Inspired by this headline: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2013/07/07/pol-cp-harper-duffy-wright-rcmp-court-docs.html
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: Bitumen in Toronto: Scenario #1
Toronto’s Yonge Street Subway bisects Toronto from Union Station at Front Street to 15.7 kilometres north at Bishop Avenue, just above Finch Avenue. It is at this northern terminus that the Enbridge Line 9B crosses Yonge Street. This is the 30-inch crude oil pipeline that used to carry crude oil
Continue readingWise Law Blog: 140 Law – Legal Headlines for Monday, July 8, 2013
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Monday, July 8, 2013: B.C. Human Rights Tribunal reminds employees to express their accommodation needs Player stabbed, referee dismembered over soccer quarrel in Brazil Edward Snowden : NSA ‘in bed together with’ other Western states Secret FISA Court Widens Power
Continue readingLeDaro: Barack Obama’s victory dance
…after winning the second term for the President of U.S.A
Continue readingLeDaro: Energizer Bunny
The Energizer Bunny got arrested. He was charged with battery.
Continue readingDefending Public Healthcare: Canada provides least hospital inpatient care
Canada is an extreme outlier in terms of hospital services. We provide hospital inpatient services to fewer patients than any other developed nation. The 34 member “rich nations” club, the Organization for Economic Coordination and Development (OECD) has released its 2013 comparison of health statistics for its member states.
Continue readingThings Are Good: Building Better Homes for Refugees
Ikea’s charitable arm has used the expertise of the cheap furniture manufacturer to design a better housing unit for refugees with the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR). Hopefully these designs will help people around the world who are living in poor conditions. The Refugee Housing Unit started working on a project
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: ‘Tis A Consummation Devoutly To Be Wish’d*
H/t The Toronto Star * Hamlet – Act 3 Scene 1 – Apologies for the use of literary arcana, but you know what they say: Teachers never retire; they just lose their class. Recommend this Post
Continue readingMorton's Musings: Smuggling drugs into jail an especially heinous form of trafficking
R v Gargas, 2013 ABCA 245 involved in a scheme to smuggle drugs into the Edmonton Remand Centre. An envelope containing 1 gram of morphine, 3 grams of alprazolam, and 4.4 grams of methamphetamine was intercepted. The drugs were secreted in documents purporting to be from a lawyer to an
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: Healthcare Is Next
In today’s Toronto Star, Natalie Mehra and Michael McBane warn that the Harper government is taking aim at Medicare. For the system to work, the prime minister needs to meet with his provincial counterparts. However, This summer’s gathering of the premiers marks the final Council of the Federation meeting before
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Beautiful Bridge of Life
A couple nights ago I was wading about the web, waiting for sleepiness to find me when I came across this video. It exhibits the most beautiful project I’ve seen to in a very long time. On the surface, it is a colossal exercise of empathy and caring for those
Continue readingmark a rayner | scribblings, squibs & sundry monkey joys: Parsing the want ads
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Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Not so open
Here. We’ll see what Ms. Alvaro’s view will be when some pro-life lobbyists start taking over Liberal riding associations. (Then again, Team Kennedy charter members’ area of expertise is wrecking Liberal parties, so perhaps this is all part of the super-smart strategy.)
Continue readingMorton's Musings: From Today’s Toronto Star: A Modest Proposal for Speedier Justice
What do you tell victims of crime when they find out that because of delays in the justice system they will not get their day in court? What do you tell a child temporarily removed from her home when she asks when she can go back and the answer is
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Christian Crossroads Through The Years
From The Winnipeg Free Press: OTTAWA – The Harper government has received scores of letters and emails over government funding being provided to an organization that referred to homosexuality as a “perversion” and “sin.” The Prime Minister’s Office and the office of the international development minister got about 170 letters
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Athabasca River Oil Spill Still Unconfirmed, But…
The Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resource Development (ESRD) suggests a sheen noticed on the river is “natural”, but pictures have emerged. And, I must day, it looks like some kind of petroleum product to me.
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Some inconvenient truths: goring some educational sacred cows #nlpoli
Friday turned out to be Post-Secondary Education Day with a post here on the impact of the freeze on tuition fees and a fascinating Telegram article on the Conservatives’ 2011 campaign pledge to replace student loans with needs-based grants. Tuition was a bit of an issue in the 2001 provincial
Continue readingRedBedHead: Massacre in Egypt: Is Revolution Worth The Price?
As I sat down to write this post the news of a tragic massacre of at least 32 Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated protestors, and the injury of 300 more was plastered all over the internet. That much is clear, the rest is yet to be disentangled (if ever) from two completely opposing
Continue readingRedBedHead: Massacre in Egypt: Is Revolution Worth The Price?
As I sat down to write this post the news of a tragic massacre of at least 32 Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated protestors, and the injury of 300 more was plastered all over the internet. That much is clear, the rest is yet to be disentangled (if ever) from two completely opposing
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