Summer Nights at SAW Gallery
A very unique film experience kicks off tonight at SAW Gallery's outdoor courtyard. The Summer Nights series will feature outdoor projections by avant garde filmmakers and live performnces by eclectic…
2012
Did a Conservative Riding Association take Kick Back Money?
The Facts: The Prime Ministers fundraising rules for ministers and parliamentary secretaries (called Accountable Government) state: “There should be no singling out, or appearance of singling out, of individuals or…
Did a Conservative Riding Association take Kick Back Money?
The Facts: The Prime Ministers fundraising rules for ministers and parliamentary secretaries (called Accountable Government) state: “There should be no singling out, or appearance of singling out, of individuals or…
Did a Conservative Riding Association take Kick Back Money?
The Facts: The Prime Ministers fundraising rules for ministers and parliamentary secretaries (called Accountable Government) state: “There should be no singling out, or appearance of singling out, of individuals or…
Did a Conservative Riding Association take Kick Back Money?
The Facts: The Prime Ministers fundraising rules for ministers and parliamentary secretaries (called Accountable Government) state: “There should be no singling out, or appearance of singling out, of individuals or…
A Common Sense Admiral
Jonathan Greenert says he supports the F-35 light strike bomber but the man does have reservations. Admiral Greenert has whipped up a storm by saying that advantages from America’s prized…
July 27: Planning for yesterday…
The lead story is that “Roundabouts remain controversial”. Well, yeah, when you build something you needed twenty years ago, and it is now already obsolete as well as overpriced, and…
Tens of thousands of Canadians to lose free access to CBC TV July 31
Press release says CBC and Radio-Canada will shut down 623 analog transmitters on July 31, ending free access to the CBC and Radio-Canada over the air in hundreds of small…
olympics. not.
The 2012 London Olympics and Paralympics kick off today, with Opening Ceremonies that are supposed to be completely over-the-top. With a £27 million price tag ($42.5 million Canadian) for those…
Premier Clark Buys Time on Enbridge
Premier Clark’s fight with Alberta Premier Redford over the Northern Gateway project is a very dangerous ploy. She has, by this action, said plainly that the BC environment is open…
4944…Mitt Romney Swings For The Fences
The presumptive Republican candidate for POTUS caused a media fire storm the other day when he, I am quoting from The Guardian, was “…questioning whether London was capable of staging…
Bruce Carson Charged
Designed as expiring news on a Friday in the middle of Summer, instead of last Winter when the report on his alleged guilt was complete, these charges come a year…
Friday morning Scrutinizing the Scrutineers blogging
The two major media pieces on the stories I’ve been following in these Friday morning posts were both more about Elections Canada itself than about the events EC has been…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Frances Russell comments on how the Harper Cons are ready to impose exactly the kind of centralized and unresponsive decision-making they’ve long loathed…
On cooperative efforts
The reports on fiscal arrangements and health care developed in the lead up to this weekend’s meeting of Canada’s premiers have both received some coverage. But there are a couple…
In this morning’s mailbox: Jon Latvis writes
Mr. Latvis mustn’t be enjoying all the publicity very much. That makes me very sad. Here’s his pithy note to me, just received: Jon Latvis wrote: It’s not a swastika…
4943…London Olympics Start Today
Officially that is. Beauty of the Olympics is the fact that within a week myself and thousands of other sports fans who don’t follow rhythmic gymnastics, weightlifting or even know…
One year after Greece stopped Freedom Flotilla
One year after the Greek government bowed to pressure and enforced he outsourced Israeli blockade of Gaza, the international movement to challenge the blockade is still very much afloat: we…
the boss comes out: bruce springsteen reveals his 30-year battle with depression
Thank you, Bruce! In a long feature story in The New Yorker, Bruce Springsteen reveals he has been in psychotherapy for 30 years, and has at times been depressed to…
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