They Never Disappoint Me
‘They’ would be Star readers who write letters to the editor. The following demonstrate that, like many others, they have taken the full measure of Donald Trump and found him…
August 2017
Old Harry Catches the Stench of 1939 In the Air
For a 94-year old guy, Harry Leslie Smith intends to see his voice heard. Smith splits his time between the U.K. and a home he maintains in Belleville, Ontario. Ever…
Open Letter to Greater Sudbury Council re: Kingsway Entertainment District Site and Building Design and the Need for Public Engagement
The following is an open letter to Greater Sudbury Council re: the Report to Council dated August 9, 2017, from CAO Ed Archer regarding Site and Building Design for the…
Charlottesville Rebound
Protesters in Durham, North Carolina, toppled a statue of a Civil War Confederate soldier in reaction to the fiasco in Charlottesville, Virginia on the weekend. Hard to tell where this…
Trump Says He May Pardon Sheriff Arpaio
He’s calls himself “America’s toughest sheriff” and now he’s facing a stretch in the Greybar Hotel for refusing an order to stop traffic stop patrols targeting Latinos as suspected undocumented…
You Can’t Tell If It’s Safe If You Don’t Know What It Is.
The folks in Washington state aren’t impressed with the Trudeau/Notley/Kinder-Morgan pipeline initiative. Among other things they’re a little pissed off that no one will tell them what’s in the dilbit…
LawFact of the Day: Employment Law
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Tuesday August 15, 2017. Today we are talking about Employment Law. Can an employer lawfully terminate an exceptional employee who has…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Asher Schechter examines new studies showing how massive markups are enriching corporations at the expense of workers: The two standard explanations for…
SFH Kinda Suck now up on iTunes!
Right here! Buy several copies! And press release here! SFH release new album, SFH KINDA SUCK, which kinda says it all TORONTO, August 11 – Shit From Hell, perhaps the…
Canadian music guru calls SFH “the most self-aware band ever”!
Alan Cross takes note! Check it out!
A Helping Hand for Shaky Mice
Your browser does not support the video tag. Almost everybody uses a computer daily, even those with involuntary muscle movements. The inability to effectively use a mouse as a result…
Is NAFTA Dead?
Andrew Coyne’s conservative soul was perturbed by what Chrystia Freeland said yesterday: I said we should be prepared to walk away from the negotiations. I didn’t say we should deliberately…
Is Ezra Levant’s Bigot Rebel Falling Apart?
For years Ezra Levant has been peddling bigotry for fun and profit. And ever since the rise of Donald Trump, his ratty racist rag The Rebel has become more and…
Barrie’s Bad Boy Brown.
There is no reason to worry. The next provincial election is not scheduled until June 7 next year. By then, we should expect that far more Ontario voters are going…
III% Alberta Militia Leader Suggests They Are Going To Become Property Managers In Edmonton
While the anti-Muslim/anti-Government rallies held on June 3 were mostly unsuccessful across the country, the event in Calgary was an exception as it managed to attract close to 100 people.…
The old man himself
Also at the Mauritshuis you can see any number of Rembrandts. Any student of art or history must make this pilgrimage.Now you cant get within two feet of this small…
Rebel Media – Ezra’s Giant Shit Sandwich
In the wake of the Charlottesville fiasco, Alberta Tories are turning their backs on Ezra Levant’s Rebel Media over its ties to the alt-right white supremacist movement. Doug Schweitzer, facing…
Brian Lilley, "The Rebel" Co-Founder, Resigns
While the tragedy in Virginia and association with the “alt-right” appears to be the straw that broke the camel’s back, Lilley suggests that this was a process that began some…
Old guy plugs book on CBC News.
Film at eleven, literally.