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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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 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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Every year since embarking on graduate school, then beginning to work full-time, I’ve thought: I have no time to write, I don’t write any more. And every year, Allan chooses…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Nadia Ali, Starkillers & Alex Kenji – Pressure (Alesso Remix)
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 –…