QP: Regarding that Champlain Bridge announcement
As Nycole Turmel was in St. John’s attending the funeral of Nancy Riche, it was deputy leader Libby Davies who kicked off Question Period by asking about manufacturing jobs and…
Manitoba 2011 – How My Projections Faired
Not as well as 308.com's, where Eric Grenier pretty much nailed it. Of course, people will still call him a left-wing hack.However, this left-wing hack didn't do too bad either.Of…
A Best Practice a Day Keeps the Feds Away: API Workshop on Fracking "Excellence"
Picture 2.png The ongoing American Petroleum Institute (API) workshop “Commitment to Excellence in Hydraulic Fracturing” could be more simply titled “Commitment to Hydraulic Fra...
Trials of the Century
"There are very few trials that are of any interest at all outside the legal community," Morton said. "The things that lawyers would think of as the 'trials of the…
"I Like You, But I Don’t Like Your Leader.’”
Simply amazing comment from PC candidate Cheryl Miller, particularly since it was made just after said leader exited their JOINT radio appearance. Another convert to DUD nation:Speaking Wednesday morning to…
Le Devoir on How to Fill That Growing Hole in the Ozone Layer
This morning Le Devoir's cartoonist took a swing aat both Stephen Harper's disdain for the facts pointing to the effects of human activity on the atmosphere and his passion for…
U.S. Self-sufficient Oil Production would be a Threat to both the Tarsands and the Keystone Pipeline XL
U.S. Oil Production a Threat to Canadian Oil Industry So let's say the U.S. becomes relatively oil self-sufficient by 2017, as some argue, and let's say that self-sufficiency does not…
Koch Brothers Dishonest About Keystone XL, Tar Sands Interest
Kochtopus money bags.png On the heels of a 21-page investigative article by Bloomberg Magazine, which covered the high crimes and misdemeanors of the Koch Brothers, Koch Industries,...
What is a criminal proceeding?
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation v. Ontario, 2011 ONCA 624 decides that for a matter to be 'criminal' so as to fall under criminal procedure there must be some ongoing criminal matter before the Court.…
Pembina comments on the federal environment commissioner’s report
I intended to comment on the October Report of the Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development, offering as it did yet another disappointing, if not depressing, account of the…
Bernake Would Seem to Get It. Does Flaherty?
http://goo.gl/CXd0Y Bernake would seem to get it: laying off government employees creates more unemployment. He also knows that any budget deficit should be constricted over a longer term, that cutting…
Congratulations, Erin!
In the midst of all this strum, drang, gloom, and doom let us pause for just moment to applaud a terrific achievement by a Friend of the Dawg. Erin Bow…
A ban on cosmetic pesticides is scientific and smart
Wednesday, October 5, 2011 The Premier and the opposition agree that there should be a ban on cosm...
Reasons to vote NDP in Ontario on Oct. 6, 2011
Here is what the NDP will do for the people of Ontario:Economy, Taxation, JobsRolling back corporate tax cuts. History has shown that lowering corporate taxes does nothing to create jobs.…
#OccupyWallStreet. ACR notes.
CNN is desperately trying to fit these actions into a construct they can understand and capitalize on. Today's suggestion is that #OWS will become a political party. A Liberal "tea…
Feingold gets it: The message of OccupyWallStreet is that people have been ripped off
At last someone has dug down to the root of the swell of public protest that has manifested itself in the OccupyWallStreet movement:Feingold rejected the argument — made even by…
Tory Candidate Blames Campaign Troubles on Tim Hudak
More Tory troubles. This time, however, it's with an active Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario candidate who comes clean about how difficult it is to deliver her leader's divisive and…
Steve, You’ve Got Mail. Stop Being Such a G__damned Socialist!
Dear Exalted Ruler, you have mail from the OECD and the IEA. They want you and other world leaders to cut out the billions of dollars you waste each year…
Spanish duchess marries
She is 85 and he is 60. She is one lucky hag. Maybe the man is impressed by her title of duchess.Spain's Duchess of Alba Cayetana Fitz-James Stuart y Silva…
Why politics is stupid much of the time: the flip-flop attack
Trying to save is drowning campaign the day before e-day, Ontario C leader (I've redacted the P) Tim Hudak was in Mississauga today, where he used Liberal leader Dalton McGuinty's…