Fast neun Millionen Aufrufe dieses Youtube Videos zählt die Band aus Burlington, Ontario – da kann ja dann mit der baldigen Release der neuen Scheibe nicht mehr viel schief gehen….
BarKanada ist bald wieder auf Sendung: SAT 14 Januar, 17h MEZ oder 11am EST. ‘Reinhören hier www.tonkuhle.de
ohne Worte, wie ich finde, dafür sehr lustig –
BarKanada ist bald wieder auf Sendung: SAT 14 Januar, 17h MEZ oder 11am EST. ‘Reinhören hier www.tonkuhle.de
Shake It Upside Down Steve Marriner Going Up 2007
The Blues Came Calling Richard Carr Tell Everybody 2011
Bad Daddy Natalia and Montuno Moving North 2011
Silver Bells Liam Titcomb 2011
Mr. Businessman Blues Diem Lafortune Beauty And Hard Times 2011
Good Times Ray Bonneville Bad Man’s Blood 2011
Wanker Blues
She Doesn’t Want You both pieces by Hip Shakin Mama and The Leg Men
Write Me A Few Of Your Lines Dan Livingstone and the Griffintown Jug Addicts 2011
Lemon Cheeky THE LEMON BUCKET ORKESTRA
True Soul / My People Kia Kadiri
The former Minister for the Status of Women launches a 1.3 million dollar law suit against the Canadian Prime Minister Steven Harper, Labour Minister Lisa Raitt and more under allegations of conspiracy and defamation.
Way to go Helena Guergis.
31 pages on how Prime Minister Steven Harper, some assistants and entourage bullied the promising Minister for the Status of Women outta there. I’m getting the popcorn ready. Looks like a can of bad assets rebuttal. Just hoping the Crown’s gonna get a handle on the documentation before the Cons delete it all. They do seem to be able to press buttons …
I would wish some judicial consequences, for a head of government, but also for everybody else who was not hesitant to throw a lot of dirt on a public servant. Her reputation was trashed on accusations (delivered 2 Stevie from a bankrupt private investigator owing two million dollars in taxes who now testified he had no proof of wrongdoing whatsoever) that would have no public interest (where I would be willing 2 discuss the mind altering effects of cocaine) if this country was to apply some science on the law-making and governing. The only thing of public interest here is, what the federal Ethics Commissioner found.
Wikipedia states:
“On May 20, 2010 Federal Ethics Commissioner Mary Dawson fined Guergis $100 for failing to report details of a $800,000 mortgage liability within the 30 day time limit. Guergis had purchased the Ottawa house with her husband Rahim Jaffer in November 2009. Guergis said “I simply forgot and I accept responsibility for this oversight, I have already made arrangements to pay the fine — within the 30 days I was provided to do so.”[45][46]
In July 2011 Mary Dawson further found Guergis contravened 2 sections of the MP conflict of interest code by writing a letter of support for a company to a local municipal politician. Rahim Jaffer, Guergis’s husband was seeking lobbying business from the same company at the time.[47] >> (please see sources on Wikipedia page)
The lobbying commissioner ruled the pair violated the Lobbyists’ Code of Conduct. Check this article on iPolitics.ca for more info:
“In a 53-page report, Karen Shepherd found that even though Jaffer and Glémaud failed to obtain the $178 million in federal funding they were seeking, they should have registered as lobbyists. Shepherd ruled they also had to register even if they weren’t explicitly hired as lobbyists.
Shepherd investigated 10 allegations against Jaffer and Glémaud and concluded that five breached the lobbyists code.”
Oh and just btw, Jaffer’s company was developing a photovoltaic power plant for Brockville as well as a device called a BioDryer waste disposal system, a waterless garbage processor. Totally unrelated? You tell me.
And:
The RCMP (!) called in on Harper’s own request, cleared Helena Guergis of all the other charges. She was never sentenced or found guilty in any court of law. Her husband, Rahim Jaffer, pleaded guilty to careless driving, charges against him for drunk driving and cocaine possession did not hold up and were dropped as well.
