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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…
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…
Anyone miss me yet?
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
Every media outlet in the world is reporting that James Gandolfini has just died in Italy. He was 51. Light a candle. WFDS
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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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 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.…