Kristin Chenoweth: Sings Anthony Weiner parody song on Jay Leno show
“She crooned: ‘They’ll think you’ve become a monk, though they’ve seen your junk, now you’ll play a different show. So let’s start because you’ve got an awfully long way to…
August 2013
What Bruce Livesay said
Rabble.ca has picked up a piece from The Progressive Economics Forum by Bruce Livesay that discusses, among other things, the large amounts of money in uncollected taxes resulting from corporations…
Class War: US$11.5 Trillion Hidden in Tax Havens
Which tax haven is right for you? Class war is alive and well. I have this rose-coloured, nostalgic dream of history. Once upon a time we emerged from feudalism with…
Economist
It started with a car accident in February, and the total loss of our 2004 Prius, which had only been ours for less than a year. We were quickly compensated…
Christy Clark’s Giant Methane Fart – Part Deux
British Columbia premier Christy Clark has visions of our province becoming an energy superpower in its own right thanks to massive reserves of shale natural gas, methane, in northern B.C.…
140 Law – Legal Headlines for Thursday, August 1, 2013
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Thursday, August 1, 2013: Ontario woman, 85, charged with stunt driving in fatal crash U.S. government fights to…
Aggressive Cop Loses to Skateboarder
There might be a better way to entertain kids who want to skateboard in a city, other than yell at them, push them, and make their desired outdoor fun illegal.…
When Athabasca Came to Windsor
There’s a small mountain of Athabasca bitumen byproduct, petcoke, being amassed on the American bank of the Detroit River by – the Koch brothers, of course. And now, clouds of…
Julian Assange: Bradley Manning is the quintessential whistleblower
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says Bradley Manning “is the quintessential whistleblower” after a US military court found him not guilty of “aiding the enemy”, guilty of 19 lesser charges. The…
Rand Paul: "I will not be enslaved by your “right” to basic healthcare"
This guy wants to be the President of the United States. He is expected to be a candidate for the 2016 Presidential election. “Move over George W. Bush I am…
Industry Influence To Blame For Tavares, Florida Explosion
This post originally appeared on RingofFireRadio.com. On July 29th, an explosion at a gas plant in Tavares, Florida injured eight people, leaving five of them in critical condition. Three months…
By-Election Day In Ontario
Holyday isn’t going to lose any votes because of the scandal surrounding the truck behind him. But he might because of the guy to his left. Ontarians head to the…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Bruce Livesey discusses how offshoring undermines government – and how it happens with the approval of those same governments claiming we can’t…
6296…Showtime In Ontario: Beginning Of End 4 Hudak
It is by-election day in Ontario. Five seats are up for grabs and if Tim Hudak and his Progressive Conservative’s don’t grab four of them one would think that he…
Stephen Harper’s Hair-raising experience
Someone told him about the Fall opening of Parliament.
New column day
Here, on the questions raised by a sudden drop in potash prices – and why we should reconsider our economic and social priorities so that a minor fluctuation in a…
Is it Hudak-Ford or Ford-Hudak?
The Ontario Legislature feeds on the politics of Ontario municipalities. You have to get under the skin of a number of key municipal politicians before you can fathom the directions…
Even if it could, Senate reform shouldn’t proceed without the provinces – or the people
To the surprise of everyone in the Ottawa bubble, Her Majesty’s Minister of State for Democratic Reform, Pierre Poilievre, held a press availability Wednesday not to slam the Liberals for…
E Day in Ottawa South!
Woot! Come on everyone! Woot with me! I just don’t “get” people who don’t get excited about elections. It is the one tangible time when we, as citizens, can choose…
Sammy Yatim: A Petition From Change.Org
A petition has been established at Change.org. seeking justice for Sammy Yatim. At last count it was closing in on 27,000 signatures. Here is how it reads: In the early…