Late night
Rough first day for Paul Ryan on the campaign trail in Iowa. This footage shows a bit more of the mayhem than the head on footage of Ryan on the…
2012
The sunny nuns
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission Readers of Saturday’s Vancouver Sun may have been surprised to see a photo of a nun dominating the newspaper’s front page.…
5027…Today’s Excuse/Reason To Drink Is…
It’s lefthander’s day. I know. But drinking is drinking. WFDS
5026…Happy 85th Birthday Fidel Castro
Putting off his trip to Hell for yet another year the former Cuban dictator and all around tyrant Fidel Castro turns 85 today. If he thinks Havana is hot; no…
Underlooked Stehepn Harper quotes P6: Miscellaneous
Part 6 of underlooked Stephen Harper quotes. Part one, two, three, four and five here. Reform-Alliance takeoverHe credits Manning for at least calling for a united alternative but notes the…
Underlooked Stehepn Harper quotes P6: Miscellaneous
Part 6 of underlooked Stephen Harper quotes. Part one, two, three, four and five here. Reform-Alliance takeover He credits Manning for at least calling for a united alternative but notes…
Stephen Harper and the War Olympics
Well the Olympic Games are finally over, and I must say I enjoyed the show, from the stunning beginning to the wild and wonderful end. I thought the Brits did…
Video: Retiring Supreme Court of Canada Justice Marie Deschamps
Via Lawyers Weekly video – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net WRONGFUL DISMISSAL • CIVIL LITIGATION AND ESTATE LITIGATION • FAMILY LAW AND DIVORCE ORIGINALLY…
Review: Teaching Critical Thinking
This is the third book about teaching and pedagogy by African-American feminist (and prolific writer on diverse topics) bell hooks. Her earlier two books on this topic made significant contributions…
Emergency fund?BWHAHAHAHHAAHAHA!
Sun entertainment is pointing out a study that shows….That many Canadians simply do not have an emergency fund. They are not setting money aside for a rainy day. Of course,…
All hands to Damage Control! Edmonton Journal tips east-end printing press over the side
Some of the Edmonton Journal’s printers at work in the newspaper’s Eastgate printing plant, which will be shuttered next year, as described by Journal Publisher John Connelly, who is pictured…
The science of the penis
Robert Lamb and Julie Douglas of the Stuff to Blow Your Mind podcast recently squirted out a two-part series on the penis. Yet they didn't stop at humans, who, by…
Plagiarism And Mark Steyn
My gal-pal Carol is being hard on Mark Steyn for his incessant self-recycling here. …when apprised of Steyn’s duplication and errors, editors at Maclean’s did nothing. What does this say…
August13: Apologies
The last thing I remember of Wednesday night was lying helpless on my back with a masked man standing over me. He had a knife. Then all went black. When…
Music Break: The Birthday Massacre
This week’s Music Break highlights one of Toronto’s best kept rock secrets, the Birthday Massacre. They harmoniously blend goth industrial dark melancholy and horror film/fantasy lyrics with 80`s synth-pop sensibilities…
In Saudia Arabia, This is Progress?
Saudi women are being given a portal to industry, sort of. The government is building what sounds like a glorified industrial park that will be exclusively women-only. The city, to…
Video: Rafe Mair and Economist Erik Andersen, Pt. 2 – LNG, Site C Dam and the Global Economy
In Part 2 of Rafe Mair’s July 2012 interview of economist Erik Andersen, the two cover the plan to build Liquefied Natural Gas plants on BC’s west coast – to…
Activision Under Investigation for False Advertising
Just a follow up to this previous post in February explaining how Activision mislead consumers on the new Call of Duty Elite Premium service. The Competition Bureau of Canada got…
Baseball and politics
Two columns today with similar themes. Tim Harper’s in the Star. And this one in the Hill Times that is a letter to the editor but is really like an…
BoingBoing: The UN’s Restrictive Broadcasting Treaty is Back
Like so many international copyright treates that are being pushed by Big Media, the World Intellectual Property Organization’s Broadcasting Treaty just doesn’t know when to stay down. Cory Doctorow at…