The United States of Lunacy
She’s Already Got Her Finger On The Trigger. Let’er Rip, Mom. Kansas is now in, along with Alaska, Arizona and Wyoming. Curiously enough, Vermont is in too. In these states…
April 2015
Thurber’s Writings & Drawings
Books of James Thurber‘s cartoons and writing were always on the shelves at my grandparents’ home, as well as on my parents’ bookshelves. I read them, as I did everything…
On Final Exams
A recent article in the National Post suggests that exams are passé. Joseph Brean writes, Psychologists have a quip about IQ tests — the only thing they measure is your…
Harper Minister Won’t Run Again. That Means She Should Quit – or Be Removed – Now.
Manitoba MP and Harper’s minister for heritage and official languages, Shelly Glover, announced on Friday that she won’t seek re-election this year. That means the Speaker of the House should…
Well This Is Refreshing – a Liberal Who Makes Sense
Former Liberal prime minister, Paul Martin, has slammed the Harper government’s economic record, calling for Ol’ Leatherback, Joe Oliver, to introduce stimulus spending in the next Conservative budget. Dismissing the…
I smell an election in the air
I have been saying for months that the Harper Cons are going to call a snap election this spring.Of course, what do I know about it really.But I believe all…
The Unholy Trinity
The Unholy Trinity, the Three O’s – Overpopulation, Overconsumption and Overshoot – are mankind’s plague on the Earth. Surf’s Up, Indonesia Despite claims that, with just a bit more efficiency,…
Commencement of limitation period
Bennett v. J.K. (Jim) Moore Ltd. (Jim Moore Petroleum), 2015 ONCA 217: According to s. 5(1)(b) of the Limitations Act, the limitation period starts to run when a reasonable person…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your Saturday reading. – Lana Payne writes that we’re seeing exactly the results we should expect from Stephen Harper’s foolish choice to push money upward: A recent…
Abdicating Responsibility
Collingwood Council has, in its short time in office, abdicated much of its responsibility to the business of government and to the people of this town. Council has sloughed off…
Saturday Photo: What We Don’t Need
Appparently there was a big baseball game in Montreal yesterday when you actually could have imagine it was spring, and another one today, when it is snowing, again. The Cincinnati…
Who’s Afraid Of Elizabeth May?
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/ In a recent poll, Canadians made clear that they want to see Elizabeth May in the election debates. However, that doesn’t mean that they’ll get to see her. In…
MLK
Since I was a kid – since this day in 1972, in fact, when I started writing a daily journal – I have always taken note of April 4, and…
We’ve been goosed by Uncle Joe.
Once more the Canadian parliament has been downplayed by the Harper Conservatives. Even as simple an announcement as the date of bringing down the next budget is moved away from…
Stephen Harper and the Summer of Protest
At a time when Stephen Harper is trying to drag us into his monstrous darkness.By using fear as a weapon against his own people, whipping up war fever for crass…
Is Stephen Harper Planning to Conscript Young Canadians?
There's a strange and disturbing story circulating quietly on the internet. It was forwarded to me by someone I trust.And it seems to show that the CBC wrote a story…
Chris Hedges Calls Steve Harper A Pawn Or Puppet Of Corporations
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger The Vancouver Observer has been a most welcome edition to the media mix in the Vancouver market and beyond. They prove, dig and unapologetically provide us with…
Musical interlude
Nadia Ali, Starkillers & Alex Kenji – Pressure (Alesso Remix)
Chag pesach sameach, more or less
I tried to take my 80 year old mother to synagogue for Passover because I thought she’d like it. The first synagogue we tried in Kensington Market was closed –…