The Wild Hog Gang and the New Alberta
Wow. What a dramatic finish. The rednecks were squealing with anticipation. The beer was on ice.The Big Oil Barbie was so sure she would win. But in the end the…
2012
VikiLeaks30: A Little Deserved Contempt
I enjoyed all three of the videos that play in succession on this CTV page. Kady live blogging in the background is amusing. I supposed most people get funny facial…
About Books and Writing Space
A taste of my second guest blog at the National Post: In retrospect I’m guessing that my school library was donated. Most of the books dated back to the Victorian…
Connecting actions to results
A few days ago, a Postmedia telemarketer called, aiming to revive a subscription cancelled years ago. “For less than 50 cents a day…” I declined, despite knowing the contributions of…
In today’s Sun: not all of us predicted a Wildrose victory…
Campaigns matter. Stephen Carter, the election strategist who took Naheed Nenshi from nowhere to capture Calgary’s mayoralty, is the same guy who engineered Redford’s huge win on Monday night. Carter…
Late night
Irrespective of how you feel about the Vikileaks episode, you have to recognize in today’s hearing that the Conservatives were hoist on their own petard. (Yes, I did see Veep…
Adam Carroll is VikiLeaks
The Conservatives today dragged the former Liberal party staffer behind the famous VikiLeaks30 Twitter scandal before the parliamentary Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics. And they hoped…
That’s My Woman!
Tuesday April 24, 2012 Today I witnessed something that I have been looking for in our political system for a very long time. Provincially, the NDP and Liberals came to…
4528…Good Thing He Has Two
Greg Gibson is a major league umpire. Stephen Strasburg is a major league pitcher. Mr. Strasburg throws a baseball at a titch over 97 miles per hour. For those of…
Giant squirrel unleashes flu on you
The Tories are up to some serious shit shutting down science and research in the federal government. Wreaking having with important, successful programs. Sorta like this squirrel.
‘Harold the Jewellery Buyer’ pistol-whipped in robbery
This story is sadly commonplace. Jewellers are often robbed and often violently. They are a rare source of extremely valuable, largely anonymous and easily saleable goods. Steal diamonds or better…
4527…Wedding Season Already?
’tis for dogs. No, I am not hating on ugly women, I mean womyn. No, I am not. mydesert.com out of Palm Springs, Arizona, tells all that “What began as…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Flattened cats.
President of the World Press Conference: "I’m Not The Boss Of You"
What if politicians really talked like this?
When Only The Old Conservatives Can Save You From The New Conservatives
You’ve got the political equivalent of those scary banjo playing rednecks from Deliverance and your political system is in dire need of a blood transfusion.
GLBT Summer Camp Expands
Camp Fyrefly—a Canadian summer camp for GLBT youth—has announced that it is expanding this summer, admitting 50% more campers than last year. That’s pretty impressive. In fact, at this rate,…
Financial disclosure for bloggers and others
Noted in the Globe, this headline is, shall we say, a little misleading in the Canadian context: “Why don’t political bloggers want us to know who’s funding them?”The vast majority…
PQ in Trouble Again While NDP Rides High
CROP has a new poll out in Quebec which is showing the horse race in la belle province is once again a three-way, with the Parti québécois feeling the brunt…
Silence is Not Golden
“You could not write that as a book. Nobody would believe it.” I have said those words myself about circumstances which seem cliched or outlandish but are true. At this…