You Want a Side of Plavix with That?
Now arriving at the Canadian National Exhibition — wait for it — the doughnut cheeseburger*: The Doughnut Burger made its debut at the Calgary Stampede, where brave revellers downed the…
Russia Burns – Again
Last year a powerful heat wave triggered massive forest fires in Russia and led to the failure of Russia's wheat crop. So far this year, 1-million hectares of Russian forests…
Worshipping at the Trough
Patronage politics of the worst old-fashioned sort is alive and well in Newfoundland and Labrador. VOCM posted a story online within the past 24 hours (hopefully it won’t be disappeared…
Yvonne Jones newser – details
From the official media advisory: Head: Yvonne Jones to discuss her future in politics Opposition Leader Yvonne Jones will make a statement today concerning her future as Leader of the…
What Michelle Bachmann Watched on Sunday
Oh those crazy foaming fundamentalist rightwingers and their homophobia.On Sunday, Bachmann and her curious husband, attended a church service at which the pastor railed on, denouncing homosexuality as "unnatural" and…
Economist Says Money Now More Important Than Environment (Duh)
Greenhouse effect: We can always deal with it later, right? No surprise there, I suppose. Still, it was depressing to read ATB economist Todd Hirsch’s attempt at an obituary for…
Stephen Harper’s in Brazil: Dilma Smacks down Standard and Poor
Stephen Harper was in Brazil yesterday, and met with dthat country's former guerilla president Dilma Rousseff. He listened, apparently, while she told reporters about how solide Brazil's economy was and…
"I haven’t seen that statistic"
Howard Sapers is Canada's Correctional Investigator. If you want to know what's happening in Canada's prisons, he'd probably be a good place to start. Unless you're Public Safety Minister Vic…
Signs of the Apocalypse. . . .
"We're just showing the rich people that we can do what we want. . ." -Rioter in Croydon
Dr. Dawg calls for a Posse
A canadian blogger was recently successfully sued for libel. You can read all about the case here. Now you know it had to be bad when you see what has…
Shorter Michael Spence
The policy elites, in the developed world, are seized with a deficit mania that crowds out the reality of an unemployment crisis. This mania threatens the world's people with years…
Civilization Isn’t That Civilized
Those of you who follow this blog will know that my family and I spent last week canoeing in the Woodland Caribou Provincial Park in northern Ontario’s boreal forest. It…
Pompous and wrong as always
Shorter Conrad Black: A gentleman such as oneself is apt to miss the comforts of the fairer sex when unjustly incarcerated by one's inferiors and one's good lady wife declines…
Inherit The Wind
Forty two years ago, I was preparing to teach my first classes. I had spent the summer at the University of North Carolina, studying John Dewey, Jerome Bruner, Carl Rogers…
The Liberals are UP!
A new poll shows that the Conservatives are at 36.2, The Liberals at 27.0% and the NDP at 26.8%. We are now just over a month past the last election…
Clubs and Societies at Mount Allison University
20 Tips in 20 Days for first-year students: #2 – Choose a club that matches your interests Second in this 20-part video series is my friend Alex Dalton (fifth-year Honours…
140 Law – Legal Headlines for August 9, 2011
Here are today's leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter:Bribery Got Bin Laden - http://goo.gl/j7r49Wage gap growing between male, female lawyers - Canadian Lawyer Magazine - http://goo.gl/FyEGUUS Supreme Court…
Of course they support us to have massive colourful orgiastic ecstatic street fetes…
when we do not laugh and gyrate and forget... we remember and rage and resist and their streets burn... if what you're reading here grips you, holds you, fascinates you,…
Ask General Kang: Is it a correction? Please tell me it’s a correction! Should I sell?
Yep, there’s nothing trickier to manipulate than a system based on fear and greed. You humans should consider changing your approach to markets. Back on my home planet, I changed…
DOMA to break up seven-year marriage and 19-year relationship
This is why the American Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) needs to be repealed. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services have denied immigration benefits to a bi-national married gay couple in…