TransCanada’s claim that the southern route of the Keystone XL Pipeline is the safest pipeline ever built in the United States is challenged by the release of new documentation confirming multiple code violations.
Daily inspection reports on the c…
Month: March 2016
Wise Law Blog: LawFact of the Day : Wills and Estates
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law. Today we are talking about Wills and Estates. #torontolawyers #wiselaw #law #willsandestatesA video posted by @wiselaw on Mar 1, 2016 at 1:52pm PST – Garry J. Wise, TorontoVisit our Toronto Law Office website: …
Continue readingExclusive: Newly Released Inspection Reports on Keystone XL’s Southern Route Fuel Doubt Over ‘Safest Pipeline Ever Built’ Claims
TransCanada’s claim that the southern route of the Keystone XL Pipeline is the safest pipeline ever built in the United States is challenged by the release of new documentation confirming multiple code violations.
Daily inspection reports on the c…
Morton's Musings: Not even a band-aid solution
R. v. T.Q., 2016 NUCJ 04 is a troubling case. Here a young man with good prospects for rehabilitation was sentenced to a term of incarceration without treatment because there was no treatment available. The central problem is as set out in …
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Coule Pas Chez Nous
As a coastal British Columbian I can’t help but support Quebec’s Coule Pas movement to resist the Enbridge Trans Canada Energy East dilbit pipeline crossing their province.What’s wrong with the Enbridge Trans Canada pipeline initiative? What’…
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: #CBCbehindthestory at UofR
CBC talking about how they cover stories. I’m trying to use: Facebook Vine Periscope Snapchat “johnkleinregina” YouTube Twitter Flickr WordPress ADDED: Soundcloud ADDED: LIVE on #Periscope: How does a journalist build a story? @SheilaColesCBC & @JillMorganCBC are up at #CBCBehindTheSt… https://t.co/PxT9UQW1Cq — CBC Saskatchewan (@CBCSask) March 1, 2016
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Do You Wonder What the Future Holds for Canada in the Mid-Range? Wonder No More.
Bob Weber of the Canadian Press has done his homework and he’s produced an excellent layman’s guide to what’s likely in store for Canadians by 2050. He conveys very well the reality that small numbers mean big changes. Read it in its entirety here…
Continue readingMaple-Flavoured Politics: Donald Trump and the State of Fear and Loathing
Many sane, liberal-minded people in American and around the world express great fear and loathing over the possibility that Donald Trump might become president of the United States. I think their fears are totally unfounded. Rather than immediately le…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Channeling Juan Peron, What Could Befall America
Former US Army commander turned historian, Andrew Bacevich, has been a welcome source of profound insight into how his country, its institutions and especially its military have changed in the post-9/11 world. You don’t need to be an historian to know …
Continue readingMorton's Musings: Apprehension of bias
R. v. Nero, 2016 ONCA 160:…bias must be reasonable, held by reasonable and right-minded persons applying themselves to the question and obtaining the required information about it. The test is “what would an informed person, viewing the matter realis…
Continue readingkirbycairo: The Divisive Crack in US Society. . .
I grew up in the US in the midst of the Vietnam War. It was undoubtably a turbulent time. As I got a bit older and the US started to go significantly downhill during he 1980s, loosing it economic edge and gradually rejuvenating its neo-colonial militar…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Glen Pearson makes the case for transcending cynicism in our politics, including the choice to stay involved once an election is done. And Ian Welsh reminds us that our definition of property is socially establi…
Continue readingdaveberta.ca – Alberta Politics: Calgary-Greenway Update: Alberta Party sits it out, Larry Heather and Said Abdulbaki run as Independents.
The Alberta Party has decided to not run a candidate in the March 22, 2016 by-election in the Calgary-Greenway constituency. It was a strange choice by the small political party, which brands itself as a centrist alternative. Its leader, Greg Clark, …
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: UPDATED: Donald Trump – Equivocator-In-Chief?
Synonym Discussion of equivocatelie, prevaricate, equivocate, palter, fib mean to tell an untruth. lie is the blunt term, imputing dishonesty . prevaricate softens the bluntness of lie by implying quibbling or confusing the issue . equivocate implies u…
Continue readingThings Are Good: Healthy People Don’t Diet, They Listen
Diet fads come and go, but there is one diet that will always work: listen to your body. If you feel like you’ve had enough then stop eating, and if you feel like you should have more lettuce then go get some! New research confirms old knowledge that people with a healthy weight do monitor […]
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Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: In search of Ontario’s liberalized beer sales.
It was a pilgrimage. The objective was to experience booze in an Ontario grocery store. There was no such grocery store in Barrie. Our city is too unimportant to the Ontario government to have beer in grocery stores. Last weekend we stayed in Toronto and early Sunday morning set out to see beer in a […]
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Gender Bias in Coding
My chorus of MRA hacks is always on about how great things are for women and often how the wimmenz have it better than dudes. Right. So here again, is an example of what existing while female is like. “A group of computer scientists, when studying the acceptance of contributions on the software […]
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: A tax to build a tax #nlpoli
A tax to pay a tax.Interesting idea, no?Well, that’s what Jim Feehan suggested last week. He told a luncheon meeting of the St. John’s Rotary Club that the government should consider financing the rest of Muskrat Falls through a special tax. …
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