Palma Violets get the Hot Nasties care package!
Pic sent by Milo, their Nasties-knowing manager! Will they let us open for them when they return to this side of the pond? Stay tuned!
June 2013
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – George Monbiot writes about the dangers of allowing wealthy and privileged individuals to speak as the voice of the poor and downtrodden:…
6155…No Napoleon Street
At least not a major one that I know of. Pourquoi? Coz on this day 198 years ago Wellington took Napoleon to school at Waterloo. See ya, wouldn’t want to…
Brian Gibb (313-500? ppm)
We live by numbers and some more important than others. Some don’t change often so we keep them in our head: age, date of birth, height, weight, phone number, address,…
New Conservative Party? Yes Please
I’ve felt badly for a while now that conservative voters have no ethical right wing party to vote for in Canada (or the USA, for that matter). The Conservative Party…
Cat in blinding bright light
Filed under: art Tagged: bright, Cat, light
When should a conviction should be set aside because it was not supported by the evidence before the trial judge
R. v. Kinney, 2013 YKCA 5 is a useful source for when conviction should be set aside because it was not supported by the evidence before the trial judge: The…
Tim Hudak is not always wrong.
Just because you wish someone was not there does not make him go away. It is almost as though Kathleen Wynne and her Ontario Liberals do not know what to…
Arse-lighting #nlpoli
Nothing says make me leader of a party that seems to have accidentally struck a chord with voters than spreading false information and then admitting it. (Read more…)
June 18: Well, well, well…..
The letter below was sent to Letters to the Editor of the TandT over a week ago. But it has yet to appear. It is from doctors in Sackville experessing…
140 Law – Legal Headlines for Tuesday, June 18, 2013
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Tuesday, June 18, 2013: Zimmerman jury selection enters its second week The Supreme Court rules prosecutors can use…
6154…Canada Hits The Big Time
Again. This time of course it is anti-corruption mayor Michael Applebaum of Montreal who has been charged with corruption. Beeg story. So big that Reuters is writing about it and…
Harper’s PMO: busted
Quote: The Prime Minister’s office sent information yesterday to The Advance regarding a money-losing speech Liberal leader Justin Trudeau made in Barrie in 2007. On Monday, PMO communications officer Erica…
PMO Hands Trudeau A Gift
Chalk me up as amongst the majority of Canadians who will yawn at the Trudeau charity "controversy". About the only reinforcing fallout within this affair, Justin Trudeau isn't like other…
PMO Hands Trudeau A Gift
Chalk me up as amongst the majority of Canadians who will yawn at the Trudeau charity “controversy”. About the only reinforcing fallout within this affair, Justin Trudeau isn’t like other…
PMO Hands Trudeau A Gift
Chalk me up as amongst the majority of Canadians who will yawn at the Trudeau charity "controversy". About the only reinforcing fallout within this affair, Justin Trudeau isn't like other…
PMO Hands Trudeau A Gift
Chalk me up as amongst the majority of Canadians who will yawn at the Trudeau charity “controversy”. About the only reinforcing fallout within this affair, Justin Trudeau isn’t like other…
Nothing For Something
The Harper government has released ads touting its Canada Job Grants Program. The problem is that the program doesn’t exist. Andrew Coyne writes in the Postmedia papers: Ottawa proposes to…
So, OC Transpo…
… when did it become OK to allow Christian proselytizing on your buses? I find this offensive: And just a couple of ad slots along is yet another ad for…
Resettlement Plan For Harper’s Cronies
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