Like Momma always said…Part Deux und Trois
The only funnier thing than a guy up on assault charges claiming he is a wannabe Tory candidate are opposition party politicos who campaign for the incumbents. In the past…
A tool likely to be ignored
The Parliamentary Budget Officer has created a new database to help MPs track government spending so that they have more timely information when it comes time to review expenditures for…
Schreyer v. Schreyer: Canada’s Divorce-Bankruptcy Loophole
In a unanimous decision in Schreyer v. Schreyer, released Thursday, June 14, 2011, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that that a bankrupt Manitoba man is not required to pay…
This is for guys like me
This is a riot. This is fabulous a “recruitment mockumentary, for Toronto's Gay Muddy York rugby team. If you ever felt you didn't fit in, then this is for you.…
Starbucks, Servus and St. Albert: just another P3, after all, and not a bad deal at that!
Starbucks and Servus Place: Both high on the hit list of St. Albert’s CAVE (Citizens Against Virtually Everything) people. Below: St. Albert Mayor Nolan Crouse.What’s wrong with the City of…
10th August fast approaches
Yours Truly has been invited to be one of the “Writers Reading” in Victoria Partk at Noon, I think, on Wednesday, 10th August. Which reminds me, I have to get…
Power back on? Check. Family coming home? Check.
Things are looking good. There is, however the small matter of getting the house ready. Putting away the pizza boxes, hiding the cases of empties, taking down the posters of…
Radio Topics, July 19
Happy Tuesday! Adam is off to Toronto, where he will try not to fall a sleep while working in the United Church archives. I’m here, though, so tune into CKCU…
Elections Canada Suppressing “Inadvertent” Campaign Irregularities
So far only Postmedia seems to have noticed that Conservative York-Simcoe MP and Cabinet minister Peter Van Loan was caught by Elections Canada overspending his campaign finance limit in 2008.…
Short ‘n’ Stubby: Clan Murdoch circling the wagons
Did I hear a meow? Why yes, I did. And look who’s here! The Stumpy Cat has some juicy tidbits for us about the ongoing saga of a right-wing media…
SIU Concludes Reopened #G20 Nobody Investigation | #policebrutality
SIU Concludes Reopened G20 Nobody Investigation... aaaaand, guess what? Can't find any way to charge anyone else.Who could have foreseen such a thing?Oh, well. Maybe the Toronto Police will actually…
3936…Ottawa Bluesfest Stage Collapses Puzzler
Cheap Trick, still together, have fans, are they 100 yet?They almost went to heaven last night.Allright.WFDS
GPS for sex offenders
The criminal justice suggestions being made by Tim Hudak are so zany as to make me wonder 'is this pure theatre' or 'is there a deeper meaning here'? Let's look…
Only part of the story
Yes, it's absolutely appalling that federal prison costs have already shot up by 86% under the Harper Cons (by well over a billion per year), and only figure to escalate…
Michele Bachmann predicts end of the world in 2008
This is just too batshit crazy. This person wants to be president. Listen to her voice. Listen to the words. This is not the voice of a rational human being.…
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Whistleblower in phone-hacking scandal found dead
If this was in a novel it would be unbelievable: http://bit.ly/pXM8Kc Kenyon Wallace Toronto Star Sean Hoare, the first News of the World journalist to link the tabloid's f...
Pension Madness
The solution to the looming pension crisis is obvious, expand the CPP's scope to help out the self employed. But, that would mean government involvement (horror of horrors!) and as…
Canada’s Principled Stand Against the Alphabet Continues
As sort of an opening flourish to announce my return to full-time blogging, I’m happy to note that Canada’s official protest of the alphabet has been escalated to an all-out…