Growing up as a teen in the 1970′s…
… I knew the first few chords of Deep Purple’s “Smoke on the Water”. Every teenage boy did. It was the law. Jon Lord was one of the best a…
2012
When WalMart meets GO Transit
A little while back I wrote about how there are dozens of bridges in the Hamilton megacity (read: consolidated city-county), most of them in a horrible state of disrepair; and…
The real “gateway drug” is alcohol, not marijuana
With the recent passage of crime Bill C-10 into law, we can expect a lot of young and first-time Canadian marijuana users in our high school system to do real…
Ocean acidification: global warming’s ‘evil twin’
Anthropogenic (man-made) carbon dioxide is responsible for adding to global warming and triggering a host of attendant environmental problems. CO2 has also contributed to a dramatic spike in the acid…
Albertans Seek Pipeline Safety Investigation, Launch Spill Tipline
Picture 3.png After three major spills in Alberta occurred over the span of one month, questions are surfacing regarding the integrity of the province’s aging pipeline infrastructure. Last week, a…
4887…National Ice Cream Day Was Yesterday!
So embarrassed I am. So embarrassed. To the level that I had two litres of Breyer’s Apple Pie Ice Cream, on sale for 2.99$ at Shopper’s Drug Mart til Thursday,…
It bears repeating, bluntly: Adrian Dix Is Being Rewarded For His Bad Behaviour–and Encouraged to Repeat It
{When I saw a TV clip of Adrian Dix receiving a standing ovation at last February's NDP Convention, I felt an eerie sense of deja vu---viz. the final scene of…
MPs in the dark about the billions in Conservative government spending
Now we know why Treasury Board President Tony Clement did not think twice before spending $50-million of G8 funds in his Muskoka riding. Why Parliamentary Budget Officer Kevin Page threatened…
Michael Geist – Canada Excluded From Next Round of TPP Negotiations
The next round of TPP negotiations will again have a distinct lack of Canadian input. What this means is that decisions that are made during the coming TPP negotiations won’t…
Inside Preston Manning’s Secret Deal With Carleton U
Dennis Gruending looks and finds an Alberta oil-man, a passel of old-time Reform Party operatives, a few token Libs, and of course no smelly hippies. Something funny going on?
Exposing More Harper Lies
Those who believe the Harper propaganda that the changes to environmental oversight contained in Omnibus Bill C-38 are simply ‘housekeeping’ and ‘streamlining’ measures may find this notification from the National…
Ways to Beat the Heat I
Way Number 1: Take your breakfast to the park. This couple were reading the weekend papers early the other Saturday morning, and I was charmed at the idea of escaping…
Ghiz asked to defend public healthcare?!
Today in The Guardian an article that must be a joke. Or at least, I guess the joke is on the women of PEI whose primary health care is obviously…
New Digital Policy and Current Events Podcast
Canadian Gamer Organization’s co-founder Jason Koblovsky has started up a new digital policy podcast called CDNTech Network. The podcast will focus on a number of issues which include Canadian digital…
Get Fit Through Self-Motivation
A lot of people use the nice weather of the summer as motivation to get fit, however, keeping oneself motivated can be a problem. One approach that is gaining popularity…
Tolkien’s Hobbits and Tory war minister Peter Mackay
Huh? Peter Mackay Hat tip to Kinsella for this reference: “Harper has never had to deal with ministers who wield their own political clout.…Today, has the political stature of a…
Coastal Chaos
Living on coastal B.C. we get used to seeing a lot of marine life. But this video, recorded in Hyacinthe Bay on Quadra Island, is breathtaking. Watch a pod of…
4886…What Year Is It In Egypt?
1998? Hilary Clinton, the Secretary of State, is over in Egypt doing her thing. Yahoo reports that Madame Secretary “…was taunted by chants of ‘Monica, Monica’ by tomato-throwing demonstrators as…
Why Omar Khadr still matters
A decade after a wounded Omar Khadr, a then fifteen year old Canadian citizen, decided to lob a fatal grenade in the middle of a firefight in Afghanistan, Ottawa is…
Dix Can Reclaim Control Over Fish, Pipelines and Tankers from Harper
We have a jurisdictional clash here, for under The Constitution Act, federal power over fisheries is paramount but the Provinces have control over “Property and Civil Rights”. There’s no question…