Friday morning Robocon blogging
Chief Electoral Officer Marc Mayrand testified before a parliamentary committee on Tuesday and the media reports on his appearance seem to have created some confusion. Mayrand had originally suggested that…
pogge
After you, Joe. As if that will ever happen.
Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver says oilsands tailing ponds are being cleaned up to the point “you’ll be able to drink from them”… I’m going to disagree with my blogging…
And this is where we juxtapose
Gwyn Morgan in the Globe and Mail a month ago: Germany has given away $130-billion, mostly to solar-power companies. Yet solar power makes up a minuscule 0.3 per cent of…
Friday night
Juke is an instrumental originally written and recorded by Little Walter. This is Moreland & Arbuckle. Just a Feeling is another Little Walter tune. This one’s a slow blues and…
Friday morning Robocon blogging
It’s interesting that in the course of accusing participants in legal proceedings of abuse of process, the Conservative Party of Canada (CPC) is appealing to guilt by association. And it…
Mulcair’s right to dig his heels in
An awful lot of people are chiming in to tell Thomas Mulcair that he should stop talking about Dutch Disease. I hope he ignores them. There is certainly room for…
Friday night: RIP "Duck" Dunn
Bass player Donald “Duck” Dunn passed away last Sunday at the age of 70. The list of Top 40 hits he played on is a long one but it all…
Friday morning No News Isn’t Necessarily Good News blogging
A few minutes after I posted last Friday’s installment, the CBC posted their own report on what were the latest developments at that point. Most of it was a rehash…
Friday night
Are you ready to party on a Friday night? ‘Cos I’m going to begin the set with a song about dying. That said, it’s a rather more upbeat version than…
Friday Robocon rant
This post will be a little short on details but it will provide the links so you can follow them and fill in the blanks if you don’t get the…
Friday night Crossroads blogging
Eric Clapton started the Crossroads Guitar Festival series both to showcase guitar players and to benefit a drug treatment center called the Crossroads Centre. All three of tonight’s clips are…
Y’all keep using that term "free trade"
Kate Heartfield has an interesting column on trade negotiations between Canada and the EU and specifically on the possible consequences for the cost of pharmaceuticals. The EU is insisting on…
A little Friday morning Robocon blogging
According to someone who knows a bit about using telephones to suppress the vote, what happened in last year’s federal election campaign was “a fairly sophisticated operation” that was likely…
Disclosure for thee but not for me?
This op-ed in the Globe and Mail depends in large part on the uncritical acceptance of the conclusions of a Fraser Institute report. So it might have been nice if…
Friday night
Good evening. Have some blues. As Chris Smither mentions in his intro, Statesboro Blues was originally written and recorded by Blind Willie McTell. The opening bars of this tune put…
Friday morning Robocon blogging
I don’t often write about polls but I’ll make time for this one. In support of their lawsuit contesting the results of last May’s federal election in seven ridings, the…
Friday night: RIP Levon Helm
Levon Helm, best known as the drummer for The Band, passed away yesterday from “complications of cancer.” He had already come back from throat cancer once to resume recording and…
Friday morning Robocon blogging
The story of vote suppression in last year’s federal election has moved ahead this week on two different tracks. Glen McGregor and Stephen Maher, the journalists who originally broke the…
Is this really the story you want go with?
Burke campaign paperwork could have aided Guelph robodialling A mysterious operative known only as Pierre Poutine could have obtained the ammunition he needed to launch his election-day attack on the…