Muskrat Falls: The Kennedy Tweets #nlpoli #cdnpoli
Here’s a string of tweets from natural resources minister Jerome Kennedy on Friday night: Jerome Kennedy @jerome_kennedy Let me try and simplify Muskrat Falls. First question, do we(NL) need the…
2012
Dr. Doom on Canada
Nouriel Roubini in the Globe today: What’s your assessment of how well Canada is doing in the current global environment? It’s a mixed picture. The overall fundamentals are better than…
Totally not muzzling the RCMP – really!
Vic Toews denies that he is muzzling the new commissioner of the RCMP, and points to similar practices by Anne McClelland when she was Minister of Public Safety. None of…
OC Transpo greediness…
…and indefensible position on the use of bus GPS data is getting more print space. Good article. C’mon Mercier! Get with the program! Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
Harper Regime Sends Important Torture Commission Report Down Memory Hole
This week, the Supreme Court of Canada agreed with the Harper regime that several Canadian citizens detained and tortured in developing countries based on advice passed to the Americans from…
Notable case regarding aboriginal rights
From Lexology.com The Wahgoshig First Nation (“WFN”) in Northern Ontario has obtained an injunction to temporarily stop Solid Gold Resources Corp. (“Solid Gold”), a junior mining company, from drilling on…
Peter MacKay Doesn’t Want the Canadian Military To Have Any Balls
Is Peter MacKay feeling the pressure? The Minister of National Defence has put the squeeze on the Canadian military’s balls. In this case, they were orange stress balls. The military…
Time to loosen up and let federal NDP Quebec caucus learn in public – out here in Alberta
The Liberal Party rises from the dead? Not going to happen. Even Justin Trudeau doesn’t look like the guy with his hand in the air. If you want to skid…
Me, SOPA, and the Internet Revolution
This graphic speaks for itself eh? The day before and the day after the internet revolution. Then Wednesday happened, and suddenly everyone seemed to understand how serious this was. Wikipedia…
Loomit and year of ‘Germany in India’
The German graffiti artist Mathias Koehler aka Loomit has been working in India under the aegis of the year of “Germany in India”. Graffiti artists Zebster, Tasso and Wok have…
Lumbering oaf
Skate skiing lesson this evening. Quite cold but manageable. I have to say it was a bit distressing.
While Norm Works….Keith Fiddles.
There’sNoTedBaxter LikeTheRealTedBaxterVille First, Mr. Norman Farrell: The CBC Ombudsman has agreed with me and others who raised the issue of Stephen Smart’s conflict of interest. Now, we await the corporation’s…
Festive Left Friday Blogging: Flamengo comes to Bolivia
…and Evo had a great time meeting one of the great Brazilian soccer team’s heroes (and his own too, no doubt), Ronaldinho: Evo also presented Ronaldinho with a special medal…
Shinny in the ‘burg
Even if you haven’t registered for Hintonburg’s first (hopefully) annual Street Hockey Tournament, there will be plenty of fun and action tomorrow on Hamilton and Spencer by Parkdale Park. The…
Winning Against Dirty Politics
How are we going to get the next Liberal Party candidate past the opposition Super PAC’s and their coordinated attack ads? Just in case Bob Rae was thinking of entering…
Hyperbole, Haste and the Nail in the Coffin: The Death of Oil Pipedreams
It’s been more than a week now since Minister Joe (McCarthy) Oilver’s divisive screed appeared in the Globe and Mail. His attempt to create an us’n’them scenario has been thoroughly…
Musical interlude
Yes, some of us will eagerly await the dance mix. But the original is well worth a listen too. Garfunkel and Oates with Weird Al Yankovic – Save the Rich
Friday night
“In anticipation for the release of the ‘Mpire‘ LP on January 30th, Moguai has released the first single coincidentally named, ‘Mpire‘ which is an effortlessly stuning powerhouse single! Moguai doesn’t…
Self-interested blather from Edge of the Ledge
Wonderful demonstration today of how BC’s tight little circle of political reporters is wilfully blind to the real issue at stake in the CBC conflict of interest matter. Of course,…
CRTC Slaps Rogers for Throttling Non-P2P Traffic
January 20, 2012 – The Canadian Gamers Organization got word today that the CRTC’s enforcement division has found Rogers to not be non-compliant with CRTC net neutrality policy, and that…