LPC Senate Change: The View Of A Tory Insider
Keith Beardsley is a Tory insider. Smart guy. Not obviously insane. His angle on Justin’s shock announcement this morning is surely worth noting: It will…be interesting to see how the…
January 2014
Thomas Mulcair tells l’il Andrew Scheer to go fuck himself.
Now this is an opposition that is coming into its own.
Oh Dear
U.S. state legislators, responding to the recent criticism over the execution by torture of an Ohio inmate who took 25-minutes to die from an untested cocktail of lethal drugs, think…
support-the-troops hypocrisy continues; angry veterans call for fantino’s resignation
I am posting this article mainly so the commenter called “conservatives are lying scum” can repost his or her comments here. (You can currently read them on this old post:…
C’Mon, This Is Not Funny. Well, Not That Funny.
Dateline: Rasdorf, Central Germany. Dairy Cows raise the roof. BBC News reports that a cow shed roof was damaged and a cow was injured when concentrated bovine ass gas exploded.…
Guest Blog: How I dropped my monthly mobile costs from $80 to $4
In this Guest Blog, OpenMedia community member Mark Douglas explains how he succeeded in reducing his monthly cell phone costs from nearly $80 to under $4 For a long time…
Status Indians cannot pledge Reserve property as collateral for debt; attempt to structure same fails
Benedict v. Ohwistha Capital Corporation, 2014 ONCA 80: Section 89 of the Act was enacted in the 1951 revision of the original Indian Act. The original Act contained a similar…
Well, Justin, Good On You
Justin Trudeau’s decision to abolish the Liberal party’s Senate caucus is a bold and democratic move. The Senate is supposed to be independent, the best and the brightest, chosen on…
Warmer Seas, Smaller Fish?
Fish stocks in the North Sea are shrinking. Over the past four decades some have shrunk in length by as much as 29%. Researchers wondered if the shrinkage was the…
Why the NEB downplayed the impact of a major bitumen spill
Wednesday, January 29, 2014 So how did the National Energy Board’s Joint Review Panel (JRP) considering Enbridge’s proposed pipelines and tankers project conclude that a catastrophic spill of diluted bitumen…
Liberals Lose Half Their Caucus Under Justin Trudeau’s Leadership
It’s rare that something happens in Ottawa that truly surprises everyone. Despite having spent the last year talking about the senate over and over again, it’s safe to say very…
Canadian Woman Freezes To Death
I wonder if talk radio will be buzzing about how Manitobans let a young woman freeze to death rather than stop and see why she was trying to flag them…
The BC Liberals Energy Fiasco Continues As Site ‘C’ Now Slated To Supply Energy To California
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger Do we have anybody in the Christy Clark BC Liberal Government who has any idea of what they are doing when it comes to energy issues in…
Brits Back Beavers
Britain has been hammered by prolonged and massive flooding in recent years. One solution being advocated by UK’s Mammal Society is to reintroduce the beaver to Britain’s wetlands. The cheapest…
Thomas Berger leads watershed lawsuit v. Yukon development plan
Video by Damien Gillis; story by Dene Moore, The Canadian Press VANCOUVER – A coalition of First Nations and conservation groups is suing the Yukon government over its decision to…
It starts ….Even MSM Political Opinion Starting To Turn On Harper’s Dictatorial Ways….
The political columnist of the Saskatoon Star Phoenix gives a fairly accurate opinion of what is going down in the ranks of the Federal Conservative Parliamentary Caucus lately: “This newly…
DIY instructable for DIY guides
After seeing the sock tutorial posted yesterday, an insightful viewer requested a subsequent DIY guide focussed on how to make DIY guides. Since the Internet was CLEARLY correct in recommending…
Stranger Things Have Happened
Barack Obama received the Nobel Peace Prize just a few months before he authorized a “surge” of 30,000 more U.S. soldiers to fight the Afghan War. That seemed a matter…
Ex-soldiers hold sit-in to protest Veterans Affairs office closure
I suppose if you’re used to facing gunfire, police removal isn’t so bad. Though I think it’s an embarassing shame for the federal government that the veterans are having to…
Justin Trudeau Just Won a Majority Government
Mr. Harper can talk all he wants about abolishing the senate. JUSTIN TRUDEAU just trumped him big time. And that my friends will make him the next Prime Minister of…