My blog isn’t dead, it’s not an ex-blog, it’s just pining! Things have been rather hectic for me in my professional life over the past few months, which is my lame excuse for the dearth of posts despite some very active political goings-on around Canadian history, national identity and commemorations
Continue readingPample the Moose: Pining for the fjords
My blog isn’t dead, it’s not an ex-blog, it’s just pining! Things have been rather hectic for me in my professional life over the past few months, which is my lame excuse for the dearth of posts despite some very active political goings-on around Canadian history, national identity and commemorations
Continue readingPample the Moose: Pining for the fjords
My blog isn’t dead, it’s not an ex-blog, it’s just pining!Things have been rather hectic for me in my professional life over the past few months, which is my lame excuse for the dearth of posts despite some very active political goings-on around Canadi…
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Not Related
The following stories are ^not related. Canadians increasingly cynical about state of democracy: Hepburn Voters are losing trust in the way Canada’s democracy works. Nuh-uh! Living in the Age of Dumbness By Janice Kennedy, Ottawa Citizen Right now, at least in North America, human civilization seems to be wallowing hip-deep
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Crackhead Mayor: how the world sees us
…or Taiwanese TV, in any event. Watching this, I am reminded (among other things) of how we have the world’s best media. But the shot at Toronto voters at the end? It’s funny, but also true. H/T J. Tetreault!
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Do You Trust the RCMP to Investigate the Duffy Scandal?
So we’re going to let the RCMP get to the bottom of this senate expense scandal that now extends straight to the top of the Prime Minister’s Office. I wish that gave me hope. It doesn’t. Ever since former and subsequently disgraced Commissioner Zaccardelli conjured up notions in mid-election of
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 6009…Roger Ebert Was A Funny Man
Check this from buzzfeed.com. 10. Roger Ebert’s response to a loyal reader’s question about “Disaster Movie.” True dat. WFDS
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 6008…Earthquake In Ottawa: 5.0
That is the highest number I have seen. I think it was/is what CBC is running with. Personally I thought that it was two garbage trucks, it is garbage day in the WFDS’ world, driving down the street. Thanks to CHEZ106 for that important update. WFDS
Continue readingcartoon life: Black cat 2
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Continue readingMorton's Musings: It is presumed that Parliament intends crimes to have a subjective fault element
R. v. A.D.H., 2013 SCC 28, just released, holds child abandonment requires a subjective fault to be proven. In so doing the Court notes a presumption that crimes require a subjective fault: An important part of the context in which we must interpret s. 218 is the presumption that Parliament intends crimes
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 6007…Toronto Hits The Big Time
I know, I know, fifth or fourth or sixth biggest sitting in North America and most cosmopolitan too and you have a great subway and The New York Times says you are the greatest music city on the planet. But we both know that you still think of yourself as
Continue readingTrashy's World: Another earthquake in Ottawa?
Update- looks like there were two quakes at 9:43 (4.8) and 9:53 am (4.3) outside of Arnprior, Ontario. —————————————- Did anyone else feel that? (8) Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Paul Krugman draws a much-needed connection between austerity politics and Naomi Klein’s Shock Doctrine: What Smith didn’t note, somewhat surprisingly, is that his argument is very close to Naomi Klein’s Shock Doctrine, with its argument that elites systematically exploit disasters to push through
Continue readingThings Are Good: Band of the Month: Bury the Hatchet
Happy Friday……We’ve made it! Today’s band is Bury the Hatchet. This Toronto ensemble translates tales through warm and wordy, infectiously honest melodies spoken by a wide array of instruments such as cello, guitar, clarinet, flute, and keyboard. Poetic and powerfully driven, Bury the Hatchet is a band deserving of an
Continue readingOPSEU Diablogue: Health care activists set to converge on Niagara-on-the-Lake July 24-25
July 24-26 the provincial Premiers will be meeting in Niagara-on-the-Lake for the last Council of the Federation meeting before the 10-year federal-provincial health accord expires. What comes next is largely a mystery. The federal government has committed to increased transfers … Continue reading →
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: Beleaguered Harper-appointed Sen. Mike Duffy Quits Conservative Caucus
By: Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive: Scandal-plagued Sen. Mike Duffy quit the Conservative caucus Thursday after his fraudulent Senate expense claims threatened to engulf the Harper government. Duffy, appointed by Prime Minister Stephen Harper in 2009, now sits as an independent. “It is clear the public controversy surrounding me and the repayment of my
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: A Larger Problem
In his column this morning, Thomas Walkom suggests that Mike Duffy’s current scandal-plagued problems are representative of much deeper ones in the Senate, namely that our much-cossetted members of that ‘chamber of sober second thought’ are appointed, not because of their expertise (many of them have none), not because of
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: Inflation Collapse Confounds Monetary Hawks
Statistics Canada reported today that inflation collapsed to just 0.4% in April. The Bank of Canada’s core inflation rate, which excludes volatile items, fell to 1.1%. Continued low inflation does not provide a rationale to raise interest rates. Perhaps for that reason, Canadian monetary hawks have shifted their rationale for
Continue readingWise Law Blog: 140 Law – Legal Headlines for Friday, May 17, 2013
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Friday, May 17, 2013: Supreme Court to rule on case of mom charged with abandonment who left newborn baby in Walmart toilet Florida teen won’t be criminally charged over exploding water bottle she called a science project fail
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