Joe Oliver’s Blowjob
Joe Oliver got a freebie from Claudia Cattaneo in the pages of the Financial Post. In an extraordinary puff piece, ‘A Battle of Canada’s Future: How Joe Oliver has become…
Uncategorized
Life…A Small Spark Between Two Eternities 2013-04-21 17:03:00
ALTHOUGH THE FOLLOWING LETTER CONTAINS PROFANITY, THE ESSENCE OF THELETTER IS TOO GOOD NOT TO PASS ALONG. I APOLOGIZE IF THE FOULLANGUAGE OFFENDS ANYONE. This guy went all out with…
I don’t think this ad is scaring Harper
Maybe it’s just me but I don’t think the new PSAC ad attacking the Harper government’s environmental record is all that effective. The Public Service of Canada VP thinks otherwise,…
Harper’s Thuggish Contempt For The Environment
This video probably speaks for itself, but for its full context, click here. H/t rabble.ca Recommend this Post
Don’t Sugar Coat It, Maggie
Ah, Margaret Thatcher, the giggles just go on and on. There were not many people in this world that Maggie liked and a good many that she despised, among them…
Israel and Peace in the Middle East
What is the biggest threat to stability and peace in the Middle East? It is not Iran, Iraq, or Syria… it’s Israel. The government of Israel – especially prime ministers…
American Taxpayers Paying the Price of Climate Change
Their Congressional representatives may dispute it, call it a hoax even, but the U.S. government is doling out big money in relief for those hit by climate change impacts. According…
Big Story – British Columbians Speak Out
RCMP in suburban White Rock foiled an apparent burglary/home invasion after receiving reports of two males trying to break into a home. The suspects took off but inside the officers…
Here is a Completely Objective Promo for the BC NDP ;-) Well Sort of…
Richard Hughes- Political Blogger We need a new government after 12 years of the Gordon Campbell and Christy Clark BC Liberals. I am wholeheartedly supporting Adrian Dix for Premier and…
5893…Bush III In 2016?
That’s what Bush II is advocating. The Daily Mail reports that George W. Bush, I am certain you remember him, “…told Parade Magazine ‘That’s for Jeb to figure out, you…
Sunday Morning Links
Assorted content for your Sunday reading. – I wouldn’t go as far as Haroon Siddiqui in suggesting that all temporary foreign worker programs be shut down entirely (at least absent…
On Climate Change, Money – Or Its Absence – Talks.
I can give you six hundred and seventy four billion reasons to believe the scientific consensus on climate change. $674,000,000,000.00 – that’s the amount the top 200 energy companies spent,…
April 21: Sunday ruminations…
Many years ago, while teaching in China (Canadian history, of all things), I had a student who graduated to become one of the wealthiest men in China. Then, after he…
April 21: Sunday ruminations…
Many years ago, while teaching in China (Canadian history, of all things), I had a student who graduated to become one of the wealthiest men in China. Then, after he…
5892…The Aftermath Of 420 On Parl Hill
From BOB FM’s Milky’s Facebook comes the truth. Ah, to own a corner store near the Hill must have been like winning the frigging lotto yesterday.WFDS
The practice of imposing "global" sentences for multiple offences is to be discouraged, because it undermines the transparency of the sentencing process
R. v Hanna, 2013 ABCA 134 holds: The sentencing judge did not proportion the totality discount between the two offences. The practice of imposing “global” sentences for multiple offences is…
Relationship Spring cleaning
Apropos of the season, I’ve been tossing out a few “friends.” I do this periodically. Out they go to the blue bin, like old magazines. Bye-bye. A couple full-on lied…
It’s About Fair Trade, Not Free Trade
Canada’s three major parties now endorse Free Trade. Tom Walkom writes: Free trade is now orthodoxy in Canada. It used to be debated fiercely. It no longer is. Stephen Harper’s…