6167…Ixnay Selling Cats And Dogs In T-Dot
CITYNews reports that “Toronto city council voted Wednesday to ban the sales of dogs and cats in pet stores, becoming the second Canadian city to do so.”Richmond, B.C., was the…
June 2013
Ottawa-bound
Anyone miss me yet?
On The Demise Of Local News
The Midland Free Press closed its doors yesterday. Nothing much has been made of it. Another paper going under is not news these days. However, Kate Harris of AWARE Simcoe…
The Bad Comic Vs. The Rowdy Lesbian, Part Bazillion
I’ve written about the Earle/Pardy case many a times. Essentially, an amateur comedian named Guy Earle went off on a lesbian couple during an open mike comedy show that he…
The Article 82 Question #nlpoli
Statoil announced on Wednesday that it had found an unspecified quantity of oil in its Harpoon property about 500 kilometres offshore Newfoundland. That would be about 310 miles and therefore…
Faster Removal of Foreign Criminals Act
The Faster Removal of Foreign Criminals Act received Royal Assent and passed into law yesterday. Under the new legislation the threshold for loss of appeal rights to the Immigration Appeal…
Reboot Alberta
I’m not a fan of engagement for engagement’s sake. It is a vacuous activity with few, if any, results. Every political activity must have a purpose and this draws my…
And now for something completely different: Why I’m running for city council in St. Albert
The campaign splash page, appearing at DavidClimenhaga.ca very soon. To be followed by more information. Below: Your blogger in full campaign mode, at the library, of course. Yesterday I sent…
Paper is very very nice, but…
Paper by 53 is very very nice, but people have been listening. Sketches, flipink… Hmmm… Knockoffs? I really don’t know what is fair anymore. Neither off these would be anything…
Stephen Harper and the Summer of Discontent
Well I see Stephen Harper is back in Canada after his disastrous performance at the G8 Summit.He was wrong about a Syria agreement. The other leaders did manage to cobble…
6166…Tony Soprano Dead
Every media outlet in the world is reporting that James Gandolfini has just died in Italy. He was 51. Light a candle. WFDS
Heritage Minister excludes Watershed Sentinel from funding
Watershed Sentinel, BC’s scrappy environmental magazine, is a past and very grateful recipient of financial assistance through the Canada Magazine Fund, and the now defunct Publications Assistance Program. Last year…
James Gandolfini
The Sopranos Final Scene – YouTube: ““ “Try and remember the times that were good.”I wonder if it was like this for him? He will be missed.
Harper Government Finds Another Way To Stifle Dissent
Wearing a mask at an ‘unlawful’ assembly (example, spontaneous demonstration) now carries a maximum 10-year-prison term, thanks to Bill C-309, a private member’s bill sponsored by Conservative MP Blake Richards…
Our Sensitive, Caring and Responsive Premier Reverses Big Raises To Party Hacks
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger Has Christy Clark’s goal to be the MLA for Kelowna resulted in her embracing the once famous WAC Bennett’s ‘Second look’? Responding to the public outcry over…
Classy Move Kickstarter
April Reign Following Facebook’s example of giving sexist, abusive douchebags a free pass, Kickstarter is refusing to take down Redditor Ken Hoinsky’s dating advice book. Above the Game: A Guide…
Condemned 84 Update
Received a tip from a friend: It looks like Condemned 84 will arrive in Canada on Thursday the 20th, possibly via Montréal. They are playing in Montréal the next night…
I fucking love Carole Lombard. She was the fucking queen of fucking cinema. And the most fucking real feminist of all time.
I love women who are not prudes. Most women I’ve met in the years since Carole Lombard’s tragic death are prudes. All these fucking feminist bloggers today would hate Carole…
Some thoughts on the relaunched data.gc.ca
Yesterday, I talked about what I thought was the real story that got missed in the fanfare surrounding the relaunch of data.gc.ca. Today I’ll talk about the new data.gc.ca itself.…