This is a guest post contributed by frequent commenter Jared Milne. This past Canada Day, I was reflecting on some of the most interesting trends I’ve noticed over the last…
Apparently it’s possible to hoodoo the hoodoo man. Actually Hoodoo Man Blues was the title track on Junior Wells first album in 1965. And Louis Jordan was singing about hoodooing…
The two major media pieces on the stories I’ve been following in these Friday morning posts were both more about Elections Canada itself than about the events EC has been…
The Harper Government™ is so determined to stall the repatriation of Omar Khadr that it’s prepared to anger an ally and make itself look incompetent and duplicitous in the process.…
Doug Saunders in the Globe and Mail: Canadian companies have piled up more than $525-billion in cash reserves – almost a third the size of the entire economy – up…
Jason Kenney, July 9, 2012: “(Soldiers) are heroes, but at the time, they’re British subjects,” Kenney said firmly, before explaining that there was no such thing as a Canadian citizen…
This is John Fullbright. I made the heaven and earth, I made the stars above. Is it too much to ask for a little love? This is one of those…
The legal challenge sponsored by the Council of Canadians to the federal election results in seven ridings is still alive. The Conservatives had argued that the suit should be dismissed…
Canada needs sealed video footage of Khadr interviews before he can return: Toews TORONTO – Omar Khadr won’t be coming home to Canada any time soon. The Canadian government has…
When Elections Canada made a last minute submission of evidence to a hearing before Canada’s Supreme Court last week, it seemed to catch a lot of people by surprise. In…
Good evening. We’ll start the proceedings with Corey Harris performing in Paris (which might explain why he introduces Black Woman Gate in French), assisted by Moh Kouyaté on lead guitar.…
Canada is less energy-efficient than China, new study shows WASHINGTON–Canada and the U.S. are worse than China when it comes to energy efficiency, according to a new international scorecard. Only…
Apparently Dean Del Mastro has had a change of heart. With regards to the investigation into his 2008 campaign spending, the MP had insisted repeatedly that he wasn’t prepared to…
Military truck purchase cancelled due to cost concerns The federal government has slammed the brakes on a multimillion-dollar program to replace the military’s aging trucks. … Companies had until 2…
In 2003 John Fahey came in at number 35 on a Rolling Stone list of the top 100 guitarists of all time. This is Poor Boys Long Way From Home.…
Remember Guelph? That was the original focus of the Elections Canada investigation into fraudulent phone calls but it seems like such a long time ago it may be difficult to…
Gov’t Mule unplugged. Fallen Down.
I had a craving for voices and harmonies and stuff and I’m indulging myself. There’s not much more to it than that. I posted this first one once before but…
If there’s been any news on the original Elections Canada investigation into fraudulent robocalls, I’ve missed it. But once again, there have been developments on related fronts. There was a…
I once referred to this as the story that wouldn’t go away. In fact it did go away for a while but it’s back, at least temporarily. The Military Police…
