Record Fines For BP In Gulf Disaster Deal
After a ruling earlier this week by a federal judge in New Orleans, BP now holds the record for the largest criminal penalty in U.S. history. The penalty, totaling $4…
January 2013
5575…Justin Trudeau At Fox And Feather 2Nite
That is what my friend Dan Stringer tells me. The Fox and Feather is on Elgin Street in Ottawa, about a klick from the Hill. The one who would be…
The Mental Illness of Canada’s Parliament
Anyone who believes that selling the world’s most carbon-intensive petroleum is a good thing must embrace certain irrational beliefs or suffer the pangs of cognitive dissonance. They must have some…
What Paulo Coelho and other global leaders tweeted about at World Economic Forum in Davos
by Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive, Jan. 31, 2013: Let’s agree in one point: we can have anything, but we CAN’T have everything #wef — Paulo Coelho (@paulocoelho) January…
Idling Harper: Why First Nations Movement Poses Genuine Threat to PM
Ray Grigg discusses revealing insights from a former senior Harper advisor into the way the PM thinks – and how the Idle No More movement, which sprang up in reaction…
It Starts … Harper And The Conservatives Get Back At Aboriginal And First Nations People For Acting Up ….
Stephen Harper pledged more dialogue and respect for Aboriginal and First Nations people when he met with Chiefs as part of the Idle No More protests. But what’s this? ….…
5574…The Super Bowl Is Sunday
Like you didn’t know that. I don’t know whom you will be cheering for but a break down of likes on Facebook done by Sean Taylor of their data department…
5573…Thoughts On Katherine Wynne
I am elated that my party picked Katherine Wynne as our new leader and the new Premier of Ontario. As an aside I would have been thrilled no matter who…
Oil, China and Why David Emerson Wants Alberta to Start Paying Taxes
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger Here is a thorough analysis and update on the many complexities swirling around energy issues in Canada today. It was written by Kevin Logan and was featured…
Jan. 31: Mr. Alward, Mr. Higgs….
….. Please grow up. You are not clowns. You are not even the irrelevant trivialists who make up the editorial staff of the Moncton Times and Transcript. You are leaders…
Salty language!
In my latest health odyssey (Trip thru the medical purgatory of hospital incompetence) I have had lots of time to perseverate on my diet and other things. I am now…
Credit card size sheets of gold for uncertain times
A Swiss-based company has introduced credit card size sheets of gold that can be broken like a chocolate bar into 1 gram pieces, and they are rapidly growing in popularity…
Three Tory Nutters Escape
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2013/01/31/three_tory_mps_ask_rcmp_to_investigate_some_abortions_as_homicides.html What can I say? How did these 3 get loose from their leash? How can this be a good thing for the Conservatives? They know that abortion is not…
Three Tory Nutters Escape
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2013/01/31/three_tory_mps_ask_rcmp_to_investigate_some_abortions_as_homicides.htmlWhat can I say? How did these 3 get loose from their leash? How can this be a good thing for the Conservatives?They know that abortion ...
Art at War surveys creativity under Nazi occupation, from Picasso to Dubuffet
“History isn’t the lies of the victors … I know that now. It’s more the memories of the survivors, most of whom are neither victorious nor defeated.” – The Sense…
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pelpensuemo pelpensuemo citation, bitrate mp3 320 kb/s, high quality albums Aristotle in his ‘Policy’ said that music, influencing the person, take the ‘a kind of cleansing, i.e. relief, associated with…
It’s Always the Same Even for the F-35
History is rich with accounts of novel weaponry breakthroughs that changed the battlefield forever, failed miserably, or fell somewhere in between. Regardless of the outcome it seems that, whenever the…
Three Tory Nutters Escape
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2013/01/31/three_tory_mps_ask_rcmp_to_investigate_some_abortions_as_homicides.html What can I say? How did these 3 get loose from their leash? How can this be a good thing for the Conservatives? They know that abortion is not…
In Alberta a deficit is inevitable, it’s where we choose to put our money which matters
So I have run through Alberta’s new public budget tool and it’s about as lackluster in options as you would expect. It’s no wonder that if this simplistic approach is…