B.C.’s "Requirements" For Approving The Northern Gateway Pipeline–What They Really Mean
B.C. and indeed all of Canada, have Alberta by the balls. Now its time to squeeze.
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Prominent Climate Change Denier Dies.
Alexander Cockburn, RIP. That is all.
When Teh Magick Goes Away
SAN JOSE — Amid inspirational talk, chanted mantras and shouts of victory at a late-night firewalking event attended by thousands Thursday came agonized shrieks from followers whose soles were scorched…
Noted Climate Scientist Michael Mann Threatens Legal Action Against Far Right Scuzzbag With Fake English Accent Mark Steyn
The facebook entry is here, screen-capped below: I’m not going to link to the defamatory stuff; it compares Mike Mann to Jerry Sandusky. You can find it through the link.…
Warman Vs. Lemaire Update
From Richard’s website: – Warman v. Arnie Lemaire (aka Blazingcatfur) libel action – the pre-trial was recently held and trial of the action is now scheduled for February, 2013 in…
Will Hudak’s Anti Union Legislation Weaken Abortion Rights?
Chris Vander Doelen of the Windsor Star thinks that’s what Tim Hudak’s recently released white paper, Paths To Prosperity: Flexible Labour Markets, will accomplish: Unions have no moral right and…
A Brief Note
A pop tin exploding in your freezer sounds a lot like a gunshot these days to a jumpy Scarberian. I thought I had a gangster in my fridge, but it…
The Gaffes Of Mackay: A Brief Compendium
Working backwards from the most recent: July 2012: Peter Mackay forgets who we fought against in War of 1812 April 2012: Peter Mackay is outsmarted by bureaucrats. January 2011: Peter…
Thomas Lukaszuk Apologizes
…for tasteless FB Post: From here. And really that should be the end of it. Everyone says stuff that’s dumb, esp. on The Internet. Usually, just admitting that what you’ve…
Landslide Jokes, Like Jokes About Assassinating Politicians, Tend Not To Be Funny
Maybe he is one after all. This post was, incidentally, totally ripped off from here. PS. To be clear, this is not the slide that killed those people. Its the…
Enbridge Cleans Up
The fellow in the vid is John Bolenbaugh, a one-time employee of SET Environmental, a company Enbridge hired to clean up their Kalamazoo spill. He sued them for wrongful dismissal,…
Inside Preston Manning’s Secret Deal With Carleton U
Dennis Gruending looks and finds an Alberta oil-man, a passel of old-time Reform Party operatives, a few token Libs, and of course no smelly hippies. Something funny going on?
The Best Column David Warren Has Ever Written
With this last Sunday number of the Ottawa Citizen, I am taking my leave. The editors of the paper have been good to me over the years, and have stood…
Signs Of The Apocalypse Appear In T.O.
These have been appearing everywhere in my end of the city. I mean everywhere, not just on the Scarborough side of Vic Park. When my wife sees him she’ll shit…
Wegmania: The Denouement
The longer version can be found here, but, essentially the serial plagiarism of Ed Wegman and his protege Yasmin Said has begun to catch up with them. They are both…
NDP Still Ahead, Even In "The West"
…but narrowly: The Ekos survey put support for the center-left NewDemocrats at 32.3 percent with the Conservatives on 30.2 percent. The Conservatives won a majority of seats in the House…
On Rob Anders Hair
This was the hair Rob Anders was wearing when he trashed the Harper Government for honoring humanist and Mao sympathizer Norman Bethune as a means of getting in tight with…
Hitler On John Cage
A different scene from the movie, just as funny:And if you have never heard 4:33, here it is.
Mulcair Makes Play For B.C. Vote
A damning report on Enbridge Inc.’s inept handling of the 2010 crude oil spill in Michigan should kill the Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline, NDP leader Thomas Mulcair said Tuesday in…
When Whitchurch-Stouffville Was New York
Carved woodpecker head Apparently, they’ve been working on the Mantle Site, the largest and most complex ancestral Wendat-Huron village to be excavated in the Lower Great Lakes region, for a…