Turcot “neighbourliness” Meeting on April 23 in Saint Henri
Info Citoyens Comité de bon voisinage Dans le but de faciliter les échanges avec les riverains des secteurs touchés par les travaux de Turcot, le ministère des Transports met en…
April 2014
Turcot “neighbourliness” Meeting on April 23 in Saint Henri
Info Citoyens Comité de bon voisinage Dans le but de faciliter les échanges avec les riverains des secteurs touchés par les travaux de Turcot, le ministère des Transports met en…
And now we ride: Almonte 115km
First time out. A slightly accelerated approach to training for the Rideau Lakes Cycle Tour. They tell you to ride 1000km in preparation. I usually manage to come close or…
Kitimat Says No To Northern Gateway
Polls are for dogs, but an honest to gawd plebiscite, where Big Oil outspent the local opposition a gazillion to one and still lost badly…now that’s scientific. I suspect support…
Calgary
Internally, I refer to these type of blog posts as “Emergency Posts”. This is a post to correct or clarify something that I stumbled upon. Recently, a friend of mine,…
Alleged White Boy Posse Member Accused in Other Murders
It has been suggested the White Supremacy shtick and Nazi iconography of the White Boy Posse, a particularly violent gang we have featured on these pages on occasion (here, here,…
Flaherty’s Legacy – The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
The unexpected, shocking death of Jim Flaherty, the Conservative Party’s only Finance Minister until his retirement less than a month ago, has resulted in hundreds of warm tributes for his…
Kitimat rejects Enbridge in pipeline plebiscite
Former Haisla councilor Gerald Amos celebrates the ‘No’ vote (photo: Douglas Channel Watch) By The Canadian Press KITIMAT, B.C. – The residents of Kitimat, B.C. have voted against the proposed…
Kevin O’Leary made a fool of himself again
This guy is a moron.
April 13: Brave New World
Last summer, during the shale gas protests, we were informed that the Moncton police had been issued an armoured personnel carrier. (Well, they had to tell us. Armoured vehicles are…
Ding dong, the wicked Rob Anders is politically dead!
What joyous news this Sunday morning! The insanity in Calgary West / Signal Hill is finally over! Rob Anders – the longtime homophobe, social conservative dork, with a penchant for…
The Implications of Flaherty’s Death
Flaherty passed away suddenly this week. I did not like Jim Flaherty‘s politics – a follower of Mike Harris in the 1990s, and a minister to Harper since 2006, Flaherty…
It’s Possible…
That’s something, then, isn’t it. The IPCC released the final third of their missive today. We can get out alive, and with reasonable economic stability, but only if we dismantle…
The King’s Breakfast BY A. A. MILNE
The King asked The Queen, and The Queen asked The Dairymaid: “Could we have some butter for The Royal slice of bread?” The Queen asked The Dairymaid, The Dairymaid Said,…
Good riddance, Rob Anders
TweetIt finally happened. The man who called Nelson Mandela a terrorist, insulted Canada’s veterans, and called for war against Russia, has suffered his first major defeat since he was first…
Never Again: Don Blankenship-Funded Video Absolves Don Blankenship in Upper Big Branch Mine Disaster Deaths
Don Blankenship’s hubris is surpassed only by his greed. The “Dark Lord of Coal Country,” as the former CEO of Massey Energy has been called, is using the fourth anniversary…
military propaganda at sports events reaches new extremes: continuous recruitment ads at baseball games
I’ve recently returned from a lovely trip to Boston, filled with so many of my favourite things: friends, family, books, and baseball. I love Fenway Park, and I’m always happy…
Sunday Morning Links
Assorted content for your Sunday reading. – Will Hutton writes about Thomas Piketty’s rebuttal to the false claim that inequality has to be encouraged in the name of development –…
Don’t let the door hit you in the ass on your way out
It couldn’t have happened to a more deserving guy: despite endorsements of Anders by Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Calgary cabinet heavyweight Jason Kenney, Liepert’s message that the area deserved…
I’ll watch Mad Men … but I’m not sure if I’ll enjoy it
The Big Cultural Event tonight is the return of Mad Men after a hiatus of what seems like five years. I’ll be watching, but not with great enthusiasm. I mean,…