Noob Bloc NDP member of parliament Raymond Cote made it clear on Tuesday he disagrees with his party on a loan guarantee for the Muskrat Falls project.According to Canada.com: "It's…
According to Statistics Canada, more than half of people who didn’t vote in the last election didn’t bother because they were either a) disinterested, or b) “too busy.” And it’s…
For every truth, there is an equal and opposite truth; every truth is faced by a scurvy awful lie which from its own point of view is just a truth…
Before my premature bug-out due to severe weather this weekend, I did manage to do some imaging. Sticking with the theme related to the Ring nebula photos posted here another…
Alberta Culture Minister Lindsay Blackett at the Legislature after the February 2010 Budget Speech. Photo by Dave Cournoyer.In case you missed it, as almost everybody did, Calgary-North West MLA Lindsay…
With the HST referendum underway and ballots supposedly in the mail (I should have mine in the next couple days...) I've had a thought that there may be a bigger…
I almost completely missed a chance at some shameless self promotion. For Canada day I was asked to submit an article to a renewal of their "Real Agenda" issue that…
Tough news yesterday for 1400+ workers being laid off at the Bombardier train factory in Derby, U.K. Therein a very stark and hard-boiled lesson for naive Canadians who believe that…
Many observers are assuming that a verdict of not guilty, which took less than 11 hours to deliver by the grand jury in the Casey Anthony trial, was a correct…
Today we launched one of the seven websites I need to relaunch this summer. There are still some rough patches, but it's mostly there. I hope this will start a…
We need to spend billions of dollars a year on Canada's defence (sarcasm). On the plus side, not all those dollars are on guns and grenades. Somewhere in Ottawa there…
SpeakingNonsenseNon-StopWithUtter Conviction VilleFor the first time ever I have switched on the "comment moderation" feature of this Spotted Blog.I apologize, but it had to be done. There is no need…
Cats in storage.
I read on Mayor Jim Watson's Facebook that the Government of Ontario give the Ottawa Bluesfest 400 000 $.Money well spent.Ditto T Dot Pride.WFDS
My big news is a nice grant from the Conseil des arts et lettres du Québec to support work on a new short story collection. It'll be called Desire Lines:…
Autism rates are increasing for some reason. My sense is the increase is not a selection effect or artifice but something real. These studies, there are two, in the November…
Diggnation nobody Alex Albrecht is on the same panel as Drew Carey! WTF! Also freaky, the words "CBS News" under a video with Alex Albrecht and the fact that CBS…
Those of you suffering from Evan Rachel Woods withdrawal post True Blood, might want to check her out in HBO's less popular Mildred Pierce, where she appears totally naked (but…
When you have nothing to say, embed a video! This is a two week old Diggnation (June 21st). They talk about Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg's pledge to eat what he kills…
Since the jerks over at Revision 3 took Diggnation off Youtube, I thought I'd post it here, to my blog (as allowed by Revision 3). This episode (June 29th) is…
