http://www.alittlebitleft.com A left-leaning Canadian blog out of London, ON Tue, 25 Jul 2006 13:41:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Well, it’s been a while. Life took over most of my time as of late. I got married a couple of weeks ago followed by a honeymoon in Mexico. I didn’t mind not blogging during that time because it seemed there was very little going on that really moved ... http://www.alittlebitleft.com/index.php/2006/07/25/at-a-loss-for-words/ It burns me that Harper has decided to return to the tradition of only lowering the Canadian flag on November 11th. In the last week a Canadian soldier from a town in the county where I work (and that I work for) and I learned today that the maintenance staff at ... http://www.alittlebitleft.com/index.php/2006/04/25/i-believe-every-death-should-be-honoured/ I figure I should give credit where it’s due when it comes to a business doing the Right Thing. Around mid-February I bought a Sony Handycam DCR-DVD403 from The Sony Store. It, along with the accessories and whatnot that I purchased, ran me about $1600. It had worked wondefully since I ... http://www.alittlebitleft.com/index.php/2006/04/10/kudos-to-the-sony-store/ First off, “love” isn’t the best descriptor. Perhaps “Tolerate” would be better. And it would have rhymed. CBC is carrying a story about Harper laying the smack down on Ralph Klein over Klein’s infamous “Third Way”. At issue is the ability for doctors to practice both in the public and ... http://www.alittlebitleft.com/index.php/2006/04/07/my-lovehate-relationship-with-harper/ Wow. I haven’t posted since the Olympics? That’s some serious slacking. Long story short… in the last while I’ve become a homeowner, been working a fair bit of overtime (Damn salaried employment! No OT pay!) and I’m getting married on July 8th. So things have ... http://www.alittlebitleft.com/index.php/2006/04/06/since-parliament-is-back-in-session-i-guess-i-should-be-too/ Well, I just got done watching the Canadian men get eliminated from medal contention at the hands of Russia. Not cool. But I’m less upset than I thought I would be. I got to see the final period of the game and it was, frankly, pretty fucking sad. I don’t ... http://www.alittlebitleft.com/index.php/2006/02/22/and-the-better-team-wins/ I was checking my referrer logs and a google search whose results brought up the post I made regarding U.S. women’s defense Angela Ruggiero’s whining that Canada was grossly outscoring their competition. I noticed another result that caught my eye. Yahoo! News - It’s no contest in women’s hockey: Canada, U.S. still ... http://www.alittlebitleft.com/index.php/2006/02/17/ruggiero-has-one-less-thing-to-worry-about/ Sweden just beat U.S.A’s women’s team in a shootout to advance to the gold medal game. Someone at work said that if Sweden won that it would be the first time the U.S. team hasn’t made it to the gold medal final and Sweden’s first trip to a gold medal game. Congratulations ... http://www.alittlebitleft.com/index.php/2006/02/17/so-much-for-theres-only-two-womens-hockey-teams/ The NDP in Ontario seem to have sparked quite a debate on organ donation this week. I’ve not spent a whole lot of time looking into this yet, so this is me just blindly throwing out some thoughts based on what I’ve read and heard thus far which is, admittedly, fairly ... http://www.alittlebitleft.com/index.php/2006/02/17/initial-thoughts-on-ndp-organ-donation-bill/ Socialist Swine is right. Warren Kinsella could very well be the biggest douche in Canadian politics. It seems that he’s decided to sue Mark Bourrie of Ottawa Watch for libel. $600,000. That’s what Kinsella is looking for. It’s fucking ridiculous and Mark, being a doctoral student, could use some ... http://www.alittlebitleft.com/index.php/2006/02/15/kinsella-sues-a-blogger-shocking/