Snow day coming, too. In November. Global cooling is good. The bog lake even looked better with that beach at Elevator Bay, the one that emerged over the last few months, being flooded over. The swans returned there this week. December is tomorrow which will make next year next month.  •  Update …

Could there be any more embarrassing reason to maintain what used to be a worthy national institution until it got so boringly self important?  •  “"We do have some concerns about [the decision], notwithstanding fact that it happened on the French-language side," Ian Morrison, spokesman for …

The first snow settled in to Easlakia just when a rotten creaky achy cold arrived as well. Days and days of not June. But, still, the holiday feeling is starting already. Just four work weeks to go, after all. But everything is not as jolly as it should be.  •  The spirit of the season appears to …

Finally, someone has discovered how to defeat the forces of islamofacist jihad:  •  “A few inches of skirt length have led to an airport security guard's suspension. The skirt is too long – not too short – to please the Canadian Air Transport Security Authority. Halima Muse, a practising Muslim …

Rejoice! The war is won!  •  You may have noticed that there has been spam recently. The move to Recapture has apparently attracted a band of manual spammers who focus on sites who use it. Spiteful bitter Romanians for the most part. Anyway, this site's admin also allows me to customize the spam …

It is fine to call this one bad decision but it challenges the meaning of what is local and what is security:  •  “...officials wonder whether increased border security cost the firefighters precious minutes. Mr. Hébert said fires double in intensity about every minute. The six Quebeckers showed …

I have a cat but I think having a cat is a weirdness. I am so ambivalent about the whole cats thing I am not sure what I think about this case:  •  “Mr. Stevenson, 54, does not deny using a .22-caliber rifle fitted with a scope to kill the cat, which lived under the San Luis Pass toll bridge …

Speaking of jiggling the toggle switches of the constitution, it appears we may well have a hope of the abolition of the Senate after all:  •  “Prime Minister Stephen Harper will support a move to put the future of Canada's Senate up to a nationwide vote if the government can't find a way to …

I don't know what the simpleton fear-monger's view on the beating of pro-western constitutionalist lawyers by pro-western anti-constitutionalist soldiers and secret police officers is. The common law is the cornerstone of English-speaking democracy but it can get in the way. That may evade the …