Here’s the deal. About a month ago I went to Income Assistance to get help. I had $400 in the bank and was panicked. IA wouldn’t help – I was too ‘rich.’ They told me to get early retirement (I’m 63) from CPP. So I filled out the online CPP
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: Canada blocking UN efforts to address sexual violence against women
By: Action Canada for Population and Development | Press Release OTTAWA/GENEVA, June 7, 2013 – Governments and civil society are calling into question the leadership of the Canadian government on the theme of Violence Against Women at the 23rd session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC). In previous years,
Continue readingMorton's Musings: Evidence of alcoholism is akin to that of bad character and ought not to be admitted without a voir dire
R. v. G.S., 2013 NUCA 5 holds evidence of alcoholism is akin to that of bad character and ought not to be admitted without a voir dire: [33] As held in R v Rockey, 1995 CanLII 3503 (ON CA), [1995] SCCA No 288, 99 CCC (3d) 31 [Rockey], the
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: "Part Of It’s Just Human Decency"
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Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Musical interlude
Gareth Emery feat. Lucy Saunders – Sanctuary
Continue readingPeace, order and good government, eh?: Friday night blues blogging
If you enjoyed the Son Seals performance I posted a few weeks ago, you might like this one too. This is On My Knees, taken from a TV performance in the eighties. Here’s a slow blues by the James Cotton Blues Band. It’s called Easy Lovin’ (and comes with a
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian home page: Gwynne Dyer’s Future Tense Predicts Conflict from Climate Change
Future Tense is the title of one of Gwynne Dyer’s many best-selling books. His expertise has been war, with detailed analyses of the politics, psychology and circumstances that bring humanity to this most crude and unfortunate behaviour. And this book’s title has a ingenious double entendre, suggesting both the future
Continue readingThe Sixth Estate: The Obama Snooping Scandal and the Inevitability of the Surveillance State
As you may have heard, the Obama administration has been outed as ambitiously Big Brother-ish, overseeing a National Security Agency surveillance program which essentially scoops user data from every major online source — Facebook, Google, Skype, even Apple — and puts it into the world’s largest personal information database. (This,
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: Wright’s $90 000 Duffy gift came from a secret $1 million PMO fund
Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s ex-chief of staff Nigel Wright tried to kill the Senate expenses scandal. He cut that $90,000 cheque which paid off Sen. Mike Duffy‘s fraudulent claims. Until now, the Conservatives have insisted that Wright used his own healthy bank account. The money possibly came from a secret $1 million fund in
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: 140 characters on this email “scandal”
If you start criminally investigating every pol who deletes email, you’d better build a lot more jails. They’re gonna fill up fast. #onpoli
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Where’s Wallin(‘s Home)?
Perhaps the peripatetic Pamela is simply a tad confused? Recommend this Post
Continue readingArt Threat: Friday Film Pick: Blockadia Rising: Voices of the Tar Sands Blockade
This week’s FFP is a new one-hour documentary by Garrett Graham (in collaboration with the Tar Sands Blockade) about the direct action efforts of activists in Texas, who try to stop construction of the planned Alberta tar sands pipeline. There is some seriously heavy-handed narration at the beginning, but if
Continue readingThe Wingnuterer: #RobFordLooksAtThings – 00005
These clowns will make me look more serious, right? Rob Ford look for new office staff MORE RobFordLooksAtThings
Continue readingLeDaro: Rob Ford: Welcome to Toronto
Harper and Ford will make a great political team.
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: PMO Slush Funds, Defecting Tories, The Prime Prevaricator’s Diction And Deflection Tactics
These are the main topics discussed on last night’s At Issue panel: BTW, Parliament rises in about a week. I hope the weather for Harper and his many enablers continues to be hot and uncomfortable, with heavy storms in the fall. Recommend this Post
Continue readingExcited Delirium: When Will the CPC Wake Up?
When will Conservatives wake up and get rid of their greatest liability: Stephen Harper?
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Canadians deserve to know if U.S. federal agencies are blanket-monitoring their communications
In the aftermath of yesterday’s revelations about the U.S. National Security Agency collecting the phone records of millions of Verizon customers, Canadians want to know if U.S. federal agencies are blanket-monitoring their communications. Without greater transparency, the answer is unclear. We deserve to know. Demand greater transparency: http://openmedia.ca/stand Article by
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 6112…Justin Trudeau Syracuse Fan
Go Orange! Love it! WFDS
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