Saturday Photo: Where are the Nighthawks and the Ducks?
This photo was taken a couple of years ago at a pond in Parc Beaubien, a rather civilized neighborhood park near us. For several years ducks had been nesting at…
July 2015
First lessons in the environment.
It hardly matters at what age young men have their first camping experience. The most common first lesson is to never pee into the campfire. Not only is that a…
Could Progressives Snatch Defeat From the Jaws of Victory?
Well I've got to hand it to Tom Mulcair and Justin Trudeau. Our two cowboys at the Calgary Stampede.They're timing couldn't be more perfect, or depending on your point of…
There Are Reasons For Harper’s Slide
http://www.chicagotribune.com/ Six months ago, it looked like the prime minister was well on his way to his fourth mandate. The public supported his entry into the war on ISIS. They…
Harper History, Part 6B – Budget Reintroduced – More Secrecy
May 2011 – summer 2012 The first few months of the Harper majority made it clear that the long forgotten “open and accountable” promise given when first coming to power…
First It Was Harper’s Police Now It’s Harper’s Army
A few days ago I wrote a post about how Stephen Harper was turning the RCMP into Harper's police.Just another tool in his campaign to try to win the next…
The Totally Unsurprising Vindication of Tom Mulcair
A few days ago I wrote a post defending Tom Mulcair from a Maclean's story that claimed that he once asked Stephen Harper for a chance to serve him.And only…
The effort to engineer regime change in Greece could lead to a much bigger disaster
PHOTOS: Leaders of the Greek military government of 1967 to 1974. Is something similar waiting in the wings if the eurozone leadership’s effort to terrorize the Greeks into voting Yes…
Is the Biggest Military Procurement Programme in World History the World’s Biggest Con Job?
As I wrote in an earlier post today, Lockheed’s F-35 now stands exposed not as the multi-role fighter the manufacturer and the US Air Force touted it to be but…
July 4: We’ll start with what isn’t in the Irving news.
For some reason, our news media have had little to say about Israel. So try the site below. It’s from Haaretz, an Israeli paper, and one of the few intelligent…
Why Britain is culpable for the slaughter of its citizens
British Prime Minister David Cameron is enraged at the massacre on a beach at the Sousse resort in Tunisia last week. And well he should be: thirty of his countrymen…
what i’m reading: wild by cheryl strayed, zeitoun by dave eggers
I’ve just finished two truly excellent works of nonfiction: Wild and Zeitoun. Both books read like fiction, with clean, clear writing and page-turning suspense. Both document almost unbelievable, out-sized events,…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Paul de Grauwe points out that the European push to force Greece into continued austerity is the most important factor holding back a…
The Little Bomber That Couldn’t
F-35 “Fatso” The myth of the F-35 as an all purpose, multi-role fighter imploded this past week with the leak of a report on flight tests showing that it couldn’t…
So Eve Adams’ boyfriend is two-faced liar too?
It would seem so from this article. If this flimsy attack on NDP Leader Tom Mulcair is the best intelligence that Dimitri Soudas can offer the Liberals, it reinforces just…
2015 Election: Harper’s Conservatives down 30% in EKOS poll
The most significant statistic in the latest EKOS snapshot of Canadian politics is that the “new” Conservatives lead by PM Stephen Harper have now plunged to a level in anticipated…
A Barbaric Practice
I have written before on the ugly and wholly indefensible slaughter of sharks so that their fins can be enjoyed as a delicacy, but now seems a good time to…
Release plan relevant to tertiary ground for bail release
R v Dang, 2015 ONSC 4254
Stuff Happens, week 25: The great $15 debate; more McMania; new low for Tories
“The folks over there think it’s totally appropriate for a single mother of two or three to have to work 70 hours a week in order to earn a living…