Toulouse Le Grandfig’s Summer Vacation: Kiss-meat
SS Plotkin, circa. 1901 I separate the mists of time like the Great Jabber Monkey’s own cosmic speculum. The Fates glare at me as I slowly walk up the gangway:…
Nobody to blame: SIU bluerinsing continues
Why is the taxpayer continuing to shell out for this costly alibi machine?...
Could the Right-Wing Threat Get Any Worse?
High profile Scotland Yard officers have been forced to resign over the Rupert Murdoch scandal and the whistle blower is dead.An investigation is underway in Canada involving Fox News North/Sun…
Miliband’s moment
It has been fascinating to watch Ed Miliband over the past week or so as he's handled the Murdoch scandal. Miliband seems to be ahead of the curve, leading the…
Cadborosaurus, You Have Crushed My Soul!
The long-awaited footage of the Alaskan Cadborosaurus is just a freakin' wave. Discount the guys in the video. They're fishermen, after all. I hate you, Caddy! I hate you!Background here.…
How the audience disillusions itself
As the UK deals with the phone hacking scandal, Canada is also pondering the role of its mass media, thanks to a CTV bureau chief publicly expressing his disgust at…
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…