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…
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…
Monday was the 93rd birthday of my greatest living hero, Nelson Mandela.Tributes poured in from all over the world, and South Africans celebrated by singing songs for him, and performing…
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…
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…
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.…
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... 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…
Cheap Trick, still together, have fans, are they 100 yet?They almost went to heaven last night.Allright.WFDS
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…
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…
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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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...
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…
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…
Sean Hoare - the whistle blower who exposed the News of the World scandal - has been found dead.
Inspired by this story: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2011/07/18/baird-china-foreign.html
The Republican Party is holding the United States specifically and the world economy in general, hostage. Obama, if he had any stones at all, should never have negotiated with them…
Funny line from the 1999 Simpsons episode "Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo" but it got terribly serious today with one of the whistle blowers being found dead and PM David Cameron…
