Do Con vehicles have amnesty…
…wrt the Highway Traffic Act? Cuz that’s how it looked to me in my ‘hood this aft. A Mr. Matt Young van was thinking itself Ferrari-worthy on a F1 circuit……
May 2014
The Thing About
The thing about right wing believers they love a good fight good and evil black and white the extremities heroes and villains sinners and saints But when it comes to…
The Thing About
The thing about right wing believers they love a good fight good and evil black and white the extremities heroes and villains sinners and saints But when it comes to…
Lap the Gats: redux
I’m pretty pleased with my performance at Lap the Gats today. I was 27th out of 200 riders, 15th in my age group. I did better still at the hill…
Saturday night blues blogging
David Bromberg seems to have definite ideas about what to do on a Saturday night. Chains and Things was once a big hit for B. B. King. This is Joe…
#RicochetParty Thank you!
A big thank you to all the tremendous support at the West Coast Ricochet Party. Thank you to everyone who came- thank you to everyone who approached shy-little-me to say
Band of the Month: O’Hara
Here it is, just in time…. May’s Band of the Month! O’Hara is a Montreal band that is gentle yet poignant with delicately sparse melodies, and memorable vocal hooks delivered…
Review: Military Workfare
After what I had already read, I didn’t really expect to find work like this, especially in the Canadian context. It is history — well, social and historical geography, really…
May 31: May is such a wimpy month – glad it’s over.
Unless you get all excited by beer festivals and obvious but useless statements from politicians (A15. St. John MP Rodney Weston – a good, half-page of wasted paper to tell…
A Safe Bet
Mother Jones predicts that the next episode of Cosmos will inflame the climate-change deniers. I think that is a safe bet: Recommend this Post
Liberals and Toronto Star colluding together?
I was impressed with Kathleen Wynne a couple days ago when she apparently stood up for our democracy and the constitution by refusing to rule out a coalition with the…
Poll Alert! New EKOS on Monday
@Bigcitylib2 monday, and for all the poll needy we are going to be doing a rollin poll fairly soon so numbers every day!— Frank Graves (@VoiceOfFranky) May 31, 2014
Wynne campaign officially jumps the shark
It’s okay if I do it. But not if you do it. Understand? Me neither. .
Progressives simply cannot trust populist Andrea Horwath to stop Tim Hudak
Ontario PC Leader Tim Hudak has screwed up his election campaign, perhaps beyond repair, with his faulty math and his slick and untrustworthy salesman routine. I said at the start…
Why I’m on the picket line
I will never forget my first days teaching in a public school in British Columbia. It was 2004, and I had just left a job at a small private girl’s…
X Ethical Oil SpokesThing Running For Tim Hudak
Jamie Ellerton, his name is, and he’s running down in Parkdale High-Park. Click through link below for more on him: @SunNewsNetwork @JEllerton The old ED for @Ethical_Oil is running for…
The Goddess of Democracy Would be 25 Years Old
I had so much hope for China in 1989. Oh well, at least I got an iPhone.
Advance polling in Ontario opens today – please #voteon
By now, most people in Ontario will have gotten their voting cards, or will shortly. If you live in Ontario, regardless of who you support, I encourage you to go…
Non est factum
Justice Cartwright described non est factum in Marvco Colour Research Ltd. v. Harris 2 SCR 774: "(W)here a document was executed as a result of a misrepresentation as to its…
The cat responsible for Global Warming
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