Best Laid Plans of Mice and Bloggers
Here I was planning to post on multitude of topics, including some stuff on breastfeeding, restraints, the duty to care, more twists and turns in the Amanda Trujillo case, the…
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Ottawa’s Integrated Hospital Laboratory Service Takes the Next Step
The Ottawa Citizen announced the start of the Ottawa area hospitals integrated laboratory service. The Citizen somehow links this development to Don Drummond. It has nothing to do with Drummond.…
About the ONDP budget phone line
You know, the one Andrea Horwath set up to hear from the people before her party decides whether or not to support the McGuinty budget. It’s now being reported that…
ConCalls: Live #PROC Committee – LiveBlog
Watch live on CBC.ca Kady: In what can only be described as a deeply unfortunate bit of scheduling business, Chief Electoral Officer Marc Mayrand is set to make his first…
Parade of Disgraceful Conservatives
The Conservative Party of Canada could use better people to back it, and its ideology. The current support crowd online has some pretty obvious, and significant flaws: threatening lawsuits (both…
RoboCoke: Fun Contest to Celebrate Dying Democracy
I dislike both Coke and iTunes, thinking the world would be a better place without either of them. I hate RoboCon a lot more though, because our country would be…
Cats
It would appear from this graph that as the cat threat makes it into the news more, there are fewer people searching the word “cat” on the Internet. Curious. I’m…
One Piece At a Time
… and it didn’t cost me a dime. – Johnny Cash I went to the latest Design Regina public forum Tuesday night, at Artesian on 13th Ave. That building is…
US Health Insurance Truths Emerge
As the American government slithers through the mud with the health insurance industry towards universal health coverage certain truths about private insurance that supporters of public health care know, and…
Subliminal Frames
If you’ve watched Santorum’s “Obamaville” web advert once or twice, it’s easy to miss a number of what can only be described as “subliminal” images as they appear for only…
Ontario Election 2012
Seems unlikely, right? You’d think so yet just months after the last election Tim Hudak was on CBC radio this morning huffing and puffing about the McGuinty budget. I’d call…
Election Day 1: The BS hits the fan
Ah, election time. The promises are flying, candidates come out of hiding, and the lowly, forgotten voter becomes the belle of the ball. The election is underway, so let the…
ConCalls: Tough on Crime
Information is the lifeblood of democracy. Stephen Harper knows that, he said it. Ask yourself why the Chief Electoral Officer’s report on electoral fraud this week, is being given to…
ConCalls: Write CBC and other Media
Dear CBC: As a Canadian citizen, it is with great alarm that I’ve watched the RoboCon scandal unfold. The report to Parliament by Marc Mayrand, Canada’s Chief Electoral Officer scheduled…
Cat Reporter Infiltrates the NDP!
Risking all 9 of his lives, Cat Reporter infiltrated the NDP Leadership Convention to bring you the Cat Truth about their plans to overthrow the government–and paint 24 Sussex Orange!
Trans Contestant Booted From Beauty Contest For Being Born Male
Jenna Talackova, a contestant in this year’s Miss Universe Canada pageant, has been disqualified from the competition after organisers discovered that she’s trans. Pageant judges selected Talackova from numerous other…
ConCalls: Not Serious? Get Serious!
It should be obvious to most people that the Liberal Party of Canada isn’t behind the vast majority of illegal phone calls made to voters during the May 2, 2011…
ConCalls: Poutine’s Email Address
I’ve emailed Postmedia for clarification, were there 2 or 3 emails? The account was registered to someone using the email address pierres1630@gmail.com. The order required PayPal to turn over account…
It’s the Least Wonderful Time of the Year…
A lousy day all around…I can think of nothing I like less than the idea of Mulcair, the ex-Liberal, as the leader of the Party I would have gone out…
Favourite Poems L
Yes, the fiftieth edition of Favourite Poems. You might wonder why a blog about nurses and nursing (and some other stuff, but mostly nursing) does poetry. The answer is simple:…