4891…Fiat Takes On Tim Horton’s
The Daily Mail tells all that the ninth biggest auto maker in the world and the major shareholder in Chrysler is threatening the drive thru in a serious way. The…
2012
Landslide Jokes, Like Jokes About Assassinating Politicians, Tend Not To Be Funny
Maybe he is one after all. This post was, incidentally, totally ripped off from here. PS. To be clear, this is not the slide that killed those people. Its the…
Motorcycle madness
Have you seen that crazy video of the motorcycle out in BC going 299 kph? Somehow I missed it when it was first making the rounds. Here it is, if…
In Alberta, A Public Oil Pipeline Spill Tip Line Is Launched
“Hundreds of spills happen every year and still this government does nothing. We had three major spills last month alone. How many more have to happen before the government finally…
A Fine Example of Culture Jamming
The Yes Men are at it again and this time with Greenpeace to show how efficient Shell is….at killing all of us. They created a website called Arctic Ready that…
How does Canada fare in The Newsroom’s “greatest country” rant?
One of the best moments of television I’ve seen in awhile is the rant fictional news anchor Will McAvoy gives early in the pilot episode of Aaron Sorkin’s The Newsroom,…
NOT ONE CORPORATE DOLLAR To Go To Brad Walll’s New Football Stadium – Funding Totally By Tax Dollars From City And Provincial Tax Payers
Brad Wall wants a new football stadium in Saskatchewan. Fair ball. I see no real problem with that …. I go to Roughrider games myself. HOWEVER .. I thought that…
Al Jazerra doing the kind of journalism main stream networks shun
Kudos to Al Jazerra English.
Al Jazerra doing the kind of journalism main stream networks shun
Kudos to Al Jazerra English.
Al Jazerra doing the kind of journalism main stream networks shun
Kudos to Al Jazerra English.
Al Jazerra doing the kind of journalism main stream networks shun
Kudos to Al Jazerra English.
Where a verdict is not unreasonable, inadequate reasons will rarely ground an appeal
R. v. Chau, 2012 ONCA 501 deals with insufficient reasons in the context of a straightforward, short, case where the decision was reasonable. The Court held that while the reasons were thin, in…
Shooting Star: Techumseh Redux
“Where today are the Pequot? Where are the Narragansett, the Mochican, the Pocanet, and other powerful tribes of our people? They have vanished before the avarice and oppression of the…
About that Dry Spell
Last week it was the worst drought since the 80’s. Now it’s deemed the worst drought since 1956. And, with at least two more weeks of hot, dry conditions forecast…
July 17: Quelle surprise! It’s hot out.
Last night, I wrote a brief blog on two stories that had appeared yesterday in major newspapers. They were kind of important. One was a story that Saudi Arabia may…
vaginal discharge. now i’ve said it, too. (thanks, carefree.)
How can it be that an advertisement is considered controversial because it clearly states the intended use of its product? Strangely, it makes perfect sense, in a world where legislators…
4891…The Return Of Senator Ponytail
Yesterday the crack news team at CTV broke the story that “Sen. Patrick Brazeau is back on Twitter with a promise to ‘be nice from now on,’ a little more…
Should JT Run?
So this one Quebec MP, who is a capable politician in his own right, who has spoken at hundreds of Liberal fundraisers over the years, has national branding from his…
4890…Baseball Breaks The Coloured Line
Back on this day in 1954 the Brooklyn Dodgers fielded a team that had more blacks on the field than whites. This was a huge deal and still is. The…
Patient Zero
Paul Krugman highlights what seems to him the first example of the “repeat a lie until it’s taken as conventional wisdom” messaging strategy of the North American right: I originally…