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Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: Harper heeds Harris heritage.
The one problem we have to be realistic about is that ideologues are willing to kill people to support their political beliefs. The disaster in Lac-Mégantic, Quebec is the latest case in point. When you gut a department’s budget, you can hardly be surprised when it can no longer do
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Another Walmart Injustice Story
It might be worthwhile to bear this story in mind the next time we contemplate the ‘bargains’ at Walmart: : Recommend this Post
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Quebec sovereignty: a tale of two slides
There’d be winning conditions for a new referendum, this suggests: If this wasn’t also happening: More here. Harper, I have long felt, is the best argument for the Part Quebecois’ never-ending drive for separation. Fortunately, Marois has been a useful counter-argument. For now, that is. She has been adept and
Continue readingBlast Furnace Canada Blog: Guest post: The Reserve Paradox (Part II)
[Guest post continued …] Aboriginal people in Canada today suffer from much higher rates of poverty, illness, dysfunction and incarceration than non-Native Canadians. Many non-Native Canadians believe that this is due to the Indian Act and the reserve system which set Aboriginals apart from other Canadians. When these non-Natives see
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Martin Lukacs offers up the definitive response to the Lac-Mégantic rail tragedy: The deeper evidence about this event won’t be found in the train’s black box, or by questioning the one engineer who left the train before it loosened and careened unmanned into
Continue readingBlast Furnace Canada Blog: Guest post: The Reserve Paradox (Part I)
Once again, I’m happy to lend over this space to my colleague Jared Milne. This time, Jared talks about the troubles that the Aboriginal community has been in for years — or in his words, “how the reserves and the Indian Act, which are seen as ways by which Native Canadians are
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Yvonne – math #nlpoli
Liberal member of parliament Yvonne Jones is pissed off. She told VOCM that “there are 1,016 people that are payrolled [sic]under the Muskrat Falls project. 201 of those are Labradorians. So we have less than 10 per cent of Labrador people employed as part of that project.” She said that
Continue readingWise Law Blog: 140 Law – Legal Headlines for Friday, July 12, 2013
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Friday, July 12, 2013: Zimmerman lawyer flips out after prosecution requests ‘child abuse’ charge Zimmerman Trial: Court Publishes Final Jury Instructions Lawyer: Apple Should Protect Me From My Porn Addiction Transforming Bar associations U.S. law firms merging at
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: PRISM: Stone vs. NSA and Checkpoints
Many people, even my peers, don’t all understand the extreme danger we all face when people casually accept overbearing government search without even probable cause for them to suspect you are up to planning a crime. Corporate and government machines, systems, are becoming more powerful than individuals can fairly fight
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Did Someone Say ‘Byelection’?
I’m certainly glad that Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne is adhering to her commitment to a new way of doing politics. I’m sure the Toronto District School Board also appreciates her integrity. Recommend this Post
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: The End Of Kent?
Peter Kent signaled this week that he expects to be demoted or dismissed by Stephen Harper. Rick Smith, the Executive Director of the Broadbent Institute, suggests that Kent’s tenure as Minister of the Environment can’t come to an end soon enough: Since the advent of Canada’s first federal Environment Minister
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: August 2nd Will Be One Helluva Hangover
As of 27 minutes ago, PCPO candidate Ken Kirupa came out pro-Scarborough subway line. Send A Message To The Liberals – Scarborough Wants Subways – Ontario PC Party http://t.co/jHfqDEsK0F— Ken Kirupa (@KenKirupa) July 12, 2013 As of yesterday its become official PCPO policy ahead of the by-election in Scarborough-Guildwood. Now
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude – The CBC Signature Series: F-sharp major – The Mystic
F♯ major or F-sharp major is a major scale based on F♯, consisting of the pitches F♯, G♯, A♯, B, C♯, D♯, and E♯. Its key signature has six sharps. Its relative minor is D♯ minor, and its parallel minor is F♯ minor. Its enharmonic equivalent is G♭ major. F-sharp
Continue readingMorton's Musings: Being a witness at trial
Being a witness comes up in many different ways. First you can be a witness in a case brought by or against you. So then you are a party and it really is the only chance you will have to tell your story. In such a case you have to
Continue readingmark a rayner | scribblings, squibs & sundry monkey joys: Now That’s Cooking
Cynthia had never mastered all of the culinary arts, despite her self-styled title of “Sauciest Chef in the West.” Her ragouts were a disaster and her inability to get a souffle to rise was legendary. Fortunately, she could get other … Continue reading →
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: He Is Come To Scarborough
He will arrive in a silver space ship and descend in a roiling cloud of dry ice. T-Rex will be playing in the background. There has been some awesome food around that office lately; there may be biryani chicken. But no promises, obviously.
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Jerome Kennedy: ace hole digger #nlpoli
Score another one for the Telegram’s James McLeod. He interviewed finance minister Jerome Kennedy and wrote a story that centred on Kennedy’s contention that his party’s 2011 election promises weren’t really promises at all but a general blueprint or platform intend to implement depending on the cash available. The story
Continue readingImpolitical: One man in Lac Mégantic
This is a very powerful report on Raymond Lafontaine of Lac Mégantic who lost a son, two daughters-in-law and an employee in the train explosion. He’s making a difference on the ground there in many ways, chief among them this: In the minutes after Saturday’s explosion, he rushed to the
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