Not the resto; the actual province. I am sure that someway, somehow, Pauline Marois and the Parti Quebecois will blame this on the English but… Here is the story, direct from the Sun papers via Fark. MONTREAL – Quebec’s education ministry admits it gave out 130,000 high school diplomas with
Continue readingcmkl: Quit with the radical weather watches
I hope I live to be proven right but we’ve been under various radical weather warnings for the last two weeks and none of it has actually ever transpired. Today’s Tornado watch issued for Ottawa takes the cake. Yesterday I ignored the weather watch dire thunderstorm possible hail and all
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian home page: The Evolution of Denial
The shortcoming of denial is that it tends to be indiscriminate — so we deny things we should confront. Denial is also a much better coping strategy for an individual than for a species. The denial mechanism which once affected only local people in local places could potentially affect life
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Harper’s Auto-Generated Enemies Lists
If you’re Stephen Harper you can assume that what you consider “enemies” would include pretty much the entire membership of organizations such as the Council of Canadians. So why would you waste time amassing enemies lists when you can force these organizations to do it for you? This e-mail I
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: A Ralph of Many Trades and a Master of At Least One
Federal political candidates register their occupations with Elections Canada. I was recently looking through some election results and noticed that my old friend, Ralph Goodale, has had quite a varied career during his time as an MP. In every federal election he contested prior to 1993, Ralph identified himself as
Continue readingLeDaro: Nelson Mandela: The Greatest leader the world ever knew
South Africans are celebrating Nelson Mandela’s 95th birthday. I believe that Nelson Mandela is the greatest leader, he dismantled the apartheid in South Africa. I put him above any King, Queen, President, Prime Minister or any other nomenclature different countries use. I read his autobiography few years ago. Mandela was
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Revenge of the Blackfish
A documentary, Blackfish, opening today at the Toronto International Film Festival focuses on what marine “parks” around the world, like the GTA’s MarineLand, are inflicting on their captive orcas and how, after years of basically being left in a bathtub, some orcas take their revenge. Sorry but I’m with the
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: OECD Findings on Employment Protection and Jobs Performance
Further to my earlier post on the OECD’s new data on employment performance across its 34 member countries (and Canada’s relatively poor ranking in that regard), another part of the OECD Employment Outlook 2013 that is also worth reading in detail is Chapter 2. It provides a thorough revision and
Continue readingGeoff Campbell: Finishing up at the University of Virginia
Next week will be my last interning in the office of Community Relations at the University of Virginia. My major project has been working to update the directory that will replace the one currently at OutreachVirginia.org. Next week I will also be done all of the required coursework to complete
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Not So "Incompetent" After All, Eh Rupe?
Some pictures are worth a thousand words Now that recordings have emerged trashing Rupert Murdoch’s claims that he knew nothing of his newspapers’ phone hacking and police corruption, Ol’ Rupe is backpeddling. At first he denounced the police investigation as “totally incompetent.” Now that the recording has surfaced, Murdoch has
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: July 19: IRVING NAMED IN MEGANTIC LAWSUITS
That should have been the headline, page 1, in every paper of the Irving press today. Fifty people were killed. There is a link to Irving Oil, and to the owndership of the Irving Press. That is not to suggest that anything illegal was done. How could it be? Laws
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Canadian Taxpayers Federation Want To Blow Up The Senate-Video
Richard ‘Hub’ Hughes- Political Blogger The Canadian Taxpayers have embraced humour , satire and a little hucksterism to promote dismantling the Canadian Senate. Their goal is to have a referendum over the senates continued existence. Their claims and denunciations are a little overblown and their ridicule of Independent Senator Mike
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: The Dismal Plight of Bradley Manning
The Guardian’s Steve Bell captures what America’s military justice system holds in store for Bradley Manning: In a preliminary ruling on the multiple charges Mr Manning faces, military judge Colonel Denise Lind threw out a defence motion that the prosecution had failed to produce evidence to sustain a charge that
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 6256…Next For Ottawa: Locusts
Yer capital is going thru a nasty heat wave. Today there is a tornado warning. One would presume that locusts are next. Personally I blame Mike Duffy. WFDS
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Why Not Just Waterboard Them?
One of the dirty little tricks American interrogator/torturers adopted during the War on Terror has made it to the homeland. It is subjecting the prisoner to the prolonged stress of intense cold. That, according to lawyers, is a method being used against hunger-striking prisoners by California prison guards. Prison guards
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: It Worked for Capone, Now Let’s Use It on Multi-Nationals
Tax evasion is a crime. Multi-national corporations are criminals. In fact, the G20 is warning that advanced countries are facing “global tax chaos” as multi-nationals evade taxes by laundering their revenues through low-tax or no-tax havens. The buggers really do think they’re above the law, a clear impression they’ve received
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Friday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to end your week. – Patrick Wintour and Simon Bowers discuss the G20’s predictable finding that our global tax system isn’t set up to address the problem of offshore tax evasion: The long-awaited report, prepared for a meeting of the G20 finance ministers in Moscow this weekend, says
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Conjunctive, disjunctive
Ekos here. I don’t really believe the fed Grits are pulling down the Ontario Libs, or vice-versa. There’s a bit of brand overlap, but not enough to effect big shifts. I believe in the alternation theory: when the federal party is ascendant, the provincial party generally isn’t. There are three
Continue readingMorton's Musings: Complicity in international criminal law
Ezokola v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration) 2013 SCC 40 deals with complicity in a criminal organization for international criminal law purposes: [68] In sum, while the various modes of commission recognized in international criminal law articulate a broad concept of complicity, individuals will not be held liable for crimes committed by a group
Continue readingcartoon life: Shasta daisy
Stumbling through iPhoto I spotted this from a few weeks back. Better than I remembered it… Filed under: photo Tagged: daisy, flower, relief, wet
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