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Continue readingA BCer in Toronto: Lessons for the Liberals from the NDP leadership and showcase weekend
With the NDP leadership race and showcase weekend in the books, there are some lessons the Liberal Party should draw from the experience as we prepare for our own leadership vote, scheduled for some time next spring. I think the first lesson is that you need a strong field of
Continue readingBuckdog: Brad Wall INSISTS On Driving Film Industy Jobs And Investment Out Or Saskatchewan Based On Pure Right Wing Ideology
Brad Wall continues to amaze. His small minded mentality is driving the film industry from the province of Saskatchewan. In spite of rational and logical arguments to the contrary, Wall has decided to kill hundreds of jobs and drive both companies and film industry workers out of the province. There
Continue readingSlap Upside The Head: Ben and Jerry’s Renames Flavour In Support of Equal Marriage
Ice cream maker Ben and Jerry’s has renamed a flavour of their signature frozen treat from Oh! My! Apple Pie! to Apple-y Ever After last week as a way of showing their support for same-sex marriage in the UK. Opponents of equality are now reportedly lobbying for their own flavour
Continue readingToews wankfest takes place today in Parliament
My brain hurts. Rarely has something been so indicative of the impotence and irrelevance of the modern Tory than Vic Toews’ retribution against those who mock him. In a primo example of Conservative wastefulness and vengeful preoccupation with payback, Parliament is set today to go after that ‘amorphous’ organization known
Continue readingBlunt Objects: Dmitry Medvedev Makes More Sense Than Mitt Romney
Lol, beautiful: “I recommend that all US presidential candidates, including the candidate you mention (Romney), do at least two things,” Medvedev told Russian reporters on the sidelines of a nuclear security conference in Seoul. “That they use their head and consult their reason when they formulate their positions, and that
Continue readingCuriosityCat: The Council of Canadians’ Magnificent Seven
Canada’s Woodward & Bernstein, Stephen Maher and Glen McGregor, of Postmedia News, today bring us news about The Council of Canadians’ Magnificent Seven. In the 1960 western The Magnificent Seven, based on the 1954 Japanese film Seven Samurai, seven gunmen are hired to protect a small village in Mexico from
Continue readingcartoon life: Ocean view #6
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Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: T.O. Sun Sacks Another
Connie Woodcock says she has been axed after 18 years as an op-ed Toronto Sun columnist. Posted at Toronto Sun Family Blog, who are usually pretty reliable.
Continue readingWise Law Blog: 140 Law – Legal Headlines for Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Tuesday, March 27, 2012: Ontario eyes appeal of brothel ruling – Toronto Sun Toronto News: Human rights tribunal to probe Peel school board’s racial makeup Israel cuts working relations with UN Human Rights Council ‘We’ve come in too
Continue readingROAR!: Abortion in Canada – M312 – Round up!
Kids are home, snow is falling and blowing, dogs waiting to be walked, laundry piling up, painting to be done but here I sit because I’d like to gather together some ‘stuff’ about this whole ‘WOMB RAIDERS’ motion (that’s my new favorite!) being brought forward by Conservative Party MP Stephen Woodworth. He
Continue readingBlunt Objects: ThinkHQ #AbVote Poll: 36% PC, 33% Wildrose
Another pollster has put out this week showing another close race as compared to the trend from earlier this month and before, with the Wildrosers clearly benefitting. PC – 36% – 48 seats WRP – 33% – 30 seats NDP – 13% – 7 seats Lib – 13% – 2
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Stephen Maher and Glen McGregor report that the Council of Canadians is leading the charge in challenging election results which may have been influenced by Robocon. And perhaps the most noteworthy point as to how the move may shine a spotlight on
Continue readingWho said that?
A last look at Toronto-Danforth by-election. “The Liberal Party sees a very, very good opportunity in Toronto-Danforth, and the effort there will be to have a vigorously contested nomination. I think a lot of people have been surprised at the stature gap that the NDP has created by nominating such a
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On early definition
It’s entirely predictable that far too many in the media are starting their coverage of Thomas Mulcair’s election as NDP leader with the Cons’ instant spin – in some cases even while showing plenty of optimism about Mulcair. (On that front, due credit to the Winnipeg Free Press for criticizing
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Globe: CRTC approves plan for Broadcast Participation Fund
High media concentration means that Canadians will be evermore impacted by the decisions that Big Telecom makes. When Bell bought CTV, the CRTC made them promise to put money aside for a Broadcast Participation Fund, to help pay for public interest research, representation, and advocacy in Broadcast hearings. Yesterday, the
Continue readingMorton's Musings: Narrative evidence
R. v. D.A.R., 2012 NSCA 31 has useful language regarding narrative evidence: [23] Narrative evidence may be admissible for a variety of purposes: to understand the unfolding of events surrounding an offence (R. v. Magloir 2003 NSCA 74 (CanLII) <http://www.canlii.org/en/ns/nsca/doc/2003/2003nsca74/2003nsca74.html> , (2003), 178 C.C.C. (3d) 310 (N.S.C.A.), at para. 23);
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: ConCalls: Tough on Crime
Information is the lifeblood of democracy. Stephen Harper knows that, he said it. Ask yourself why the Chief Electoral Officer’s report on electoral fraud this week, is being given to Parliament on the very day when it’s known most Ottawa journalists will be in impermeable rooms so they can get
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Ontario’s Impending Austerity Budget
Reading my morning Star, I learned that there is wide-spread support among the public for austerity measures to reduce Ontario’s deficit. I suspect that there will be a particular appetite for the following: Hundreds of thousands of teachers, nurses and all other public employees face higher pension contributions or reduced
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: Whose Sacred Cow?
Lawrence Martin writes this morning that Canada is about to take a sharp right turn. In the process, several of the country’s sacred cows will be sent to the abattoir: If there’s a theme, it’s market efficiency. If there’s a target, it’s some of the country’s long-standing sacred cows. The
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