Tom Mulcair Responds To David Akin (sort of)
Yesterday, in a post for his On The Hill blog, David Akin reminded his readers that, 10 years ago, Tom Mulcair supported a Parti Québecois resolution in the Quebec National…
2012
Danielle Smith and the Lake of Fire
Until about ten days ago I clung to the hope that all I ever needed to know about Danielle Smith was that she was the new Evita of the Alberta…
Afghanistan Reels Under the Weight of Victory
It’s typical of the war in Afghanistan that all sides are claiming victory in the wake of the recent insurgent attacks on Kabul and other cities. We seemed relieved that…
Steiff Museum
A great post: Teddy Bear Museum
Its SUCH a mystery!
How mysterious — first nobody knows who “Pierre Poutine” could possibly be, even though he apparently made thousands of calls on election day from one disposable cell phone.Now nobody knows…
Wacky Wildrose Watch
From a plugged-in contact in Alberta. Very, very interesting. Warren: Danielle Smith cancelled her media availability for CBC radio today, Global tomorrow and CTV Friday. Cancelled her meeting with the…
4495…Keith Moon To Drum At London Olympics
My friend Len Berman from Len Berman’s That’s Sports sends this along: 5. RSVP For the Closing Ceremony to the London Olympics, the organizers have asked members of The Who…
Coming up: Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival
Joyce Carol Oates is the grand winnter of this year’s Blue Met prize for a lifetime of literary creation. The Blue Met festival is gearing up at the moment, with…
4494…Hitler’s Birthday Will Be Sad In London
Ontario. London, Ontario. As you probably know this Friday is Adolf Hitler’s birthday and for some inexplicable reason pot heads, that would be chronic marijuana users, celebrate the day by…
4493…From The Land That Gave Us Jet Ski Boy
Stockwell Day. The retired member of the Stephen Harpers’ cabinet who believes that dinosaurs roamed the earth a few thousand years ago has met his match. Fellow Albertan and soon…
We’ve Only Just Begun…
Emperor Steve and his nightmare circus clowns have deemed it the ‘cost of doing business’ to redress the pushback that his Enbridge dirty deal has caused..necessary and desirable to offer…
Happy Charter Day! And the importance of an "s"
Today's the 30th anniversary of the formal adoption of the 1982 Constitution Act and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. A lot of ink has been recently devoted to the…
Happy Charter Day! And the importance of an "s"
Today’s the 30th anniversary of the formal adoption of the 1982 Constitution Act and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. A lot of ink has been recently devoted to the…
Happy Charter Day! And the importance of an "s"
Today's the 30th anniversary of the formal adoption of the 1982 Constitution Act and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. A lot of ink has been recently devoted to the…
Happy Charter Day! And the importance of an "s"
Today’s the 30th anniversary of the formal adoption of the 1982 Constitution Act and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. A lot of ink has been recently devoted to the…
De apples and de oranges #nlpoli
You’d swear that provincial government departments had to hit quotas of good news media releases. Environment minister Terry French issued one on Monday that claimed that the provincial government had…
The elimination of the ECOPASS program…
… might turn me back to my car as my way to get to work… Flawed logic alert here folks: Termination of the ECOPASS program The introduction of PRESTO will…
Iintention to gift property trumps the presumption of resulting trust
Schwartz v. Schwartz, 2012 ONCA 239 is another decision dealing with the issue of the gifting of property and trusts in the context of domestic situation: As I have said,…
US Supreme Court Rules That Anyone Arrested For Any Reason Can Be Strip Searched At Any Time By Police
The Right’s ongoing goal for a more authoritarian American state got a big boost this week. A 5-4 ruling by the United States Supreme Court (5 Republican Judges FOR and…
The Race for Calgary-Greenway
Calgary Greenway is a new constituency formed in the redistribution, from sections of the former Calgary-Montrose as well as slices of Calgary-Cross and Calgary-McCall. It includes Applewood, Taradale, Coral Springs……