Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Daniel Tencer reports on a couple of important recent warnings that Canada is in danger of following the U.S. down the path…
November 2014
Saturday (or Tuesday) Photo: Brasília
A year ago I was in South America, doing the last bit of on-the-spot research for Road through Time. The photo is of the cathedral designed by Oscar Niemeyer in…
Please come back Curmudgeon.
This is like a plaintive cry in the night across the prairie. A fellow blogger who goes under the pen name The Curmudgeon, a.k.a. The Mound of Sound, says he…
Stephen Harper, Jason Kenney, and the Con Clown Circus
As you know, I sometimes like to portray the foul Harper regime as a Con clown circus.Because although they are the most sinister government in Canadian history, fanatical, brutish, and…
NEWS FLASH! NDP MP Anonymously Accuses LPC MP Of Sexual Assault!
“It was sex without explicit consent,” she said. This is bullshit, because, want to or not, she has in fact destroyed a man’s career. And seems willing to keep the…
The Ghomeshi Scandal and the CBC Management Cult
About ten days ago I wrote a post about the CBC and the Ghomeshi scandal, and I blamed its hapless managers for creating a cult of celebrity where such a…
Experience and government #nlpoli
In the 1980s, local entrepreneur Craig Dobbin bought a batch of helicopter service companies across Canada and merged them with his own company – Sealand – to form Canadian Helicopters. …
Frances Kelsey’s Passing Was as Incorrect as is Possible.
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger I wrote earlier about the passing of Frances Oldham Kelsey, the 100 year old physician-pharmacist who saved Americans from the ravages of thalidomide. I was wrong. I…
Wildrose Party endures its cruelest day as two MLAs quit to join Jim Prentice’s PC government
Ian Donovan, Alberta Premier Jim Prentice and Kerry Towle at yesterday afternoon’s floor-crossing news conference in the Legislature Building. (Ici Radio-Canada photo.) Below: Wildrose Leader Danielle Smith and quotable former…
Dean Clifford and Bill Noble: Emails
This day last November freeman-on-the-land guru, former active Stormfront member, and general nutter Dean Clifford was taken into custody during a seminar he was conducting in Ontario. Since that day,…
#BlackLivesMatter but not in #ferguson
The failure to indict Darren Wilson is a travesty. By Langston Hughes: Ferguson: Chicago: Seattle: New York: Los Angeles: Washington: And in Toronto tomorrow
BC Liberals LNG Tax Bill equals Unprecedented Wealth Transfer and Will Pass Unopposed
Kevin Logan-Cowichan Conversations Contributor The LNG Tax Bill currently winding its way through the BC legislature will impact the very fundamentals of this Province and paves the way for a…
North Cowichan’s Existing Soccer Fields–Better, Safer and Healthier Than Artificial Turf!
Crumby Soccer Fields to be replaced! Don Maroc If someday you want to feel good about the ever-increasing property taxes you pay to the Municipality of North Cowichan just take…
Ian Mulgrew: Judge robbed Burnaby Mountain Protesters of Right to Civil Disobedience
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger There is a great deal at stake when the court acts as accommodators for the corporate interests while denying the civil rights of citizens to protest. Ian…
Ferguson, right now
Spotted by Michael Bolen. Remind you of anything?
As 2 more Wildrose MLAs leave, can Danielle Smith’s leadership survive?
TweetLast week, the wheels were falling off the Wildrose bus. This week, the passengers have flung open the emergency exits and started leaping out into traffic. The Wildrose Official Opposition…
An independent contractor cannot recover for wrongful dismissal
Ho v. World Financial Group Insurance Agency of Canada Inc., 2014 ONCA 832: In particular, the motion judge found that the appellant was not an employee but rather an independent…
Record That Please
Ex-Anders aide stumbles around hunting dirt on @MarloRaynolds. Quotes CPC voter instead. Sun News runs it. Cabinet mins chime in. Beautiful. — Chris Turner (@theturner) November 25, 2014 When has…
The NDP’s 7% problem
The NDP's biggest problem electorally isn't a question of policy or values or leadership or connecting with voters or just about anything else perennially brought up to explain their difficulties…
The NDP’s 7% problem
The NDP’s biggest problem electorally isn’t a question of policy or values or leadership or connecting with voters or just about anything else perennially brought up to explain their difficulties…