Archive for September, 2006

Canadian Senate Reform

Thursday, September 21st, 2006

Canada's Upper House, the Senate, the Old Men's Lounge, the Red Chamber Boys, the No-E Senate... whatever you want to call them. Stephen Harper has made it his pet project to reform our Senate and I say: power to you. Senate reform is long overdue, by just about 140 ...

Bob Rae Made Contributions to NPD Candidates! Oh The Horror!

Thursday, September 21st, 2006

It actually took me several minutes to come up with more than "so what". But, seriously: so what? Did anyone not realize that he was the former leader of the Ontario NDP? (oh yeah, please stop calling it the NDP Party - that's redundant; it's like saying the Rio Grande ...

The Road to Prohibition? Landlord Bans Smoking in Rentals.

Wednesday, September 20th, 2006

Winnipegonians - er, people who live in Winnipeg - will have one less landlord from whom to seek tenantry as of October 1. At least if they smoke. Or if their family smokes, or friends, or the guy who repairs the TV set. Globe General Agencies manages about 5000 ...

The Cost of Being Canadian - Redux

Wednesday, September 20th, 2006

Okay, so here's the deal. The Canadian people forked out 85 million bucks to bring some 15,000 people home back to Canada from Lebanon. But the real kicker is that only 6 weeks later, with no guarantee that hostilities have ended, 7000 of them have gone back. On August ...

9/11 - I Tried Not To Write About It

Monday, September 11th, 2006

Two of my favourite bloggers, Red Tory and The "What Do I Know?" Grit wrote about opposite sides of the same issue - commemoration of 9/11. Having just finished watching 17 minutes of Bush chewing out rhetoric about the war in Iraq, on terror and for the freedoms of ...