Thanks to the hundreds of thousands of Canadians, it looks like independent ISPs like Teksavvy, Distributel, Acanac, and Start are finally gaining the ability to do what Canadians need them to do: provide independent affordable Internet services, and in so doing provide a check on Big Telecom price-gouging. For example,
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 5870…Albert Einstein On The Conservatives
You know how they are; always talking common sense. Heck Mike Harris even had a Common Sense Revolution. Frank Lawrence Shillingford *Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen. ~Albert Einstein~ Thanks for digging that up and posting it on Facebook Mr. Shillingford. WFDS
Continue readingBlunt Objects Blog: UPDATED: EKOS Ontario Poll: 31.7% PC, 30.8% Lib, 25.5% NDP
EKOS Research, who have been doing a multitude of polling as of late (and whose survey poll I’ve joined, though we’ll see if I’m ever asked about voting intentions), have put out a new poll for Ontario’s provincial scene. This is their second post-Wynne win poll, with the government unfortunately
Continue readingBuckdog: We Lost Another Great Canadian With The Passing Of Rita MacNeil …
“Rita MacNeil, the Canadian singer-songwriter from Cape Breton with the sweetly powerful voice, passed away Tuesday night following complications from surgery. She was 68. MacNeil’s longtime promoter, Brian Edwards, says MacNeil had entered hospital a few days ago because of an infection. She was advised to undergo what he described
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: April 17: I know – let big business build an events centre….
The biggest story on page 1 is “Events centre hopefuls a varied group”. Well, yeah. Any goup is made up of varied people – to some degree. So what? This is a story about the projected events centre (hockey rink) for Moncton, and about the contractors who want to build
Continue readingMorton's Musings: Appeal Courts will use deference in reviewing interlocutory injunctions
R v Conseil Scolaire Fransaskois, 2013 SKCA 35 is a useful case for the proposition that the determination of whether an interlocutory injunction ought to be granted will be considered with deference by an appeal court: [14] In general terms, this Court approaches appeals involving interlocutory injunctions with a reasonable measure
Continue readingMorton's Musings: Appeal Courts will use deference in reviewing interlocutory injunctions
R v Conseil Scolaire Fransaskois, 2013 SKCA 35 is a useful case for the proposition that the determination of whether an interlocutory injunction ought to be granted will be considered with deference by an appeal court: [14] In general terms, this Court approaches appeals involving interlocutory injunctions with a reasonable measure
Continue readingmark a rayner | scribblings, squibs & sundry monkey joys: From the annals of really useless superpowers
#UselessSuperPowers was a thing on Twitter yesterday, and it was nice to see one in cartoon form. Please use the comment form to add your own, Alltop can make you laugh at the speed of sound.
Continue readingcartoon life: Chair in optometrist’s waiting room
Experimenting in Paper53 with the fill background. Filed under: art Tagged: chair, waiting
Continue readingRecreating Eden: Harper’s Attack Ads: Will Cons Profit, or Will the NDP?
Just thinking out loud here, but is it possible that the nasty attack ads the Harper Conservatives rolled out on Monday, impugning Justin Trudeau’s lack of content and maturity, make work more to the NDP’s advantage than the Cons’? Negative advertising is tricky business, because it can backfire when people
Continue readingRecreating Eden: Furher to Bagpipe Alert: Black Watch Pipers Try out Musical Swings
I didn’t hear or see them, but this morning Le Devoir has this great photo of Black Watch pipers swing on Montreal’s musical swings yesterday. The Royal Highland Regiment of Canada is the oldest highland regiement in Canada, dating from 1862 as 1862 as the 5th Battalion, Volunteer Militia Rifles
Continue readingBetterParks for Vancouver: Stuart Mackinnon running for Greens in Fraserview
By Sandra Thomas, Staff writer Vancouver Courier, April 16, 2013 Photograph by: File Photo, Dan Toulgoet Former park board commissioner Stuart Mackinnon has been named the Green Party candidate for Vancouver-Fraserview to run in the May 14 provincial election. I wasn’t surprised by the news because even though Mackinnon had
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Thomas Walkom points out that banks are far from the only corporations who are conspicuously moving jobs offshore to the detriment of Canadian workers and citizens: Unions are being ground down; wages are being ground down. Jobs are being ground out of existence.
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: The Keystone Kops and their Kangaroo Kourt #nlpoli
The Conservatives in Newfoundland and Labrador are politically deaf. They only hear themselves. Former fisheries minister Trevor Taylor used his Telegram column on Monday to issue a few hypocritical tut tuts about the state of public discussion in the province. Too negative he whined, sounding for all the world like
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: The Keystone Kops and their Kangaroo Kourt #nlpoli
The Conservatives in Newfoundland and Labrador are politically deaf. They only hear themselves. Former fisheries minister Trevor Taylor used his Telegram column on Monday to issue a few hypocritical tut tuts about the state of public discussion in the province. Too negative he whined, sounding for all the world like
Continue readingWise Law Blog: 140Law – Legal Headlines for Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Wednesday, April 17, 2013: Canada Social Security Tribunal (SST) established to hear Employment Insurance appeals begins operations Musharraf Is Disqualified From Pakistani Elections Niqab in court: Veil doesn’t block ‘demeanour assessment,’ court told The Truth About Sex at
Continue readingWise Law Blog: 140Law – Legal Headlines for Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Wednesday, April 17, 2013: Canada Social Security Tribunal (SST) established to hear Employment Insurance appeals begins operations Musharraf Is Disqualified From Pakistani Elections Niqab in court: Veil doesn’t block ‘demeanour assessment,’ court told The Truth About Sex at
Continue readingChadwick's Blog & Commentary: Profundity
In 1923, William Carlos Williams wrote one of the most profound poems in the English language: The Red Wheelbarrow. It reads like a Japanese Zen haiku: so much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the … Continue reading →
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Pondering The Dark Arts
For those as weary of political attack ads as I am, The Star’s Carol Goar has an interesting column in today’s edition. Entitled Debating ‘dark arts’ of political campaigning, Goar relates her experience of moderating a panel over the weekend comprised of … Jaime Watt, the primary architect of former
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Male Gaze – Meghan Murphy slams the Globe and Mail
Wow, ran across the Feminist Current and Meghan Murphy is knocking them out of the park with great articles such as this one tearing into one of Canada’s national newspapers, the Globe and Mail, for taking the well travelled low road of misogyny. I just have the highlights
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