50 Shades leading Windsor baby boom — Musyj
We don’t quite what to make of this one. Our most quotable of hospital CEOs is now saying that the erotic bestseller 50 Shades of Grey may be responsible for…
2012
Justin Trudeau Leaves A Great Deal To Be Desired …
Justin Trudeau was born with a silver spoon in his mouth. He was born into a very wealthy family and has never had to eat macaroni and wieners for the…
Minister of Monitoring
Jason Kenney is one of my least favourite Canadian Ministers of all time, and that’s saying something considering some of the duds that are out there now. Apparently he wants…
Harper Government’s Direction
Like the man in the video below Harper is determined to move up the escalator. He wants to sell Canadian fossil fuels to U.S., China and maybe to India. He…
I’m sure glad Tammy Duckworth defeated this guy
Abortion was a major issue in the recent U.S. election – usually brought up by old white guys running for the Republican party. But there was one guy, running against…
The Moral Fragmentation of the Liberal Class
Chris Hedges lambastes liberals for selling out America in last week's elections.The presidential election exposed the liberal class as a corpse. It fights for nothing. It stands for nothing. It…
Is the U.S. right rigging elections?
After reading an article in the November 2012 issue of Harper’s (“How to Rig an Election” by Victoria Collier), I’m not as surprised that Barack Obama won the recent presidential…
Has Canada Fallen Victim to Political Compression Disorder?
A PostMedia column, "Obama's Election Victory Won't Hurt Harper," by Michael Den Tandt today struck an uncomfortable chord.NDP leader Mulcair has proven stubbornly resistant to Conservative attempts to paint him…
Elderly pushed out of hospitals: Elder Advocate
Jane Meadus of the Advocacy Centre for the Elderly says that some seniors are being pushed out of hospital too soon under the province's Home First policy, the Ottawa Citizen…
Watch Roy Eappen Grovel
On November 10, 2012 I wrote a blog entry about a comment on Xtra.ca's website purporting to be written by Richard Warman. Mr. Warman has since advised me that comment…
Grover Norquist: The Bathtub Drowner meets his comeuppance in 2012
The 2012 presidential election has been a time of momentous and historic changes in American politics. For the first time the Republican voter suppression tactics boomeranged, with millions of those…
Inadequate reasons at trial and appeal
R. v. Goldmintz, 2012 ONCA 775 deals with a curious case where the trial and first appeal decisions were both inadequate to allow meaningful review: While we appreciate that t...
Liberal leadership is on
Mailboxes are all aflutter with press releases and there's this nifty new video. This is going to be big, people. The officialdom of it all is starting to set in.…
Geist on Copyright vs. Internet
An interesting, long lecture from Canadian copyright expert Michael Geist, given at the U of Sask. recently. ADDED: Here’s a little on open government, as presented at the U of…
Cyprus, the European Union’s Dilemma
Cyprus, it seems, is the Cayman Islands of the Mediterranean. Russian oligarchs are said to use it to launder their money. And, for the European Union, the Cypriot-Russian connection complicates…
When I Realized David Petraeus Was a Wanker
The former wunderkind of the U.S. Army first came to my notice when he unveiled the American military's new counterinsurgency field manual, FM3-24. Petraeus had commanded a team of the…
Is government borrowing really that bad?
I’m not an economist, and I don’t play one on TV. With that in mind, perhaps somebody out there can tell me why it’s such a crime to borrow money…
death by anti-choice: irish woman, denied termination during spontaneous miscarriage, dies
This is what no access to safe and legal abortion looks like.Two investigations are under way into the death of a woman who was 17 weeks pregnant, at University Hospital…