Why did the gang around Harpo bully and publicly discredit her? Well, looking @ her style or some unfortunate, perfectly legal events in her entourage, she seems to have a tendency to rock the boat here and there, but Conservatives are not exactly known for any particular elegance around here.
Thinking about it, consider a renaming into the “Cowboy Party of Canada” – oil is civilization for us.
This I can only hold up while apologizing to all brave cattle herds out there with big shoulders and long … legs who are embarrassed that Harpo is also from Alberta.
What I find remarkable is, that Helena Guirgis was anything but on partyline in her political career, and seemed very dedicated to her constituents. Again I quote from Wikipedia
<< When running for provincial office in 2003 in the socially liberal riding of Trinity-Spadina, Guergis said that she would vote in favour of same-sex marriage if given the opportunity. Responding to a question on same-sex marriage at an all-candidates debate, she said, "I believe in the right to choose, so I would be voting in favour of it."[8]
Campaigning the following year in the socially conservative riding of Simcoe-Grey, Guergis said that she would vote against the federal government's proposed legalization of same-sex marriage. She argued that the majority of her constituents opposed the initiative, and that she was committed to supporting their views. Guergis did in fact vote against Bill C-38, which granted legal sanction to same-sex marriage, in 2005. In the same year, she tabled a private member's bill restricting MPs from crossing parties after their election.[9]
Guergis was re-elected with 49.8% of the vote in the 2006 election, substantially increasing her margin of victory as the Conservatives won a minority government nationally. On February 7, 2006, she was named by Prime Minister Stephen Harper as parliamentary secretary to David Emerson, the Minister of International Trade and the Minister for the Pacific Gateway and the Vancouver-Whistler Olympics.
Guergis's appointment was somewhat controversial, in that Emerson had crossed the floor from the Liberal Party on the same day that he received his cabinet position. One day prior to her appointment, Guergis informed the media that she would issue a press release indicating her continued support for anti-floor crossing legislation. The release never appeared.[10] >> (please see Wikipedia entry for sources)
Let me wage a guess: that was a little bit too grass roots for your taste?
Now we gonna see the tables turned. I doubt we will see all the evidence, but it will certainly be entertaining.
Wait, what was the word you campaigned on? right. ACCOUNTABILITY.
It’s comin’ your way, Mr. Prime Minister.
photo by Jan Guchelaar
Bad Man’s Blood, eine neue Scheibe und auf Tour in Holland und Deutschland, einer meiner kanadischen Blues-Lieblinge: Ray Bonneville. Am Samstag in der Sendung (live stream ab 17h MEZ auf http://tonkuhle.de) spiele ich den Titel Good Times, kann man auch umsonst von seiner Internetseite herunterladen.
Und Konzertdaten sind hier gelistet. Bis danski!
Update DEC 6 2011: Mit Richard Carr habe ich auf’m St-Laurent in Montréal Cappuccinos geschlürft – am Samstag werde ich einen Titel von seiner neuen Scheibe spielen! Hier ist ein Artikel mit Hinweis auf eine Blues-Radio-Sendung, der den Montréaler Blues-Musiker auch erwähnt. Bis denne!
2nite on “The National“, income gap in Canada interestingly illustrated, nice choice of voices, but super funny from 9.06 on – they call’em Mr. and Mrs Marcozy – ahahahaha! and that’s not all: very informative overview on reserve life-style all over C (why that would fair behind a Euro-story, even if somewhat epic, 4 a Canadian broadcaster, kinda concerns me a bit) with the corniest Mansbridge in a long time in the end – nothing like the CBC, aeh?
A-and:
Keppler 22b, here I come. I did it once, I can do it again. Love this article: “Personally, I am faintly tired of people just like us. I would dearly love to communicate and commune with entities that have 10 limbs, 15 methods of sound and vision, and no such thing as hockey. ”
Not 2 mention sum more delicate body parts, me thinx, can’t help watching my thoughts go 4 a space walk … 
In the meantime, on a planet of weirdos in your home galaxy, instead of assuming responsibility 4 a decade of bureaucratic delays and broken promises failing Canada’s most vulnerable inhabitants, Aboriginal Affairs Minister John Duncan put the Attawapiskat reserve under third party management in form of a banker, who was kicked off reserve promptly upon his arrival this morning.
