Dear New Democrats who admire what Greece has done
Read this. In this sense, the Greek referendum delivered an insult to 18 countries, including some that are in situations no less difficult than Greece’s and yet have made considerable…
2015
Do we really want all the latest election toys?
Targeted marketing is not just for your drug store. It is also in play for the upcoming federal election. Not that it is going to be as open and simple…
Front And Centre
David Suzuki writes that we live in a warmer world — a world in which extreme weather is a fact of life. The evidence just keeps piling up: Several recent…
Funny How Things Go: Reflections On Fallen Heroes
No word of a lie, two of my biggest child-hood heroes were Bill Cosby and Woody Allen. In grade four my teacher played an LP of Cosby’s stand-up routine on…
Joe Oliver, Stephen Harper, and the Great Con Economic Meltdown
As you know, I believe that we need a Con like Joe Oliver as our Finance Minister at a time like this one, like a drowning man needs an anvil.…
Confidence Builder #nlpoli
The public utilities board asked Liberty Consulting to review Hydro’s decisions in 11 projects. Hydro is looking for a rate increase. The board wanted to make sure the increase was…
Greece, Angela Merkel, and the Failed Policies of Austerity
As Angela Merkel and her gang of EU stooges and bloated banksters give Greece until Sunday to decide how much more flesh they can carve off its shrunken body. Frustrated…
Warren Kinsella 2015-07-07 23:40:21
AT GATE B41, PEARSON AIRPORT- In politics, you know, the main task is getting folks to pay attention. Most of the time, they don’t. They don’t like politics, they don’t…
Don’t Worry, Be Happy. They Were Only Missiles.
Sure, they were sophisticated, Patriot missiles, belonging to the German military. And, yes, they were in Turkey along the border with Syria. Defending a NATO ally, okay? Fine, so far…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Lawn cats.
The definition of insanity
Shorter Joe Oliver: We’re fully prepared to blame any recession on Canada’s exposure to international instability. But as proof of our economic competence, we’re planning to spend billions in higher…
A Bit About Me and My Caregiving
Recently, I joined the blogging team at The Caregiver Network, a terrific site that’s chock full of opinion, information and video links for caregivers of all types and ages. By…
A Look at ‘100 Remedies for a Broken Democracy’
I received a link to this site from The Friends of the Reform Act. It is essentially a site to crowd source the top 100 ideas forimproving Canadian democracy (there…
SFH (Snipes From Heck)
Big, big changes coming on the band front in coming days. I’m not going to spill the beans, as it were, but a sort-of hint is found here. And it…
July 7: So they’ve been and gone and done it.
Moncton City Council has approved a reguest to borrow $95 million for an “events centre”. The carrot that drew the donkey on was the story that this would produce immense…
Roger’s Bid To Improve Reception and Access For Cobble Hill Will Be Decided At CVRD’s Wednesday Meeting
Richard Hughes I am puzzled, as I am sure many readers will be, to learn that the CVRD Electoral Area Directors have by a 5-4 vote followed a staff recommendation…
140 Law – Current Legal Headlines
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter: Winnipeg bomb victim Maria Mitousis plans to return to job as soon as possible Sex on the beach lands…
The ideal self-driving car
For me, the ideal self-driving autonomous automobile would be peddle powered to charge the battery. Filed under: art Tagged: bike autonomous, car, green, madeWithPaper
The reason you can’t see to the bottom…
is because there’s so much life. Despite growing up on the coast of British Columbia, I’ve not yet learned enough about our marine environment and the people who’ve lived here…
Nine Inch Not A Good Idea, Pt. 2
So. Told ‘em so.