Eat your heart out, Kirbie
.@LisaKirbie is super jealous because @LauraJaneGrace just responded to my query about Against Me’s start time. Heh.
2014
CVRD Acting CAO Raimondo’s Oral Report About Legal Opinion On Balme Gravel Application
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger Exclusive audio report that the CVRD did not want you to hear. Cowichan media coverage of local government affairs is scanty, when covered at all. Both the…
The Blame Game
The fact that I experienced physical and verbal abuse at the hands of my teachers during my Catholic education probably has a lot to do with my visceral response to…
Kathleen Wynne plays it smart in Toronto mayor’s race; Tory, Ford & Stintz have a bad day
Right here. Take that, John Tory, Rob Ford and Karen Stintz. Doesn’t exactly suggest that the newly-elected-to-a-healthy-majority-Premier thinks you are going to win, does it? No, it doesn’t.
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Paul Krugman offers a response to the assertion that accumulated wealth should be considered as costless capital: (I)f there’s one thing I thought…
Democracy Watch files integrity complaint against Toronto Mayor Rob Ford
National watchdog organization Democracy Watch has filed a complaint with the Toronto Integrity Commissioner about inside lobbying by Rob Ford and Doug Ford on behalf of companies with ties to…
Exclusive: North Dakota Oil-By-Rail Routes Published for First Time
For the first time, DeSmogBlog has published dozens of documents obtained from the North Dakota government revealing routes and chemical composition data for oil-by-rail trains in the state carrying oil…
The inspector of the floor
The Inspector Filed under: art, drawing Tagged: black cat, Cat, floor
The ghoulish face of empire
Subscribe to our free e-newsletter HERE. This piece was originally published on truthdig and is republished here with the author’s permission. The black-clad fighters of the Islamic State of Iraq…
Grasping, Grungy and Gloating
The Harper Spin Machine marked Michael Ignatieff’s return to Harvard this week by releasing an attack ad which it didn’t use when he was Liberal leader. The idea was, “We…
Russian recognizes Baird’s botching.
Georgiy Mamedov, the dean of the diplomatic corps in Ottawa is returning to Moscow. After 11 years in Canada, the Russian Ambassador seems to have become less and less diplomatic.…
Stephen Harper’s National Energy Program May Do More Damage Than OPEC
” I witnessed first-hand the movement of an economy from historic boom to deep recession in a matter of months. A radical, interventionist blueprint of economic nationalism, the NEP caused…
140 Law – Leading Legal Headlines for Friday, June 27, 2014
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Friday, June 27, 2014: CASL Hits Next Week – Are You Ready? Peter MacKay says controversial Mother’s and…
It’s the Climate, Stupid!
Not two weeks since the federal government’s long-anticipated approval of the Northern Gateway pipeline, the magnitude of the obstacles faced by the project are becoming clearer by the day. There…
TGIF.
Now with extra WHITE COWBELL OKLAHOMA. Filed under: Uncategorized
Coming to Terms with Disability in My Family, Across Generations
After my Dad passed away in 1975 following his third stroke, I was angry. Really, really angry. I would sit in church, look at Christ on the cross and fume,…
Globe and Mail announces Comical Ali as new editor-in-chief
There’s no other way to explain their reliance on “internal” polling by John Tory, about John Tory. Nate Silver in the New York Times on such “polls,” here. Background on…
BREAKING: SFH abandons punk rock, embraces Eurotrash dance club genre
Shocking as it may be, Canada’s best-loved geriatric punks have abandoned punk rock. As you will see in the video below, SFH has decided to become modern, and the resulting…