In American history no one who has ever gotten worse then 3rd place in Iowa has won the presidency. SO who is in the top three. Mitt Romney: who is the perspective front runner, but the only issue is that he hasn’t been able to grow his poll numbers. It seems every
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Dark Orwellian Future: Top Secret America
Julian Assange isn’t the only person concerned that Facebook is the greatest spy machine ever created. There are lesser known surveillance nets and data mining underway. Did you know that most text messages sent on 9/11 were captured by a secret system, and later leaked to WikiLeaks? NSA employee: “A
Continue readingMorton's Musings: Postering generally will not amount to criminal mischief
R. v. Jeffers, 2012 ONCA 1 deals with a very sad case (it is worth a read for the counselling murder charges). That said, the decision is a good source for the principle that postering will not, in general, amount to criminal mischief: [19] The trial judge erred in her appreciation of the meaning
Continue readingRon Paul to Newt Gingrich: yer a chickenhawk
Ron Paul is a lot of horrible things but he sure knows how to say what he thinks – and often what we’re all thinking. I don’t know why Paul hasn’t done more of this. He could dress down the entire field of candidates this way. “So right now, he
Continue readingWe Have Our Priorities
According to Correctional Services Canada, the average annual cost of keeping someone in a federal prison in Canada in 2004-2005 was $88,067 . Now compare that to the annual amount spent per student in Canada during the same time period of $8726 including operating budgets and salaries.
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Whose camp is it anyway? #nlpoli
Leo Abbass, mayor of Happy Valley-Goose Bay. Regular readers will know him already. Quoted this time by Voice of the Cabinet Minister about a controversial work camp a company wants to build in his community. VOCM linked the camp to Muskrat Falls, and so did Leo, according to the version
Continue readingAbout that monarchy resolution
Dear Young Liberals, Having looked over your policy resolution about “severing formal ties with the British Crown,” I am overcome with a sense of disbelief because I fear that you don’t actually understand the constitution of this country. You see, Canada has its own monarchy. It’s the Canadian Crown. It’s a separate
Continue readingThings Are Good: The Future of Transit: Gondolas
The Gondola Project is all about bringing fast and cheap public transit to cities by using (what else?) gondolas! Some people may think that gondolas are only for ski resorts or tourists but there’s a lot of growing interest around the world in using gondolas as an alternative to light
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Travaillons ensemble
Following up on this post, I’ll expand briefly on what looks to be one of the more interesting questions for the balance of the NDP’s leadership race. I’ve pointed out before that one of the subtle advantages of having a leadership race immediately after ascending to Official Opposition status is
Continue readingRecreating Eden: Suburbs, Stress and the Myth of the Good Life: More Evidence from North of Montreal
“Suburban” in North America conjures up visions of single family houses on streets lined with grass, good schools, a good life away from the struggles of the city. But that appears to be changing. Stress is higher in the suburbs north of Montreal, according to The Montreal Gazette. Taking data
Continue readingRecreating Eden: Recreating Eden 2012-01-04 11:42:00
“Suburban” in North America conjures up visions of single family houses on streets lined with grass, good schools, a good life away from the struggles of the city. But that appears to be changing. Stress is higher in the suburbs north of Montreal, according to The Montreal Gazette. Taking data
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – The Star makes the case for Canada’s wealthiest citizens to pay their fair share: Apart from their hefty pay packets, the top-earning CEOs are sitting on $2 billion in stock options that are treated as dividend income, and taxed at half the value.
Continue readingCathiefromCanada: Great line of the day
The Gazetteer on the results of the Iowa Caucus: fully 75% of the Heartland’s GOP have now officially bought their tickets to take a ride on the crazy train.
Continue readinggay persons of color: Book Review: Sovereign Erotics: A Collection of Two-Spirit Literature
Cover, Miss Chief: Shadow Catcher © 2008by Kent Monkman and Christopher Chapman “Sovereign Erotics is for those who—like so many of us—had no role models, no one to tell us that we were valuable human beings just as we are. This project is by and for the People. Our hope is that
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Internet Access Is Not a Human Right by Vinton G. Cerf
Columnist says that technology is an enabler of rights, but is not a right itself.
Continue readingFar and Wide: Watershed Moments
I must admit, I’m pleasantly surprised how the Liberals have managed to keep themselves in the news, despite a NDP leadership race and the obvious struggles for a third party. As a matter of fact, I think you could cobble together a fairly convincing argument that the Liberal Party is
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: Drummond’s Productivity “Puzzle.”
Don Drummond confesses that he has been wrong to believe that changes in public policies – such as free trade, cuts to corporate taxes, low inflation, the introduction of the GST, balanced budgets and reductions to inter provincial trade barriers (aka the neo liberal agenda) – are the key to
Continue readingGeoff at Mount Allison: Flying back to Canada for the last time (?)
I just finished a bit of self-reflection over the break including writing a narrative about my life. I thought about coming to the US from Canada and not really thinking about going back to live in Canada until I visited Mount Allison and I may not be back to live
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: More on the polling controversy #nlpoli #cdnpoli
Susan Delacourt, from The Star, December 30: Canada’s polling industry could be in for a shakeup in 2012, after some major knocks to its reputation in 2011. Regular readers will recall the controversy from the federal election and from the fall provincial election from the series on polling and politics.
Continue readingWise Law Blog: 140 Law – Legal Headlines for Wednesday, January 04, 2012
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Wednesday, January 04, 2012: Ontario Court of Appeal Grants Amputee up to $1M of Benefits – Kusnierz v. Economical Mutual Ins. Nearly 1,000 serving UK police officers ave a criminal record – Telegraph Utah opinion: Unethical for attorneys
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