Campaign Capers: Split decision
Supreme Court upholds Conservative win in Toronto riding Conservative MP Ted Opitz will keep his Etobicoke Centre seat, as Canada’s top court today upheld his narrow 2011 election victory despite…
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Friday night Gov’t Mule blogging
This is called Lola Leave Your Light On and it’s from an episode of the Conan O’Brien Show. This song has grown on me. The first night I watched this,…
Campaign Capers: Peter, Paul and Provincial Airlines
Two months ago I added Peter Penashue, Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs, to the list of people I was keeping an eye on for this series of posts. He finally surfaced…
And that’s where I stopped reading
I scanned through this article at iPolitics far enough to make sure that I wasn’t just objecting to something projected onto it by a copy editor whose headline didn’t reflect…
We need to look forward as opposed to looking backwards
Iraq records huge rise in birth defects …a new study reports a “staggering rise” in birth defects among Iraqi children conceived in the aftermath of the war. High rates of…
Shut them down
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency won’t give the XL Foods plant in Brooks, Alberta — the plant at the centre of the largest beef recall in Canadian history due to…
Friday night Strength In Numbers blogging
If you’re not familiar with the band Strength In Numbers, the list of personnel might lead you to expect a bluegrass supergroup. But the tunes on offer here aren’t traditional…
Campaign Capers: Where in the world is the Supreme Court of Canada?
I confess to being a bit mystified. When the Supreme Court of Canada interrupted its normal summer hiatus to hear the appeal concerning the riding of Etobicoke-Centre, it appeared to…
Mostly competent government
Conservatives overspent government ad budgets by 37% …an examination of the Conservative government’s first five years in office shows it overspent … cabinet-approved ad budgets by $128 million — more…
Mostly competent government: Gerry Ritz edition
It occurs to me that I haven’t actually written anything in support of calls for the resignation of Gerry Ritz. Of course he should resign. Four years ago, 22 people…
Friday night John Fullbright blogging
Because he’s growing on me. This is called All the Time In the World. And remember: never go to southern Oklahoma at night. As you may have gathered from the…
Campaign Capers: I got nothin’
Seriously, I haven’t seen any developments on any of the stories that have been the subject of these posts. I’m thinking that the Supreme Court and Elections Canada are all…
Today in Contaminated Beef: The recall is still growing
Meat recall expanded to 1,500 products over E. coli threat The Canadian Food Inspection Agency said Tuesday has now recalled more than 1,500 beef products in Canada from the XL…
Zombie lies
Some lies really are damned hard to kill. In a Reuters story which, incidentally, reports John Baird acknowledging that Omar Khadr is back in Canada sooner than expected because of…
On E. coli and false economy
It’s the largest recall of beef in Canadian history and it continues to grow. Fortunately there have been no reports of additional illness connected to beef from XL Foods but…
Friday night oldies
All of these clips are from the Sixties. A couple of the tunes are older than that. The intricate fingerstyle guitar and the minor key on this first song are…
Campaign Capers: The condensed version
Since I’m on the run today and there’s not really much to report, I’m going to do a briefer than usual summary and leave the links with you. And to…
The system clearly didn’t work properly
When I posted yesterday about XL Foods and contaminated beef, I had to make a quick correction because I realized I had counted the same four people twice. But now…
Bums to the left of me, deadbeats to the right
One of the pet issues the Conservatives like to bring up when they want to needle the Liberals is outstanding debt on the part of contenders in the last Liberal…