If one person came out the whole Ghomeshi mess unsoiled it was Marie Heinen. Now stupid journalists are asking her if she thinks she’s betrayed the sisterhood and other such nonsense. She shouldn’t have to answer. It isn’t her fa…
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BigCityLib Strikes Back: On Marie Heinen: A Brief Note
If one person came out the whole Ghomeshi mess unsoiled it was Marie Heinen. Now stupid journalists are asking her if she thinks she’s betrayed the sisterhood and other such nonsense. She shouldn’t have to answer. It isn’t her fa…
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Insanity is… – xkcd
[Source:xkcd]Filed under: Humour Tagged: Humour, insanity, xkcd
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Day Jason Kenney Accused the Liberals of Having a Hidden Agenda
It's finally official. At the stroke of midnight tomorrow Stephen Harper's ghastly little theocratic project, the so-called Office of Religious Freedom, will come crashing down.And finally be buried in the garbage can of history.The govern…
Continue readingPolitics – Toronto Lawyer | Omar Ha-Redeye: Remembering Rob Ford
He wasn’t a great mayor, but he will be greatly remembered.
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Paying for Muskrat Falls #nlpoli
To understand precisely how insane an idea we have at Muskrat Falls, think of it this way.In Quebec, provincial government policy is to maintain a pool of electricity that is very cheap to produce. This is for use inside Quebec so that the …
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: Plan B: Here is what Bernie Sanders needs to do if he does not win the primaries — which I certainly hope he does
These are the facts. Trump is an orangutan, obsessed with his sausage fingers, and filled with an infantile grandiosity, narcissism and egomania. He is a petty right-wing thug, very much like David Cameron of Britain, but without the British sense of t…
Continue readingNearly $1 Trillion Wasted Globally on Unnecessary New Coal Plants
Nearly $1 trillion (£700bn) is being invested in new coal-fired power plants worldwide despite the fact that the demand for electricity generated from coal has declined for two years in a row, shows a new report released today.The report, by Greenpeac…
Continue readingcartoon life: My allergy season begins
As soon as the rain in the Spring stops making whatever so heavy and knocking it out of the air, then when it settles into the ground and causes something to revel in blooming in the damp ground, I feel like this. “What a lovely strange little drawing”, I’ll say to myself in a few […]
Continue readingdaveberta.ca – Alberta Politics: Who will stand up for Alberta’s persecuted billionaire community?
A billionaire is moving away from Calgary and we should all be worried, the newspapers tell us. Postmedia newspapers reported recently that nameless sources are saying oil billionaire and Calgary Flames co-owner Murray Edwards is “switching hi…
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: How Women-Led Movements Are Redefining Power, From California to Nepal
Around the world, movements led by women are challenging “growing corporate power, land grabs, economic injustice, and climate change, women’s movements offer a paradigm shift,” writes San Francisco-based photojournalist and writer, Rucha Chitnis.
Th…
Morton's Musings: Laws
People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much to hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous:Edmund Burke, 1777
Continue readingWeaver Calls for B.C. Moratorium After Study Links Fracking, Earthquakes
The results of a new study linking hydraulic fracturing or fracking to induced earthquakes in B.C. and Alberta is reason to immediately halt the controversial extraction technique from being used in gas fields in B.C. according to Andrew Weaver, leader…
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Why Rob Ford Does Not Deserve to be Honoured With a Statue
I don't really mind that Rob Ford's body has been lying in state at Toronto's City Hall for the last two days.Even if he did so much to dishonour his city and his country.He was once the mayor, and it did give his so-called Ford Nation a c…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: How to Piss Off a Despot
The Germans know a tyrant when they see one. Recep Erdogan, Turkey’s strongman, got supremely pissed off at a satirical video mocking the Boss of the Bosporus aired by the German public broadcaster, NDR.By summoning Germany’s ambassador, Erdogan has …
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Donald Trump’s Campaign Manager Charged With Assault
Donald Trump is a foul bully who has encouraged violence at his rallies, and made it very clear that he has no respect for women.So who can really be surprised that his campaign manager has been charged with assaulting a female reporter?Read more »
Continue readingMorton's Musings: Unreasonable Verdict
R. v. McCracken, 2016 ONCA 228:[23] The question for an appellate court assessing an unreasonable verdict argument is whether, on the whole of the evidence, the verdict is one that a properly instructed jury, ac…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: He Never Ceases to Disappoint
Stephane Dion 2.0 seems to be a lot different from the Stephane Dion of the “Green Shift” days. He’s back as foreign affairs minister to his boss, Justin Trudeau, but Dion comes across as though he’s personalized his role as if he’s the prime minister …
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