The recent revelation that former California governor Arnold Schwarzanegger had a love child 10 years ago, coupled with the arrest of IMF head and French politician Dominique Strauss-Kahn on sexual…
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Watch out Mr. Layton. Black cats cannot be trusted and before you know it you become the meal.Read the story here for the context.Video:
I don't have much to observe about today's developments in federal politics, except to say that I am profoundly unsurprised, unlike the madly twittering press corps. Harper's favorite cabinet ministers,…
Newt Gingrich should change his name to Nuke Gingrich. His campaign kind of ended before it even began. In an interview with David Gregory of NBC he basically said the…
GC has been a vegan for two days now. I was only a vegan for a few hours, then I downgraded to vegetarian because I needed dairy products in my…
Because we didn't learn anything from it the first time around. Canadians secretly added to U.S. security list: WikiLeaks The Canadian Security Intelligence Service, Canada's principal intelligence agency, routinely transmits…
Yesterday, Gerry T shared a photo he snapped at the University of Alberta in Edmonton of a "departure board" in the university's Student Union building that uses open transportation data…
Third Atlantic Workshop on Semantics and Services - blog summary - part 2. A Semantic Web based Framework for Modeling and Simulating Clinical PathwaysAli Daniyal The problem is the analysis…
The news in this morning's Globe and Mail that John Baird will become Canada's Minister of Foreign Affairs is truly depressing. A graduate of Queen's University, Baird is not stupid.The…
From the same brilliant commonsense school of "thought" that gave us a high school dropout as Minister of Education in Ontario, the same braintrust that appoint a creationist quack as…
I saw the following note on Facebook from John Lennard – who is a fellow Liberal, a one-time fellow Liberal blogger, and someone who literally came within a coin-flip last…
Third Atlantic Workshop on Semantics and Services - blog summary Leveraging Semantic Web Technologies for Improved Decision Making Samuel Chance, Novexcorp Told some ‘Alabama’ jokes, to illustrate the importance of…
Hero Cops Escort Cellphone Loudmouth Off Train from Gizmodo by Seth Abramovitch People who carry on high-volume conversations on their cellphones in public places are the worst. THE. WORST. Which…
So what’s it like to be an activist from afar? In short, it’s not easy. It does, however, bring into relief some of the reasons why I helped to create…
Earlier this month, I served as the discussant for a presentation by Engelbert Stockhammer, an economics professor from Kingston University in London. He was speaking at a conference organized by…
I've written before about the fact that overall New Yorkers have the highest life expectancy in the United States. Sounds odd, but research has traced those added months to the…
I am against Insite and will pretend drug treatment is a mutually exclusive alternative. Btw., don't ask me to fund drug treatment either, or locate a facility anywhere near my…
“I know I’m gonna catch a lot of flax for this but I truly believe that people who search their whole lives for their spouse and end up single in…
The "Special Convention" : It's not Extraordinary. It's Unconstitutional.par John J. Lennard, mardi 17 mai 2011, 10:55http://www.facebook.com/notes/john-j-lennard/the-special-convention-its-not-extraordinary-its-unconstitutional/10150184826444141There ...
