Stephen Harper and Rob Ford: The Love Story Continues
I told you it would be a hot love story, and you can't get any hotter than this eh? Stephen Harper thinks Rob Ford has been a bad boy. And…
2013
Heidi Mendenhall Thought She Was Dead – Violence Against Women Must Be Stopped
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger-Supporting CWAV and the “Purple Light Nights’ Cowichan News Leader reporter Peter Rusland tells this real life story of an extreme level of violence against a young woman…
"Minutiae" Don’t Matter.
When a mob boss orders a hit, he may not know or even care whether the victim gets a knife in the back, a bullet in the brain or a…
US Court Denies Halt on Pipeline Set to Replace Keystone XL Northern Half
The ever-wise Yogi Berra once quipped “It’s like déjà vu all over again,” a truism applicable to a recent huge decision handed down by the United States District Court for…
Alberta Court of Appeal Criticizes Crown/Police Practice of Overcharging
R v Cox 2013 ABCA 394: We would like to add a final comment. As mentioned at the hearing of the appeal, the court was surprised that the criminal conduct…
what i’m watching: ken burns’ "prohibition", an excellent documentary
This week we finished Ken Burns’ excellent documentary “Prohibition,” and I recommend it highly to everyone who enjoys history. Most of us know at least something about Prohibition, especially how…
Stephen Harper … You are a gutless, sleazy liar. Resign!
“Prime Minister Stephen Harper has fought for months to prevent the Senate spending scandal from tarnishing him personally. He no longer can. RCMP Cpl. Greg Horton’s 81-page narrative of the…
Canadian Government at Warsaw Climate Talks a Waste of Taxpayers Dollars
All week people have been coming by the press center here at the COP-19 UN climate negotiations asking, “Hey Kevin, why are you just sitting there playing with that pencil?”…
Report: Gas Industry’s Campaign Donations Reach Record Levels
As elected officials in Washington continue to mull the possibilities of setting stricter standards for fracking, the natural gas industry has decided to pull out all the stops to defeat…
Climate Scientists Getting Ready to Rumble?
One thing the climate change denialist industry depends on is being able to act with impunity. They’ve been emboldened to say just about anything because they’re almost never held accountable…
Ontario Government “Failed Miserably” to Protect Endangered Species
Woodland Caribou (Flickr image from Jim Winstead) The Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) has shown a “shocking disregard” for its legal obligation to consult with the public on numerous changes…
The Three Stooges of the Tory Senate
Top Tory senators LeBreton, Tkachuk, and Stewart-Olsen have all had an initial grilling by the RCMP and let’s just say they didn’t score straight A’s. In fact, they came away…
PM says he didn’t OK call about audit
Inspired by this headline: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/harper-says-he-didn-t-ok-call-to-deloitte-about-duffy-audit-1.2436581
Amsterdam’s solution: Paying alcoholics in BEER
I’m not gonna lie… sometimes cleaning is better when drunk. Like, if you’re going to engage in something that you will hardly remember the next day- why not cleaning? Yes,
Nov. 22: Back to normal
It’s another trivia day – mostly – in the TandT. A plant in Nova Scotia which does something to onions has laid off workers temporarily because its onions are late…
Shorter Brian Lilley and Sun Media
Senate scandal. What scandal?
The Irish Catholic King
…he was our king, anyway. Fifty years, at this exact moment. So long ago; so very sad, still. My column on Sunday is about him, and Dallas – where we…
Word Association. If I Say "Harper", You Say ….
If I had to come up with just one word to describe Stephen Harper’s style of governance it would be “Sicilian.” In fact, when you view his words and deeds…
With LNG, Asian takeovers of Canadian energy assets still booming
Asian investment explodes in BC’s LNG market, rivalling the scale of resource development in the tarsands, as new trade deals threaten to entrench foreign state ownership of Canada’s key energy…