Monday, May 27, 2013 Like many, I did not see Premier Christie Clark’s surprise majority win coming. The environmental community, West Coast Environmental Law included, saw some of the other parties as offering stronger environmental platforms. So, with the election dust settling, the question is what does the new government
Continue readingEnvironmental Law Alert Blog: Top 5 environmental promises from Premier Christy Clark
Monday, May 27, 2013 Like many, I did not see Premier Christy Clark’s surprise majority win coming. The environmental community, West Coast Environmental Law included, saw some of the other parties as offering stronger environmental platforms. So, with the election dust settling, the question is what does the new government
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: There is Another Copy Of The Rob Ford Tape
So says Star Reporter Robyn Doolittle. Maybe more than one. And the copy (or one of them) is on a device located somewhere away from the city. And its going around. More people have seen it. Not only that: Gawker’s got their 200 Gs. Good times are comin’, folks, I
Continue readingMy journey with AIDS...and more!: Review (and a personal retrospective) – Behind the Candelabra
With only the most scant help from Google I have been trying to remember more about my personal, professional meeting with Liberace (“Please, call me Lee.”) It was some time in the mid-1980s, while I was working at a St. Catharines, Ontario radio station, when the subject of last night’s
Continue readingwmtc: cantabria to gernika and bilbao, part 2
In the Guggenheim, we took audioguides as a substitute for a tour of the building, which in this season are only in Spanish. The audioguide is included with admission, and available in a huge range of languages, including Catalan – clearly a political statement from Basque Bilbao. We joined many
Continue readingDISSTEMPER: Depression grips Conservative caucus
“Caucus is horrifically depressed. They are more depressed than angry,” said one Conservative insider, who did not want to be identified. “It’s hurting the government, it’s a distraction. It’s hurting the Conservative brand and the party more than the government because it’s a fundamental to who we are as Conservatives.
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Ford Scandal on Crack
Gawker has published an account that supposedly links the controversial video said to show Toronto mayor Rob Ford with drug dealers smoking crack with the murder of an individual who may have been killed over it. Gawker claims a Ford City Hall staffer passed along to detectives the street and
Continue readingTrashy's World: More of Ford’s staff are abandoning…
… Good Ship Ford
Continue readingMorton's Musings: Curtailing cross examination on credibility only rarely
R. v. R.D., 2013 ONCA 343 holds: [33] Second, although a trial judge has a responsibility to protect a witness from harassing, repetitive or irrelevant cross-examination, defence counsel’s cross-examination of the complainant was none of these things. The question itself that the trial judge stopped the complainant from answering – “and here in court
Continue readingOPSEU Diablogue: Drug benefits vulnerable for even those receiving the best plans — White
OTTAWA – Julie White has a grown son who lives in Toronto and suffers from a condition that produces debilitating migraines one to three times per week. Representing the Congress of Union Retirees of Canada (CURC), White told a Ottawa Pharmacare … Continue reading →
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 6059…Rob Ford For Mayor 2014
In my view no matter what happens regarding the video, the hash vending by his brother, showing up pinned at public events, if Rob Ford runs for reelection in 2014, Rob Ford wins. Discuss. WFDS
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Gawker less than $5K from goal in Rob Ford Crackstarter campaign
…and Ford’s two most-senior comms aides resign. All he has left are the young men who pass out fridge magnets at funerals, apparently.
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Another Harper/Enbridge Lie Sent Straight to the Bottom
It seems there’s nothing that Enbridge and its government underlings won’t do or say to mislead the public into believing that shipping bitumen via tankers through B.C.’s treacherous coastal waters is actually safe. One of their favourite lies is to claim that the product they’ll be shipping, diluted bitumen or
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 6058…Question Period Today Is
Pick on Justin Trudeau day. The stuff he said about the west, specifically Alberta, where the Libs have zero seats, is not playing well to James Moore and his posse. The Honourable Mr. Moore was kind enough to point out that the Liberals have like four seats in the west.
Continue readingDISSTEMPER: Depression grips Conservative caucus
“Caucus is horrifically depressed. They are more depressed than angry,” said one Conservative insider, who did not want to be identified. “It’s hurting the government, it’s a distraction. It’s hurting the Conservative brand and the party more than the government because it’s a fundamental to who we are as Conservatives.
Continue readingAngryFrenchGuy: Mourir pour l’Anglais, La Première Université Anglophone de Corée
Une contribution au débat sur la loi #Fioraso et l’enseignement en anglais dans les universités de France: Un docteur en génie sur cinq au pays de LG et Hyundai a fait son Ph.D. au KAIST. Un ingénieur sur quatre au département de recherche et de développement de Samsung a fait
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Privacy commissioner: Federal government should change privacy legislation to protect against breaches of private data
This is appalling: “Currently, officials can request data, including Internet Service Provider details, telephone numbers and email addresses, from nearly any Canadian company without a warrant…” We need privacy safeguards to stop government bureaucrats from accessing our sensitive private information — call for it here: http://openmedia.ca/mp Article by Laura Kane
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: ConCalls: Defending Election Fraud #RoboCon
With the Federal Court recently confirming in law that the Conservatives’ access controlled CIMS database was utilized by conspirators to commit election fraud, there are still some Conservative bloggers willing to put their reputations on the line in defense of not only the Conservative Party of Canada, but of the
Continue readingwmtc: cantabria to gernika and bilbao, part 1
I almost forgot to mention, we had some interesting news from home. Everything is fine now, but Essie had her hands full for a while! I warned Essie about the danger of skunks in our backyard after dark: absolutely never, ever let the dogs run out into the backyard after
Continue readingRecreating Eden: Oh Come on, Not That Equality Party Business Again!
It seems that a few unhappy Anglophones are trying to whip things up again by starting a new Equality party, version 2.0. A rally was held on the weekend in the largely Anglophone area of Montreal’s West Island to launch it. Somewhere between 40 and 50 people showed up, with
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