Lawn Not Doing Well: Could Be Hairy Cinch Bugs, and Another Reason to Plant Something Else
Got yellow spots on your grass? Could be your neighbors dogs, could be the drought, but they also could be due to bugs living in your lawn, Le Devoir reports…
2012
Calico back
Filed under: art, digital, drawing Tagged: 100 cats
Justice of the Peace was right in St. Catharines trucker case
In today’s Sun (Story) Michele Mandel says a “justice of the peace had inexplicably approved a ban” on publishing the name of a trucker accused of “of leaving the scene…
Your Daily Nazi: Mayor Rob Ford
…with Nazi. On an unrelated note, WK is totally fucked up in the head re Christy Clark and Northern Gateway. B.C. for B.C.ers! Down with the blue eyed sheikhs! Through…
Managing Electricity Demand #nlpoli
Nalcor’s forecast for electricity demand on the island of Newfoundland doesn’t really show a massive increase over the next couple of decades. Earlier this year, Memorial University economist Jim Feehan…
The Toronto mayor’s far-right friend
This a picture of Toronto’s mayor, Rob Ford, with John Latvis. The last time John and I ran into each other, he was a member of the neo-Nazi band, RAHOWA…
140Law – Legal Headlines for Thursday, July 26, 2012
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Thursday, July 26, 2012: Husband of Justice Lori Douglas calls her ‘victim’ in sex scandal Justice Scalia Disputes…
Les règles…
…n’appliquent pas à moi. More of the same from Harperland. The Prime Minister’s Office is defending a Conservative MP who raised thousands of dollars at a private fundraiser that had…
Canada Live, July 25: Christy Clark, nation-wrecker
As I speak on Krista’s show, Christy Clark is observed lurking behind the set.
Show Her The Money
Andrew Coyne, in this morning’s National Post, accuses B.C. premier Christy Clark of engaging in political extortion: Clark’s real weapon is political: the opposition of much of the B.C. public…
TDSB To Star: It’s Gonna Cost You To See My Hand
The Toronto Star, after conducting an excoriating investigative series on the fiscal incompetence of the Toronto District School Board in its very costly arrangement with Jimmy Hazel’s Maintenance and Construction…
New column day
Here, on how Regina City Council’s attempt to use the same old spin to sell yet another stadium plan (which leaves most of the cost and all of the risk…
Website maintenance
I’ve been told that there will be some work on the server that hosts this blog so don’t be surprised if you try to come back later and get nuthin’.…
Forty-seven Signs of the Apocalypse (#32)
From the Book of Toll-Free Numbers And lo, there will come a time when it will be possible to talk to the other Faithful, who live at great distances. Truly,…
I’ll Be Playing Mini-Golf That Day
For a Libertarian, failing once is not enough. By the way, I found the pic here, a story about the latest failed attempted at corporate sock-puppeting. That may or may…
Housing market at tipping point?
Sleeper report: “Canadian home prices could fall 25 per cent.” More on this prediction by economist David Madani at Capital Economics in the Globe: “Overall, the willingness of buyers to…
Gander at the goosing #nlpoli
Apparently, your humble e-scribbler got on Steve Kent’s nerves. The Conservative politician and his friends have been bombarding Twitter and Open Line shows since the middle of July will all…
Stephen Harper and the War on Government
The thing that scares me the most about living in Harperland is how so many, who should know better, can't see the forest for the trees. Or the monsters who…