Lovely Sun and Jesse James
John Klein: 30 years ago yesterday, here’s what was on TV, and what the weather was like in Toronto. Originally posted on Grandparents' Journal: January 5, 1985 Lovely sun at…
January 2015
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Sam Pizzigati interviews Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett about the fight against inequality and the next piece of the puzzle to be…
Neutering Parliament
http://lincolncathedral.com/ If you want to know how irrelevant Parliament has become, Scott Clark and Peter Devries write, consider what has happened to the budget consultation process: In the past, pre-budget…
140 Law – Legal Headlines for Tuesday, January 6, 2015
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter: Judge accepts defendant’s Nike sneakers instead of cash bail 2014 year in review for fraud warnings Ontario dental watchdog…
And now for more now now about Now
Hollett with a friend. Assorted Now employees and friends of its owner swarmed this wee web site yesterday, taking umbrage with what I had to say about the magazine’s boss…
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Son Three reacts to the win
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Poor sad spider monster
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Ice Storm 2015
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