Big Brother goes to the theatre
“For the second time in year, a Toronto playwright has felt the chilling reach of the federal Conservatives…” Wouldn’t it be great if the Opposition parties would get their collective…
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F-35 For Australia and Canada
It’s amazing how expensive a stealth fighter jet can be. And it just gets more and more expensive the longer Canada contemplates actually forking over cash for the fictional fighter…
Excited Delirium Chapter 68: Get Garamond
Chapter 68 of Excited Delirium, where our heroes hatch a plan for getting Garamond.
Fake News
Fox News says, “Why didn’t we think of that!” as they smack their foreheads collectively. Sun News is the premier, cutting edge, dishonest, fake news station on Canadian cable. Eat…
Weathermen For Republicans
Most people don’t trust their weather forecaster celebrities to be correct more than 50% of the time. I just made up that statistic, the same way many weathermen have done…
The Stupid Senate
“I felt like it is kind of an insult to be a denier for a long time,” said Sen. Bert Brown, last month at a parliamentary committee studying energy policies.…
Hell In A Handbasket
American spy charged with spying, by his own government, when he revealed to reporters that the CIA was acting illegally by torturing people. Obama’s War on Whistle-blowers, rages on. Bradley…
10 Questions for Banner Health
Lo, a Tweet from Banner Health on the Amanda Trujillo incident, and possibly the most content-free in the history of Twitter: Uh, huh. “Listening” and “hearing” rather imply, in this…
Nothing will ever be good enough for the CFS
Because it would put them out of business. Now they’re complaining that the 30% tuition cut promised, and delivered, by the Liberal government isn’t good enough. It seems that the…
The Silo Strategy –Part 1
How did the for-profit labs become the sole providers of laboratory services for all non-hospital patients in Ontario? These patients, often called community patients, usually need a lab test that…
RCMP Call for submissions…into Workplace Harrassment
Commission for Public Complaints Against the RCMP c/o Public Submissions, File 2011-3791 PO Box 1722, Stn B Ottawa ON K1P 0B3 To Whom it may concern, I am…
Head-Free Driving
Hands-free exemptions in cell-phone driving laws are nonsensical. That much has been obvious to me and a lot of other people for years. The problem with phoning while driving isn’t…
Battle of Service
While legislators in New Hampshire consider a bill that would make it legal for business owners in the public sector to deny services to any gay person getting married, an…
Publicly Funded Oil R&D
If there is one monolithic industry that could afford to do its own Research & Development (R&D) into cleaning up its significant “associated byproducts” (AKA toxic waste). But they don’t…
Spin Doctors – MP pension reform
Happy Monday! This week in The Hill Times, the Spin Doctors were asked to opine on whether MP pensions are in need of reform. Here’s what I have to say.…
Excited Delirium Chapter 67: Aftershocks: China Scene of Devastation
Excited Delirium Chapter 67, where China experiences a massive quake created by our villians.
Minister of Threatening Canadians
Modified form letter I sent started with: Dear Prime Minister Harper, Threatening charities as ‘adversaries’ of your government, is wrong. The form response I got back started with: Dear :…
Parents Flip Out Over Teachers’ Safe Space Card
Two fifth grade teachers at West Park School in Altona, Manitoba are being demanded by parents to remove cards from their classrooms indicating that they have completed training on how…
Newfoundland Gets GSA Fund
Looks like Ontario may need to go to Newfoundland for some schooling on schooling. Clyde Jackman, Newfoundland’s education minister, just announced MyGSA, a $90,000 fund to help support the establishment…
Don’t Waste A Minute
Waste 30 minutes just walking to no place in particular, and you’ll accidentally help your health, energy level, and mood. It’s a doctor approved prescription that is denied to too…