CBC is reporting this today, based on a motion filed with the Supreme Court earlier this week: “Elections Canada has new evidence in Etobicoke Centre.” Apparently Elections Canada has found…
One of my regular readers asked me to post ideas for summer reading. Here is some of what I’ve been reading this past year: 1. The Death and Life of…
The news that the Jeffrey Mine will reopen may warm some hearts in the Eastern Townships. Nevertheless, the Quebec government’s decision to provide a $58-million loan to Canada’s last asbestos…
The news that the Jeffrey Mine will reopen may warm some hearts in the Eastern Townships. Nevertheless, the Quebec government’s decision to provide a $58-million loan to Canada’s last asbestos…
I haven’t posted in forever, so I decided to break out of the doldrums of summer by posting a policy I’m considering submitting for OYL Summer Fling on reforming Canadian…
Call from ICCC Mentoring Program 2012 The Indo-Canada Chamber of Commerce is pleased to announce the launch of the 4th round of its mentorship program. This three-month long program was…
News goes to die, on Fridays. So today it is appropriate to talk about the biggest news story in the country that doesn’t get the respect or urgent coverage it…
This is a pic of an old water fountain in my old home town. One side for people and the other for horses!
I am not a scientific person. I don’t understand how computers work, and I’m pretty sure that electricity is, actually magic. So all this news about the discovery of the…
As with my last post, I just drew some basic attention to the Conservative/former Reform party connections of nearly half the faculty at the new Clayton H. Riddell Graduate Program…
Earlier this week Mr. Del Mastro, the Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister and MP for Peterborough, complained about an Elections Canada investigation into his 2008 campaign, saying he’s frustrated…
“I may be an idiot…” WFDS
There are mea culpas and there are mea culpas. The report by an independent commission on the nuclear disaster at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant is a dandy. In the preface…
In the Twitter race. @mentionmachine in The Washington Post has Mitt Romney being mentioned in the Twitterverse 167,633 times; da Prez got 212,915 mentions last week. WFDS
Firefighters are nice to have but, they take away from private sector jobs and contribute nothing to the economy. WFDS
The Smashing Pumpkins were my favourite band in my late teens and early twenties. Their music was angst-ridden and full of aggressive, catchy instrumentation that included countless sizzling guitar solos.…
Telling the world that tourism Derrick Dalley will attend a play – no matter what play it is – would not be considered news and it sure as hell would…
It is widely reported that yesterday one Victoria Azarenka, the number two woman in the world, made a fashion faux pas at the All England Club.She wore yellow in her…
In the summer months, Statistics Canada collects labour force data on students who were attending school full time in March, and who intend to return full time in the fall.…
Wanna know what climate change “looks like”? Well, here you go: Extreme weather events are textbook examples of an effect that an overall warming of the planet will have. But…
