By: Food Banks Canada | Press Release: TORONTO, May 6, 2013 – Today, food banks across the country are asking Canadians to join the Hunger Awareness Week movement from May 6-10, 2013, to raise awareness about the solvable issue of Hunger in Canada. Hunger hits much closer to home than many Canadians realize. In fact,
Continue readingMorton's Musings: Leave to appeal
Tomic v. Tough, 2013 BCCA 212 deals with the criteria for granting leave to appeal [22] The criteria for granting leave to appeal were addressed by Saunders J.A. inGoldman, Sachs & Co. v. Sessions, 2000 BCCA 326 (CanLII), 2000 BCCA 326 at para. 10 (in Chambers). They include: (1) whether
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 5956…National Post, The, Down On 10 Per Centers
10 per centers are political pamphlets, usually very partisan, that MPs are allowed to send free-to-the-MP to 10 per cent of the households in their riding. It usta be, back in the halcyon days of the Martin era, 2010, that said 10 per centers were transferable. That means that a
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Stand up for affordability and choice in Canada’s cell phone market
Did you know that the high prices in our cell phone market mean that you can own about four phones in Portugal for the same price as having one device in Canada? Learn more here. Help spread the word by sharing this image: Citizens can stand up for affordable and
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian home page: Why Justin Trudeau May Be More Dangerous than Harper
The thing that has always bothered me about Justin – ever since his entry onto the public scene at his famous father’s funeral – is that he’s never appeared to stand for anything real. Years later, even following a lengthy leadership race and literally thousands of media clips and public
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Canada’s Nate Silver weighs in on B.C. ’13
Here. Dix didn’t have a great debate performance, Clark did. Also, going neg has worked for the latter – while refusing to do so hasn’t helped the former. That all said, Mr. Grenier says closing the remaining gap is going to be pretty hard for the B.C. Libs. I think
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Canada’s Nate Silver weighs in on B.C. ’13
Here. Dix didn’t have a great debate performance, Clark did. Also, going neg has worked for the latter – while refusing to do so hasn’t helped the former. That all said, (a) NDP vote is much more efficient on the ground and (b) Mr. Grenier says closing the remaining gap
Continue readingCanadian Dimension Feed: Boston and Venezuela: Terrorism There and Here
Two major terrorists’ attacks took place almost simultaneously: in Boston, two Chechen terrorists set off bombs during the annual Boston Marathon killing three people and injuring 170; in Venezuela, terrorist-supporters of defeated presidential candidate, Henrique Capriles, assassinated eight and injured 70 supporters of victorious Socialist Party candidate Nicolas Maduro, in
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Faker Than Ezra?
So far, I’ve unable to find anyone with a higher percentage of fake twitter followers than Ezra Levant. In fact nobody even comes close. The wannabes include some notable names, however, including… …Stephen Harper, leader of our great nation. A quarter of his followers are fake, and less than half
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: May 6: Poor Loblaw’s…it didn’t know…
…that women supplying it with clothes were working under deadly conditions for a dollar fifty a day. How could they know that conditions were so bad and pay so terrible? And now over 600 women are dead. How could Loblaw’s know? IWell, it’s only happened many times before in American
Continue readingDISSTEMPER: Squeaky clean Conservatives
Little noticed amid the hoopla surrounding Stephen Harper’s announcement of new dollars for clean energy initiatives last week was Heritage Minister James Moore’s corresponding promise of significant funding for clean heritage projects. The following are excerpts from Moore’s formal announcement: “Winston Churchill once said, ‘History is written by the victors.’”
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: The Toronto Star Facebook page: honesty that’s so honest, you’ll want less honesty
Apparently for real. Man, someone at One Yonge is having a bad Monday morning.
Continue readingCanadian Dimension Feed: Justin Trudeau, Boy King
There is no accounting for political judgment when it gets caught up in irrational euphoria. The overwhelming victory of Justin Trudeau in the Liberal Party’s leadership race demonstrates just how impoverished the state of our political culture has become. Did the polls — almost completely meaningless at this stage of
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Patient Zero
Turns out the tale of Patient Zero – the Canadian flight attendant – was, as with many things, a lie. Story here. Reading this story reminds me of my Dad and my family, believe it or not. Chances are our family knew about AIDS long before most of you did.
Continue readingRecreating Eden: The Edible Urban Gardener: Ron Finley in South LA
Okay, how do you bring gardens to the city? Here’s one man’s crusade. Ron Finley gardens in South Los Angeles, and if he can do it, you can do it.
Continue readingPolitics and Entertainment: why focus on inflation when there is little evidence of a inflationary trend while there are abundant statistics revealing just how bad things are for both the unemployed and the underemployed.
One of the official goals of central bank monetary policy is supposed to be low employment fostered through what is known as an expansionary policy by lowering interest rates with the hope that low credit rates will encourage businesses to expand their operations by way of capital investment in hard assets or
Continue readingPolitics and Entertainment: why focus on inflation when there is little evidence of a inflationary trend while there are abundant statistics revealing just how bad things are for both the unemployed and the underemployed.
One of the official goals of central bank monetary policy is supposed to be low employment fostered through what is known as an expansionary policy by lowering interest rates with the hope that low credit rates will encourage businesses to expand their operations by way of capital investment in hard assets or
Continue readingPolitics and Entertainment: why focus on inflation when there is little evidence of a inflationary trend while there are abundant statistics revealing just how bad things are for both the unemployed and the underemployed.
One of the official goals of central bank monetary policy is supposed to be low employment fostered through what is known as an expansionary policy by lowering interest rates with the hope that low credit rates will encourage businesses to expand their operations by way of capital investment in hard assets or capital expenditures of some sort and new hirings. We’ve had this policy in place for quite some time now, and yet employment really hasn’t improved one iota. If anything it’s merely gotten worse along with – because of the incentive of low interest rates – an astounding increase in personal debt to the unseemly tune of a 165% income to debt ratio.
** For example, “the number of temporary workers in Canada hit a record two million last year, according to Statistics Canada. That amounts to 13.6 per cent of the work force compared with 11.3 per cent in 1997, when such record-keeping began.

OpenMedia.ca: Bell-Astral takeover would give Bell millions of your dollars
Last year telecom giant Bell unleashed a new $3.4B plan to take control of Astral Media, one of Canada’s largest media companies. Canada already has one of the most highly concentrated media systems in the industrialized world, and this deal would only make this situation worse by giving Bell a
Continue readingRecreating Eden: Saturday Photo: The Week the Leaves Came Out
The first week in May is the week the leaves apppear almost without fail. It’s almost explosive, you can practically see them grow from hour to hour. Here are two pictures of the same branch, one taken on Tuesday, and the other on Thursday, to give you some idea. Does
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