Friday night Rock & Roll blogging: RIP Lou Reed
Lou Reed passed away last Sunday at the age of 71. Here are a few tunes to remember him by. This performance of Dirty Boulevard is taken from an episode…
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Campaign capers: As Del Mastro’s day in court approaches…
The key question in the investigation into alleged overspending by the Dean Del Mastro 2008 election campaign has been the amount of campaign-related work performed by a company called Holinshed…
It’s business as usual at CSIS
The Postmedia article reporting it describes it as part of a shakeup in the ranks, but the announcement that Michel Coulombe has been formally named as director at CSIS looks…
Friday night blues blogging
This is Sonny Landreth playing a solo instrumental and showing off his technique. Just Got Back From Baby’s is originally a ZZ Top tune from their first album. This is…
So Flaherty’s spying on us too
FINTRAC collecting too much info on innocent Canadians Canada’s privacy watchdog is blasting a federal agency that is supposed to be gathering financial intelligence on suspected terrorists and money launderers,…
Friday night blues blogging
This is Tab Benoit performing at the 2007 Blues Music Awards. He loves him some gumbo. This is taken from a show that featured a number of harp players paying…
Out of sight, out of mind
That unprecedented “bunker-style” session of the Supreme Court was held on Friday. Judges and lawyers, sworn to secrecy, gathered in an undisclosed location to consider evidence used to justify security…
Friday night blues blogging
This is fun. This is the Guy Forsyth Band performing 105. Eventually there’s tuba. Now that we’re warmed up, let’s get mellow. This is the Grateful Dead with Sugaree. Up…
"a substantial substitute for full disclosure"
Is there a precedent in the making here? A lawyer for the federal government argued before the Supreme Court of Canada yesterday that there is such a thing as “a…
Friday night blues blogging
To begin, here are George Thorogood & the Destroyers with Bottom of the Sea. This is from a concert held to celebrate the 25th anniversary of CBC Radio 2’s Saturday…
Mission accomplished (iv)
Four professors involved in researching income inequality in Canada took a close look at the National Household Survey and what it appeared to tell us, and then put it into…
Mission accomplished (iii): Collateral damage
I’m prepared to believe that when Tony Clement eliminated the manadatory long census form prior to the 2011 census, he didn’t actually intend to make rural communities in the western…
Friday night: Covers
This is Davy Knowles at a music festival in Colorado a couple of years back covering Cream’s version of Outside Woman Blues. The Delta Saints began playing together as college…
Doesn’t this mean the terrorists are winning?
Government defends security certificate process in high court submission The federal government says suspected terrorists and spies detained under national security certificates do not have a right to full disclosure…
Campaign capers: Be careful what you wish for, Dean
A few months ago, Dean Del Mastro expressed his impatience with the Elections Canada investigation into his campaign spending. Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s parliamentary secretary is demanding that Elections Canada…
Electoral reform watch: Mulcair antes up
Thomas Mulcair, NDP running on electoral reform in 2015 Last night, in Toronto, Opposition Leader Thomas Mulcair joined Toronto-Danforth MP Craig Scott at “Democracy Day on the Danforth,” a meeting…
Friday night blues blogging
Good evening. Here’s a young Johnny Winter performing Mama, Talk to Your Daughter (h/t to Moose). There’s a slight skip in the first minute of this clip. It’s a small…
Mission accomplished (ii)
Hamilton neighbourhoods vanishing from new ‘census’ The death of the long-form census has left Hamilton full of “black holes” of neighbourhood data, leaving out many of its poorest areas. According…
Friday night blues blogging
Have some pops from the past. This is Lightnin’ Hopkins with Couldn’t Be Satisfied. Otis Spann began playing piano when he was 7 and by the age of 14 was…