Oh come on now. Attending question period at Queen’s Park can be an exercise in frustration as the opposition’s questions and the government’s answers seldom align. You can ask anything…
Thanks to Facebook, Warren Kinsella and Justin Tetreault. The company you keep. WFDS
CPAC is the Canadian something something channel where hacks like Ken Rockburn who are too sh*tty for CBC go to feed their egos. You are also paying for it. Apparently…
stand against TPP.png Secretive, industry-driven copyright proposals could wreck Canada’s digital economy, restrict our open Internet, and undermine our fundamental rights May 28, 2013 – Led by Canadian Internet freedom…
Fords. Drugs. Murder. I think Ford should have stepped aside when he was turfed for conflict of interest. He clearly broke under the pressure, and his world has crumbled around…
At first it was a mystery. How was it that during an excessively dry and hot 2007 summer that cases of West Nile disease had jumped in Bakersfield California by…
“We have 24 senators from Quebec and there are just six from Alberta and British Columbia. It’s to our advantage. To want to abolish it is demagoguery … We’ll have…
Being on holiday has induced in me a certain mental torpor, so please forgive me if this post states the obvious. Those of us who write politically-oriented blogs are, of…
Just out now in the Globe: The tipster who prompted Rob Ford’s chief of staff to go to police about a video allegedly showing the mayor smoking crack cocaine was…
I really should stop watching American news. I get teevee-yelly. I know I’m not going to change anybody’s mind with this post, but the cat’s getting really skittery with all…
Retired U.S. Army colonel turned professor, Andrew Bacevich, says, when it comes to warfare, “a rose by any other name” just doesn’t cut it. Bacevich tries on several names for…
That’s front page news for the Irving Press. I cannot think of any serious, half-serious, or even comic newspaper carrying such a story on any page. But the Irving Press…
A confidential Pentagon report leaked to the Washington Post accuses hackers of stealing the designs of many of America’s most advanced weapons systems. Experts warn that the electronic intrusions gave…
They are in this instance. Here is a graphic from SUN News. Of course the man who could reform the Senate, our beloved Prime Minister Stephen Harper, chooses instead to…
Spotted yesterday in Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. This youngster from Canada was planning on taking kiteboarding lessons, but since there wasn’t a lot of wind, he opted for the wake…
Too lazy to look up how old he is. Guessing about 44. Methinks he may have a cold one or ten to celebrate. WFDS
