Mike Duffy
I wonder what is he doing these days?
2013
Justice, Amurican Style
In Texas, if you’re a rich kid who gets behind the wheel drunk and winds up killing four people, the curse of affluence is enough of a defence to keep…
Greenpeace Arctic 30 activists happy to be home after Russian prison
Alexandre Paul upon his release from Russian prison on November 22 (AFP/Valdimir Baryshev) MONTREAL – Even after getting arrested at gunpoint, spending two months in a Russian jail, and a…
Shawnigan’s CVRD (AAP) Should Be Yanked! It Is An Unprecedented 50 Thousand Dollar Per Year Rip Off!
Shawnigan Lake faces an uncertain future. Peter Rusland penned this recent report in The Cowichan News Leader What part of ‘No’ does Victoria not understand about dumping dirty dirt near…
Deperately seeking Toronto’s Nenshi
Purple reign Is it time for Canada’s largest city to have its very own purple rain? The Editorial Board of the Globe & Mail seem to think so. They frame…
Hey, Steve. They’re Coming Back.
Although the Russian economy has been stagnant of late, Moscow (a.k.a. Vlad Putin), continues its major rearmament programme. Here is the Russkie’s newest “boomer” or nuclear missile sub. The Dolgoruky…
Psychics 2013: the silly, the scams, the failed predictions
Action News, an ABC affiliate, ran a late-year story with the headline “Psychics interpret pets’ thoughts.” No, it’s not April Fools’ Day: this was December 26. Yet the reporter treated…
Take the Wrong Way Home…
$109 fine for new driver taking drunk dad home 18-year-old novice driver Evan Godo received a $109 fine for not displaying the ‘N’ sign CBC News Posted: Dec 27, 2013…
What’s In a Name?
The Harper regime has decided to stick it to the Americans. Canada’s two new support ships are to be named Queenston and Chateauguay to commemorate battles in which British forces…
What Do You Stand For? The Country or the State?
You’re at that point where you have to choose. Do you support the state, embodied in a Conservative, New Democrat or Liberal government, or do you support the country, Canada…
Pretty rich: Manning Centre founder and namesake lectures Ottawa Press Gallery on ethics
The Parliamentary Press Gallery, apparently as seen, sort of, but not quite, by Preston Manning. New ethical guidelines required? Doubtful. Below: The founder and namesake of the Calgary-Based Manning Centre;…
Hey, Toronto. Time You Went Underground.
In my neighbourhood we don’t have any overhead wires. They’re all buried – phone, cable and electric. You don’t notice it until you pass through a neighbourhood where they’re not…
Deflect, Spin, Misdirect: Preston Manning and the PMO
Apparently, Preston Manning must have received new orders from the PMO. In yesterday’s Globe and Mail, we found Mr. Manning opining on the supposed issue of ethics in the Parliamentary…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Lana Payne writes that Canadians care plenty about the well-being of hungry children even if the Cons don’t: After a firestorm of shocked…
I’m not against the police; I’m just afraid of them.
Alfred Hitchcock
The bitterness of the bitumen battle.
Reading a story this morning about New Democrat Leader Thomas Mulcair and the upcoming battle for the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) in the next federal election was less than enlightening.…
Carding – is it legal?
Carding, that is police stopping of pedestrians on the street, and asking for identification and other information, is in the news again. (Note, if you are stopped I urge you…
New column day
Here, on the need to keep the holiday message of peace and goodwill in mind throughout the year – while working to foster both in our homes and in the…
A new amorality?
The headline on Stephen Maher’s column, here, bears little relation to what he’s saying. There’s no “new amorality at the heart of public life.” That’s ridiculous. Any of the politicians…
Crippling Government
Eugene Lang writes that, if you want to know what Stephen Harper has “accomplished,” all you need do is tally up his tax cuts: Over the past eight years, most…