More bad news is coming for the Interior Department’s coal leasing program. This month (or later, if the federal shutdown persists), the U.S. Government Accountability Office is expected to release…
Senator Collins The debate is getting testy down south. The Republicans seem to believe that they have now become paragons of reasonableness, while the Democrats are risking armageddon: Sen. Bob…
In 2008, made-in-America Casino Capitalism took down economies around the world and, in case you haven’t noticed, they haven’t come back and won’t anytime soon. Wall Street did what al…
Since the day I decided to go to graduate school and change my career(s), my mind has reeled with questions about the future. When will I be able to quit…
Suspicious actions by Toronto’s SIU head. Ian Scott needs to be investigated.
Jimmy Carter recently observed that today’s American middle class are coming to resemble America’s poor back in the pre-Reagan era. That’s the bad news. The worse news is that Americans…
Yeah, Ed Henry is a Fox News ‘reporter’ but as we all know that’s equivalent to the communications director for the Republicans. So, why are the Republicans crumbling? This video…
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Agence France-Presse reports that even the IMF has reached the conclusion that higher taxes on wealthy citizens are a necessary part of…
Not exactly, but… Click on pic for full effect. I used to own a couple of Greens, which are not quite as spectacular. They would fight, but a bit less…
From: Cesare Rizzuto cesarerizzuto31@gmail.com Date: October 13, 2013 at 10:51:37 AM EDT To: warren.kinsella@sunmedia.ca Subject: I don’t know Spoken like a true gay Man.or Women you must be proud of…
Nineteen seventy. A great year for music, and a sad year, too. The death of Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin.* Many of the great acts were kicked off their…
When Canada went to war in Afghanistan twelve years ago, self congratulation was in the air — and journalism did not serve the country well. Jeffrey Simpson wrote in yesterday’s…
Apropos a recent Babel-on-the-Bay story about our backward burghers of Babel who run our small city, there was a delightful story in the Toronto Star the other day about a…
Americans are going to issue drone driver licence for safety. That is what NRA says about guns too – that they are safe. Where are we headed? Riley Morgan, 14,…
The first Thanksgiving celebration by Euro-peoples in North America was not in New England but in Newfoundland by Martin Frobisher, 42 years before the Pilgrims. Frobisher's Thanksgiving was not for…
I’ve just finished reading Confessions of a Sociopath, written by the pseudonymous M.E. Thomas, a law professor who confesses herself to be a sociopath who has integrated fairly well into…
Of late there seems to be an increased interest in bringing forward a new way of electing our ‘representatives’ in the House of Commons no doubt brought on by the…
You might think that Kellie Leitch would be better than most Cons. Better than her ghastly leader. She's a pediatric surgeon who still works on a volunteer basis at an…
