As promised, I am steadfastly avoiding discussing the Globe & Mail, and its latest partisan salvo — a preposterous endorsement of the BC Social Credit-turned-Liberal Party that reads like it could have been written by said party’s PR hacks — doesn’t help matters. (The Globe describes the NDP leader as
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Mike Duffy – A Senator With Neither Credibility Nor Honour
Thomas Walkom explains why. Recommend this Post
Continue readingMorton's Musings: Air of reality test
R. v. Buzizi 2013 SCC 27: [16] … As the Court held in Cinous, “the air of reality test [is not] intended to assess whether the defence is likely, unlikely, somewhat likely, or very likely to succeed at the end of the day” (R. v. Cinous, 2002 SCC 29, [2002] 2 S.C.R.
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: Animal Testing: What’s wrong with education this time?
Okay it’s really about our kids. But this post was inspired, in part, by this cartoon gaining swift popularity: There’s a burgeoning rebellion against the way we teach. I’m all for rebellion, but we have to figure out if we really want to overhaul the entire system or just tweak
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: Enbridge asks NEB to keep pipeline safety issues secret
By: Council of Canadians | Press Release: Eighteen months after being ordered to correct important safety issues with its oil and gas pipelines, Enbridge has finally filed a plan with the National Energy Board (NEB) as to how and when it will come into compliance with the NEB’s regulations. The company
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: The Humanitarian Coalition Launches Joint Appeal for Syrian Refugees
By: Humanitarian Coalition | Press Release: OTTAWA, May 14, 2013 – Today, the Humanitarian Coalition and its member agencies are launching a national joint appeal to raise funds to assist the 6.8 million Syrian civilians affected by the ongoing conflict in their country. Almost five million civilians have been forced to leave their
Continue readingLisaKirbie.com: Bet
This morning on Sun News Network’s AM Agenda, I bet the charming Pat Bolland that the BC New Democrats were going to win a majority government. I’m going back tomorrow morning to collect on my bet. Don’t let me down, friends.
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Elizabeth Warren
With each story that I read about her, my respect for Elizabeth Warren grows. Would that Canada had someone similar to inspire us. Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: Live-Blogging the Next BC Government
Here we are: only hours to go until the polls close. What will be the next BC government? What are your hopes, fears, dreams, goals? This page will refresh every 15 seconds, or you can manually reload it. Please add in your comments below What are your seat predictions? What
Continue readingScott's DiaTribes: Ranked Ballot Initiative in Toronto survives committee – on to full vote in June.
Its been awhile since I’ve posted, so I figured why not 2 on the same day (plus it gives me something else to do besides continue lamenting last night’s tragic Maple Leafs loss). I just wanted to say I’m very pleased to read that the ranked ballot initiative proposed for
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Worst. Logo. Ever.
Oh my Lord, this is awful. The old Ontario Liberal logo was amazing – creative, eye-catching and full of meaning. It was also the product of a lot of consultation and research. The new logo, dropped from on high, is terrible. Bland, boring, blecch. I sure don’t see candidates wanting
Continue readingNorthern Insight: For what it’s worth
I’m heading off to vote. Before that, I’m joining my blogging colleagues and providing a seat count prediction: BC NDP – 58 [46%] BC Liberal – 23 [36%] BC Green – 1 [11%] BC Conservative – 0 [5%] Independent – 3 [2%] In the interest of transparency, I provide part
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Spoof: Hadfield comes home to $1.37 million Rogers phone bill
He may be home, Canada’s favourite astronaut is not free and clear. Chris Hadfield’s 5 month phone bill is a whopping $1.37 million! Better pay better attention to your contract, Chris. How could you miss the clearly defined section on outer-space data usage and roaming fees? Just kidding. Chris wasn’t
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Pathetic nonsense
The Harper Cons are trying to spin their loss in Labrador as negative for Trudeau. How pathetic is that?Mia Rabson writes: The Conservatives who are trying to spin that this is no big deal because well, majority governments don’t often win byelections and well, the Liberals didn’t win it by
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 5992…Bet He Is Smarter Than Rob Ford
Or Kwame Kirkpatrick. He is the new mayor of Dorset, Minnesota and he is four.The mayor’s name is “…Robert Tufts, though known as Bobbie, was selected as Dorset’s mayor by raffle, according to the local television station WCCO.” Dorset has a population of 22 btw.Yahoo! News reports that although Mayor Tufts
Continue readingEclectic Lip: May 14 – British Columbia provincial election
Here’s to hoping that any and all British Columbians reading this, take their opportunity to vote. In the broad sweep of history, with precious few examples, democracy is a fairly new phenomenon — not unlike the concept of retirement — so it would be a pity to waste the opportunity for
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Pegasus Pipeline Spill: Mayflower Residents Find Conflicting Advice from Arkansas Agencies
It’s been over five weeks since ExxonMobil’s Pegasus pipeline burst beneath a Mayflower, Arkansas subdivision, spilling diluted bitumen born of tar sands throughout the neighborhood. Five weeks later, and still the air carries noxious fumes. Residents complain of headaches, nausea, and worse. Meanwhile, these residents of Mayflower are getting mixed
Continue readingNorthern Insight: Connections between wealth and power flourish in secret
An article I published almost three years ago is timely on this election day. Voters have an opportunity to change direction. If we do not, the plundering of British Columbia will accelerate. Gordon Campbell began with a set of principles and slid into corruption. Christy Clark started without principle. Earlier
Continue readingNorthern Insight: Without core values, fake and phony
H/T RossK, The Gazetteer
Continue readingLeDaro: Harper Government: $3.1 billion missing – auditor general’s spring report
It is a small change for Harper. But how is taxpayers’ money being spent? Maybe Harper built another fake-lake. This time for himself.
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