Manufacturing Slump Threatens Q2 Growth
Statistics Canada reported today, “Manufacturing sales fell 2.4% in April to $48.2 billion — the fourth decline in five months and the largest monthly percentage drop since August 2009.” That…
June 2013
The Fall Of The House Of Ford
Taking a moment to pray for peace You gotta admit that it couldn't happen to a nicer guy. Rob Ford is a bully and a hypocrite - quick to condemn…
The Fall Of The House Of Ford
Taking a moment to pray for peace You gotta admit that it couldn’t happen to a nicer guy. Rob Ford is a bully and a hypocrite – quick to condemn…
The Fall Of The House Of Ford
Taking a moment to pray for peace You gotta admit that it couldn't happen to a nicer guy. Rob Ford is a bully and a hypocrite - quick to condemn…
The Fall Of The House Of Ford
Taking a moment to pray for peace You gotta admit that it couldn’t happen to a nicer guy. Rob Ford is a bully and a hypocrite – quick to condemn…
Well, Ladies, He’s Back on the Market
Get him while he’s hot – or at least still warm. 82-year old media mogul, Rupert Murdoch, has filed for divorce from his wife of 14-years, Wendi Deng. Murdoch, who…
What’s Bugging The Great Lakes?
GLEAM, the Great Lakes Environmental Assessment and Mapping Project, has a series of interactive maps of Great Lake Stressors. I’ve included a couple related to Global Warming: Water Level Change…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content for your Friday reading. – Michael Harris tears into the Harper Cons for their compulsive dishonesty: Everything in the Westminster model under which we are supposed to operate…
The queen of our house. Red #2.
Filed under: art Tagged: Cat, furball, matted lump of fur, queen, red, tuxedo
140 Law – Legal Headlines for Friday, June 14, 2013
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Friday, June 14, 2013: Soccer turban dispute affecting players of all ages Failure to pay annual bonus may…
"I Take Full Responsibility"
There, Pam Wallin said it, and like all politicians who trot out what has become but a tired platitude, she would now like all of us to tune in to…
healthy slow-cooker recipe of the week: vegetarian chili
This has turned out to be one of our favourite slow-cooker meals. It’s delicious, incredibly easy to make, super healthy, and inexpensive. Adapted from nowhere: it’s my own. Canned beans,…
Sneaky Steve
You have to admit, the phrase has possibilities, partly because of its alliterative panache. But, Michael Harris writes, the real strength of the phrase comes from its accuracy: Sneaky politicians…
The ultimate Venn Diagram
Naturally, Steve Miller sits at the very center of this one. The only issue that I have with it is that Miller’s identities are all self-identified, while the others don’t…
Korean war veteran, 87, dodges mandatory 3-year prison sentence; but what if he was Black and 23?
The result here is the right one (although to my mind the charges should not have been laid). But the problem is the result came because a Crown exercised an…
Heartland Institute/CAS Story Makes UK Guardian
And the story links back to me, so you know its got cred.
Ministerial Whimsy #nlpoli
Ever wonder why the provincial government passes laws and then never puts them into force? Like the Sustainable Development Act that the Conservatives pushed through the House in 2007 and…
6139…May Be It Coz He Sucks
Much chatter and hand wringing among the latte sippers and hipsters here Our Home And Native Land about the apparent failure of their beloved George Stroumboulopoulos’ new self titled show…
Stephen Harper and the Scandalous Cons
Well there there they were today, driving through the streets of London, England, in the getaway limo.John Baird and Stephen Harper doing their best to try to escape the Senate…
Is massive Alberta Health Services entity about to be re-reorganized, re-regionalized?
Paralytic chaos as it affects Alberta Health Services. Actual gargantuan provincial health care agencies may not appear exactly as illustrated. Below: AHS “Official Administrator” Janet Davidson, Alberta Health Minister Fred…