Ottawa has blocked telecom giants Bell and Rogers from gobbling up even more scarce and valuable wireless spectrum. Let’s keep up the pressure on Industry Minister Moore to rein in…
BC Liberal Finance Minister Mike de Jong tables a fairytale budget – Feb. 18, 2014 The crafting of a government budget is always fictional because it comes from the minds…
The Ukraine crisis: John Kerry and NATO must calm down and back off The Guardian 2 Mar 2014: Jonathan Steele: The hysterical reaction to Russian military movements in Crimea won’t…
1. As climate change slowly becomes a reality to the deniers, expect those deniers outside Canada to be the first to invade our borders to take advantage of our uncommonly…
BC Premier, Christy Clark, announcing the agreement to build an LNG facility at Grassy Point (Photo: BC Gov Photos | Flickr). Read this Feb 24th article in The Province by…
This is an interesting article by David Rosen (First Person Politics) from Campaigns & Elections about how we burn out our campaign workers on election campaigns. My first reaction to…
Inspired by these stories: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/ottawa-reduced-to-gestures-on-ukraine-say-former-top-envoys-1.2557882 http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/ukraine-standoff-being-monitored-by-canadian-government-1.2558118
You can’t make this up.
Ezra Levant has sent out an email soliciting donations to fund yet another defamation case he’s caught up in. I recieved a secret first draft of this email by a…
A gaggle of Ukrainian military leaders based in the Crimea have defected. The oath of allegiance to the people of Crimea has been taken by Pyotr Zima, head of the…
I don’t like Hamid Karzai but he might have a point when he complains that our Afghan War wasn’t waged on behalf of Afghanistan but for our interests, not his…
Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.) The ‘I’ in this passage — from section 51 of Song of Myself, by…
“You just don’t invade another country on phony pretext in order to assert your interest.” That pearl of wisdom yesterday from the secretary of state of the United States of…
There has been an enormous amount of speculation around the Ukraine situation on social media today. First, let me be abundantly clear: I do not support the Russian actions towards…
Anti-salmon farming activist Don Staniford presents to the European Commission last week (courtesy of Don Staniford) Read this Feb. 26 story from the Irish Examiner on the battle over open…
He is somewhere in Hollywood. 🙂
The Toronto Dominion Bank v. Nawab, 2014 ONCA 152 deals with a default judgment signed before the time to defend had elapsed. In such circumstances many would assume the judgment…
Gone, But Never Forgotten
Each year, George Carlin’s acerbic commentary and observations become more and more relevant. If we don’t want a repeat of what happened last time, then it’s up to us to…