I am sad. I just found out over the weekend that one of Canada’ best little indie labels Three Gut Records is calling it quits. The Toronto-based, Guelph-founded, label is home to some of our country’s best music (in my opinion) including: the Constantines, Jim Guthrie, Royal City, Gentleman Reg, Cuff the Duke and Sea […] More »
About ten minutes ago, I booked an appointment with Benjamin, a granite-handed Russian massage therapist who, sometime around 6:15pm tomorrow, will have me begging for mercy as he digs his thumbs under my collarbone. I’ve had neck problems since I was 28, largely caused by spending my mid-20s hunched over a computer in a fit […] More »
A proposed open-pit mine to be run by Canadian mining giant Barrick Gold touched off protests early this month of 2,000 each in Santiago and Vallenar, near the mine site. From CorpWatch: “Barrick! Listen! Chile will not surrender!, No to Pascua Lama!,” roared a crowd of protestors as they paraded through the streets of Santiago, […] More »
I don’t know why anyone bothers blogging when there is Inkless Wells. Everytime Wells declares that he’s taking a break and that “blogging will be sporadic for a while,” he turns around and unleashes the best stuff anywhere. Today, he follows his rant against Harper with an annotated reply to one of his critics. Sometimes […] More »
Ever so quietly, the federal budget has been passed. I’m not a fan of the Liberals or their apparent behaviour in AdScam, but I’m pretty impressed with their resourcefulness; they found a little-used procedural motion to force through the budget late last night. Of course, it helps that this is a good budget for Canadians. […] More »
Regular readers of this blog might remember back in March a little investigative work by Andrew Potter revealed some problems with accountability in the Ethics Commissioner’s office. Seems the Sgro inquiry has taught the Ethics Commissioner a few things. Like it shouldn’t take seven months to find an office, hire a staff and make a […] More »
Creationists, please avert your eyes. News from the University of Alberta’s school of paleontology today that some of the earliest mammals had a lethally poisonous bite. From today’s Edmonton Journal, the fossil in question belonged to “Bisonalveus browni, a furry, insect-eating creature about the size of a mouse that lived in North America some 60 […] More »
I just wanted to take a moment to note Paul Wells’ recent advice to Stephen Harper. “Do something!” And then go back, way back to a blog posting I made about a month ago. Here’s me in the comments section later: But seriously folks, does anyone else think that those rumours about a “dump Harper” […] More »
I took my time this morning and went to get Live 8 tickets just now, but I’ve discovered that all of them were snapped up in 25 minutes! How disappointing. More »
UPDATE: Tabarrok is still clued out. If God suddenly appeared, all lighting bolts etc., the correct scientific reaction would not be “oh, I guess the theists were right all along.” It would be: “Gee, I wonder where God came from.” Again, if we can just accept the existence of organised complexity as a brute fact […] More »