Featuring a special guest appearance by Karin Brothers of the United Church of Canada.
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Lloyd Robertson Retires
A musical tribute.
Let’s Install A Plaque At 787 Dundas St W To Remember Jack Layton
“All right thinking Canadians should be ready to help the NDP in their search for that special someone… “ It’s the least we can do.
Elections Liberal
“Canada’s Chief Electoral Officer has to go.”
We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Mirrors
Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
August 15th, 2011 – Discover Sustainable Business Practices and Tour Solyndra!
August 31, 2011 – Solyndra, a major manufacturer of solar technology in Fremont, has shut its doors, according to employees at the campus.
Related: “Is it possible that the Obama administration can’t even do crony capitalism right?”
It’s Probably Nothing
Q: How do you say ‘Our word, our bond’ in Chinese?
A: You don’t.
In The Mail
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Anything Goes, by Theodore Dalrymple. Plus, this bonus interview with the author. (h/t Walter) |
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Reader Tips
In tonight’s Tips music, from the 1934 British musical film Sing As We Go, Gracie Fields maintains that life can be fine if we Sing As We Go. (Lyrics here.)
The comments are open for your Reader Tips.
Just Another “Isolated” Incident
15 people were arrested at a New York amusement park after Muslim women in hijabs were denied entrance onto rides because of safety reasons related to their headgear. Here is an explanation of what initiated the violence:
Earlier, a park cashier told a Journal News reporter that a woman wearing a hijab either pushed or hit a ride operator who forbade her from going on the ride. She said a police officer tried to restrain the woman and the woman’s husband took offense, at which point a multiple-person fight broke out.
We Can Start With The Rich Liberals
Daniel S. Hamermesh needs help with the word “radical”.
A more radical solution may be needed: why not offer legal protections to the ugly, as we do with racial, ethnic and religious minorities, women and handicapped individuals?
No, that would be the conventional solution.
Look, if the left wants to talk “radical” solutions the template exists, courtesy of their ideological forebears. So, why not just say it? All of these troublesome inequalities would evaporate if a “final” solution were implemented for the attractive able white male problem.
Jim Chu’s Keystone Cop Brigade
A real-life farce in Vancouver is starting to look a whole lot like something out of Hollywood. The National Post Editorial Board is rightfully condemning the complete lack of progress by the Vancouver Police on charging the June 15th rioters.
If you live in the Metro Vancouver area and would like to be a panelist on this subject on Roy Green’s radio program this Saturday around 1:30pm PDT then please send me an e-mail asap. No exceptions, you must live in the Vancouver area.
O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas
Hear my prayer.
h/t Sean
The Children Are Our Future
Great Moments In Journalism
h/t AndyCanuck
America in 2011
Seen earlier this month on Highway 101 in Silicon Valley, California
Hashtag Of The Entitlement Generation
Homeless in Vancouver? There’s a app for that. The Tyee reports with a straight face;
Take VanShelter, an app (still in progress) that displays which shelters in the Downtown Eastside have available beds, in real time. The idea is that the shelters update the numbers on twitter, and if you are a subscriber to the service, get free text messages on your phone.
Poland Possesses The Largest Coal Reserves In Europe
Free Free Dominion!
The Ontario Superior Court of Justice has just tossed out a defamation action by John Baglow (Internet Blogger Dr. Dawg) against Mark & Connie Fournier of FreeDominion. The Ontario court was very clear when dismissing the allegations put forth by Baglow. The court dismissed the Defamation Action and ordered Baglow to pay costs to the Fourniers.
Full decision – and fairly amusing flamewar chronicle – here. (pdf)
This is awkward: At the bottom of Page 3 and the top of Page 4 of the PDF it is revealed that Baglow started also posting as “Ms. Mew” in an effort to support his primary alias, “Dr. Dawg”.
Reader Tips
For your amusement en route to the Tips, here’s a little Fishing Camp Music from the shores of Metionga Lake in Northwestern Ontario. Guy plays a mean antler.
h/t Joyce D.
The comments are open for your Reader Tips.
TINA
In fact even then in policy application essentially an aspirational exhortation:
But the lady turned less than her successor (p. 3):
…During Margaret Thatcher’s premiership public spending grew in real terms by an
average of 1.1% a year, while during John Major’s premiership it grew by an average of 2.4%
a year…
Moreover, given economic growth, this happened:
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The Thatcher government brought public spending down from 48.1 per cent of national income in that year to 41.6 per cent in 1987-1988…
Via Rob Snow of CFRA Ottawa (and Denise):
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Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Afternoon Edition – Tuesday’s Political Hour – The Strategists…