It’s back! Because it’s the only thing they can think of that would help the environment that requires absolutely no change in consumer behaviour! It’s the home retrofit program that the Liberals ran, the Conservatives killed, the Conservatives reintroduced, and that the Throne Speech suggests we can all look forward to being announced all overcontinue reading
Current Events Archives
Too kind…
Really, I think she’s done her bit already for the Democrats… Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin has said that she would be honored to help President-elect Barack Obama in his new administration. Last Updated: 1:00AM GMT 13 Nov 2008 The Alaska governor said she would be willing to help if Mr Obama asked her forcontinue reading
Beige, brown, and resistant to change
Another reason to loathe Tim Horton’s, if you needed it — it’s the one kicking up the biggest fuss about the new packaging by-laws the City of Toronto plans. Timmy Ho’s refuses to change its cup to one of the corn-based, biodegradable versions you can get at your local granola-organic coffee outlet, or, in fact,continue reading
Beige and brown
I found this profoundly depressing, coming just weeks after an election that confirmed Canadian complacency and Canadian democracy have a strong negative correlation: Tim Hortons serves up national identity, researcher finds [St. Francis Xavier Professor] Cormack believes much of the mystique is owed to the “True Stories” ads starring real Canadians that started in thecontinue reading
For external use only
Do not eat your ballot (because you’re voting today, right? RIGHT?). It’s illegal. I’m amused that a ballot-eating question made it into the FAQ. Just how F is that Q A’d, anyway? Polls are open until 9:30 (EDT). Elections Canada will assist with ballot-eating, ride-bribing, prison-sentence-serving and all other questions.
Oh ouch
Quotation of the Day for October 9, 2008 “They were waiting for a translation from the original Australian.” – Bob Rae, Liberal Member of Parliament for Toronto Centre, jokingly explaining why the governing Conservative Party took so long to release their federal election campaign platform. He was referring to a scandal earlier in the campaigncontinue reading
Found poetry
Update: More here As Putin rears his head and comes into the airspace of the United States of America, where do they go? It’s Alaska. It’s just right over the border. It is from Alaska that we send those out to make sure that an eye is being kept on this very powerful nation, Russia,continue reading
The chocolate and the cluelessness
Couple arrested for carrying raw chocolate “We have a lot of exotic stuff,” she said. They had also packed some raw, organic chocolate – made of unrefined, unprocessed cacao, maca root, hemp seeds and goji berries. “At first the (customs officials) said, ‘Oh, you guys are just holistic.’ Then the dogs came.” The animals wentcontinue reading
And now, a word from our spammers
SUBJECT: REQUEST FOR URGENT BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP DEAR AMERICAN: I NEED TO ASK YOU TO SUPPORT AN URGENT SECRET BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP WITH A TRANSFER OF FUNDS OF GREAT MAGNITUDE. I AM MINISTRY OF THE TREASURY OF THE REPUBLIC OF AMERICA. MY COUNTRY HAS HAD CRISIS THAT HAS CAUSED THE NEED FOR LARGE TRANSFER OF FUNDS OFcontinue reading
From the office of the Fearless Leader
Full credit where credit is due — hackers and spammers sometimes do good work. An e-mail sent to a PMO media distribution list, purporting to come from we’re-better-off-with Harper: from Stephen Harper to ALLNEWS_E@lserv.pmo-cpm.gc.ca date Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 3:34 PM subject Why you shouldn’t fear me Hi The Average Canadian, Stephen Harper wantedcontinue reading