Zellers selling patients’ records
Zellers is being sued by pharmacists over a plan to sell patient records to Loblaw and Metro, following a deal with Target. MARK BLINCH/REUTERS Zellers pharmacists are not happy and…
2012
The Nanos thing
What’s it mean? Well, after the polling industry’s Alberta debacle, I don’t put much stock in polling, these days. You shouldn’t either. But if it’s true, it means that Bob…
Bob Kerrey, Fmr. Nebraska Governor on Iran
“I think invading Iran will make Iraq and Afghanistan look like a cakewalk. There are 80 million people living in Iran. If we were undersized with 250,000 men and women…
How Much Self Respect Do We Have?
“Technically, we might still call it a democracy,” Lawrence Martin writes this morning. But, “in practice it’s a democracy in name alone.” Martin, perhaps more than any other Canadian journalist,…
140Law – Legal Headlines for Friday, April 27, 2012
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Friday, April 27, 2012: Money rolls in for Zimmerman, lawyer must face judge U.S. ban sought on cell…
Tea Party North Tempest
I am reliably told that the source of some of this anonymous griping to the Star about Tim Hudak’s leadership comes from none other than Lisa MacLeod, previously Head Kool-Aid…
Earth Day With A Twist: Giving Our Credit Cards A Holy Pause
Last weekend, I had the privilege of participating in a unique Earth Day celebration in Winnipeg, Manitoba. On the sunny Earth Day Sunday, I joined dozens of other people streaming…
It’s never the crime, it’s always the cover-up, part ad infinitum
Next time the National Post lectures the rest of us about openness and transparency, blah blah blah, be sure to have this one handy: “In the meantime, there was as…
m312: harper gets our message
So the first hour of debate on the not-so-stealth abortion motion did not go well for Mr. Woodworth. The Opposition parties came out strongly in favour of the 21st century…
Quebec protests: righteous rage against hikes and cutbacks
Citizen protests have been a major feature of the debates raging in Quebec about future directions in the province, and by extension – Canada. On April 22 an estimated 250,000…
Strong Climate Change Law Passes in Mexico
Of the three countries in NAFTA, Mexico seems to care the most about the environment. The country just passed a strong law that will product the environment and aim to…
Your Morning Nanos: 34.7% Con, 32.4% NDP
Short post this morning covering the much-balked Nanos poll, which I find less reliable provincially, but they’re following the trend (most of the time) federally, so let’s go over it…
4546…Harper, Hitler, Socialists
May be he is on to something, he being our beloved Prime Minister. Adolph Hitler was a National Socialist. Thomas Mulcair is a Socialist who is a Nationalist. See where…
Friday miscellany…
… no particular theme edition… ================================================================================== A big problem with social media is that it gives idiots, racists, bigots, misogynists, etc., a tool to spew their ignorant venom. And such…
Conservative "Tarnish"
Every government has a shelf life, prior to outright rejection you begin to see erosion on trust, competence, it’s the first sign of moving past your “prime” as a political…
4545…The Regular Season Is Important
This is the regular season for politics federally in Our Home And Native Land. According to Nik Nanos’ most current poll the Cons and the Dippers are pretty much tied.…
4544…Gary Bettman Reacts To N Word Scandal
The one that blacksports.com broke. The one that I commented on in WFDS Post 4537. The series of Twitters by Boston fans that referred to Joel Ward, the overtime goal…
Dune
Dune is an epic science fiction tale about religion, inter-stellar politics, and the awesomeness of riding around on giant worms that crap out the greatest drug ever.* The drug in…
Harper and Cons reputation taking a bit of a beating – a year too late.
Two new polls out today – one from Forum Research in the Star shows the NDP ahead of the CPC by 3%.. the other by Nanos at the Globe shows…