Why Clark, without your glasses you look just like…
Jesus Jimmy, don’t you ever frickin’ knock? Why, he’s just a mild-mannered reporter (formerly) with a great metropolitan newspaper! This blog, along with everything else in my life, will be…
2012
Fatal Beatings
“I was at school with his brother Bufty. Tremendous bloke. He was head of my house. Buggered me senseless. Still, it taught me about life.” Spot that quote! Alltop is…
Sun News Network: Is anybody watching?
Media observers and viewership figures suggest Sun News Network, which promised ‘hard news and straight talk,’ is lagging behind its competitors. “There is always in every audience, whether it’s in…
The Student Movement: Radical Priorities
The student movement in Quebec is an incredibly important development, with implications that reach well beyond provincial borders. The movement emerged in response to a 75 per cent increase in…
U-N-Believable. Harper Closes BC Oil Spill Centre
The Harper government is closing British Columbia’s command centre for emergency oil spills just as that fundamentalist degenerate guts fisheries protections and ‘streamlines’ environmental approvals for the Northern Gateway bitumen…
Still gloating over their pathetic victory, the PCs redefine political cliches
I thought I would hear the last gloating conservative son of a bitch shut his trap about the so called ”severe losses and near extinction of the liberal party” last…
Sixth Estate Media Bias Project Relaunched
Last year, in the wake of the 2011 election, I ran a project to measure whose voices got amplified in the major newspapers’ op-ed pages, called the Media Bias Project.…
This conservative is NOT illiterate!
he can prove that, despite being cousins, his parents were married, damn it! Tweet The Rev. Paperboy Feed
April 19: Today is a big day (for me)….
When I began this blog site some 16 months ago, a dozen viewers was a good day. Now, it reaches 150 to 200 a day. It was a long and…
Filing Income Tax
For years I did my own income tax but for the last few years I sought the help of a local tax filing company. I have a modest income and…
Kingston Penitentiary opened in 1835 to close in budget cuts
Conservatives to shut facility in Ontario, CBC News has learnedThe federal government will close the maximum-securitypenitentiary in , Ont., that opened in1835 and houses some of Canada’s most notorious prisoners,…
Dear Alberta PCs: Welcome to life as a Liberal
Dear Progressive Conservatives, First off, congrats on the 40 years in power. It was a good run and, speaking on behalf of the Alberta Liberal Party, I’d like to think…
Mr. Alward of New Brunswick pushing for frucking fracking
Alward is completely ignoring public opinion. People in the town of Sussex and the village of Hampton are rightly upset. They sure are worried about the quality of their water.…
Is this really the story you want go with?
Burke campaign paperwork could have aided Guelph robodialling A mysterious operative known only as Pierre Poutine could have obtained the ammunition he needed to launch his election-day attack on the…
Prepping Business for a Turbulent Environmental Future
‘Business as usual’ is on the way out. And that warning is coming from global consulting giant KPMG. Business is finally recognising what Buddhists have taught for thousands of years…
The Five Finger Rules
This is pertaining to something I mentioned in my last article about how I hate dating rules. Why do I hate them? Because they’re stupid. They’re really really stupid. I…
Bishop Carroll produces notable female graduates and one male dud
Allison Redford and Danielle Smith. You may have heard of them. Feist. Has been in all the papers. Hayley Wickenheiser? Also somewhat well-known. Oh, and this idiot. He drove the…
London’s Formula 1 Buses
A flywheel from a Formula 1 car will be tested on London buses in hope that it can improve fuel efficiency as much as 30%. The flywheel, developed by racing…
A hearing de novo may cure procedural defects occurring at an earlier stage of proceedings
AlGhaithy v. University of Ottawa, 2012 ONSC 142, a recent Divisional Court decision, holds that, at least in the administrative law context, a hearing de novo may cure procedural defects…
Arms Race Update
Korea may not yet be able to successfully launch a long-range missile but India can. India has test fired a nuclear-weapon capable, Agni-V missile capable of reaching Beijing or Shanghai…