Friday night
A few months ago I posted Ray Charles covering this song but it was Louis Jordan & the Tympany Five who first made Don’t Let the Sun Catch You Cryin’…
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We need to look forward as opposed to looking backwards
Jeff Kaye writes here on the findings of the American Senate Intelligence Committee investigation of the CIA’s involvement in torture. Since I agree with Kaye that there won’t be a…
Oh look. Another slush fund.
Transport officials reveal $170M diverted from Green Infrastructure Fund Nearly 20 per cent of the federal government’s Green Infrastructure Fund has been quietly diverted to such things as oil and…
Today in the misappropriation of government resources
According to Jane Taber at the Globe and Mail: Department of National Defence resources are now being poured into finding ways of extricating Peter MacKay from the controversy he’s created…
Can we just get rid of CSIS and start over?
Reasonably civilized people realized long ago that torture is simply unacceptable. It’s morally reprehensible and never to be countenanced or encouraged. Reasonably intelligent people realized long ago that torture is…
Friday night
Tonight’s opener is an instrumental by Kenny Vaughan called Shimmy. Welcome to another Friday night. This is the Robben Ford Trio with a cover of Willie Dixon’s Spoonful. They speed…
Today in WTF? moments
The interview with Aboriginal Affairs Minister John Duncan in the first part of this clip at the CBC is simply stunning. In discussing how dire the housing situation in Attawapiskat…
So when can we expect Peter MacKay’s resignation from cabinet?
I think the Toronto Star was the first to break the story but the CBC’s account includes a particularly important point. When first we learned that Peter MacKay had been…
Abdelrazik to be removed from UN blacklist
Althia Raj at the Huffington Post is reporting that Abousfian Abdelrazik’s application to be removed from the UN’s “1267” blacklist has been successful. He’ll now be allowed to have bank…
Streamline? Or gut like a fish?
The Globe and Mail‘s headline on yesterday evening’s story was “Ottawa wants to streamline environmental reviews”. After some discussion about eliminating inefficiencies and duplication, Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver summed…
Dear Canadian Olympic Committee
I’m writing to draw this Globe and Mail article to your attention since it involves your recently hired executive director of communications Dimitri Soudas. It seems Mr. Soudas was less…
How zombie lies are born. And never die.
About a year ago at this time there was an astonishing coincidence. At exactly the same time as Conservative MP Kelly Block was introducing a bill concerning the need for…
Mostly competent government
I’m a few days late getting to this story but I still wanted to commemorate it. So to speak. In August of 2008 the Department of Agriculture announced a program…
We’ll get right back to you on that
July 29, 2009 The role played by CSIS – Canada’s secretive anti-terrorist agency – in the arrest, imprisonment and alleged torture of Abousfian Abdelrazik, the Canadian citizen forcibly exiled in…
Friday night
Tonight’s set begins with another instrumental from Roomful of Blues but this one features the horn section. This a T Bone Walker tune called Two Bones and a Pick. Welcome…
Sorry but I’m not feeling the love
Stephen Harper called today “a day of honour.” And when Governor-General David Johnston joined with him in paying tribute to the Canadian Forces who served in the recent campaign in…
Friday night
To start us off, here’s an instrumental by the rhythm section from Roomful of Blues. Welcome to another Friday night. Duke Robillard was one of the founding members of Roomful…
Wanker of the day
Brian Lilley. Go see Glen McGregor take Lilley’s latest column apart.
On ministerial instructions
I’ve commented before on the tendency of the Harper Conservatives to craft legislation that gives cabinet ministers the ability to act without any check on their authority. They seem to…