Provincial Elctions
Three provincial election will be held in October, and all of them after each other. The first election is on October 3rd in PEI, and right now unless something drastic…
The Gladiator Effect…. Does The Instigator Rule Make It Worse?
RootCausesMatterEvenInTheMakeBelieveWorldOfProHockeyVille “I don’t think there’s a 10-year old who grows up dreaming of beating the crap out of guys for a living. These guys were all stars at one point,…
Honours for sale in British Columbia?
= (?) The above is from a search of the FRPCS site of Elections BC done September 3, 2011. Searching on the name 'Aquilini' returns a listing of donations with…
Unprecedented?
The Toronto Police Board has taken the "unprecedented" step of refusing to promote nine officers who had removed their name tags during the G20 protests in June of 2010. Well,…
Halton Liberals Off to the Races
Indira Naidoo-Harris and the Halton Liberals kicked off their campaign today with a good old fashioned open house and barbeque at their new campaign office on Main Street in Milton.…
Halton Liberals Off to the Races
Indira Naidoo-Harris and the Halton Liberals kicked off their campaign today with a good old fashioned open house and barbeque at their new campaign office on Main Street in Milton.…
Halton Liberals Off to the Races
Indira Naidoo-Harris and the Halton Liberals kicked off their campaign today with a good old fashioned open house and barbeque at their new campaign office on Main Street in Milton.…
Halton Liberals Off to the Races
Indira Naidoo-Harris and the Halton Liberals kicked off their campaign today with a good old fashioned open house and barbeque at their new campaign office on Main Street in Milton.…
Why Dogs Are Better Than Cats…Sometimes
(1) What could match the grateful look of a faithful hound for taking him to his favourite place, the beach? Especially when it's 40 degrees on the humidex scale, and…
Thomas Mulcair Subjected To Unfair Criticism
I've come across various comments to the effect that Thomas Mulcair is unsuitable to be leader of the NDP. The implications suggests that he is an "opportunistic, not bred-in-the-bone NDPer"…
Catholics and Protestants: The great schism, explained
I suppose if I'm going to go on and on about church doctrine, it's only fair of me to put it in context.What can I do? The power of Christ…
All this Catholic-school business reminds me of a Mel Brooks moment
I'm sorry, I just can't help it sometimes.It's probably not the most famous or best-remembered scene from Blazing Saddles (and in truth, it's got a lot of competition), but in…
WikiLeaks: Biggest Cock-up Ever
A collection of diplomatic history since 1966 to the present day. This sentence is changing the world, unintentionally. The US State Department would have given its left testicle for this…
The Catholic school system needs to get its hands out of our pockets
And that's just for starters.The travesty that took place this week is common knowledge by now. Activist Leanne Iskander, who's got more courage in her little finger than most people…
Wankers of the Week: Labor Dazed edition
Crappy Labor Day weekend, everyone! So, how’s that jobless “recovery” been treating you? Like shit? No kidding. If it’s jobless, it’s not a recovery, no matter how the media spin…
Trimming, digital TV over the air and a coyote
A hot humid day – more like July than Labour Day weekend – spent mostly doing chores and chit chatting. Sheila and I spent the morning wielding various gas-powered sharp-edged…
Burning question
Sure, it's been fairly obvious that the Harper Cons have spent their time in office asking the world to think less of Canada. But did anybody suspect them to have…
There Are Some Things More Important Than Football And School Supplies This Weekend…
AllTheBuriedTreasuresThatFitClassicsTheRadioNeverRuinedVille Things like this.... Linkage for livestreaming and/or catching a ride with the pod, etc., can be found here. _____By the way....If you missed the WBEZ Boyz three act Dylan…
Ontario Student Debt
Last week, the CCPA released a paper by David Macdonald and Erika Shaker entitled Under Pressure: The Impact of Rising Tuition Fees on Ontario Families. The paper does a good…