As the Canadian Parliament returns for what promises to be another acrimonious session, two opinion polls show that the Harper Conservatives hold a slight lead over Thomas Mulcair’s New Democrats.…
The challenge to the election results in seven ridings that’s being underwritten by the Council of Canadians (COC) is back in court today for pre-trial motions. The CBC takes the…
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Here’s a nifty accidental way of getting aerial photography. A seagull steals the camera!
Here’s Randy Denley’s pledge to run again as an Ontario PC candidate. And here’s his employer, the Ottawa Citizen, letting him still write about provincial politics. I await Glen McGregor’s…
The CAW negotiating team, as seen on CTV’s web site. All guys, all white. If Harper, McGuinty or any other level of government showed up with a senior team as…
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Tuesday, September 18, 2012: Ottawa woman wins wrongful dismissal case against US embassy – Ottawa Citizen Former Justice…
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – The Ottawa Citizen asks whether Stephen Harper’s Conservatives think Canadians are stupid enough to fall for their asinine carbon tax spin. Aaron…
Toronto’s “mayor” is in Chicago today to drum up “business.” Many media are with him to document any pratfalls; Mike Harris and Ernie Eves are there to observe the proceedings,…
…banner being flown over southeast Ottawa yesterday! It went by the school playground where I was picking up my kids. I, of course, seized upon the occasion to give a…
“The strength of our American-ness lies in our ability to question, to look frankly at the nation’s past and present, and to ask if we are living up to our…
I like this guy a lot. The former governor of Minnesota opines on U.S. foreign policy via Rachel Decoste and Facebook. : «We do not have to be an empire…
Stephen Harper likes to claim that his party is a party of principle. But, of course, that’s all jiggery-pockery. Whether it’s huffing and puffing about China’s human rights record then…
So no real post, at least until evening. It’s Lee’s birthday and I get to help out with Thomas today!!!
It’s TED Talk Tuesday on 350orbust. On this talk, author William Ury, co-founder of Harvard’s Program on Negotiation and Senior Fellow of the Harvard Negotiation Project, discusses resolving human conflict…
I am going to be offline for a few days as I join two of my fellow retirees on a trek to Algonquin Park, so I leave you with the…
The year were 2011 and I joined the Navy for one reason alone — to get me vengeance on Le Fromage de Satan, and her scurvy master, Captain Jacques LaBung.…
I am told that Sun TV ran a scrolled apology to the Canadian Roma community last evening during Ezra’s show, although I am not seeing it in the vids posted…
Two things about the provincial government’s new website devoted to climate change and energy conservation: First, they could have used an editor. This big chart has a rather glaring error…
The gloves came off yesterday on Parliament’s first day back after its summer break, with Stephen Harper dealing the NDP what he evidently considers a fatal insult. Her Majesty’s Loyal…
