are at the stage in our lives where we don’t get hugely thrilled about marking the passage of time. But nonetheless, I thought I would…
Musical interlude
Sophia May – Another Day
It is a war on women
#gop #rushlimbaugh #mittromney #ricksantorum Republican contenders for the nomination of their party claim that the spat over contraception has nothing to do with a ‘war on women’, but a battle…