Arkansas’ Attorney General Dustin McDaniel has contracted out the “independent analysis of the cleanup” of the ExxonMobil Pegasus tar sands pipeline spill to Witt O’Brien’s, a firm with a history…
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Thomas Walkom offers an insider’s look at outsourcing: Arlene says any outsourcing scheme begins with the institution’s senior management. Usually, she says, the…
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A retired U.S. police captain makes an utterly compelling case for abandoning the war on drugs.
For those of us who watch sports on TV are constantly reminded by the play-by-play people how key momentum is. The future starts Sunday. WFDS
The Wicked Witch of the West from the Wizard of Oz. Below, Ezra Levant in an orange wig with a can of Orange Crush mocks Jack Layton’s funeral. RIP or…
Premier Wall gets called out by NDP leader Cam Broten for incoherent blather about gay people — but of course Wall is not homophobic because some of his staff are…
Alexandre Boulerice is one of my favourite MPs.He's a big guy, and when he gets up in the Commons and shouts at Stephen Harper, you can see the tyrant flinch…
I admit it: I’m a worrywart. At our last leadership convention in 2006 Conservatives played dirty tricks, circulating fake buttons and posters to try to discourage delegates from voting for…
Arcade Fire – Ready To Start
R. v. Coffey, 2013 ONCJ 178 holds: I find that I accept Mr. Coffey’s evidence that he was actually experiencing acid reflux symptoms during the breath tests. I found his…
Based on my posts leading up to the NDP’s federal convention, it shouldn’t come as much surprise that my main focus is on the substantive policy debates. And the first…
Thin skinned anti-science idiot Chrisopher Monckton has a big sad that a bunch of actually smart people called out his errant nonsense as nonsense so he’s naturally doing what real…
She Fixes So Many Problems By: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives: The Neighbourhood Immigrant Settlement Worker (NISW) is one of the programs established by the Province of Manitoba to help…
Just to prove that good news come in threes (or is that bad news?), Frank Graves’ polling company EKOS Research has come out with a new poll that, again, sort-of…
This is an instrumental by Kelly Joe Phelps called Spit Me Outta the Whale. The instrument is a National Steel Guitar. This is the Band of Heathens with Medicine Man,…
This is a very good response from Tobey Steeves to a post on the C21 website by John Kershaw, the President of C21 Canada – a corporate financed education reform…
Back home in Calgary to do a little constit work out beloved Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, took a min out of his busy schedule to comment about the Rehtaeh Parsons…
Something ridiculous happened today. Before I get to that, though, I’m’a set some ground rules, because this is the kind of discussion that gets out of hand really, really fast.…
That will be tomorrow in the final of the NCAA hockey season when Yale, George W. Bush’s alma mater, plays fellow Connecticut smarty pants school Quinnipiac. It is reported widely…
