More than 50 liberals broke rank today and rebelled against Jean Chretien. This is a landmark day in Canadian politics.
It was a vote on a procedural matter. From now on committee chairs will be elected by secret ballot.
Colby Cosh sums it all up very well.
This is a blow to Chretiens authority. He needs to [...]

A 7.9 earthquake has rocked Alaska late this afternoon about 303 kilometres from Anchorage. Looking at the community intensity map, I can see that communities around the brown zone haven’t reported in yet as I type this.

Update: Here are some witness reports from CBC.

A 4.3 quake between the Nebraska South Dakota border [...]

With apologies to BD’s numerous non-U.S. Readers. But I gotta vent a spleen.
The man who spearheaded the ‘Moyerish‘ fabrications that the mean evil Republicans were going to starve children, kick grandma down the steps while creating tax-breaks for the
rich is now whining about ‘conservative‘ talk radio in an attempt to paint them as our own [...]

As you know, Bene Diction is on vaction. Right before he left, he asked me to to post a blog from time to time so his blog wouldn’t go totally dark. To which I warned him that what he’ll probably wind up with is alot of political punditry that I usually avoid on blogs4God.com and [...]

Since weekends tend to be a tad slow in blog land, I have a question for bloggers.

What is the worst blogging mistake you have made?

In the interests of fair disclosure, I’ve made legions of tech and typo mistakes. (Those count when you put your comment in)
My second biggest mistake as I see it? I [...]

I’m always interested in posts by bloggers about meeting other bloggers in person. Jeff Jarvis has met a few bloggers and says, you are what you blog.

Fraticide
American lawyers defending pilots Major Harry Schmidt and Major William Umbrach for the death of four Canadian soldiers and the wounding of eight in Afganistan have decided [...]

European planners are warning that the continent is long over due for a deadly strain of influenza.
Experts warn that countries are not ready to cope with another pandemic as virues continue to mutate into potentially killer strains.
It is educational and sobering to walk through Canada’s cemetaries and look at the gravestones from 1918.
50 [...]

Trojan Horseshoes gives his Methodist church bulletin and it’s inserts a sound fisking on Children’s Sabbath Day.
Link via Instapundit