Ich dachte, dieses alles könnte Euch informieren und diesen sonst zu Trostlosigkeit neigenden Dezember Dienstag etwas aufheitern.
Samstag sind wir wieder auf Sendung. 11 AM EST/17h MEZ EINSCHALTEN!
ON THIRD-PARTY MANAGEMENT:
Duncan: “Last week, I announced plans to put in place a third-party manager to address the urgent needs of the community and to ensure the funding provided to this community is being spent effectively. Today, the chosen third party manager, Jacques Marion from BDO Canada LLP, is on the ground with [Aboriginal Affairs] officials. It is important to remember that the community’s Chief and Council will continue to be in place.”
Spence: “This rationale has been used by the Department to silence us…. It is incredible that the Harper Government’s decision is that instead of offering aid and assistance to Canada’s First Peoples, their solution is to blame the victim, and that the community is guilty, and deserving of their fate.”
Update 10 JAN 2012: And it’s not that they haven’t tried 2 get the government’s attention:
Emporte Moi Christine Ann Atallah and the Bassalindos Escapades 2006
You’re The One Pat Loiselle 2008
Dream Fabien Bonnefoi 2009
Si Pero No Alex Cuba Are You 2011
Out Of Air Ember Swift 11:11 2011
I found A New Baby (excerpt) Alex Pangman 33 2011
Yours, All Yours Alex Pangman Live In Montreal 2005
Déjà Vu The Jivewires Laughing In The Poorhouse 2003
Let The Good Times Roll (Louis Jordan) The Jivewires Jives Do Jordan 2011
I Don’t Know Enough About You ( ) Matt Dusk Good News 2010
Dance Me Outside Craig Cardiff Floods & Fires 2011
Cocaine Kisses Miss Polygamy EP 2011
Remember You Best The Sonic Defense Project 2011
Hey, wie wäre ein kanadischer Herzensbrecher gegen den Nebel?
Matt Dusk kommt ins flache Terrain, wie heißt’s, äh, Niederlande … bitte alle: Hingehen. Eyecandy und Ohrenschmaus im selben Konzert, also die Freundinnen gegriffen und los.
Samstag abend könntet Ihr seine samtweiche Stimme hören, im Chasse Theater in Breda, am Dienstag den 15. November in Hoofddorp, am Donnerstag in Heerlen, Freitag den 18. gastiert Matt Dusk im Stadstheater in Zoetermeer, und dann am Samstag, 19.NOVember in De Meervaart in Amsterdam. Klickt auf die Links für Details.
Samstag spiele ich “I Don’t Know Much About You”, kann man auch überall im live stream hören: www.tonkuhle.de, jeden zweiten Samstag im Monat um 17 Uhr MEZ …
Simple Pleasures David Myles (produced by Classified) Into The Sun 2011
Fired Up Matt Andersen Coal Mining Blues 2011
YoYo Rebecca Everett YoYo 2011
Going Up To The Country Scott Cook Moonlit Rambles 2011
How Come You Never Go There Feist Metals 2011
Yesterday’s News David Francey Late Edition 2011
Prime Time (Sammy Nestico) The Prime Time Big Band feat. Alan Ogborne on piano Prime Time … Swings Again! 2009
The Journey Amelia LeClair 2010
Century 21 Mackenzie Rhythm Section 2010
Revolution Kate Reid Doing It For The Chicks 2011
My Favourite Book (Flack) Stars The Bedroom Demos 2011
Only Gold Pharis & Jason Romero A Passing Glimpse 2011
Am 15. im Amsterdamer Carre Theatre, am 22. October im Berliner Tempodrom – vermutlich sehr interessant, das Berliner Konzert ist schon ausverkauft, höre ich – Tour Details kann man auf Leslie Feist’s Webseite nachsehen, gegen eine email Adresse kann man das neue Album auch anhören. Zwölf Titel, ich werde wahrscheinlich “How Come You Never Go There” spielen. Tune in
www.tonkuhle.de SAT 8 OCT 11am EST / 17h MEZ
A Note From Leslie - beautiful video from the making of the album on www.listentofeist.com
music, bands, good times!
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