Baltimore Protests Turn Violent; State of Emergency Declared
All hell is breaking loose in many US cities over the last few months. It seems like hardly a day goes by without reports of another black man being shot…
2015
Climate Change In The Raw
Imagine a highway full of cars, all traveling at very high speed, and all of them simultaneously going out of control. Something along those lines may be in store with…
Avalanche from Nepal Earthquake Rips Through Mt. Everest Base Camp Harrowing video
Earthquakes causing unthinkable death, damage and suffering are not such unusual occurrences, but this latest disaster in Kathmandu, Nepal hits the extreme by all measures. Living on the West Coast,…
National Energy Board to Consult Public on Pipeline Emergency Response Plans Following Kinder Morgan Secrecy Scandal
Secrecy surrounding pipeline emergency response plans will soon be the subject of public consultation conducted by the National Energy Board (NEB), according to the board’s CEO Peter Watson. As the…
National Energy Board to Consult Public on Pipeline Emergency Response Plans Following Kinder Morgan Secrecy Scandal
Secrecy surrounding pipeline emergency response plans will soon be the subject of public consultation conducted by the National Energy Board (NEB), according to the board’s CEO Peter Watson. As the…
Winnicki Donates to Free Dominion’s Warman Appeal: Part III
Well, talk about trying to have your cake and eat it too. The past two articles posted too the blog have looked at the efforts of the owners of Free…
TorrentFreak: We told Minister James Moore to protect us from copyright trolls
We need Minister Moore to close the loophole that lets Big Media threaten Canadians with abusive copyright letters. Article by Ernesto for TorrentFreak Following the introduction of Canada’s notice and…
Tim and Kathleen react to my suggestion that Trudeau will win next election
I am the source of levity wherever I go.
Handed in our notice at the day care
For the last eight years every working day our daughter Mallory has been in the care and tutelage of the teachers at Glebe Parents Day Care. I still remember those…
April 27:Blah
It’s hard to write every day on a paper that usually has nothing to say. Big headline – “Downtown centre funding to be based on ‘evidence,’ says minister. (Actually, the…
Here’s why small businesses across Canada are speaking out about the damage Bill C-51 will do to our economy
Small businesses across Canada are speaking up to warn the government about the damage that its “secret police” Bill C-51 will inflict on our economy. Since we first published a…
The Return of the Gilded Age: Consequences, Causes and Solutions
On April 8, I had the honour of delivering the Harry Kitchen Lecture in Public Policy at the invitation of the Department of Economics at Trent University. I took the…
New Map Showcases B.C.’s 14,000 Clean Energy Jobs
An interactive map released Monday by the Pembina Institute creates a visual of B.C’s 14,000 jobs in clean energy. The B.C. Clean Energy Jobs Map quantifies the number of jobs…
New Map Showcases B.C.’s 14,000 Clean Energy Jobs
An interactive map released Monday by the Pembina Institute creates a visual of B.C’s 14,000 jobs in clean energy. The B.C. Clean Energy Jobs Map quantifies the number of jobs…
LIFE WITH DOG #7
LIFE WITH DOG #7 Dog – I haz problem!!! Human – What is the problem? Dog – The ball, I want da ball! Human – So get the ball Dog…
New York City. Four Cops. Two Black Guys. Nobody Dies.
Maybe it was because the cops were Swedes on the subway going to catch a performance of Les Miserable. A fight broke out between two homeless men. When the conductor…
Pillow I threw at Tim Powers at IAFF conference
He threw one back. He missed.
Extending the term of copyright will harm Canadian economy
Canadians will bear the costs of the new copyright extension, with less choice and higher prices. Article by Michael Geist for the Toronto Star The Conservative government’s budget this week…
Frontenac Export Ale
On De L’Eglise near Cool. Can’t find a lot of information about it but the brewery was in Montreal and closed in the 1970’s. Don’t recall ever hearing about it…
Canada’s Oily Media
There are opportunities to support journalism in Canada that doesn’t take millions from the oil industry and the oil-soaked Conservative government. Had you heard that the Conservative Party communicated with…