The Habitable Exoplanets Catalog is an online database for scientists, educators, and the general public focused on habitable exoplanets discoveries. The catalog uses various habitability indices and classifications to identify, rank, and compare exoplanets, including their potential satellites, or exomoons. (this text is taken directly from the site’s introduction.) The
Continue readingBuckdog: Thanks To Guys Like Stephen Harper And Brad Wall – Canada’s Rich Still Getting Richer While Working Families Struggle
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his good friend, Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall, both adhere to the flawed ‘trickle down’ economic theory. They firmly believe that if you stoke the rich and corporate sector of the economy, the lower working class rung will benefit. They are wrong. Their suppression of
Continue readingMorton's Musings: A very important decision regarding summary judgment
Combined Air Mechanical Services Inc. v. Flesch, 2011 ONCA 764 was just released – it is a very important decision regarding summary judgment: Analysis of the Amended Rule 20 1. Overview [35] By the time these appeals were argued, a well-developed body of jurisprudence from the Superior Court of Justice
Continue readingRecreating Eden: Inequality and Its Perverse Effects from The Help to Rising Birth Rates among Educated Women
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development is in the news this morning because of the report it has just published Divided We Stand: Wby Inequality Keeps Rising. The report’s analysis ranks countries by economic inequality, showing that in Canada it has increased markedly in recent years, although things are
Continue readingThings Are Good: Help Santa Keep His Home This Christmas
The David Suzuki Foundation has launched a campaign to raise awareness of the lack of ice coverage at the North Pole. Where Will Santa Live? is a fun spin on a serious issue and looks like a good way to talk about ice coverage while keeping the conversation entertaining. “We’re
Continue readingThe Sixth Estate: Globe and Mail Has No Right to be Disappointed on Abdelrazik File
Today, the Globe and Mail is upset that the Harper regime failed to help Canadian citizen Abousfian Abdelrazik get off the UN blacklist that prevents him from travelling, holding a job, or having a bank account. Well, I’m not happy either. You may recall that Abdelrazik is the man who
Continue readingwmtc: rivers of suggestion
Allan has revived his non-baseball blog. He is writing about writing, music and the world out there. Formerly known as In Cold Blog and In Other News and maybe some other names, the blog is now called Rivers of Suggestion, and it is found here.
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Inequality at 30-Year High
Inequality in wealth quickly metastasizes into other afflictions including inequality in income and inequality in opportunity. It chokes off social mobility and nurtures the ascendancy of an oligarchy in which political and economic power is siphoned away, particularly from the middle classes, to a new ruling order. Now the OECD
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: The Next Euro Debate
An astute piece from Andy Watt. He thinks that we shall indeed soon see what markets are anticipating – the long deferred grand bargain, in which the ECB backstops euro bonds (thus averting a banking and sovereign debt crisis), in return for which euro countries agree to much enhanced surveillance
Continue readingthe reeves report: Environment Minister Peter Kent tells Durban that Canada will not renew Kyoto
An environmental protester at the Durban Conference mocks Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper. According to CJOB in Manitoba, Canada’s Environment Minister Peter Kent has informed delegates at the Durban climate talks in South Africa that Canada will not renew its commitment to the Kyoto Protocol that would run from 2013
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: RIP Joe Kuchta
I join other progressive bloggers in mourning the loss of Joe Kuchta. As CBC reported, his investigative approach to Saskatchewan and Saskatoon politics was widely respected. I drew upon his insights several times in debating the Trade, Investment and Labour Mobility Agreement.
Continue readingMontreal Simon: If You Want to Know What Bullying Feels Like…
You can read this story. What world is this that playgrounds have become killing grounds? The murder of hope, love, creativity, passion, ingenuity, individually. This goes unpunished. Unnoticed. Why? When these die, our very person dies. If there’s one thing I hate, it’s when people don’t care about bullying. I
Continue readingdaveberta.ca - Alberta politics blog: could hugh macdonald save albertans from another snoozer senate election?
Alberta will be holding its fourth ever Senate election in 2012. Last Friday, the Progressive Conservatives released the rules to guide the nomination of their candidates in next year’s Senate election (or more accurately, ‘Senator-in-Waiting‘ election). The PCs will open nominations on December 9, 2011. Candidates must submit a non-refundable fee
Continue readingField notes: Conservative people
After the vindication of Abousfian Abdelrazik by the UN Security Council’s “1267 Committee”—a kind of distillation, if you will. Quoted with no further comment, for your edification: shouldn’t get nothing from the tax payers of canada. that’s the only reason he is in canada to began with, and now he
Continue readingWise Law Blog: 140 Law – Legal Headlines for December 5, 2011
We are back from our brief vacation with the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Monday, December 5, 2011: Nominations Open for 6th Annual Canadian Law Blog Awards http://bit.ly/rKKMf9 Federal judge denies injunction request by Apple in Samsung patent case http://bit.ly/t7mo2H Five new provincial court judges for Ontario http://bit.ly/sjhXYg Law
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Dazed and Confused, Muskrat proponents version #nlpoli
Premier Kathy Dunderdale and Emera chief executive Chris Huskilson. Par for the course for the former to be dazed and confused. Somewhat surprising to find the latter a bit off. The issue: the cost of Muskrat Falls electricity. Kathy Dunderdale told the world – via CBC Radio – in November
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On pertinent questions
I’ll add one additional follow-up note from yesterday’s NDP leadership debate. In principle the opportunity for candidates to ask questions of one another looks to have been an ideal chance to test one of the major roles of an opposition leader. And while most of the contenders decided to lob
Continue readingHe could be your son or daughter…
I posted this video last night. A young boy going into grade eight. He is scared. Lots of people call him names. This is bullying. This is wrong. I wish I could reach out and hug this boy. He needs support. He needs a safe place to be. You can
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Murray Dobbin comments on how the NDP can turn economic issues from a perceived weakness to one of the party’s core strengths over the next election cycle: There is a long way to go for the NDP to establish itself as a serious
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Jewish Defense League Plans To Crash "Women Won’t Forget" Vigil
…do a little Muzzie bashing. Why? From their website: Marc Lepine’s father Liess Gharbi was an Algerian immigrant, a Muslim Extremist who taught his boy how to hate women… Dawg’s unpacked this formulation ages ago, so I’m not going to bother. More to the point, the University of Toronto has discovered JDL’s
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