In Over Our Heads, Way Over.
Usually when someone orders their life according to alternate realities we consider that person mentally ill. It’s not hard to notice, they do a lot of weird things that just…
2015
From SLATE – Do Not Watch "Game of Thrones" With These People
Sunday opens the fifth season of Game of Thrones. If you’re going to watch it, Slate.com suggests you not view it with any of these sorts of people. While you’re…
Jobs Gains Skew Part-time, Over 55
The Canadian labour market added 29,000 jobs in March, beating expectations. Underneath the headline, though, the numbers aren’t as rosy. A jump of 57,000 part-time jobs masked the loss of…
Your Daily Digital Digest for Friday, April 10, 2015
Your news links for today: Bill C-51 Is More Unpopular than Ever – VICE Canada The US Gov Can Download the Entire Contents of Your Computer at Border Crossings– VICE…
Is Ezra Pulling Down His Duffy Interviews?
This fellow thinks he did: @davidakin Why did Ezra delete his 2012 Sun interviews with #Duffy? e.g. http://t.co/69klWXtzp9— Deep Climate (@DeepClimate) April 9, 2015 I was skeptical, so I asked:…
Why Mike Duffy will likely win on the “residency” allegations in court
I used to be the courts and cops reporter for the Ottawa Citizen. I watched Don Bayne do his thing, up close, many times. When Mike Duffy made the decision…
He Should Be Next
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/ Stephen Harper claims that he didn’t know what was going on behind the scenes in the Duffy Affair. That claim has always been hard to stomach. Michael Harris writes…
Tells You All You Need To Know, Doesn’t It
It is a mental picture I hope all Canadians carry to the polls this October: “To Duff, a great journalist and a great senator, thanks for being one of my…
What’s the Senate all about Hair?
There is something of a contest going on. The Hair might draw the line at taking off his stuffed shirt and streaking the tourists gaping at Ottawa’s Confusion Square but…
SFH: Eighties Dance Song
Many, many of you have asked what goes on every Thursday night at the SFH studio sessions. Well, okay, none of you have asked that, ever, but let’s imagine for…
Michael Harris: Why Stephen Harper Should be Testifying at the Duffy Trial
In my last post I wrote about how the Mike Duffy trial is already turning into a real nightmare for Stephen Harper.Duffy's lawyer is trying to bind the two men…
ROCHON on balanced budgets
Balanced budget legislation will be disastrous for Canada Louis-Philippe Rochon Associate Professor of Economics, Laurentian University Co-Editor, Review of Keynesian Economics Twitter @LPROCHON Finance Minister Joe Oliver’s latest muses about…
Bill C-51: Now More Unpopular Than Ever
Sometimes in this big beautiful country it seems like we are too small, too insignificant, too weak or too complacent to change anything.Helpless to stop the monstrous leader who is…
Stephen Harper and Mike Duffy: The Love Story
I always knew that Stephen Harper would never be able to escape the large shadow of Mike Duffy. I knew that he broke the rules to make him his favourite…
The week from hell #nlpoli
You gotta feel for police chief Bill Janes and the rest of the men and women of the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary. All this happened between Sunday, April 5, 2015 and…
Iran holds the nuclear powers to account
So the United States finally bullied the Iranians into a nuclear deal. Iran has always said it had no intention of building a weapon, but that wasn’t good enough for…
Recap: #abvote Google Hangout with NDP leader Rachel Notley
It is day three of Alberta’s 2015 Provincial Election and the campaign is already getting interesting. Two polls released in the first days of the campaign show an unprecedented three-way…
Surely, Kinder Morgan is celebrating the increased economic activity in English Bay
Just think how many cleanup- and remediation-related profits might be lost if we’d retained the capacity to contain a fuel spill before it spreads.
Seven Days Left in Dr. Dawg Fundraiser
On March 18 we learned that Richard Warman and others started an Indiegogo campaign to help John Baglow pay legal bills resulting from his libel suit against Free Dominion and…