Posts Tagged: Canadian Politics 2008
The Police Have A Job And Know What It Is
Posted by on Tuesday, June 10, 2008 in - 6 comments
Funny how the pros do not buy the "not in the nature of the country to investigate private individuals" line: • “"...it's important to understand that the RCMP is alive to the fact that organized crime, some terrorist groups, are proactive – even strategic – in trying to access our public …
Oshawa
Posted by on Wednesday, June 4, 2008 in - 3 comments
I wrote the other day about how Ontario needs to get selfish within confederation. I've noted in the past how at some point my family sends around $8,000 a year into the budget for inter-provincial equalization transfers, a position which I am both grateful and a little frustrated with. But …
Your Friday Bullets For The Last Of May
Posted by on Friday, May 30, 2008 in - 28 comments
May 2008? Could have done with a heat wave. There was frost this week and I've been having to kid's softball in the evenings for at least half the month. Did I mention softball parents are the nicest sports parents? I guess because there is no National Softball League it become OK to shout "good …
"Because I Am The Unimind: I See All And Know All"
Posted by on Wednesday, May 28, 2008 in - 17 comments
That is the answer to this question apparently: • ““Why did it take the government five weeks to discover that documents were missing, and why did it take the government five weeks to ask a question either of the member for Beauce, the former minister, or of Madame Couillard?” Liberal foreign …
Friday Bullet Points Celebrating The End Of Dreary
Posted by on Friday, May 23, 2008 in - 37 comments
I mean it. It didn't get above 10C yesterday. A month ago I was getting • sunburns. This week I was getting mold. That is the problem with spring, if such • gift horses can be looked in the mouth: it's inconsistent. I want 19C to 22C, a • slight breeze that dies away around 2:45 in the …
Victoria Day's Weekend's Very Own Bullets
Posted by on Friday, May 16, 2008 in - 3 comments
May two-fer. That is the level to which the legacy of England's fourth best • Queen has been relegated. Drunks at the cabin. I know one. He's there already. • While I prepare to go to my day's labour. It's going to rain all weekend, too. • No gardening for me and less fishing for the man in …
Friday Bullets For The First Weekend Of May
Posted by on Friday, May 2, 2008 in - 3 comments
How was your May Day? Did you think of Stalin? Didn't pop into my head once • but I did about seven loads of laundry. Does that count? • Update: photobombing...potentially • NSFW depending on where you work and who is watching! • Were you aware that India launched ten satellites with one …
Friday Bullets For The Fifth Blogoversary!
Posted by on Friday, April 25, 2008 in - 3 comments
Huzzah! Huzzah! • That's what you need to say to your co-workers and employers today. Let them know what you have been doing on the fifth day, how you have idled away the hours, frittered productivity potential leaving the nation needing to borrow to replace the shortfall. I think that is my …
Canadian Electoral Update: AKA Wow!!!
Posted by on Tuesday, April 15, 2008 in - 8 comments
Let's just say "wow" is about all I can think of at the moment reading this news.
Group Project: Public Funding and Corporate Welfare
Posted by on Tuesday, April 15, 2008 in - 7 comments
I wonder. I am as sympathetic to the farmer as the next guy who has worked a plot as big as I have. A farming friend - a brother, in fact - once let me know how you can spot a 40 cent a post cost hog farm from a 80 cent a pound one. One survives these times while others do not. • But not if the …
