Adrian Dix On Trans Mountain (Kinder Morgan) Pipeline
Announcing his environmental platform, Dix said he does “not expect Vancouver to become a major export oil port” as he said appears to be contemplated in the Kinder Morgan proposal.Dix…
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The End Of The Canadian Jewish News
With great sadness, I have to announce that The Canadian Jewish News will cease publishing its printed newspaper with its June 20 edition. I never dreamed that I would be…
FreeD Makes The Big Leagues: Norton Software Dubs It A "Hate" Site
So I was checking out the wifi at my new place by downloading a few software updates and got something from Norton that I didn’t want (and have since uninstalled).…
B.C. Premier Christy Clark Is Hot
I would still vote NDP if I were out there. Nevertheless, she is hot. Very, very hot. That is all. PS. Actually, no it isn’t quite all. I am standing…
Next Time Someone Chides Anonymous
...for their allegedly reckless approach to the Rehtaeh Parsons case, remind them how professional news organizations like the NY Post and CNN covered the Boston bombings. Then tell them to…
Boreal Forest Agreement Not Working?
Announced several years back as a game changing industry/NGO partnership, the Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement (CBFA) lost a key supporter today as conservation group Canopy pulled out of the agreement:…
More Sun Media Layoffs Coming?
Its starting to sound like it. Toronto Sun Family has a new layoff forum up. From it: Web hits are down since the paywall went up, while social media “experts”…
Dear Americans: Don’t Approve Keystone XL Because Of US
Because, try as they might, our government has failed to convince the majority of Canadians outside Alberta that we need a pipeline to the Gulf (or to the West Coast,…
Damian Goddard’s Case Dismissed
Nearly two years after sportscaster Damian Goddard was fired by Rogers Communications, the Canadian Human Rights Commission has dismissed his complaint in which he alleged that he was fired because…
Are The New Anti-Trudeau Ads Effective?
How the heck should I know? You can see ’em here and make up your own mind. A couple of things; Trudeau was stripping down and wearing the stash for…
The Canadian Catholic Church, Then And Now
From Dennis Gruending on the 30th anniversary of the Canada’s Catholic bishops’ report Ethical Reflections on the Economic Crisis:“We are losing the tension between the church and the state in…
The Cost Of Wind In Ontario
And concerning recent increases to the monthly energy bill: The total cost of wind generation also increased from 2009 to 2012. This was due primarily to more wind generation coming…
LPoC Leadership Vote
Frankly, I was disappointed in Joyce Murray’s speech at the LPoC showcase, and I have severe doubts as to whether her plan for cooperation (A runoff??? A RUNOFF???) with the…
Anon Makes Its Case
…and they have handed the evidence over to the police. One day the press will catch up on this one.
Justin Won’t Cross
From the Don’t Fly Porter website: Porter Strikers visited Justin Trudeau at the liberal leadership showcase today and spoke with him about the strike. Justin said he did not know…
NDP Divided Over WWI!
The Frenchy thinks it was bad; the Anglo thinks it was good. Sun News digs up a few geezers old enough to give a shit. Federal Liberals stand to reap…
Should Anonymous Identify Rehtaeh Parsons’ Tormentors?
WK ignited a crap storm yesterday when he tasked the hackivist group Anonymous with finding the identity of four male teens who allegedly assaulted Miss. Parsons. Anon now claims to…
Love Letters To Dalton McGuinty
These two pieces overlap a bit, but together they are probably the best account’s I’ve read of Ontario’s long journey away from coal under Dalton McGuinty, something he doesn’t get…
A Future Without Cheese…
Spent all morning in Emerge at North York General. Turns out my wife has gallstones. Not the immediately dangerous kind, thank goodness, but surgery down the road. Also, a low…
TREASONOUS NDP BASTARDS OPPOSE FIRST WORLD WAR!!!
THOSE TREASONOUS NDP BASTARDS!!!! HOW DEEP DOES THEIR BASTARDLY NDP TREASONOUSNESS GO???? I HEAR…I CANNOT CONFIRM OF COURSE…THAT THOMAS MULCAIR HAS EXPRESSED DOUBTS IN REGARDS TO CANADA’S TROOP DEPLOYMENT IN…