Looks Like Keystone XL Faces Another Delay
The investigation of an alleged conflict of interest by a U.S. State Department contractor reviewing the proposed Keystone XL pipeline won’t be complete until January. The State Department’s Office on…
August 2013
Law-Abiding Politicians
“I think politicians are entitled to private lives,” – John Baird Yet another article in today’s G&M – page 3 no less – about pot smoking politicians. Recently Trudeau admitting…
Saturday At The Movies
Fascinating – a map of Europe from 1000 AD to the present day:
Stephen Harper’s Great Escape Tour Ends Disastrously
Well, as you know, the idea was to get as far away as possible from the ghastly Senate scandals. And the media. And to try to repair Stephen Harper's tarnished…
Peter MacKay and the Con War on Marijuana
Holy Jahbesus. You'd think Peter MacKay would be the LAST person to accuse anyone of smoking their credibility by getting high. Justice Minister Peter MacKay says Justin Trudeau’s credibility is…
Friday Night Hardware Hacking
Last night I fixed a Vista laptop (It wouldn’t finish booting into Windows normally because I’d installed another hard drive, and ran ClamAV which possibly changed a file it was…
Minister Rickford Needs to Back Words up With Actions in the Ring of Fire
The following letter to the Editor of the Northern Life was published by the Northern Life on August 22, 2013 as, “Will Rickford back up words with actions?“. The letter…
Make the news, then report the news
After The Fraser Institute reported it’s never been easier financially to raise a Canadian child, Business in Vancouver surveyed Twitter response to the think tank’s featherbrained newspeak and found “considerable”…
Stephen Harper, Benign Dictator Gallery 3: Man of the…
Stephen Harper, Benign Dictator Gallery 3: Man of the people This week, somebody posted an old quote by Stephen Harper (Canada’s worst prime minister) calling our country a “benign dictatorship”.…
Stephen Harper, Benign Dictator Gallery 2: Pretending to be in…
Stephen Harper, Benign Dictator Gallery 2: Pretending to be in the military + being saluted This week, somebody posted an old quote by Stephen Harper (Canada’s worst prime minister) calling…
Development and Recession: Looking Back To See The Future
Tonight is Friday and while I sit here occupying my time with readings, movies and Youtube, many of you are probably outdoors enjoying the beautiful weather with the company of…
Stephen Harper, Benign Dictator Gallery 1: Waving, pointing and…
Stephen Harper, Benign Dictator Gallery 1: Waving, pointing and staring This week, somebody posted an old quote by Stephen Harper (Canada’s worst prime minister) calling our country a “benign dictatorship”.…
Musical interlude
Lange – Destination Anywhere
As We go Into The Weekend …
With thanks to Karen, I am reposting a poem that she left in the comment section of an earlier post. Karen writes, On Facebook I follow the goings on of…
Why Forcillo’s Five-Second Pause Matters
From the outset it’s been apparent to me that Sammy Yatim’s death resulted from two, distinct shooting events. The first was the initial, 3-round salvo that took two seconds. After…
No Stephen Maher, Justin Trudeau is not the "Paulina Gretzky of Canadian politics"
Justin Trudeau did not intentionally drop the bomb that he smoked a doobie while an MP. He said it because he is unschooled in message control. This was not a…
NunatsiaqOnline: Canadian company Arctic Fibre Inc. ready to start construction on trans-continental fibre optic line
This Canadian company is going to build a London-to-Tokyo fibre optic line. Thank you to reddit user TheOneInTheHat for bringing this to our attention. Article by Jim Bell for NunatsiaqOnline:…
Questions are being raised about digital data rights upon an owner’s death
You won’t be leaving your coveted digital music collection to a loved one just yet. Article by Tobi Cohen for Postmedia News: Thinking of bequeathing your coveted music collection and…
Ontario inflation goes up
Ontario inflation is beginning to heat up. As recently as May, the year over year increase in the Consumer Price Index was a mere 0.49%. Today’s data for July indicates…
Friday night blues blogging
You Upset Me Baby was written by B.B. King, whose recording of it was on the R&B charts in 1954. This is Buddy Whittington. Here’s The Allman Brothers Band, featuring…