Hudak’s hopes that we have short memories …
This fall's election in Ontario is going to be pretty exciting if for no other reason than two of the three candidates for Premier represent Hamilton districts. Andrea Horwath represents…
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Vancouver goes berserk — again
I had a feeling that the Boston Bruins were going to win this year's Frederick A. Stanley Cup -- yes, the guy's first name was Fred -- but what happened…
Uphold the sex workers’ decision
This week the Ontario Court of Appeal is hearing arguments in the case involving three sex trade workers who have asked to have three sections of the Criminal Code, as…
Simplify the tax system and give us back the lost decade and a half
My beef this Sunday morning is taxes. I haven't had much time to think about the "revised" federal budget, and there's not much point in tearing it apart, any honest…
BREAKING: Jack Kevorkian dead
Source: Detroit Free Press. All I can say is, he put forward an issue many of us don't really want to talk about on the agenda.
Reform the Senate but do it constitutionally
As reported this morning by the Canadian Press and posted at HuffPo, Québec is serving notice that if Harper continues with his plans to unilaterally "reform" the Senate, it will…
Germany says auf weidersehen to nuke plants
Germany's centre-right coalition announced this morning that it is getting out of the nuclear power business entirely. All seventeen of its plants will be closed by 2022 at the latest.…
When is a scholarship a "forgiveable loan" (or vice versa)?
A very interesting class action lawsuit has been launched here in The Hammer. It involves students of Redeemer University College and their parents who claim they were ripped off by…
HuffPo takes on the Great White North
What a pleasant surprise when I saw the other day that Arianna Huffington launched a Canadian version of the Huffington Post. I was annoyed, as were other users, that for…
Mladić arrested
The bid of Serbia to join the European Union, perhaps as early as 2014, may finally be on track with today's news that Ratko Mladić has been arrested -- in…
Democrats pull another one out of the hat
A big surprise in last night's by-election in New York 26 -- the north and eastern suburbs of Buffalo, most of the "southern tier" and the western edge of Rochester.…
SCOTUS: California prisons overcrowded — duh
Yesterday, the US Supreme Court said that California is in violation of its own consent decree regarding prison conditions related to overcrowding -- an unfortunate result of the well intentioned…
Obama: 1967 borders, please
It's quite the provocation in the minds of many, but Barack Obama has done an almost complete reversal of what he said when campaigning in 2008. At a meeting of…
When settlement groups go astray
Several months back, there was a huge storm when PMS cut off funding for Hamilton based SISO, the Settlement and Integration Services Organization effectively forcing it to close down. At…
Splitsville for Ahnold, Shriver
Divorce is never a simple matter. Especially when it involves Arnold Schwarzenegger and his soon to be ex wife Maria Shriver. It is just possible if the truth above his…
Strauss-Kahn arrested
When I heard the news late Saturday night after work that IMF chief Dominique Strauss Kahn had been arrested for an alleged sexual assault in NYC just as his flight…
Flooding on purpose
I suppose desperate times call for desperate measures, hence today's forced flood in rural Manitoba to destroy a hundred or so homes in order to save another 1000 or more.…
Day after …
Results (unofficial): Conservatives 162 NDP 102 Liberals 34 Bloc 4 Green 1 Mr Harper may well have his long sought majority now, but he needs to understand that while he…
Vote 2011, and "that guy"
It's all over but the voting and please make sure you do vote today. Remember it's "ass-a-hole-as" like Osama Bin Laden who believe that democracy is a sin against God.…
The housing problem in the Great White North
Strangely I have had little to say about this year's election in Canada. I can't understand why since there appears to be an actual race and Jack Layton of the…