People in the UK live under what Wikipedia describes as “some of the strictest gun legislation in the world” yet according to an article in the Daily Express, last year there were “9,967 gun-related crimes, a rise of 373 on 2006″.

The bunker, as a rule, is not very big on R.I.P. posts - but Albert Hofmann is gonna be an exception.

OC Transpo seeks feds’ help to resolve clash with transit union

Consultants are like doctors. Everyone waits to call us until it’s NEARLY too late, everyone resents having to use our services, and everyone thinks we’re overpaid. So here are ten proven ways to make our lives utterly miserable.

Just saw on Mike Duffy Live that the Conservative minority government will vote against a motion that expresses “full and complete confidence in Elections Canada“…. does that mean 6 more weeks of stupidity in the House?

Update: And the vote is 152 for 117 against in a whipped vote.

Every time I turn on CPAC I hear MP after MP after MP standing up in the House and talking about “our democracy“, and each and every time I hear that I wonder if Canadians actually buy into it.
We do not live in a democracy, we live under a representative democracy where the majority of […]

The Nunavut Land Claims Agreement provides a good example of a modern-day treaty, and illustrates both the lofty principles that underlie the notion of a nation-to-nation treaty between Canada and its first peoples, and the disappointing aftermath. It’s also instructive because many insist that claims and treaties are “old obligations”, historical relics. Not so. The largest land claim in Canadian history was signed (by a Conservative Prime Minister) just fifteen years ago.

Because of the Liberals and the mainstream media of course.

As we approach the National Day of Action, we can expect that the usual ignorance and racism will once again begin to boil in the moronosphere. As a countermeasure, we thought this year we’d shed a bit of light on the background on some of the issues likely to come up on blogs over the next few weeks.

Ya just know the world is going to hell in a hand basket when the homeless are getting robbed.

The “What They Say -vs- What They Do” Edition

Send a trackback, or leave a comment, and ponder the simple fact that you can justify anything with the right sort of spin; as balbulican has been known to say on occasion, “a turd wrapped in tinfoil is still just a tinfoil-wrapped turd” — and torture, regardless of how you wrap it up, is still torture.

Members of each side of the great Canadian political divide have found common ground in the call for public transit to be designated by government as an “essential service” and immediately legislated back to work.

– that I not only know the band and band members who had the old Terry Fox van, but I’ve ridden in it as well.

The Econoline van that was Terry Fox’s home on the road for 143 days during his 1980 Marathon of Hope is being restored.

A good discussion took place on the Neil Boortz show this morning concerning handgun legislation in Georgia that some are urging that state’s governor to veto in the interest of public safety. Boortz’s question is simple, do people have the right to defend themselves, or those they are responsible for, with deadly force if necessary, or not.

An article in the aggregator about General Petraeus being appointed to the head of US Central Command, not because of his ability to defend ‘lil Georgie but because of the paragraph that said “It also gives Vice President Dick Cheney greater freedom of action to exploit the option of an air attack against Iran during the administration’s final months.“