Stephen Harper and Keystone Pipeline
Cartoon by Greg Perry. This cartoon says it all.
September 2013
Sept. 9: Let’s start on a light note because ….
…the rest gets pretty heavy. On Saturday, Aurelle Pare, who always writes an excellent column on health, wrote one on an ear problem called tinnitus. It causes ringing in the…
Can a non party appeal?
Kutlesa v. Kutlesa, 2013 ONCA 549: There is a threshold problem today, however: Mr. Kotsiou was not, and is not, a party to the Family Law Actproceeding between the Kutlesas…
Ontario PC scheme to get McGuinty staffers fails
…like much else they do. What a colossal farce.
EI Premium Freeze Leaves Unemployed Canadians in the Cold
Today, finance minister Jim Flaherty announced a three-year freeze on Employment Insurance (EI) premiums, ostensibly because a stronger job market has alleviated the need for additional premium revenue. Under the…
Men: Never 100% Responsible for Rape?
I have no words, at least I thought I didn’t. It’s bad enough that men rape women, then modern culture shames women for wearing anything but a burlap sack. I…
Sask Premier Needs To Tone Down His ‘Country Bumpkin’ Schtick
“The NDP thinks Saskatchewan’s resource economy is a disease.”Brad WallPremier of Saskatchewan Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall is scheduled to meet with Federal New Democratic Party Leader, Tom Mulcair while the…
Syria, War and Children
It is sad that how war-torn areas impact children and what kind of life they live. To start with there are two million refugees from Syria in neighbouring countries and…
Thag angry! Teenager bad!
Having settled the issue of if the members of the Thunka Grunka tribe had free will or not, Thag settled back into life with his tribe. For once, it was…
This Ford Nation village has plenty of idiots
It amazes me – amazes me – that the paid-up citizens of Ford Nation thought they were doing their heroes a favour by bringing Press Council complaints against media organizations…
You Might Have Read How Arctic Sea Ice Has Recovered
There’s more Arctic sea ice this year than last, a fair bit more. What does that mean? In fact, not much at all. The Guardian’s Dan Nuccitelli provides a couple…
Canadian innovators and entrepreneurs urge Industry Minister to take action to fix our broken cell phone market
9 SEPTEMBER, 2013 – A group of over 35 leading Canadian innovators and entrepreneurs have sent Industry Minister James Moore a letter calling for reasonable action to deliver genuine choice…
How Many Fingers Am I Holding Up, Winston?
O’Brien held up his left hand, its back toward Winston, with the thumb hidden and the four fingers extended. “How many fingers am I holding up, Winston?” “Four.” “And if…
Rebutting the Fraser Institute’s Report on Immigration
(This was a letter of the editor I sent to my local newspaper titled: Re: Immigration selection should be based on businesses’ needs: Report.) QMI Agency reported on a Fraser…
Mr Tuxedo looks out
Filed under: art Tagged: Cat, paper53, tuxedo
London Starts Planting Green Walls for Flood Prevention
Earlier this year, Toronto suffered some severe flooding and city planner Jennifer Keesmat composed this great tweet: Suddenly spending $ to maintain all of that not-so-sexy infrastructure and to plan…