4896…Today’s Reason To Hit The SAQ/LCBO
Or where ever you get your libations. 94 candles on Nelson Mandela’s birthday cake today. Give ‘er. WFDS
World Famous Dan Shields
4895…Father Of The Year 2012
Is definitely not going to be William May of Toledo, Ohio.Shutterstock.com reports that Mr. May’s daughter, four-year-old McKenna May, who has had leukemia since she was two, was picked by…
4894…Rob Ford Is Simple
Simple as in KISS, keep it simple stupid. Love or hate him, and it seems all the cool kids hate him, the Mayor of Toronto has, in the aftermath of…
4893…Sure Air Canada Is Expensive
But their food comes needle free. That’s a guarantee. Not so much on Delta, who BBC reports has had a number of instances over the last few days of sewing…
4891…Fiat Takes On Tim Horton’s
The Daily Mail tells all that the ninth biggest auto maker in the world and the major shareholder in Chrysler is threatening the drive thru in a serious way. The…
4891…The Return Of Senator Ponytail
Yesterday the crack news team at CTV broke the story that “Sen. Patrick Brazeau is back on Twitter with a promise to ‘be nice from now on,’ a little more…
4890…Baseball Breaks The Coloured Line
Back on this day in 1954 the Brooklyn Dodgers fielded a team that had more blacks on the field than whites. This was a huge deal and still is. The…
4889…Limits On Donations To Politics Sucks
These silly laws limiting how much you can give to political parties and candidates in Canada suck. Here is why. It takes the fun of watching rich people spend inordinate…
4888…Kitty Wells Gone Like A Hurricane
She played Barrymore’s, a wonderful old theatre/dump in the skidish part of downtown Ottawa, about fifteen blocks south of The Hill, when she was in her 80’s. The Queen of…
4887…National Ice Cream Day Was Yesterday!
So embarrassed I am. So embarrassed. To the level that I had two litres of Breyer’s Apple Pie Ice Cream, on sale for 2.99$ at Shopper’s Drug Mart til Thursday,…
4886…What Year Is It In Egypt?
1998? Hilary Clinton, the Secretary of State, is over in Egypt doing her thing. Yahoo reports that Madame Secretary “…was taunted by chants of ‘Monica, Monica’ by tomato-throwing demonstrators as…
4885…Vic Toews Fantasy
Via Jesse Brown and Macleans.Deep in the bowels of the RCMP’s Ottawa headquarters, thousands of Mounties are scanning the Internet for signs of wrongdoing. They read every blog post and…
4884…Tim Powers Schools Dean Del Mastro
Tim Powers is probably the highest profile non elected/appointed Conservative in your nation’s capital.He is all over CFRA, a big deal in this town and a pillar of the community…
4883…Tourism Down In Athens
Greece, not Georgia. Or Ontario. This stunning news surprisingly does not come from the CBC or Radio Canada. This Pulitzer Prize caliber story comes from National Public Radio. Joanna Kakissis…
4882…Tories Announce Cancelling Jet Buys
Well they should. C’mon, c’mon, let’s face facts: The F something or others are way,way,way too expensive. Shoot, for the price of one plane the Stephen Harpers could build a…
4881…Dean Del Mastro Step Aside
I do make fun of the porcine MP from Peter Patch but, alas, I am a definite challenge for El Roundo.According to something I picked off http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-18770328 of I have…
4880…They Melt In Your Can; Not In Your Mouth
They are the new Canuck brown bills, the 100s. And the 50s.Although the manufacturers of the bills say that they boiled them for an hour there are still problems. “The…
4879…Breaking Bad
The greatest show on TV ever, movies too, according to IMDB, is back tonight. Thank you AMC. And a bigger thank you to whomever in the US of A that…
4878…New Stadium For Regina
Brand new joint to be built in the Queen City. Opening in time for the 2017 CFL season. It is only going to cost the Saskatchewan Roughriders 25 million.The Regina…
4877…Drew Brees Makes More Than Whole CFL
The New Orleans’ Saints QB’s new deal, Laid out in this morning’s Ottawa Sun, 100 mill with 60 guaranteed, is more than the entire CFL, players, coaches, ankle tapers, will…