Prime Minister Stephen Harper addresses The Canadian Chamber of Commerce
My fellow corporate citizens, I want to begin by thanking you for standing by me and the Government of Harper Canada. There seem to be fewer of you every day.…
April 2013
Finding The Light Amidst Despair
During my teaching days, in the aftermath of 9/11 a student came to see me to discuss her feelings of helplessness and despair in the face of such monumental evil.…
April 22: Let’s be controversial….
… but we won’t do it in Section A. This is a real, nothing section. The big story, “Riverview poised for growth”, is even a bigger yawn than one might…
On Air Jitters
Everyone has them. This poor fellow had them worst than most. But, as you can see from his tweet below, he had a sense of humour about it. (FYI, NSFW).…
On Air Jitters
Everyone has them. This poor fellow had them worst than most. But, as you can see from his tweet below, he had a sense of humour about it. (FYI, NSFW).…
They’re coming to take me away
Okay. Let’s see if I can do this. Two days before the American gun control bill was introduced for voting, an attack was made by unknown individuals on civilians at…
5898…Guns Versus Terrorists
All rational beings with access to the ‘net know that empirically speaking guns cause far more damage in the US of A than terrorism does. To the power of. Yet…
5897…Stephen Harper Is A Bully
Pretty obvious that our beloved Prime Minister Stephen Harper is a bully. Nothing proves it more than his stupid yet, as Warren Kinsella pointed out in the Suns yesterday, effective…
Did Joe Oliver Just Declare War on British Columbia?
A solid and steadily growing majority of British Columbians want nothing to do with Alberta’s bitumen pipelines crossing our province to our coast. Fewer of us still want bitumen-laden supertankers…
5896…Government Sanctioned F-Bomb Broadcast
Len Berman from Len Berman’s That’s Sports picks up the story: David Ortiz of the Red Sox addressed the crowd before Saturday’s game in Boston. He went uncensored proclaiming loudly…
Setting aside default judgment
Traditionally setting aside a default judgment has required fulfilling a three-part test. The Defendant must establish: (1) there was a reasonable explanation for the failure to file the Statement of…
5895…Here’s Johnny!
Sorry I mean Jack. As in Jack Nicholson. 76 candles on his cake today. WFDS
This Earth Day, Let’s Focus On Saving Humans
It’s a snowy and cold Earth Day morning in northwestern Ontario. On this Earth Day, Joe Romm over at Think Progress muses about renaming Earth Day – after all, it’s…
Looking for a CBC champion in Labrador
FRIENDS has launched a new website encouraging by-election voters to elect a champion of the CBC in Labrador.
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Paul Adams rightly points out that there’s no inherent value in centrism merely for the sake of centrism – especially when the spectrum…
Crowley’s Red Hot Labour Market
Brian Lee Crowley’s latest column shows he’s a glass-half-full kinda guy. We shouldn’t be worried about unemployment because a) it’s old-fashioned, b) Boomers had it worse (and now they’re getting…
Algae-Powered Building Opens This Week
Algae can be used for all sorts of wonderful things from cleaning up oil to producing energy. Architects in Hamburg have built a building that uses algae to power the…
The Conservative’s Justin Problem
If you’ve been living under a rock for the past week, Justin Trudeau was elected leader of the federal Liberal Party. Not that big of a surprise really, but at…
Are Ontario P3 projects plagued by corruption?
A commission of inquiry has heard that SNC-Lavalin deliberately went around Quebec’s political party financing rules, leading to a flurry of donations to the governing Quebec Liberal Party in 2009.…
Scrutinizing the NDP
I am well past the age where I expect very much from our politicians, especially given the current level of disengagement among the Canadian electorate; because of that disengagement, the…