400 ppm
Of all the events that occurred during my blogging hiatus, the one that struck me as the most significant, even including the massive flooding of my hometown, was the Earth…
July 2013
What Do Harper, Mulcair and Trudeau Have in Common? Plenty.
It strikes me that if you want to avoid trouble it’s probably best not to look the other way while it approaches. There’s something about taking one upside the head…
Sunday Morning Links
Assorted content for your Sunday reading. – Gerald Kaplan discusses how the privileges of power have contributed to the utterly callous response to the Lac-Mégantic rail explosion by Stephen Harper…
19 Things We Can’t Say About Afghanistan
Canada’s indulgence in martial boosterism has come and gone. We’re no longer all that keen on kicking Taliban ass in Afghanistan. Like our American counterparts we hardly even mention the…
A Farmer’s Lament
I think that, at some level, most progressives “get” what this Brit farmer is saying. Food, especially cheap food, is on the mind of many Britons this week after the…
Japanese Quickie
Teddy here with a quick update on politics elsewhere in the world. In Japan an election was held today for half of the upper house. I’ve cobbled together this table…
Pleading not guilty, by itself, does not suggest an accused is a danger
R. v. Hasan, 2013 ONCA 487 makes the important point that a claim of innocence prior to a finding of guilt is neither an aggravating factor for sentence nor proof…
Kill the Apostrophe? Rubbish! Keep it!
A site has popped up with one of the stupidest ideas about English I’ve read in the past decade or two. It’s called Kill the Apostrophe. Subtle. At first, I…
Long to reign over us?
You have to admit, there is always that stoic admiration for the old Queen. Nobody wants to say anything nasty about her. And then there are those God-awful hats. You…
The Home Care Consolidation Debacle: Fred Horne’s Mission Impossible
Like Tom Cruise in Ghost Protocol, Health Minister Horne is tearing through the building trying to stay ahead of the explosives he’s set to detonate. The big question is will…
Monstrous
It was General Philip Sheridan who said, “The only good Indian is a dead Indian.” In Canada, we like to think that our history is not as savage as that…
Be Careful What You Wish For!
Abolish the Senate? Be careful what you wish for, we all know that it has become highly partisan and some of those appointed feel they are entitled to their entitlements…
The Con Regime and the Maple Leaf Forever Tree
I'm sure it was just a coincidence eh? Just another leafy victim of this massive thunderstorm that smashed into Toronto yesterday. But how ironic that just days after the Con…
Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue
So I decided earlier this week to add Salon.com to the new links on my blogroll.Then they publish this ridiculous piece of Drudge-report link-bait, apparently because they thought they should…
Bell of Batoche Returns To Batoche, Saskatchewan 128 Years After It Was Looted As War Booty
(Church at Batoche where Battle was fought ..) 128 years ago, the bell that rang in the Roman Catholic Church in Batoche, North West Territories (Saskatchewan) was stolen as a…
The optics of politics in Alberta, or how to stay focused and in the picture…
Your blogger with the premier of Alberta. Somewhere below: Your blogger with a person who very well could be the next premier of Alberta. Or not. ST. ALBERT There’s something…
R-E-S-P-O-N….wait, that’s not how it goes…
I have spent too much time gazing inward. Trying to rebuild the wall around my heart. I should have learned that the wall does nothing but crumble into itself and…
6261…And You Thought Rob Ford Was Bad
Hey ain’t got nothin’ on the current mayor of San Diego, Bob Filner. This guy is such a dog that dogs are upset with him. NPR and KPBS tell all…
Sebastian Ronin: NOT A White Nationalist!!!
If there's one thing we've come to expect from Paulie it's his pimping of the venerable Red Ensign and his efforts to turn it into a White Nationalist banner: Hmmm,…