Campaign Capers: Judge Mosley rules and the results stand
Remember that court challenge to the results of the 2011 federal election in six ridings? A number of electors, with the financial support of the Council of Canadians, felt that…
pogge
What Alison said
In a post at Creekside about Stephen Harper’s handling of the scandal involving his Chief of Staff’s cash gift to a sitting legislator — and it was a cash gift…
Sunday morning: Lazy
If you’re not wide awake yet, this should do the trick.
Friday night blues blogging
This is Rory Gallagher playing solo on Too Much Alcohol. And this is Ray Wylie Hubbard appearing on Letterman performing Mother Blues. Son Seals was a professional musician at 13…
Peter Penashue takes a Mulligan and slices it into the woods.
CBC News on Monday night: Liberals take Labrador, as Jones wins big over Penashue I have to confess to being caught by surprise when Labrador MP Peter Penashue suddenly announced…
Friday night blues blogging (because I don’t have any cats)
Last week I posted a version of this song by the Asylum Street Spankers. Here’s a different interpretation, and a different spelling of the title, by Blackberry Smoke. This is…
But did they fill out an application first?
Enbridge pipeline protesters close Ontario highway A highway near Hamilton, Ont., was shut down for almost 90 minutes Monday morning as a group stopped traffic to protest Enbridge’s plan to…
As I was saying…
Few complete application to reverse Ontario, Quebec pipeline Fewer than 200 interested parties have completed a 10-page application form asking the National Energy Board to accept their written comments about…
Friday night
This evening’s proceedings will begin in a recording studio and finish up at the White House. This the Tedeschi Trucks band live in the studio with Learn How to Love.…
Abstaining above our weight
Canada won’t run for UN Security Council seat in 2014 Canada will focus on other priorities rather than mount a fresh campaign for a spot on the United Nations Security…
Abdelrazik’s still looking for answers
Abousfian Abdelrazik has decided that if the Canadian government refuses to disclose information about its actions, he’ll have to ask someone else. Like Sudan. A Montreal man who believes Canada’s…
All stocked up on popcorn and no reason to pop it
Back in November I noted my surprise at how low Chuck Strahl’s profile had been since he’d been named to chair the Security Intelligence Review Committee the previous June. I…
Friday night: RIP Richie Havens
It wasn’t planned that way but the first performer to take the stage at the Woodstock Music & Art Fair in 1969 was Richie Havens, who passed away earlier this…
More on the Combatting Terrorism Act
The Globe and Mail has a report on the passage of Bill S7 that includes some interesting comments from someone who actually supports having a law like this on the…
Meet the new Libs. Same as the old Libs as far as I can tell.
With Justin Trudeau, its freshly minted leader, at the helm the renewed Liberal Party of Canada has already told me pretty much what I need to know. Given the option…
Friday night
Moose at Classic Blues Videos gets a hat tip for the opener. This is Joe Louis Walker with Let’s Rock a While Tonight. I didn’t note it at the time…
Mostly competent government
If, like me, you believe that personnel decisions are among the most important decisions that management can make, you really have to be shaking your head at Stephen Harper at…
After all, what would a Minister of Revenue know about taxes?
Committee studying offshore tax evasion will not question revenue minister A finance committee study on tax havens will be written without input from National Revenue Minister Gail Shea after the…
Friday night
This is an instrumental by Kelly Joe Phelps called Spit Me Outta the Whale. The instrument is a National Steel Guitar. This is the Band of Heathens with Medicine Man,…
In case you thought it couldn’t get more ridiculous
Your Minister of Natural Resources, ladies and gentlemen: “I think that people aren’t as worried as they were before about global warming of two degrees,” Oliver said in an editorial…