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Ford’s Prognosis
From the wiki for Liposarcoma: Prognosis The prognosis varies depending on the site of origin, the type of cancer cell, the tumor size, the depth, and proximity to lymph nodes.…
John Tory’s Statement Withdrawing From Upcoming Debates
“With Doug Ford entering the race and less than six weeks to go until election day, we have entered a new phase of the campaign. John has extraordinary demands on…
From The Farmers Forum Survey: Wind Farms On Wolfe Island
I don’t think the survey is on-line yet–at least I couldn’t find it here–but WCO hasposted some of the highlights: Farmers Forum surveyed a big chunk of Wolfe Island residents…
LPoC on Abortion Rights: Thumbs Up Or Down?
I dunno. But at least I can see the reasoning behind this one (whereas the sense of holding open nominations continues to elude me. Because nobody cares about process issues…
Sun Sued Again!
Here is the grovelling apology: “A column published in The Sun on November 14, 2012, and an interview that same day on Sun News expressed opinions of Tarek Fatah about…
Tory MP Cheryl Gallant: My Last Marble Just Bounced Away Into The Fucking Abyss
From her website: In 2005, the liberal government in Ontario passed legislation called the “Places to Grow Act” to align its land use/planning codes and government policies to United Nations…
Toronto Set To Elect Henry Blake
Amiable, sort of clueless. The kind of guy who wanders around saying “the world is a square, the world is a square” until someone tells him its a rhomboid, after…
Arctic Gateway Route Relies On Global Warming To Thin The Ice
Stymied by opposition on the West Coast, the Alberta government has prepared a technical report outlining the possibility of an “arctic gateway” as an alternative means of getting their bitumen…
In An Information-Based Economy When You Provide Crap Information You Hurt The Economy
From here. Original stats-can report is here.
Away On Vaca
A period of light blogging will become even lighter as I head back to the Left Coast for a week and change with the family. Although I will try and…
Who Will Be Mark Steyn’s Witnesses?
Just noticed another piece on Steyn’s website re the defamation case climatologist Mike Mann has brought against him. Its largely the same old same old, but then there is this…
A Wee Design Flaw
The BrightSource Energy plant, a state-of-the-art solar plant in the Mojave Desert, works on the principal of focusing sunlight on a bunch of towers full of water until the water…
Clean Coal Does Not Exist
…or at least is a deceptive term, according to the UK Advertising Standards Authority: The ASA understood that the phrase “clean coal” was the term given to a branch of…
The Canadian Environment: Who Can Speak?
News of this paper arrived on my twitter feed last evening, and one of the author’s was kind enough to email me the entire thing. It takes a look at…
On King Horton’s
Dear Mr. Horton, Although I never drink the plonk that mascarades as regular joe at your outlets, and though your specialty donuts are nothing but sub-standard attempts to cash in…
Wind Farms In Court: Ontario Leads The Pack
Condensed from Mike Barnard’s report: Interestingly, Canada is by far the most litigious, and Ontario had almost 30% of the cases by itself. Belief in health impacts varies substantially by…
Ethical Oil Complaint To Canadian Judicial Council Fails: Judge Ducharme Off Hook For For Participating In David Suzuki Mock Trial
Ezra and Co. (young Amanda) try to soften their defeat by marking up the document with snarky liner notes CJC Response to Complaint Against Justice Todd Ducharme …but if they…
Tory MP Ryan Leef Has Tons Of Class: All Of It 3rd
Ya Wanna read something really funny, though? Here’s Ryan’s MMA record. And his legal one.
Sometimes Scarborough Makes Me Proud
For example today, nursing a beer in a pub in the heart of Ford Nation, I overheard several working-class types discussing the CPP. They quite rightly observed that the current…