Physiotherapy: One more privatization scandal?
Lurking only slightly below the surface in the recent fight over changes to funding for physiotherapy is yet another problem with health care privatization. The government is stopping the ability…
2013
First Duffy, Then Wright, Now Tkachuk and Stewart-Olsen. Is Harper Losing to a Tory Insurgency?
I wondered whether Harper would track down and silence the insurgents in the Tory ranks who began by leaking e-mails that sparked the Duffy-Wright scandal in May? The word I…
Monckton Challenged To Put Up Or Shut Up By John Abraham
John Abraham, a Professor of Thermal Sciences at the University of St. Thomas and a Guardian Environment blogger, has challenged the loud-mouthed potty peer, Lord Christopher Monckton, to put his…
Mike Duffy Expenses: The plot thickens
CTV explains with more specificity after senators David Tkachuk and Carolyn Stewart Olsen denied any involvement with Mike Duffy’s expenses affair and the payment by Nigel Wright to cover Duffy’s…
Mike Duffy’s New Portrait
To be hung in the Senate Chamber.
About Upper-Class Twits and Peter MacKay
Yesterday, over at Northern Reflections, Owen had a trenchant post on Justice Minister Peter MacKay, a man who has always struck me as one of the most profoundly incompetent members…
OpenMedia.ca welcomes Official Opposition call for access to text of TPP agreement which threatens online expression
Image: FD_TPPShare_Library_130818.png News heading: Momentum rapidly building behind citizen-backed Our Fair Deal campaign for greater TPP transparency and an end to extreme Internet Censorship proposals August 28, 2013 – OpenMedia.ca…
Syrian Smoking Gun Found – We’re Told
Now who would be happier to see Syria’s air force and army reduced to rubble by the West – free of charge no less – than its neighbour and longtime…
Stephen Harper’s Nasty Little Senate Scandal About To Fall In On His Head ….
Stephen Harper’s lone gunman theory defence wobbles: Tim Harper OTTAWA—In his bid to survive the Nigel Wright-Mike Duffy affair, Stephen Harper has clung assiduously to the lone gunman theory.Harper has…
Denialism 2.0 – Even More Dangerous Than the Original
By and large, the pioneers of climate change denialism have moved on. Those who used to lead the campaign claiming that the theory of anthropogenic global warming is a hoax,…
New Mona Liza in town
Mona Liza Wallin texting her friend Mike Duffy!
Maillot, Torso du Printemps
At the D’Orsey, I found a quiet corner bench about 3:30 behind this torso. I drew her, meditatively, for my time of day. She really was lovely, and when I…
"Why Doesn’t Duff Just Resign?"
Consider who’s asking. He’s a former Harper deputy chief of staff who now sits comfortably installed as a Vice-President at Air Canada for government affairs in 2012. Derek Vanstone says…
America, Russia, Syria: “The Outcome Is Irrelevant”
Fyodor Lukyanov on Russia and the growing inevitability of Western-led intervention in Syria: In Moscow, hardy anyone believes that the tragedy with the toxic substances in the suburbs of Damascus…
America, Russia, Syria: “The Outcome Is Irrelevant”
Fyodor Lukyanov on Russia and the growing inevitability of Western-led intervention in Syria: In Moscow, hardy anyone believes that the tragedy with the toxic substances in the suburbs of Damascus…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Polly Toynbee reminds us that a precarious living for much of the middle class is nothing new – and neither is a cacophony…
Floods in India: Ganges River
STRANDED: men sat on the roof of a submerged house Monday in Salori, India, after water from the Ganges River flooded the area amid monsoon rains. (Rajesh Kumar Singh/Associated Press)WSJ.
Zurich, Switzerland: Drive-in brothel opens its doors
What next? Drive-in spouse and marriage? I don’t want to play the moralist card here as it is the world’s oldest profession. Brothels do exist in every country legal or…