Eliminating clubland: Planning for the right dance & social spaces in the city I’m going to respond to this article from an Urban Planning point of view, but also from a Feminist and “dance-positive” point of view [2]. This month I have been dreading my move back to Vancouver –
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian home page: Enbridge Review Panel’s Skimpy Insurance Requirements Fail to Reassure Public
The news out of the Joint Review Panel looking into the Enbridge pipeline should have a profound effect on us all. One of the conditions is a requirement that Enbridge carry close to $1 billion in insurance, plus $100 million on hand to cover losses from spills. I find this
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: NDP Convention 2013: Resolution on Idle No More, Aboriginal Peoples
By: Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive: 5-05-13 Resolution on Idle No More, submitted by the Aboriginal Peoples Commission. WHEREAS years of inaction and broken promises from successive liberal and conservative government has led to severe social injustice and shocking poverty in too many communities WHEREAS as a consequence we are witnessing an historic and
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: NDP Convention 2013: Resolution on Electoral Reform
By: Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive: 5-02-13 Resolution on Electoral Reform, submitted by Craig Scott, the MP for Toronto-Danforth. WHEREAS the current federal electoral system contains major shortcomings generating a significant democratic deficit; WHEREAS the decline in voter turnout in federal elections in the last twenty years in Canada is worrying; WHEREAS any electoral reform
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 5854…Street Food Hits Montreal
Montreal, one of the greatest cities in the world for food, hasn’t had street food for 65 years.That’s what I learned from a Globe and Mail I found on the bus earlier this week. I have only visited Montreal about 824 times and have lived there a bit and never
Continue readingezra winton: The animals on our screen – A review of The Ghosts in Our Machine
Over the last decade of programming political documentary for Cinema Politica I can say with confidence that there are two subjects that have always been decidedly divisive and caused the most vociferous backlash from audience members. One of those subjects is the ongoing illegal occupation of Palestine and the other
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: April 14: Good guys, bad guys, and the Koreas.
I’m surprised nobody has challenged me on my defence of Kim of North Korea in the present crisis. After all, Kim is not a nice man, and that whole, North Korean regime has quite a record of mismanagement, manipulation of its own people – and manipulation of us. Since 1945,
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 5853…NDP Imploding
Check this out from their convention via ex Global and Montreal Star biggie Ray Heard on Facebook: Ray HeardRetweeted Terry Milewski (@CBCTerry):The New Anti-Socialist Democratic Party in action: leading socialist delegate booted out of #NDP13 Success without being ready for success is turning out to be an albatross for the
Continue readingAnti-Racist Canada: The ARC Collective: London, Ontario: Today’s Bonehead March in Perspective
They had been planning this for a while (goodness knows they had to make up for the disaster that happened last year) and though we expected it soon, we didn’t know when it was going to happen. But today, Max Hynes and others associated with the Southern Ontario Skinheads (as
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 5852…In The Blink Of An Eye An Era Ends
Kobe.Not many people on the planet have been universally recognized by a single name.Kobe. Elvis. Messi.A few more.It looks like the Kobe era ended late in last night’s game against the Golden State Warriors when the Los Angeles Lakers star tore his Achilles tendon. CNN reports that ““Bryant elected to have surgery
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 5851…In Less Than 24 Hours
The Liberals will select a new leader. The future will actually have a future. Bye bye mon Stephen Harper. WFDS
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Cochrane | When the media is the target by David Cochrane
Columnist says that facts don’t change, regardless of how some politicians treat the journalists who cover them.
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Cochrane | When the media is the target by David Cochrane
Columnist says that facts don’t change, regardless of how some politicians treat the journalists who cover them.
Continue readingMorton's Musings: "… mere silence, even where it would be reasonable to expect a denial in the face of an accusation, will not constitute an admission"
R v Scott, 2013 MBCA 7, para 19. Sed contra R v J.F. (2011), 85 CR (6th) 304 (Ont C A) para 46.
Continue readingMorton's Musings: "Stringent pre-trial bail conditions” and sentencing
R. v. Peterkin, 2013 ONSC 2116 has a helpful summary of how pretrial bail conditions are to impact of sentence: [38] In R. v. Downes 2006 CanLII 3957 (ON CA), (2006), 79 O.R. (3d) 321, the Court of Appeal for Ontario held that, where an accused is the subject of “stringent pre-trial
Continue readingIn This Corner: Saving Canadian English, one word at a time.
Is Canadian English dying? Or should I say, Canadian English is dying, eh? First, is there such a thing as Canadian English? The answer is — and this is classically Canadian — yes, kind of. Canadian English is a typically Canadian compromise between our British heritage and the inexorable pull
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: #mtlqc13 – Day 2 Review
Aaron Wherry has been documenting the resolutions passed at the NDP’s convention in Montreal – and so I haven’t seen much need to comment on them in detail. But the most noteworthy development in today’s policy debates came from a resolution which wasn’t passed – but which nonetheless signalled the
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Joe Oliver and the Pipeline Parable
The last time I saw Joe Oliver he was still trying to sell his dirty oil pipeline.Still trying to convince us that the water from the tailing ponds was safe enough to drink.But since then there have been some unfortunate developments eh? It turns out it's NOT good to the last drop.
Continue readingwmtc: unpaid labour used to be called slavery. now it’s an internship.
Image found at Youth and Work blog In recent years, I’ve been very disturbed by the proliferation of so-called unpaid internships, more properly called unpaid labour, previously known as slavery. A while back, I had a disturbing conversation with an unpaid editor at The Mark. She was highly skilled, an
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