PEI Tories Collapse Around Themselves
Within two days, the PEI Progressive Conservatives, who governed their tiny province with a super majority just six years ago, lost two-fifths of their party caucus. First, on October 3rd,…
2013
Band of the Month: Craig Brown
Happy Friday, readers. After a 2 month hiatus, Band of the Month is back! Today’s band is Craig Brown. A multi-instrumentalist and producer with a great gift of transforming life’s…
Friday night blues blogging
To begin, here are George Thorogood & the Destroyers with Bottom of the Sea. This is from a concert held to celebrate the 25th anniversary of CBC Radio 2’s Saturday…
Conservatism and the Crisis of the Republic
This is an extract from Cicero’s legal defense of Sestius, delivered in 56 BCE. Cicero is often considered to be the founding father of ‘republicanism’ but has influenced the likes…
Just When the Left Has Fallen Silent
Across North America, people need a strong voice from the Left more than they have at any time in the last half century. America’s society is crumbling and Canada is…
BC to study air pollution impacts from proposed LNG plants
Proposed LNG plant in Kitimat – artist’s rendering VICTORIA – The B.C. government will spend $650,000 to study potential air pollution impacts of proposed industrial developments — including liquefied natural…
Digital Attachments
It’s tough to lose a solider. Especially one like Dimitri. A fine sniper, with a good kill record. I had trained him for so long, raised him from a lowly…
Four Days Into Government Shutdown, Economy and Environment Heading South
We’ve now entered the fourth day of the government shutdown, and the economic impacts are already being felt by states all over America. As it turns out, the environmental services…
Mission accomplished (iv)
Four professors involved in researching income inequality in Canada took a close look at the National Household Survey and what it appeared to tell us, and then put it into…
First Nations energy company floats oil refinery near Prince Rupert
Eagle Spirit Energy’s Calvin Helin speaking the Vancouver Board of Trade A new energy company with partial aboriginal ownership is floating the idea of an oil refinery at Grassy Point,…
Jon Lord – Absentee Candidate – Absentee Mayor?
So on my drive to work this morning I was listening to CBC’s Calgary Eyeopener when they interviewed Calgary Mayoral candidate Jon Lord. Now Jon’s a former alderman and MLA…
Jon Lord Absentee Candidate Absentee Mayor?
So on my drive to work this morning I was listening to CBC’s Calgary Eyeopener when they interviewed Calgary Mayoral candidate Jon Lord. Now Jon’s a former alderman and MLA…
There are regular lies and misrepresentations…
… and then there are Conservative Party of Canada lies and misrepresentations! And the latter category can contain some whoppers!!! This is what has me pissed off: Please find below…
Tax refund for $500 million for BlackBerry
If you’re a big corporation and suffer losses then you may qualify for hundreds of million in tax refund. More welfare for corporations and big businesses. If an ordinary person…
What Was That About "Not Re-Opening the Abortion Debate"?
Since 2006, Harper has repeatedly “refused” to open the abortion debate in Canada … or at least so he claims. But then again, there’s the old saw about “actions speak…
Your Source for Daily, Creative, Intepretation
Source: Vancouver Sun: Ethics Czar Looking into Parliamentary Secretary’s Letter to CRTC Another day, another Conservative caucus member rushing to the dictionary to look up the meaning of the word…
Your Source for Daily, Creative, Intepretation
Source: Vancouver Sun: Ethics Czar Looking into Parliamentary Secretary's Letter to CRTCAnother day, another Conservative caucus member rushing to the dictionary to look up the meaning of the word "Ethics".To…
Your Source for Daily, Creative, Intepretation
Source: Vancouver Sun: Ethics Czar Looking into Parliamentary Secretary’s Letter to CRTC Another day, another Conservative caucus member rushing to the dictionary to look up the meaning of the word…
CEO Peterkin leaves, many questions left unresolved
Bruce Peterkin has left the building. The MICs Group of Health Services has told the media that the controversial CEO of three northern Ontario hospitals no longer holds his position.…
Arbitrators cannot consider equity unless expressly empowered so to do
British Columbia (Forests) v. Teal Cedar Products Ltd., 2013 SCC 51: Morriss is also inapplicable to the case at bar because it concerned the jurisdiction of a court that was…