The case of Amanda Trujillo has generated a great deal of passionate commentary across the nursing blogosphere. Trujillo, as you may well know, is the nurse who was fired by Banner Health Del E. Webb Medical Center for requesting multi-disciplinary hospice care case management consult for a pre-transplant patient with end-stage
Continue readingPeace, order and good government, eh?: I wish I could say I’m surprised but I’m not
CSIS may use intelligence derived from torture, Toews says The federal government has directed Canada’s spy agency to use information that may have been extracted through torture in cases where public safety is at stake. … Public Safety Minister Vic Toews has quietly told CSIS the government now expects the
Continue readingConservative MP wants ruling on definitions of "human being" and "asshat"
OTTAWA – A Conservative Party backbencher has introduced a private member’s seeking a study on whether fetuses are “human beings” under Canadian law. The MP also wants to study and “reform” Canada’s 400-year-old legal definition of “asshat”. “Do you become a human being at birth? When do some of us
Continue readingROAR!: Get Inspired! Pledge one Action today!
Can you remember the last time you spoke out for something? Can you remember the last time you followed up an opinion with real action? Can you remember the last time you challenged your politicians in a public way? Can you imagine speaking out on a topic that might polarize
Continue readingSusan G. Komen has a job opening. Karen Handel booted?
Psst. Know anybody who knows anything about PR, handling the public and not creating shit storms? Komen is looking for a new “Director of Public Policy”, likely to replace the “Senior Vice President of Public Policy”, the lovely Karen Handel, whose talent for mishandling PR and creating shit storms is
Continue readingMorton's Musings: Canadian SuperStar Almost Unknown in Canada
Dashan (Chinese: 大山; pinyin: Dàshān; literally “Big Mountain”) is the Chinese stage name adopted by Canadian Mark Henry Rowswell,CM (born May 23, 1965 in Ottawa, Ontario) who works as a freelance performer in People’s Republic of China. Relatively unknown in the West, Dashan is the most famous Western personality in
Continue readingmark a rayner | scribblings, squibs & sundry monkey joys: Survival Tips for Tiny and Polite Humans
If you happen to live on one of the many planets inhabited by CEOs, you may find yourself wondering: “how do I not get eaten?” You may also wonder if there is sunblock powerful enough to prevent dermal incineration when … Continue reading →
Continue readingCanadian Dimension Feed: Bookmarks
Creating Wealth: Growing Local Economies With Local Currencies “We don’t need money. We need the things that money can buy.” Simple words of wisdom from two authors who are able to break down the complexities of economics into non-pretentious discourse, while offering some attainable solutions. It includes succinct critical arguments,
Continue readingcentre of the universe: Your smile
I pulled back the curtain, but I don’t know what I expected to see. Nothing, I suppose. But still, with the wishes I have made on a thousand eyelashes, on as many dull pennies found in the gutter, I wished … Continue reading →
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Thriller it ain’t #nlpoli #cdnpoli
Transcon’s Michael Johansen on the latest twist in the Lower Churchill saga: Creak, creak, creak … rattle, rattle, rattle … snap! Screeeeeeech … kerplunk! Hear that? That’s the sound of the wheels once again falling off the Newfoundland government’s 30-year-old Lower Churchill campaign bus. Meanwhile, the Chronicle-Herald editorial crew think
Continue readingRecreating Eden: Update on "Working in Canada: A Real Challenge"–More Input from Embattled Workers
Last week I posted about the the informal end-of the-day reception coming up on Thursday and organized by the NPD Association of Outremont. on “Working in Canada Today: A Real Challenge.” Now we’re expecting to have a representative of the United Food and Commercial Workers of Canada (UFCA) who’ll talk
Continue readingWise Law Blog: 140 Law – Legal Headlines for Tuesday, February 07, 2012
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Tuesday, February 07, 2012: Lawyer: Pardoned murderer ‘not going’ back for hearing Study: Child abuse bigger threat than SIDS ‘Right to spank’ law called public health threat – CBC.ca Court strikes down Georgia’s assisted-suicide law (Bill Rankin/Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: This Is Competence?
Stephen Harper likes to claim, as he did in Davos, that his government is a shining example of prudent financial management. That boast, Lawrence Martin writes is the Globe and Mail, in as believable as Sun TV’s recent citizen reaffirmation ceremony. From 2007 to 2011, Canada’s economic performance put us
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Abortion – Safe and Necessary
Sometimes there is a absence of reasonable discussion when it comes to the topic of abortion. The lack of solid empirical grounding for arguments leads to some rather wild and wooly debates. The Guttmacher institute has a new section called “Are you in the Know?” about women’s health and abortion.
Continue reading350 or bust: NASA Video Debunks Climate Deniers in 26 Seconds
As obvious as tumor on a smoker’s chest x-ray, this 26-second video of the 131 years of temperature data demonstrates the consequences of our addiction to burning fossil fuels. It shows what climate scientists have been warning our governments about for years – climate change is real, it’s happening now,
Continue readingThe Sixth Estate: Ontario-Funded Think Tank Says Ontario Not Getting Enough Transfer Payments
Alternate title: Toronto Star Leaves Key Piece of Information Out of Coverage of Mowat Centre. The Mowat Centre, it seems, is unhappy about the state of federal-provincial transfers in this country. Ontario and British Columbia are being short-changed to the tune of billions of dollars because it fails to account
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Liuna Local 183 Continues Its Bad Behaviour
Yesterday I wrote about the scuffle that broke out at a meeting of Liuna Local 183, a meeting that saw members demanding answers to the strange tale of the firing, rehiring, and resignation of John Manadarino, the training centre executive who misappropriated union funds but whose union executive defenders claim
Continue readingCowboys for Social Responsibility: A letter from Canada
OTTAWA Dear Foreign Dictator: On behalf of the Government of Canada, I would like to clarify our position on the use of torture. To be clear, our Government supports the use of torture when it is practiced with a clear objective. Please accept my most heartfelt apologies if the position
Continue readingFar and Wide: Caterpillar Highlights Failed Policies
The Caterpillar fiasco is another example of the failed relationship between government, corporations and community. Rather than get lost in the minutiae of the Caterpillar story, a wide angle lens reveals a disturbing picture of corporate greed, negotiating in bad faith, the free market economy at its absolute worst. We
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Geoffrey Stevens discusses the basic problem behind the Cons’ insistence on cutting back actual help to people while wasting billions on prisons and fighter jets: (I)f the government did have a weakness (which, as noted, it does not concede), it might be
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