Open letter to the winning Team McGuinty folks
Hey, you guys: …with collective attentions turned to nasty snowstorms, repellent Conservative Senators and depressing job numbers, I know few folks are paying attention, as you pack up your offices…
2013
5605…Dog May Kill Blue Jays World Series Hope
See Ontario has a law that says no pit bulls. Mark Buehrle is a star pitcher that the Toronto Blue Jays signed in the off season. In Ontarioio one is…
Snow in Toronto OMG! RMR
The good citizens of Toronto faced 20 cm of snow overnight. This was back in ought four, but still, the trauma lingers on.
Harper’s “appalled”? Harper should’ve known better
Harper says today that he’s “appalled” by the Brazeau situation, but Harper knew this about him when he appointed “The Brazman” in 2008. He did it anyway.
Vaughn Palmer’s Wrongheaded Defense of Private Power Projects
In a recent column, the Vancouver Sun’s Vaughn Palmer defends gross overpayments to IPPs on the grounds that the contracts were granted at a time when electricity prices were much…
Forum Federal Poll: 32% Con, 30% Liberal, 26% NDP
In a first, and in heavy opposition to the recent Abacus poll, Forum Research has released their usual monthly federal political issues poll and it shows the Liberals moving into…
The Senate is an anti-democratic abomination. Always has been, always will be.
I don’t give a damn how difficult it is. Abolish it. And if that proves too difficult, stop appointing Senators to it. I’d vote for a PM who’d promise to…
Canadians Giving Up on the World of Work
The glaring contrast between employment numbers, and the unemployment rate, was highlighted by today’s labour force numbers from Statistics Canada (capably dissected elsewhere on this blog by Angella MacEwan). Paid…
Premier Dix?
I’m a westerner, having grown up in Vancouver and spending many years in the Okanagan before landing in Ontario. Way back, I was a post secondary education activist, fighting to…
Here Come the Auditors
A Senate budget committee has called in outside auditors to scrutinize the expenses claimed by three senators and the status of their actual residency. Tories Mike Duffy, Patrick Brazeau and…
On Brazeau
I’ll try to keep this short, because in all honesty I find the current news circus over Senator Patrick Brazeau’s alleged criminal actions to be a bit too wall-to-wall. I…
Canadian Trained Troops Fight American Trained Troops In Mali Again
Canadian-trained Malian paratroopers loyal to democratically-elected but deposed president Amadou Tourre are fighting again with the American-trained forces of our new ally and coup leader, butcher and probable mass murderer…
US missionary organization ABWE dumps G.R.A.C.E. investigative team
Following lengthy deliberation and prayer, ABWE today replaced G.R.A.C.E.— the victims’ advocacy organization—with a new investigative firm. G.R.A.C.E. was hired by ABWE in May 2011 to independently investigate the tragic…
Criminalizing Mental Illness
Harper has probably got a tent in his puritanical pants over this one. Our prime monster is on the crime and punishment bandwagon and this time he’s got the mentally…
Its Only A Forum Poll
…but I like it: Forty-one per cent of poll respondents said they’d vote Liberal in this scenario, granting the party 164 of the 308 seats in the house. The Tories…
GTHL update: cancelled
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CBC’s Peter Mansbridge coulda bin a contender: Salutin
CBC’s Peter Mansbridge coulda bin a contender: Salutin: As a follow-up to my post about former fluff broadcaster and current fraud artist Mike Duffy, here is a link to a…
Senator Patrick Brazeau Must Go!
If Brazeau stays on as an independent Senator, he’ll cost Canadian taxpayers at lease $7-million by the time he retires approximately 37 years from today. By Obert Madondo | The…
BCE’s Q4 earnings rise, net income beats estimates
BCE’s net earnings are up 45.7 per cent from a year earlier in the three months ended Dec. 31, rising to $708 million or 91 cents per share.
Justice Minister still won’t commit to respecting Canadians’ online privacy
Warrantless online spying bill C-30 could come back at any time as a recent interview with Justice Minister Rob Nicholson shows. read more