US Debt War Will Lead To Recession
Hate to say it folks but there's about a snowball's chance in hell that the world won't have returned to recession by the end of this year. There are many…
Better Late Than Never: Gay Group Gets UN Accreditation
The International Gay and Lesbian Association, one of the world’s oldest GLBT equal rights organisations, has finally won consultive status to the UN Economic and Social Council, after years of…
Turd Buffing
Russell Wangersky’s column on Tuesday discussed some of Nalcor’s efforts to deal with criticism of the Muskrat Falls project. He notes the company letters to the editor and interviews efforts…
No publicly ruffled feathers
On the eve of their caucus meeting to “consult” on the topic of the interim leader, NDP MPs seem to all agree that Nycole Turmel is a good choice, and…
My Summer Journey and JJ’s Return
(click to enlarge)I must admit that I'm finding it hard to blog these days. I'm not sure where I want to go. I don't know where this country is going.There…
Lighten up Doug Ford! Thanks to Margaret Atwood, at least you’ll get a footnote
Margaret Atwood on the picket line, shortly before reprimanding your blogger. Below: Toronto’s Ford Brothers.Lighten up, Doug Ford! It’s good to be given a sound public thrashing by Margaret Atwood.…
Paul Fromm’s Support For a Cause Makes His Friendship With Kevin Strom a Bit Awkward
Paul Fromm and Kevin Strom with other notables in the, "White Nationalist" Movement. Would hate to be Nick Griffin. Who Knows what Strom had been doing with that hand earlier…
The post-Fordist era can’t come soon enough
Oh Toronto. So glad I don’t live in you right now. Not just because of the horrible summer heat, but because you have a troglodyte for mayor… Rob Ford is…
Newfoundland Poll-by-Poll
Thanks to Teddy's poll-by-poll link, I can bring to you this lovely and hard-made map of Newfoundland, poll-by-poll, at a large scale:
What is This? The Most Right Wingnut Contest of Evul?
Boys ‘n’ girls, put your tinfoil hats on! It’s going to be a bumpy ride! We all know about Michael Coren, pretty much implying that those kids at the Norwegian…
David Olive (@TheGrtRecession), Team Ford, and that whole ‘deserve’ thing again
With this blog post at the Star, David Olive goes on a bit of a roll, getting in some pretty good zingers at Mayor Stupid and Brother Stupider.One can't argue…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Shelved cats.
"I make no pretence about the stuff we used to do": Former NOTW editor Piers Morgan admits to phone hacking
Pretty damning stuff. Morgan never outright states he tapped phones but does not deny it, stating he's not proud of what he did and let happen. Listen.
Crime rates and government spending
So crime rates continue to decline. Not just nuisance crimes and property crimes but also crimes where people get hurt or worse. And it's been going this way for nigh…
3950…Say It Ain’t So Brett
Favre.Or say it is so.It is rumoured and denied and confirmed and alluded that the man with the faxable penis, number 4 in your program but number 1 in your…
Fern Hill Unleashes More Online Hellfire
Way to go, Fern! As you might remember, Fern Hill, the political blogger at DAMMIT JANET! was the instigator of what Chris Selley dubbed the “online hellfire” which was unleashed…
Abuse of prisoner in Ottawa police custody
In less than a year four Ottawa criminal cases have ended badly for the prosecution. The four cases have remarkable and disturbing similarities. In each case a cell block video…
Dougy Ford, Perhaps If You Actually Set Foot In a Library, You Might Learn Who Margaret Atwood Is
Oh, poor, long suffering Dougy Ford, city councillor, side kick to his brother Mayor Rob “Boss Hogg” Fordzilla. Always the bridesmaid, but not the mayor. He seems to be bitching…
Holman Hits FOI Jackpot on Christy’s Cozy Contracts…CorpMedia Listens.
AllTheNewNewsThat'sFittestFreelancerVilleHere's Sean's lede, not in PublicEye, but instead in the Globe:The B.C. government office running the province’s pro-HST campaign secretly doled out contracts to two Liberal-connected companies and a former…
Petermann iceberg visible from Labrador – and from space
The Petermann Ice Island, a Manhattan-sized iceberg that broke off the Petermann Glacier in Greenland last August, has since traveled almost 4,800 kilometres (3,000 miles) and is currently bumping off…