2012
Were Woodware & Bernstein Played by a Man With An Axe To Grind?
Washington Post scribes Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein have, for decades, been widely credited with taking down Richard Nixon. The popular narrative goes that they were fed their story by…
Vic Toews MUST Resign From Cabinet – BILL C30 MUST Be Pulled From The Order Paper
The majority of Canadians did not vote Conservative in the last election. Mr. Harper, you may have a ‘majority’ government under the British Parliamentary system. However, sir, you do not…
If Maurizio Bevilacqua Wants to Clean up Vaughan I Know Where he Should Sweep
404 System Error, score another home run with their exposure of some questionable financing in Julian Fantino’s campaign. Seems Fantino is running two separate accounts, in a non-transparent fashion, one…
If she said that about the fishery… #nlpoli
Premier Kathy Dunderdale, answering media questions about the future of the province’s last paper-making machine: “ going to run their operation in consultation with the union on how they can…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your Monday reading. – Damian Carrington reports on the Harper Cons’ sad efforts to prevent the European Union from accurately accounting for greenhouse gas emissions from the…
Football Season is Over
Devotees of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson‘s manic genius are all too aware of the title’s significance as one of the final banal observations of a shooting star burning out and…
John Baird feeling the heat over privacy concerns?
During question period in the Canadian House of Commons on Friday (February 17), Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird accused the opposition National Democratic Party (NDP) of having been caught…
what we talk about when we talk about jeremy lin
Even if you live in a sports-free universe, the name Jeremy Lin may have seeped in through osmosis. The 24-year-old Harvard grad and point guard for the New York Knicks…
The Road to Austerity
Before Stephen Harper and Dalton McGunity introduce their austerity budgets next month, they would do well to read Paul Krugman’s column in this morning’s New York Times. The advocates of…
The Dark Ford Forces Prepare
Were I given to rhetorical flourishes, which of course I am not, I might refer to the gathering tomorrow of Mayor Ford and his good soldiers as a mini-Wannsee Conference…
Family Day drive-by blogging
Well it’s a holiday of some kind in Ontario today, that Family Day thingy. Whatever you may be doing, have a good one. Here’s a bunch of reading material, for…
Why Dr. McCoy was not a whiny bitch
McCoy, Kirk and Spock are all about to die as their bodies are de-atomized over a period of several agonizing seconds. Everyone in the original Star Trek was quite condescending…
Heartland Institute Starts Threatening Bloggers (Including Canadians)
The Heartland Institute has began sending out what kind of look like legal threats to bloggers who have published/ written about their leaked documents, including Canada’s own DeSmogBlog. I haven’t…
R is for Romney and Rick Santorum
Romney released his tax returns only to show us that he makes a lot of money and is taxed at a rate 15.4% the lowest rate is 15%! Now this…
Tories Normalize Marriage Laws
The federal Conservative Party introduced a bill on Friday that would explicitly confirm the validity same-sex marriages granted to foreigners in Canada, and extend the right to divorce to any…
The future of Goose Bay, seven years later #nlpoli
Anyone following the ongoing saga of the Goose Bay air base could hardly be surprised to find out that no one is interested in supersonic flight training in the Big…
Reading the bill first
It seems that Vic Toews couldn’t even be bothered to read his own Lawful Access bill after he expressed surprise at some of the contents pointed out to him in…