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…
2015
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…
Oxi: a political opening amid economic suffocation
This week has been a taste of what the economy would look like with a real rupture with the Eurozone: uncertainty, elite blackmail, banks teetering on the brink and the…
Oxi: a political opening amid economic ruin
This week has been a taste of what the economy would look like with a real rupture with the Eurozone: uncertainty, elite blackmail, banks teetering on the brink and the…
When Caregiving Leads to Employment – One Woman’s Experience
My name is Michelle Thompson and I am part-time blogger and social outreach coordinator for Parentgiving.com, as well as a mother of three, wife of one, and caregiver for both…
My love letter to Maude, after spending the night at the airport
And I mean it in the nicest possible way.
Way behind schedule #nlpoli
The reports you will likely read in the conventional media all peg the Muskrat Falls project as behind schedule. That’s what the latest project update from the provincial government and…
A Grave Mistake
http://news.nationalpost.com/ The story of the Harper Party’s rejection of Ches Crosbie’s candidacy in Avalon tells you much more about Stephen Harper than it does about Mr. Crosbie. Stephen Maher writes:…
The problem with problem gambling.
Usually in diatribes against the sin of gambling, you get disjointed, uninformed and confused information based on bible studies, imagination and urban legends. It was interesting the other day to…
Stephen Harper’s Most Sad and Pathetic Calgary Stampede
Well there he was in this PMO picture, at the Calgary Stampede in his black bad guy cowboy hat, framed between a horse and a horse's ass.Watching the parade and…
Independence Day: an excellent moment to remember Stephen Harper is no ‘Tory’
PHOTOS: Today is Independence Day in the United States, and also in Texas, where this photo was snapped. Below: Stephen Harper, not a Tory, unlike John A. Macdonald, below him,…
Water, Water Everywhere. Well that is what they told us. Now what ?
Richard Hughes-Your Humble Blogger Isn’t it odd that the stranger something is the less explanation we get from our governments. Take the recent deals where the BC Liberal government got…
Europeans tried to block IMF debt report on Greece, say sources | Business | ekathimerini.com
Europeans tried to block IMF debt report on Greece, say sources | Business | ekathimerini.com. Filed under: Austerity Tagged: Austerity, Eurozone Crisis, Greece, Syriza
Europe Stands in Solidarity with Massive OXI (No) Vote Rally in Athens Greece
Europe Stands in Solidarity with Massive OXI (No) Vote Rally in Athens Greece. Filed under: Austerity Tagged: Austerity, Eurozone Crisis, Greece, Syriza
Musical interlude
Mumford & Sons – Believe (Kyau & Albert Remix)