Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Cats in step.
July 2013
Strandbeests by Theo Jansen
Theo Jansen (born 1948) is a Dutch artist. In 1990, he began what he is known for today: building large mechanisms out of PVC that are able to move on…
Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On
Now, for my weekly edition of nutty evangelicals, I thought I would give Pat Robertson a break and offer you this: Recommend this Post
Industry Canada dished out $22.1B in “corporate welfare” since 1961
A new report by the Fraser Institute reveals that Industry Canada gave businesses $22.1 billion in taxpayer-funded subsidies, aka “corporate welfare”, since 1961 The post Industry Canada dished out $22.1B…
You Ask What Are The Sexting Pseudonyms Of Stephen Harper’s Cabinet? We Answer!
A picture lasts forever on the internet Earlier today, politician Anthony Weiner, infamous for sexting pictures of his junk to women while married, held a press conference dealing with the…
Things You Can Do to Help Calgary’s Secular Community Grow and Thrive!
Found this (public) note on Facebook with some exciting news about the secular community in Calgary. Keep it up! And when I say “we,” what I really mean is you.…
6270…Buy George Zimmerman A Gun
To refresh yer memory he is the dude who was acquitted of murdering Trayvon Martin. This means he is not a murderer; just a killer. The Washington Times says “…that…
The UK’s “porn block” won’t work
The British Government has recently passed legislation to block pornographic content from being accessible online. Now, if a Briton wants to view pornography, they must specifically request that the block…
Burden of proof not on moving party in mobility cases
Sferruzzi v. Allan, 2013 ONCA 496: Gordon v. Goertz, 2 S.C.R. 27 is the seminal case on mobility in family law cases. In it, the Supreme Court set out the…
6269…Dean Del Mastro In The News
Boy oh boy I hope he doesn’t eat when he is anxious. Coz if he does he is gonna have to trot, er waddle, down to Moore’s and get his…
Ocean waves and very relaxing music
Enjoy and relax.
When a Railroad Goes Deadbeat
You guessed it, we’re talking Montreal, Maine & Atlantic, the railroad company that incinerated the luckless villagers of Lac Megantic, Quebec. MM&A has stopped paying contractors working on the clean-up…
Phobia This! Phobia That!
I am coming to agree with my daughter that I deserve the sobriquet Grumpy. Case in point was seeing the entry below on a Facebook entry: How many homophobes does…
Seven years for shooting at police in Kimmirut
R v Utye 2013 NUCJ 14: On July 28, 2012, the early morning peace and tranquility of Kimmirut was shattered by the sound of gunfire. Two members of the RCMP…
Congrats to the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge
…better known as Prince William and Kate Middleton, on their new arrival (still unnamed, they let it be known in their brief chat with the press they hadn’t decided on…
An honourable thing to do
Guys like Morgan rarely get kudos for doing the right thing, so I say: kudos for doing the right thing. Nice to see that it still occasionally happens in Harper’s…
More On The E.I Whistleblower
The other day I wrote a post on Sylvie Therrien, the government employee suspended because she leaked documents that revealed federal investigators were told to find $485,000 of Employment Insurance…
Canada’s embarassing green jobs record
Why is Canada missing out on tens of thousands of green jobs and tens of billions of dollars in economic development? Clean tech is among the globe’s fastest growing and…
Big Telecom Against Canada – Who will win?
Big Telecom is at it again – Telus is now actually threatening the government with legal action if they follow through on their commitment to stop the Big Three cell…
The colonization of land by life pushed back in time
A recent story on Science Daily made me stop and read with fascination. It’s about the discovery of fossils that showed life colonized land more than two billion years ago.…