Minister On Drugs
Wait, that title is supposed to be, “Minister Comments On Drugs“. Wait, maybe, “Minister Makes Comments About Drugs”, is less ambiguous? The Conservatives wouldn’t dream of commenting on drug regulations,…
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America, Russia, Syria: “The Outcome Is Irrelevant”
Fyodor Lukyanov on Russia and the growing inevitability of Western-led intervention in Syria: In Moscow, hardy anyone believes that the tragedy with the toxic substances in the suburbs of Damascus…
America, Russia, Syria: “The Outcome Is Irrelevant”
Fyodor Lukyanov on Russia and the growing inevitability of Western-led intervention in Syria: In Moscow, hardy anyone believes that the tragedy with the toxic substances in the suburbs of Damascus…
ConCalls: #RoboCon Trial Inches Forward
The trial of maybe the only Conservative stooge to face a judge for illegal robocalls during the last federal election, is underway. Sona is a stooge, and I think an…
Update: Matthews limits role of supervisor despite scathing report into northern hospital
“In 1970, Dirk sued Stig, Nasty, and Barry; Barry sued Dirk, Nasty, and Stig; Nasty sued Barry, Dirk, and Stig; and Stig sued himself accidentally. It was the beginning of…
Senate/PMO Corruption Scandal Hits New Height
Did I just dream about the blackmail and corruption in the #PMO and Senate that CTV reported last night? #Duffy #cdnpoli— Saskboy K. (@saskboy) August 27, 2013 Two senators were…
Fukushima Keeps Staying The Worst
It’s always been /worse/. And it just keeps staying tragically the same. It’s remained a global crisis with hemispheric deadly consequences. Japan could still wind up largely uninhabitable (if it…
2nd recall in 10 months raises concerns at blood agency
The message was sent out at 4:06 pm on a Friday to staff at Canadian Blood Services. Described as a “developing situation,” Chief Operating Officer Ian Mumford told workers that…
The women’s rights movement is not about the right to go topless
Women’s equality is about receiving equal pay for equal work. It’s about ending the pervasive and systemic violence against women. It’s about breaking glass ceilings. Women’s rights are about being…
In an elevator with One Direction
Earlier this month, this guy and I were in LA. We stayed at a hotel on Sunset Blvd. (not far from where I once lived twenty-some years ago) nicknamed the…
Wood Mountain Folk Fest 2013
Beautiful weather, and beautiful music. There’s presently no planned music festival in Wood Mountain for 2014, but I hope that changes.
Minister Horne Reacts to the Preferential Access (Queue Jumping) Report: It’s not good
Justice Vertes released the results of the Preferential Access (Queue Jumping) Inquiry this week. Health Minister Horne heaved a huge sigh of relief. Vertes found that allegations raised by Dr…
Richard Dawkins’ Point About Islam & Nobel Laureates Also Applies To Women, Chinese
All the world's Muslims have fewer Nobel Prizes than Trinity College, Cambridge. They did great things in the Middle Ages, though.— Richard Dawkins (@RichardDawkins) August 08, 2013 Jeffrey Tayler in…
Richard Dawkins’ Point About Islam & Nobel Laureates Also Applies To Women, Chinese
All the world's Muslims have fewer Nobel Prizes than Trinity College, Cambridge. They did great things in the Middle Ages, though.— Richard Dawkins (@RichardDawkins) August 08, 2013 Jeffrey Tayler in…
Molehill Revisited….
Manitoba deputy premier sorry for ‘white people’ remark Premier used phrase ‘do-good white people’ to describe women’s shelter in Winnipeg CBC News Posted: Aug 23, 2013 12:21 PM CT Last…
Go To Wood Mountain #exploresask
The Wood Mountain Folk Festival is today, Saturday Aug. 24, 2013, at the Mergel Ranch. On Friday I drove down from Regina in my $50 rental car (for 3 days,…
Friday Night Hardware Hacking
Last night I fixed a Vista laptop (It wouldn’t finish booting into Windows normally because I’d installed another hard drive, and ran ClamAV which possibly changed a file it was…
Drug “paraphernalia,” a lost study revived, and temporary inspectors — short takes on recent events
Kudos to Camille Quenneville, CEO of the Canadian Mental Health Association, for pointing out governments looking to contain costs and provide better service should address mental health issues within their…
The Bellerephon Problem
After murdering his brother for eating all the Cheetos, Bellerephon was exiled from Corinth. (A city famed for its Elvis impersonators and Class 5 Full-Roaming Vapor Ghosts.) Then his luck…
Mic Mac Mall employs “girls are dumb” ad campaign
Seriously, it is 2013 and someone at an ad agency thought it was a great idea to develop this ad campaign. And then the mall execs agreed. I’m not sure…