Can it be? Are progressive people supporting right-wing libertarian Ron Paul for the US Presidency? In 2008 I wrote on supposedly liberal people supporting hillary clinton. I didn’t agree with…
Hockey normally gets very short shrift here, unless I’m wank-listing Don Fucking Cherry for his latest rockum-sockum case of Teh Stoopid. But this time, the tacky thing at the rink…
Again, we would ask our readers to help us out on this one. Gatineau mosque again hit by vandals WARNING: This article contains images with offensive language CBC NewsPosted: Jan…
The Catholic establishment has made war against gays for years. Now they want to ensure gays do not work in the Catholic school system. Catholic schools must remove those practising…
Pressure mounts in the Media, as Canadian Petroleum Producers bombard us with propaganda to forcefeed the Northern Gateway Pipeline and it’s associated Tanker traffic in the most dangerous and pristine…
As reported over in openfile, there may indeed be a new location for the Hintonburg Hub. It was clear that the negotiations with the Salvation Army were going nowhere, and…
Happy New Year, Faithful Legion! It’s been a busy holiday season here at the Finishing School. I think the kids are still vibrating from all of the excitement. For a…
I caught last night’s edition of TVO’s “The Agenda with Steve Paikin”. The topic under discussion was the End of the World, and the panel was fantastic. Paikin kicked things…
There is an ongoing debate amoung the left on how to view Ron Paul. Should we like him or hate him, support him or reject him? The fundamental distinction in…
Last year during my Open Government Data Camp keynote speech on The State of Open Data 2011 I mentioned how I thought the central challenge for open data was shifting…
This originally appeared as a column in the December 22 print and online editions of the North Bay / Nippissing News, the weekly newspaper I’ve been writing for recently. I’ve…
Replay from May 27, 2011 because the issues have not changed: Too-polite Canadians accept almost any declaration from people in authority. We are naive, complacent schnooks. Dumb, as well; the…
A picture book by pale Once upon a time, in a far away land under the light of the moon, a very hungry Caterpillar was hatched. On Monday it ate…
I can’t help but notice how Stephen Harper and his Members of Parliament have been running rough shot over unionized workers lately. There have been several instances of the Federal…
Just as I was basking in the BC Liberals finally getting on the hockey-broadcast attack ad bandwagon a la Harper, along comes this news. Instead of enlisting Republican spinmeisters or…
Judges of Montana’s Supreme Court have defied the US Supreme Court and refused to apply the perverse Citizens United decision in their state. The court upheld Montana’s right to regulate…
Ezra Levant really outdid himself on Fox News North, Stephen Harper’s personal aping station, by telling Chiquita International senior vice-president Manuel Rodriguez, to basically go screw his mother … in…
CBC says a new morning show will replace the Morning Edition, which is currently heard throughout the province.
Regular readers might be aware of my family’s interest in KIVA, which describes itself as a: “non-profit organization with a mission to connect people through lending to alleviate poverty. Leveraging…
Thursday, January 5, 2012 A recent ad campaign linked to a top oil sands firm questions what drives the work of West Coast Environmental Law. Back in the ‘70s when…
