5442…Charles Manson And The Aussie Dee Jays
Sam Kinison was right when he said that Helter Skelter from The Beatles may have been what set Charles Manson off but it coulda happened to The Monkees first album…
2012
On transferable skills
Stephen Gordon is at least moderately panicked about the less-than-surprising news that some Lib operatives tried to recruit Mark Carney to serve as the party’s national leader – and there…
Hanukah Last Night
click to enlarge Do you see the blue lights? And the evanescent ball hanging out with the plant? Who can say whether they are optical effects or angels? Filed under:…
The Taint of Ideology
Although I’m sure that I frequently fall victim to it, I am deeply offended by lazy thinking, our seemingly endless capacity to fall back on ideological bromides as a substitute…
Medical And Scientific Experts Urge Halting Fracking Rush Until Medical Unknowns Are Better Understood
This week, the group Physicians, Scientists, and Engineers for Healthy Energy (PSE) declared they would submit a petition to the White House signed by 107 experts to urge the administration…
Dec. 15: words, words….
Words don’t just have logical meanings. They can also convey meanings that have nothing to do with any logic. When I was a kid in Montreal, we used to call…
What If The Peasants All Start Talking Like This?
In Washington the Social Security narrative has been captured by the political classes and stood directly on its head, the better to tear it to shreds. So powerfully has this…
Cooperation between Political Partys
There has been much talk of‘cooperation’ between partys since the close results in recent byelections and whilst I have in these pages urged such ‘cooperation not confrontation’ in the HoC…
iPhone Maker Using Slave Labour
16 year old teens working for free, including nights. Ironically, that is the case of many teens in Ontario, where a volonteer internship is mandatory. But from a French perspective,…
Evidence Suggests Now Is The Time For Pension Reform
Martin Regg Cohn writes that federal bureaucrats have presented Finance Minister Jim Flaherty with a plan to shore up the faltering Canadian pension system. Private pensions have been decimated by…
Irfan Canada Pulls Out Of Reviving The Islamic Spirit (RIS) Conference
Reviving the Islamic Spirit is the conference Justin Trudeau will be speaking at next weekend, and Irfan Canada is the “controversial” group that caused this week’s media dust-up. My favorite…
In Sunday’s Sun: this was written before Friday, and it shows
With the world ending in a week or so, it’s time to take stock of things. Because it is, in fact, ending. Ask my son. He’s in the middle of…
Take Time To Renew Your Spirit
His Holiness the Dalai Lama speaking on compassion and it’s connection to finding purpose in life.
Jim Flaherty and the Theatre of Cruelty
You might think that Jim Flaherty would be satisfied with ramming through his latest Trojan Horse budget.His ghastly swollen beast stuffed to the gills with toxic waste.But no. Now he's…
DND Quietly Increases Sustainment and Operating Costs by $330 Million/Year in New F-35 Report
In my last post, I estimated that under Defence Minister Peter MacKay’s controversial new plan, the total cost of the F-35 Lightning fighter comes out to around $127,000 per hour.…
Workin’ For The Money
I always find it so interesting to see people making well in excess of $100,000/year. I really have to stretch to find ways to spend it all in my imagination.…
Idle No More: Canadian Citizen Writes to the Governor General
A Canadian citizen writes to the Governor General, declaring fierce opposition to numerous pieces of legislation recently passed by the Harper Government. The bills the writer has issue with seek…