* One of the few-and-far-between perks of being a climate blogger is that occasionally I get access to books and movies before the general public does. This past weekend I…
The provincial cabinet has been burning the midnight oil the past couple of nights. Literally. Late night sessions that ended God-knows-when, night after night. Apparently, they are trying to figure…
Uh oh. He's BAAAAACK!!!Joe "Oily" Oliver, the screaming scarecrow of the Tar Sands.First he called Canadian environmentalists job killing extremists, and tools of foreign interests.Then he promised we would be…
Former Canadian Taxpayers Federation Alberta Director Scott Hennig, now the group’s Communications VP, in a nice AstroTurf-coloured sweater at last weekend’s Ottawa conference of the Manning Centre for Undermining Democracy.…
I am reading Alice Munro because she is brilliant. In the mid 1990s, I studied her stories for “weather,” ie the external details that make a story come alive. In…
Richard Hughes Political Blogger The framing battle spinning around the death of Venezuelan President Hugh Chavez pits the oil interests against the rest of us. They pretend that democracy and…
If Justin Trudeau was more concerned about winning the Liberal leadership than winning the next election, not only would his party have more registered supporters, but 2015 would almost certainly…
My internet world came to an end today when Google announced they were shutting down Google Reader (the best RSS reader in existence). The problem is that Google Reader was…
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger I have watched the BCTF campaign ads over the years. They squander hundreds of thousands of dollars on some really well produced ads and then choke and…
This is an unpolished analogy of Canada’s attitude toward the tarsand/climate change problem. Let’s say Canada is a person complaining about their weight (they think their carbon footprints are too…
For those of you who don’t know of Charles Adler he is a right of centre talker out of the ‘peg who styles himself as a national talk show host…
“Nazi Scum” by the Scottish anti-fascist punk band Oi Polloi Standing outsides the primary school gates,with their leaflets stirring up race hate. Creeping round in the dead of night,setting innocent…
Contained cats.
Brown v. Belleville (City), 2013 ONCA 148 holds: It is important to note at the outset that the doctrine of privity of contract is of considerably diminished force in Canada…
So yesterday there was some `bad news` for Liberals in the media, naturally followed by further revelations and commentary today. Well I have news for you, it is not as…
Despite what Big Telecom says, it is not myth that Canadians pay some of the highest wireless prices in the industrialized world. With our cell phone report, created from your…
Imagine that you are living somewhere in Pakistan, Yemen, or Gaza where the U.S. suspects a terrorist presence. Day and night, you hear a constant buzzing in the sky. Like…
When I downloaded the new version of Sketch Club I tried a few things. I left it for a very long while, then, poking around, I found this. Hah, Trying…
Doug Christie – racist anti-Semitic lawyer, white nationalist activist and Western separatist wannabe politician from British Columbia – died on March 11, 2013 at the age of 66 from liver…
I had an email from the Liberal Party of Canada arrive in my mailbox today to those “independent bloggers” who expressed interested in covering the event. Basically, it confirmed that’s…
