Two Headed Boy, Part Two
Jeff Mangum, the Salinger of rock’n’roll, is in TeeDot tonight and last night with his Neutral Milk Hotel, totally sold-out. For a guy with so little output – and almost…
Jeff Mangum, the Salinger of rock’n’roll, is in TeeDot tonight and last night with his Neutral Milk Hotel, totally sold-out. For a guy with so little output – and almost…
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Monday, January 20, 2014: Driver ticketed for Google Glass acquitted, but ‘the fun is just starting,’ legal expert…
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Graeme Wearden reports on Oxfam’s latest study on inequality and the outsized political influence of the wealthy few: The Oxfam report found that…
This past week saw several new experiments in my bread laboratory. Okay, it’s a kitchen, but sometimes it feels like a lab, what with all the tinkering and testing I…
Stephen Harper, we are told, has received a rock star welcome in Israel. Leaving aside for the moment the diversion it creates from scandal at home, one should be very…
Although I have written several previous posts on the need to substantially increase the minimum wage so that it becomes a living wage, I have been planning an update. However,…
15,000 people in Latvia form a human chain to transfer books from their old, falling-apart library to their beautiful new home.
The Québéc government’s Charter of Values proposal is earning the province ridicule. Premier Pauline Marois and her Parti Québécois government think it will make francophones in the province hunker down…
David Akin has published a list of the folks accompanying PM Stephen Harper to Israel. As Hardy notes in the comments here, one the people on the list is Julius…
If you want to understand what the provincial government’s audited financial statements really mean, you will have to skip Tom Marshall’s comments last week and look instead at the lengthy…
When I saw this picture published tonight by the Con Ministry of Propaganda and Disinformation, I have to admit I was conflicted eh? On the one hand I despise both…
With just about a month to go until Open Data Day things are going well. There are quite a few cities that have been added to the open data day…
A small dog plowing through snow – YouTube: ““ ‘via Blog this’
Some of the Canadian Air Transport Security Authority’s sub-contracted passenger screening supervisors at Edmonton International Airport. Fortunately for them, theirs won’t be the heads that roll. Below: Skylar Murphy, the…
On January 27th, a rally will be held at Pickering City Hall in support of a municipal motion demanding the federal government act with transparency as it pertains to the…
I have inquired as to whether the party will be accrediting bloggers to the 2014 Ontario Liberal AGM on March 21-23. If I hear anything, dear readers, I’ll let you…
Neil Young doesn’t have to do what he is doing, there are many, many reasons why he shouldn’t, but he is, and he is showing us courage that most of…
Freedom Industries, the company that recently leaked thousands of gallons of toxic chemicals into the Elk River in West Virginia, quietly filed for bankruptcy this past Friday to shield themselves…
Jim Cuddy, from the Canadian band Blue Rodeo, called Young’s comparison of the oilsands with Hiroshima extreme. “He’s grossly exaggerating,” Cuddy was reported saying of Young’s comparison of Alberta’s oilsands…