Government Procurement is Broken: Example #5,294,702 or “The Government’s $200,000 Useless Android Application” by Rich Jones This post is actually a few months old, but I stumbled on it again…
OTTAWA – The Harper government has hired a consultant to inject a little war into this year’s Canada Day bash on Parliament Hill. A Toronto theatre expert has been asked…
Who will rise this year to challenge Stephen Harper, to oppose him credibly? There might be many credible attacks on the Conservatives in 2012, but the no one will be…
What if you went into work today and were told that you would have to take a 50% wage cut? Could you pay your mortgage? Your rent? Your bills? Feed…
It’s a match made in totalitarian heaven. Two authoritarian bullies planning to face off in a rematch of the 1972 Summit Series. The joke is neither of these two leaders…
Most art historians will recognize this painting as “Evening on Karl Johan”, painted sometime in 1892, while its creator Edvard Munch was still a young man. Modern commentators have described…
I’m not going to the convention this week, so this is strictly FWIW, but I believe James Morton is the LPoC’s best bet for the position of VP English. I…
Chris Gregoire, the governor of Washington, has announced her full support of full, equal marriage rights in the state. Already opponents are mobilizing to prevent the equal recognition of same-sex…
Regular readers of these scribblers will recall that we’ve discussed some problems that people have with math. More specifically we’ve talked about numeracy problems, which is a little bit different. …
The absurdly hypocritical “Pot v. Kettle” sniping towards the end of yesterday’s MTP debate between Newt Gringrich and Mitt Romney over the legitimacy and moral superiority of the viciously negative…
In the event that you haven’t heard, Alberta is planning on running another sham Senate “consultation election” to happen in conjunction with their provincial election. They’re encouraged by Harper’s current…
Global TV Noon News aired a report on the proposed Northern Gateway pipeline Sunday. It lasted 40-seconds while they allocated 11 minutes to a segment on cooking fish and five…
We had posted this story earlier. Today a vigil at the cemetery was held. Harry Abrams sent us a number of photographs indicating that this event was very well attended,…
Senate of Canada Last week, Prime Minister Stephen Harper appointed Betty Unger to the Senate of Canada. Ms. Unger was chosen as one of Alberta’s Senators-in-Waiting in the 2004 election…
Flip open a newspaper, log onto your online news site or watch the evening news and you most likely have heard much more regarding Stephen Harper’s most recent moves on…
It’s often said that Laughter is the best medicine, but maybe music isn’t far behind? Music can help people walk and talk again after injury and illnesses of the brain.…
This story reminded me of the joke about the highway patrol officer who pulled over a little old lady and while checking her ‘papers’, was surprised to see she had…
Don’t know how I missed this, but a few days ago “Tommy Robinson” (real name Stephen Lennon), leader of the fascist English Defence League, claims he was assaulted: “He described…
