A few years ago, we were treated to a new low in Canada when the RCMP had to raid the offices of the Conservative Party of Canada in relation to an Elections Canada investigation. And now, the RCMP are eyeing the Conservative Prime Minister’s Office as well. We hear now
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: UARB: “substantial uncertainty” about Nalcor supply of market-priced energy #nlpoli
You can read the full decision by the UARB (pdf) but here are some points to note. Right off the bat, you will see in the full report that Nova Scotia consumers had the benefit of reviews by several consultants all of which are included in the UARB report. This
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Your Daily Nazi: Nazi Treasure To Remain In Canada
…at least for now. I’ve written about Robert McCorkell (or McCorkill) a few times. He was a Canadian chemist with White Nationalist leanings, and when he died he bequeathed $1,000,000 in ancient gold coins and other valuables to the National Alliance, an American hate/terror group. The collection itself is quite impressive:
Continue readingWise Law Blog: 140 Law – Legal Headlines for Tuesday, July 23, 2013
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Tuesday, July 23, 2013: Did lawyer try to run down judge he’d targeted in blog posts? Top state court to decide Law Commission of Ontario Releases Final Report in the Family Law Project Judge Blocks North Dakota Abortion
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: Parsing Noblesse Oblige.
Travelling around the world building linkages and creating cooperation in the world-wide research effort to cure multiple sclerosis was an eye-opener in terms of understanding charity. In North America, we have built our own model of noblesse oblige. It is quite different from the European version. Europe built from antiquity.
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Bernie Farber Has Advice
Now that Jason Kenney has left his position as Minister for Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism, Bernie makes some suggestions to his successor, Chris Alexander: Refugees – Remove Hungary and Mexico from the Designated Safe Country list. This can be done immediately and without legislative reform. These designations impact vulnerable communities
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Hyper Earth is Awesome
Join me in being mesmerized by the high tech modeling of the earth now possible with current super computers and satellite data. Filed under: Science Tagged: Climate Change, Climate Modelling, Earth, Science, Super Computers
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: Pulling Apart
For those who view economics as a morality play, Detroit’s bankruptcy is another example of an economic sinner in the hands of an angry god. For those who view economics as a Darwinian test of survival, Detroit is just another species that didn’t make the cut. The truth is that
Continue readingMorton's Musings: Defence of fair comment requires factual foundation disclosed or obvious to audience
Mainstream Canada v. Staniford, 2013 BCCA 341 holds: [24] In order for the defence of fair comment to succeed, it is necessary for the comment to have a factual foundation or factual substratum. The comment must be an expression of opinion on a known set of facts, and the audience
Continue reading350 or bust: The Crisis In Our Bodies Is The Crisis In Our World
Poet, writer, and activist Eve Ensler’s passionate TED talk entitled “Suddenly, my body”. Breathtaking. *
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Pride goeth, more undisclosed risk, and all that #nlpoli
There are so many ways that Ed Martin, his crew at Nalcor, and the provincial Conservatives and all their supporters have screwed themselves and local ratepayers it is getting harder to tell which one is worse. On Monday, the Nova Scotia regulator approved the Maritime Link but only condition that
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper’s New Massive PR Problem
Well for one glorious but very brief moment Stephen Harper must have thought he was getting a break.Must have thought that Canadians would be too busy talking about the royal baby to think about all the scandals hanging around the neck of his rotting government.But sadly for him when the bun finally
Continue readingthe woodshed: the way to counter bad speech is with more speech – this is how it is done
Last night, I was killing a few minutes scanning my twitter feed and lo and behold I find the Toronto Sun’s Lorrie Goldstein taking a shot at some bureaucrats for overstepping their mandate in a ridiculous way like those crazy bureaucrats always do, what with how they waste public money
Continue readingthe woodshed: the way to counter bad speech is with more speech – this is how it is done
Last night, I was killing a few minutes scanning my twitter feed and lo and behold I find the Toronto Sun’s Lorrie Goldstein taking a shot at some bureaucrats for overstepping their mandate in a ridiculous way like those crazy bureaucrats always do, wh…
Continue readingthe woodshed: the way to counter bad speech is with more speech – this is how it is done
Last night, I was killing a few minutes scanning my twitter feed and lo and behold I find the Toronto Sun’s Lorrie Goldstein taking a shot at some bureaucrats for overstepping their mandate in a ridiculous way like those crazy bureaucrats always do, what with how they waste public money
Continue readingNorthern Insight: Smile
I’m a regular online listener to BBC News Quiz, a panel show created by John Lloyd 36 years ago. It has been hosted by Danish/British author and presenter Sandi Toksvig since 2006. Each show opens and closes with cuttings sent in by listeners. An example from the current week: From
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: In the Belly Of The Whale – Two California Swimmers Almost Go the Way of Jonah
They were just out for a little whale watching
Continue readingNorthern Insight: Harper channels Nixon
Harper’s Audit-the-Enemy Strategy Fulfills Nixon’s Dream, Mark Grandia, DESMOG CANADA “…Not only do we now know that Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s office maintains a political enemy list, we also saw an extra $8 million dollars in new funding directed to Revenue Canada last year ‘to audit charities suspected of receiving
Continue readingThe Ranting Canadian: The Conservative-appointed lickspittles who currently control…
The Conservative-appointed lickspittles who currently control Canada’s public broadcaster, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), have refused to air a commercial by Friends of the CBC that criticizes Stephen Harper’s government for directly meddling in the supposed arms-length media organization. The overpaid, ass-kissing CBC executives don’t have a problem, however, with constantly
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