A solid and steadily growing majority of British Columbians want nothing to do with Alberta’s bitumen pipelines crossing our province to our coast. Fewer of us still want bitumen-laden supertankers plying our pristine northern coastal waters or Vancouver’s inner harbour. According to our federal government’s reptilian industry minister, Joe Oliver,
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 5896…Government Sanctioned F-Bomb Broadcast
Len Berman from Len Berman’s That’s Sports picks up the story: David Ortiz of the Red Sox addressed the crowd before Saturday’s game in Boston. He went uncensored proclaiming loudly “This is our F***ing City and nobody going to dictate our freedom.” OK, it wasn’t quite “Give me liberty or
Continue readingMorton's Musings: Setting aside default judgment
Traditionally setting aside a default judgment has required fulfilling a three-part test. The Defendant must establish: (1) there was a reasonable explanation for the failure to file the Statement of Defence; (2) there is a prima facie defence on the merits of the claim and (3) the Defendant promptly moved
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 5895…Here’s Johnny!
Sorry I mean Jack. As in Jack Nicholson. 76 candles on his cake today. WFDS
Continue reading350 or bust: This Earth Day, Let’s Focus On Saving Humans
It’s a snowy and cold Earth Day morning in northwestern Ontario. On this Earth Day, Joe Romm over at Think Progress muses about renaming Earth Day – after all, it’s really humans and our civilization that is in peril at this point by our feckless, reckless and cavalier treatment of
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Looking for a CBC champion in Labrador
FRIENDS has launched a new website encouraging by-election voters to elect a champion of the CBC in Labrador.
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Paul Adams rightly points out that there’s no inherent value in centrism merely for the sake of centrism – especially when the spectrum of choices is itself shaped by decades of distorted assumptions: (T)he reality of modern politics is that the muddled middle
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: Crowley’s Red Hot Labour Market
Brian Lee Crowley’s latest column shows he’s a glass-half-full kinda guy. We shouldn’t be worried about unemployment because a) it’s old-fashioned, b) Boomers had it worse (and now they’re getting old) c) we’re doing better than the U.S., and d) it’s really only young people and immigrants that are unemployed. This
Continue readingThings Are Good: Algae-Powered Building Opens This Week
Algae can be used for all sorts of wonderful things from cleaning up oil to producing energy. Architects in Hamburg have built a building that uses algae to power the complex and it opens this week. The building is meant to be a demonstration of cutting-edge sustainable architecture. “Using bio-chemical
Continue readingEvil Scientist: The Conservative’s Justin Problem
If you’ve been living under a rock for the past week, Justin Trudeau was elected leader of the federal Liberal Party. Not that big of a surprise really, but at least it wasn’t the coronation that Ignatieff received. So far this has proven to be a nightmare for the ruling
Continue readingDefending Public Healthcare: Are Ontario P3 projects plagued by corruption?
A commission of inquiry has heard that SNC-Lavalin deliberately went around Quebec’s political party financing rules, leading to a flurry of donations to the governing Quebec Liberal Party in 2009. The donations came as the engineering firm was bidding on a major hospital construction project, the media reports. What is
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Scrutinizing the NDP
I am well past the age where I expect very much from our politicians, especially given the current level of disengagement among the Canadian electorate; because of that disengagement, the notion of electoral accountability has become merely a quaint and rather remote ideal. While I hate to admit it, for
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: Permanently Unemployed
Paul Krugman writes in The New York Times that America is creating a new social class — the permanently unemployed: Now, some unemployment is inevitable in an ever-changing economy. Modern America tends to have an unemployment rate of 5 percent or more even in good times. In these good times,
Continue readingeaves.ca: How not to sell the Oil Sands
If you haven’t read Tzeporah Berman’s Daily Kos piece – My Government Doesn’t Believe in Climate Change – go check it out. It’s amazing to see how out of sync, and behind the ball, the government has gotten on this issue. Indeed, the current government really is becoming the best
Continue readingeaves.ca: How not to sell the Oil Sands
If you haven’t read Tzeporah Berman’s Daily Kos piece – My Government Doesn’t Believe in Climate Change – go check it out. It’s amazing to see how out of sync, and behind the ball, the government has gotten on this issue. Indeed, the current government really is becoming the best
Continue readingWise Law Blog: 140Law – Legal Headlines for Monday, April 22, 2013
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Monday, April 22, 2013, Earth Day!: Pakistani Court Orders Musharraf Detained for 2 More Weeks Stream the High Court To be or not to be? The question of the exclusion of trust property upon marriage breakdown Judge permanently
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Too much School?
What is the best way to learn? Usually by screwing up in a spectacular fashion. Search your memories (Luke) and I bet you can find a lesson painfully learned, but painfully learned well in your past. Fast forward to school and the increasing focus on tests and testing. Everyone
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: In today’s Hill Times: is the federal NDP doomed?
Quote: “There’s very little vote that I can see that will bleed from Harper to Trudeau. But, from Mulcair to Trudeau, there will be plenty of voters shifting allegiance. The Dippers need to do a lot more than remove the word ‘socialism’ from their constitution,” Mr. Kinsella told The Hill Times in
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