Minister targets 1,800 in citizAntship crackdown
Inspired by this story: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2011/07/20/pol-kenney-immigration-visas.html
Ontario Liberals in Free Fall: Predictably Resort to Useless Smearing and a Failed Strategy
So the Ontario Liberals want the coming provincial election to be about ethical issues such as women’s reproductive rights. Now I get the strategy. Distraught with their free falling in…
IQT client Bell Canada should step up and help affected workers
Hundreds of Canadian workers should not be left in the lurch by the sudden closing of call centres in Trois-Rivières, Laval, and Oshawa. According to an on-line news article in…
I’ll be happy to clarify that for you, Premier Wall
Saskatchewan premier Brad Wall has expressed surprise at Dalton McGuinty's concern about tax dollars subsidizing the oil patch. As this article puts it: Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall said he was…
City council’s budget cuts create ‘meadow look’
By Stuart Mackinnon, Vancouver Courier July 20, 2011 8:02 AM To the editor: Re: "Central Park: Thigh high," July 13. The "meadow look" is just a euphemism for budget cuts…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Jeffrey Simpson has a bit of trouble recognizing that inequality applies at all rungs of the income ladder, not merely as a matter of…
Ontario and Equalization Payments: ‘have-not’ actually means ‘has-no-oil’
In the two years since Ontario officially joined the ranks of the ‘have-not’ provinces, the volume of equalization payments received has jumped 534%. That’s right – 534%. From the first…
Big Oil-Funded Meeting of Canadian Energy Ministers Ends: Did They Get What They Paid For?
From CBC.ca: Canada’s energy ministers ended two days of annual talks Tuesday in the Kananaskis resort in the Alberta Rockies announcing they have agreed to work together on opening up…
Light Bulb Madness: A New Case Study in Right Wing Misinformation
incandescent.png The examples of conservative misinformation—devoutly believed by followers, repeatedly asserted by ideological leaders and media outlets—are growing too numerous to c...
Ottawa police brutality: the case of the missing DVD
How conveeeenient. Despite vigorous opposition from the Crown and the Ottawa Police, the Ottawa Citizen wins a court ruling—a judge orders the release of a video of yet more brutality…
"Bewildering" The World, Again
People might remember there was a RECENT time, when Canada would host international delegations who wanted to come and see our enviable prison system and policies. The statistics didn't lie,…
Hotocalypse
Hot enough for ya? For you non-metric types, that 38C is an even 100F. I think I speak for most of my fellow Canadians when I say, “WTF?” I suppose…
Tim Hudak: A wolf in PC clothing
A friend reminded me of this today – are we really surprised at Hudak’s dodgy behaviour this week? “Like his rhetoric, Hudak’s delivery often seems calculated and over-rehearsed. Worse, he’s…
Where to build the so-called "Road to Nowhere"? There’s really no where else to put it
Now this is interesting ... the "Canadian Transit Company," which sounds like a coalition of the urban public transit providers in Canada but is in fact the Canadian face of…
Tim Hudak is “gutless”
From the Ottawa Citizen: “There’s nothing wrong with being pro-choice or pro-life, both are honourable positions. What is wrong is a potential premier dodging the issue. That’s gutless and misleading…
Awesome Wednesday
Last Wednesday afternoon GC and I stopped by the Baseline Cowboys’ base camp at 1605 Baseline Road, and gave them an antique Mr. Peanut jar filled with peanuts. They gave…
I’ve figured out RIM’s problem
Here’s a look at RIM’s stock price over the last 5 years, noting when I entered and left the company. Coincidence? However, noting where I bought RIM stock and where…
3940…Will Chapters Follow?
I heard on Jay Leno last night that big Yankee booksellers Borders have pulled the plug. This morning WWNY News 7 on Watertown's The Wolf that the chain, 399 stores,…