Responsible Public Spending #nlpoli
You don’t need drugs or alcohol to get the feeling of dizziness or stupor like you smacked your head with a hammer. Hard. Repeatedly. Just listen to a representative of…
2013
Enbridge Springs Another Leak
I mentioned this a week or so ago; it was the fourth leak since February, and it looks like there will finally be some consequences: The National Energy Board has…
Autism Speaks Reluctantly Confesses: 40% Of Persons On Autism Spectrum Have Intellectual Disability
Intellectual Disability remains the Elephant in the Autism Living Room;no one wants to admit it’s there or to talk about it It is politically incorrect in today’s autism world to…
Great line of the day
A reader at Carolyn Hax provides one of the best summaries I have ever read about the vulnerability of poverty: On feeling like the bad-luck fairy has moved in with…
Michael Sona and the RoboCon Scandal
Well, it's been a long time coming.And I have to admit I had almost given up hope that anybody would ever be charged in connection with the RoboCon Scandal.But finally…
Mayor Mandel on the warpath, keeps re-election plans secret.
Tweet Stephen Mandel is not ready to announce whether he will run for a fourth-term as Edmonton’s Mayor. Speaking to a crowd of more than 2000 people at his annual…
John Horgan Files FOI Request Over Ethnicgate. The Plot Thickens!
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger John Horgan BC NDP House Leader and MLA for Juan de Fuca has filed what could be an explosive FOI request into the BC Liberal scandal over…
Canada’s Supreme Court Wants To Restrict Abortions
One sign that a country is in trouble is when the top court’s opinion is deemed controversial. Canada doesn’t have to worry about that, not because its Supreme Court is…
5813…I Want To Be An Ottawa Senator
Not the kind that skate. Too much travel. Plus I can’t skate backwards or raise the puck.I want to be the kind that work, lol, on Parliament Hill.Seriously.Whose idea was…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Sunbeam cats.
5812…Justin Bieber Disrupts Norway
Got home from work, just chillaxing and reading the Oslo Dagbladet, I have home delivery, and I find a story about a fellow Ontarioioioian. None other than Justin Bieber.Turns out…
5811…Speaking Of Being Poor
My friend Giovanni John, Ottawa’s celebrity photog, tells me that today is National Peanut Butter And Jelly Sandwich Day. We have a new winner. In The Who Gives A F*ck…
New Zealand Sets the Gold Standard For Monckton Journalism
This is how every article about one of Christopher Monckton’s revivalist evangelical bamboozlement roadshow sessions should go: Lord Monckton, who once argued for the quarantine of AIDS patients in internment…
Veterans for Peace: Please Don’t Iraq Iran or Any Other Nation
By: Veterans for Peace | Press Release: WASHINGTON – April 1, 2013 – Veterans for Peace has released the following statement: With the 10-year anniversary of the invasion of Iraq…
Boy, it sure is good thing we’re not going to go neg!
Yep. Good thing.
Have you seen this honest Internet company?
A satirical video from Extremely Decent Films about “honesty” in the telecommunications industry went viral this weekend. A number of our community members took a stand and shared the video…
Because ‘Bitumen is not Oil,’ Pipelines Carrying Tar Sands Crude Don’t Pay into US Oil Spill Fund
As Think Progress has just reported, a bizarre technicality allowed Exxon Mobil to avoid paying into the federal oil spill fund responsible for cleanup after the company’s Pegasus pipeline released…
Canada, immigration raids and deportations are not entertainment!
It was revealed last month that Vic Toews, Canada’s Public Safety Minister, approved the raid, carried out for the Canada Border Services Agency’s reality television series.After the revelation, the BC…
ConCalls: 701 days, 1 charge, 234 ridings #RoboCon
It’s been more than 701 days since Elections Canada first became aware of a nation wide malicious robocalling scheme to misdirect non-Conservative voters away from legitimate polling stations for the…
Bidding Farewell to Boreal Citizen
Ahhh…blogging. So rewarding. So time consuming. After much deliberation, I’ve decided that it’s time for Boreal Citizen to come to an end. It’s already past due, drawn out by the…