The Bonneville Slat Flats: The latest Wildrose Alliance poll needs to be taken with the appropriate grain of salt. Below: Kathryn Marshall, Hamish Marshall, Vitor Marciano.WINNIPEGHere in Manitoba, it takes…
Vancouver is Canada’s latest battlefield. I don’t think Regina’s population would easily riot, not even over the Riders. We’ve come to accept losing the Grey Cup pretty well, and when…
Wow, I can't believe this shit. This airhead gets paid one hundred thousand dollars per episode for the ridiculous show, Jersey Shore. Meanwhile, one in ten Americans is jobless. Anderson…
New York State senator Roy MacDonald is one of the Republicans who is going to vote in support of gay marriage:“You get to the point where you evolve in your…
Tim Harper, a Toronto Star columnist, has a good item this evening about the meaning of the Harper government's moves to end two nation-wide strikes for no reason that would…
I was previously ignoring the news on the Vancouver riots, after the Canucks lost the Stanley cup, thinking the disturbances to be caused by nothing more than boozed up young…
I took a walk along Winnipeg’s infamous Portage and Main this afternoon. It being the month of June, I did not have the pleasure of experiencing the cold weather that…
.....Comes not from proMedia pundits, but instead from our friend Jonku who posted the following up late last night at the Moon of Alabama:"Riots" in Vancouver.Very good live radio, helicopter…
I love summers in the neighbourhood... so many wonderful ways to hang with your family and friends, enjoy the weather and our community. Here are a few upcoming events. Mark…
Vancouver Police have crowd-sourced the identification of suspects. Check out: http://www.identifyrioters.com/ Must-read coverage from an individual: In the belly of Vancouver’s hockey riot Posted by Emily Elias on Thursday, June…
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... the editorials in the Calgary Herald, a paper that is usually a mouthpiece for the Harper Conservatives is taking them to task for an action. In this case the…
I was in downtown Toronto when the Blue Jays won their first World Series in 1992, it was fun. If there were isolated incidents of vandalism or violence I didn't…
Well it's the day after the Vancouver riot, and I see that just about everybody is blaming everybody but themselves. Those weren't real hockey fans, that isn't Vancouver, hockey is…
Have you ever heard the urban legend about how such and such generation of Canadians are lazier than the past generation? Or the One about how this generation just does…
A reader asked what duty a lawyer has to check out a potential expert. Good question. A lawyer who uses an expert must not knowingly put forward someone who is…
Go and read this piece from Ed Keenan in The Grid. He's right of course, and you don't need a master's degree in public administration to know that public services…
Stevie Spiteful, as you all know by now, boys ‘n’ girls, still refuses to add asbestos to the list of hazardous materials at the Rotterdam Convention. To be specific, as…
It really is a shame what happened last night in Vancouver–I truly believe it was the work of a small minority, taking advantage of the situation. I personally believe we…
Social Media and Rioters
My friend Alexandra Samuel penned a piece titled "After a Loss in Vancouver, Troubling Signals of Citizen Surveillance" over at the Harvard Business Review. The piece highlights her concern with…