I know I’m not the only Canadian who is frustrated by the media’s constant use of the phrase “robocall scandal,” as if we’re all fired up over a few unwanted phone calls. (Dr. Dawg has an excellent post about this fuzzy thinking.) Come on, people, we’re talking about election fraud.
Continue readingQuotable: Tariq Ali on the “lone gunman” of Afghanistan
“It’s hardly a secret that most Afghans are opposed to the occupation of their country. Occupying soldiers are well aware of the fact. The ‘enemy’ is not hidden. It is the public. So wiping out women and children is part of the war. Helicopter gunships, bomber jets and drones are
Continue readingPeace, order and good government, eh?: Work-arounds
Before Justice Dennis O’Connor had even finished his final report on the Maher Arar case, officials in Paul Martin’s government were meeting with their American counterparts to determine how they could make a key portion of O’Connor’s recommendations irrelevant. Writing at Prism, Jeff Sallot has an article based on an
Continue readingMorton's Musings: Citizen hiring Clayton Ruby to get Mayor Rob Ford ousted from office
Clay Ruby is a smart and resourceful lawyer; but I cannot imagine this application has any chance of success. Still, I will try to get a copy of what's filed and comment then. http://bit.ly/zhZq3L
Continue readingCanadian Political Viewpoints: There is a Difference
Another day, another new defence from the CPC over the Robocall Scandal. Firstly, rumours are percolating that the man behind Pierre Poutine may be stepping forward today; we’ll comment on that and what it means if it happens. Secondly, the CPC has taken a new approach to defending misguiding Robocalls
Continue readingMorton's Musings: Court cannot sanction breach of statute or justify a quasi-criminal offence
Lameman v. Alberta, 2012 ABCA 59 deals with a very specific issue relating to practice but in so doing states a useful general principle – a Court does not have inherent jurisdiction to permit a statute to be breached. Arguments referring to relief from forfeiture will not work – absent
Continue readingOil and state
The executive of the modern state is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie.—The Communist Manifesto Theories of the state have advanced considerably since Marx and Engels issued their famous challenge to the workers in 1848. But trust the Harper government to revive their too-simple
Continue readingGeoff at Mount Allison: Some old articles I wrote for The Argosy
As I’m closer and closer to graduation I’ve thought over my time here and it led me to old articles I wrote when I was an the entertainment writer in 2009. Here are some my articles: Pat and friends at the Music Hall 2009 Polaris Prize Album Reviews Boxer the
Continue readingLeDaro: Home – grown terrorist attack N.Y. State
How Obama administration is going to deal with it? Terrorists are damned pigs. Read the story here.
Continue readingMajority of Republicans in Alabama and Mississippi believe Obama is a Muslim
There’s a reason the deep south gets such a bad rap and is so widely mocked. This is especially true in the definitive Southern red states of Mississippi and Alabama. PPP asks Republicans in Alabama, “Do you think Barack Obama is a Christian or a Muslim, or are you not
Continue readingFrom Orangutan: Dear Rick Santorum, Mitt Romney, Ron Paul, and Newt Gingrich,
Your tone is more convincing than your words.
Continue reading350 or bust: Monday Musings
Although today’s title suggests that I might be taking the time to write some insightful lines about the state of the world this morning, in fact I’m not feeling up to it (and some might suggest that I am never quite up to the task, anyway!). This morning there’s a
Continue readingCanada needs one of these for Conservatives: Democrats unveil ‘Republican House of Scandal’
The Democrats have done exactly what the Liberals and the NDP should have done long ago. The centre-left US party has developed a site identifying all the latest in Republican scandals. Can you imagine what a similar site in Canada would look like? Then again, watching the daily moral and
Continue readingWise Law Blog: 140Law – Legal Headlines for Monday, March 12, 2012
Here are the leading legal headlines for Monday, March 12, 2012 from Wise Law on Twitter: Ohio bill requires sex therapy, cardiac stress test and notarized affidavit of impotency for Viagra script Supreme Court to look at ‘jury vetting’ – Globe and Mail Parties unnamed in BC ruling: Lawyer can’t
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Poll Math #nlpoli
Just for the heck of it, here’s the most recent CRA marketing poll adjusted to take out the misleading way CRA reports its clients poll numbers. Here are the Conservative Party voter choice results from the fall of 2010 when Kathy Dunderdale took over the Tory leadership until the most
Continue readingThe right’s euphoric reaction to US soldiers slaughtering 16 Afghan civilians
Whenever the right uses the ‘false equivalence’ charge for well, virtually everything when they are caught red-handed, especially when it comes to hate speech, we on the left just have to laugh. All one has to do is view, on any day on any subject, the comments on a right-wing blog
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: Grecian Formula
Almost a year ago, Stephen Harper travelled to Greece to encourage Greek prime minister George Papandreou to screw his courage to the sticking point and go further down Austerity Road. Papandreou has since departed in disgrace and — if Michael Den Tandt’s reporting is correct — Harper is about to
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your Monday reading. – Alison draws the links between Robocon and an American firm proud of its efforts in some of the Republicans’ most odious causes, while Sixth Estate provides a timeline of shady election dealings by the Harper Cons. Dr. Dawg asks the media to stay
Continue readingMy Friend Mary.
BC’sVeryBest CitizenJournalistVille I first first noticed this lady who called herself ‘BC Mary’ on the comment threads at ‘The Tyee’. For all kinds of reasons. And not just because we had similar world views. Instead, what really interested me was the way she engaged the other commenters on those raucous
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Toronto’s Voter Suppression Protest
If you live in southern Ontario, you know that yesterday was a gift, with sunny skies and temperatures reaching about 15 degrees Celsius, surpassing normal highs by about 11 degrees. A crowd of maybe 1000 gathered in Toronto’s Dundas Square to protest the threats against our democracy epitomized by the
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