Anyone Up For A Liberal War On Thanksgiving?
Recently I’m noticing a lot of fake happiness of the same kind that makes me hate Xmas. People smiling at one another on the buses, and so forth. But its…
October 2013
On Strength and Contempt: Skyler and Sinead
the infamous album I want to start with the admission that the first DVD I ever got was Sinead O’Connor’s I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got. It’s attached…
Bread the Old-Fashioned Way
For all the reading, the reviewing and the researching for the best bread maker these past few days, it’s somewhat ironic that instead I turned back to the old-fashioned method…
Happy Thanksgiving
Happy Thanksgiving all. I have quite a bit to be thankful for, including an amazing wife, great kids and close friends. This Thanksgiving, however, what I find myself truly thankful…
Watching the events down south
First off, Happy Thanksgiving to everyone. In my family’s household, the tradition is to hold the big turkey dinner on the Sunday and make turkey soup from the leftovers on…
What would Lesus do?
Sorry folks, I couldn’t resist it. A set of gold, silver and bronze medals commemorating the first year of the pontificate of Pope Francis, produced by the Italian State Mint,…
Oct. 14: The biggest news story ever…
I’ve put off writing this for two days. I still can’t work up any joy at getting started on it. Today’s newspaper has one item in it worth reading –…
Grounding the Toronto Island Airport’s $1.9-Billion Claim
As part of its push to expand to accommodate jet flights, the Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport has been advertising that it contributes $1.9 billion to Toronto’s economy. This claim…
Consumer Friendly Throne Speech?
So, the Harper Government is promising a “consumer friendly” Throne Speech this week. Among the “goodies” being discussed are “a la carte cable” and a “passenger bill of rights”, all…
Sunday Assembly Schism!
No sooner had I talked about how churchy the Sunday Assembly is/isn’t then news breaks that several of the New York organizers have left the brand to form the Godless…
How’re the negotiations going, John?
This picture encapsulates the situation in Washington better than any words could.
Mulcair’s prospects and the Nova Scotia Election
Recent national columns have suggested that the loss by the NDP in the recent Nova Scotia election is harmful to the national NDP’s hopes for 2015. For example see these…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Josh Eidelson and John Schmitt take a look at the guaranteed annual income which will be voted on in Switzerland – and the…
SOS: Reverse Dixiecrat Solution Needed
As usual Krugman comes through: “The question for the next few days is whether plunging markets and urgent appeals from big business will stiffen the non-extremists’ spines. For as far…
Why Creationists Don’t Win the Nobel Prize
Looking at the list of Nobel prizes awarded in 2013 for science, we see three prestigious entries: The Nobel Prize in Physics 2013 François Englert and Peter W. Higgs “For…
Benjamin Netanyahu has a problem with his genes. :)
He made an off-hand comment that if Iranians were free and had a democratic government then Iranian people will be free to wear jeans and listen to Western music. That…
Saturday Photo: Getting Ready for Thanksgiving at Jean Talon Market
Spent most of Saturday and all of Sunday either preparing for and eating our annual Thanksgiving feast. For maybe 12 years we’ve had friends and family over for a buffet…
26 Liberal Senators AND 20 Conservative Senators Spent Over $1,000,000 Tax Dollars In Travel Costs During Last Federal Election …
Canadians should not be all that ‘thankful’ for our Senate free-loaders on this Thanksgiving Day – 2013. The Hill Times has disclosed that Canada’s unelected, undemocratic Conservative and Liberal Party…
Mulcair right on corporate taxes
Greedy businessmen said cut their taxes and they would invest the money to “create jobs” and boost the economy. Harper gladly obliged them. What was the end result? Job prospects…