The Duffy Deal: The PMO-Duffy Email and the Mounties
Hot on the trail of the Email The Mounties are as iconic Canadian as you can find. The Mounties always getting their man is so much part of the Canadian…
The Enemies List
Canadians barely lifted an eyebrow in surprise when it was revealed that our Prime Minister had an “enemies list” compiled as a warning to newly-minted cabinet ministers laying out who…
6257…Vive La Belle Province
Not the resto; the actual province. I am sure that someway, somehow, Pauline Marois and the Parti Quebecois will blame this on the English but… Here is the story, direct…
Quit with the radical weather watches
I hope I live to be proven right but we’ve been under various radical weather warnings for the last two weeks and none of it has actually ever transpired. Today’s…
The Evolution of Denial
The shortcoming of denial is that it tends to be indiscriminate — so we deny things we should confront. Denial is also a much better coping strategy for an individual…
Harper’s Auto-Generated Enemies Lists
If you’re Stephen Harper you can assume that what you consider “enemies” would include pretty much the entire membership of organizations such as the Council of Canadians. So why would…
A Ralph of Many Trades and a Master of At Least One
Federal political candidates register their occupations with Elections Canada. I was recently looking through some election results and noticed that my old friend, Ralph Goodale, has had quite a varied…
Nelson Mandela: The Greatest leader the world ever knew
South Africans are celebrating Nelson Mandela’s 95th birthday. I believe that Nelson Mandela is the greatest leader, he dismantled the apartheid in South Africa. I put him above any King,…
Revenge of the Blackfish
A documentary, Blackfish, opening today at the Toronto International Film Festival focuses on what marine “parks” around the world, like the GTA’s MarineLand, are inflicting on their captive orcas and…
OECD Findings on Employment Protection and Jobs Performance
Further to my earlier post on the OECD’s new data on employment performance across its 34 member countries (and Canada’s relatively poor ranking in that regard), another part of the…
Finishing up at the University of Virginia
Next week will be my last interning in the office of Community Relations at the University of Virginia. My major project has been working to update the directory that will…
Not So "Incompetent" After All, Eh Rupe?
Some pictures are worth a thousand words Now that recordings have emerged trashing Rupert Murdoch’s claims that he knew nothing of his newspapers’ phone hacking and police corruption, Ol’ Rupe…
July 19: IRVING NAMED IN MEGANTIC LAWSUITS
That should have been the headline, page 1, in every paper of the Irving press today. Fifty people were killed. There is a link to Irving Oil, and to the…
Canadian Taxpayers Federation Want To Blow Up The Senate-Video
Richard ‘Hub’ Hughes- Political Blogger The Canadian Taxpayers have embraced humour , satire and a little hucksterism to promote dismantling the Canadian Senate. Their goal is to have a referendum…
The Dismal Plight of Bradley Manning
The Guardian’s Steve Bell captures what America’s military justice system holds in store for Bradley Manning: In a preliminary ruling on the multiple charges Mr Manning faces, military judge Colonel…
6256…Next For Ottawa: Locusts
Yer capital is going thru a nasty heat wave. Today there is a tornado warning. One would presume that locusts are next. Personally I blame Mike Duffy. WFDS
Why Not Just Waterboard Them?
One of the dirty little tricks American interrogator/torturers adopted during the War on Terror has made it to the homeland. It is subjecting the prisoner to the prolonged stress of…
It Worked for Capone, Now Let’s Use It on Multi-Nationals
Tax evasion is a crime. Multi-national corporations are criminals. In fact, the G20 is warning that advanced countries are facing “global tax chaos” as multi-nationals evade taxes by laundering their…
Friday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to end your week. – Patrick Wintour and Simon Bowers discuss the G20’s predictable finding that our global tax system isn’t set up to address the problem of…
Conjunctive, disjunctive
Ekos here. I don’t really believe the fed Grits are pulling down the Ontario Libs, or vice-versa. There’s a bit of brand overlap, but not enough to effect big shifts.…