More on the Mayor
After I posted about my telephone call with Mayor Rob Ford a few weeks back, I started getting calls from one of the mayor’s aides. He left pleasant messages and…
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The Uneducated Masses Strike a Blow for…?
Middle Schools Closed In Cowichan Valley, School Bus Fees Implemented CP | By The Canadian PressPosted: 05/16/2013 10:48 am EDT | Updated: 05/16/2013 11:14 am EDT (found in Huffington Post)…
Ontario Shores under aggressive timelines to fix safety issues
Ontario Shores now has its orders from the Ministry of Labour. It’s been almost a year since staff at the Whitby mental health centre went public with their concerns about…
Send me your letters!
I haven’t settled on a salutation or a title yet. It will be neither “Hey Faggot” like Dan Savage, nor “Dear Miss. Manners,” but I have decided to write a…
Ottawa parody of Gangnam Style makes the case for unions
This is one of the more ambitious low-budget videos we have seen that makes the case for unions in Canada. Made by Corinne Dara, it is billed as a parody…
Duffy and the Chief of Staff
To most Canadians, the Senate is an abomination, a mystery, or both. Most Canadians are surprised to learn that the Red Chamber, in effect, is a mirror image of the…
Who Won the BC Election?
Oil. Alberta Oil. Reports show that Alberta oil companies spent hundreds of thousands on campaign contributions for the BC Liberals. Quelle surprise. And where did that money go? Attack ads.…
Eatin’ Bugs
Insects will be a staple food on Mars and other space colonies. Paul Pardee : Lets have the delegates to the UN have a bug banquet to show their support…
A hornet’s nest in Trenton over plans to replace the hospital lab
It’s been a hornet’s nest for the past two months. Quinte Health Care’s plan to shut down its lab at Trenton Memorial Hospital and replace it with “Point of Care…
BC Election Results Vindicate Many
Premier Clark’s astounding election victory deserves to be celebrated. Almost nobody thought she had a shot, and the reports on her chances were dismal. The polls were bad. The media…
$90000 Favour To Senator Duffy Not a Bribe? #cdnpoli
Condoning, protecting, rewarding & compensating #fraud: PMO helped Senator #Duffy with expenses issues: theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/… #Cdnpoli— EmperorStephenHarper (@RobertJensen2) May 15, 2013 BREAKING:@RobertFife reveals that Nigel Wright, PM's Chief of Staff, wrote…
Dazed & Confused, Depressed & Not Amused….
By now the entire country knows what happened here in BC…the re-election of the Provincial Liberals (or Con-Lites) …to say that I am depressed is to state the case in…
Bet
This morning on Sun News Network’s AM Agenda, I bet the charming Pat Bolland that the BC New Democrats were going to win a majority government. I’m going back tomorrow…
Ombudsman seeking expanded role since 1975 – could this finally be the time?
“There is no effective, independent, investigative oversight of hospital administration. Period.” – Ontario Ombudsman Andre Marin, 2008 Ontario has been resisting Ombudsman oversight of its public hospitals for long enough.…
Dedicated revenues cover most of increase for Ontario’s health care in 2013-14
This year Ontario is adding $1.3 billion to fund health care for 2013-14, but most of that increase will have come from dedicated sources amounting to almost a billion dollars.…
Cats On The Net
This one goes back a few years now… April 6, 2006 Thursday Final Edition SASKATCHEWAN: Mayor’s approval rating with felines is suspect BYLINE: The Star Phoenix Residents of a village…
100% Guarantee by 100% Corrupt Harper Government
It’s 100% time to put 100% of the 100% crooked and 100% corrupt Stephen Harper Conservatives behind their 100% publicly funded 100% privately owned prison system. I’m 100% astounded and…
BC Liberals Advertising for the Greens in Victoria!
Vote Green! Brought to you by the BC Liberals I was tooling around on Facebook this morning, and some of my Green Party of BC FaceBook friends were talking about…
The Garlic: Interview With Carbon Dioxide
The Onion hasn’t lived up to its journalistic standards of fake news, so I’m writing a piece for The Garlic, and interviewing Carbon Dioxide to get its thoughts on surpassing…
Twitter as public space, and related problems
Last weekend, the Globe and Mail published two articles on Twitter, both of which were dismissive of the platform and were written by authors who do not actively use it.…