No sooner did Dominique Strauss Kahn manage to stave off sexual assault charges in Manhattan than he now faces allegations he has ties to … a call girl. In northern France. For €500 to 1500 — a night. (The French newspaper L’Express has much much more in their article published
Continue readingdaveberta.ca - Alberta politics blog: ndp leadership candidates attending edmonton kitchen table talks.
Three federal NDP leadership candidates: Nathan Cullen, Paul Dewar, and Brian Topp Home of Alberta’s only NDP Member of Parliament, Linda Duncan, the Edmonton-Strathcona NDP Association is hosting a series of “Kitchen Table Talks” with NDP leadership candidates (named in honour of Jack Layton and his penchant for addressing the kinds
Continue readingwmtc: who wrote shakespeare? eric idle knows.
A while back, wmtc had a discussion about the supposed controversy of the authorship of Shakespeare’s plays, after I read the book Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare, by James Shapiro. Now a movie is out, telling a fictional, imaginative story of how Edward De Vere, Earl of Oxford, wrote the
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: Despite Evictions and Arrests, Occupy Wall Street Message is Getting Through
The actions of those in the Civil Rights Movement were not always supported by the majority of Americans, especially the violence. But the messages presented at the sit-ins and marches did begin to resonate. However, what probably helped the movement the most, was the response of segregationists like George Wallace. “In the name
Continue readingMorton's Musings: Wheat Board
The end of the wheat marketing structure in Western Canada is seen by some as a minor local issue. It isn't. First, even standing alone, the proposed changes are a very significant change in the way one of Canada's biggest crops is brought to market. To say it is minor
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Letter to Supporters: You and half-a-million Canadians changed the Internet
The only thing big telecom companies understand is their bottom line, so let’s hit them where it hurts. By pledging to make the switch from Big Telecom, you’ll send a clear message to policy-makers that Canadians want independent choices in the Internet service market. This is what we’ve been waiting
Continue readingWise Law Blog: 140 Law – Legal Headlines for November 16, 2011
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Wednesday, November 16, 2011: @OmarHaredeye on The Agenda via @ConnieCrosby: Why Occupy Toronto? – goo.gl/nTs5M Occupy Toronto protesters get Superior Court eviction reprieve, pending Friday hearing – Canada – CBC News – http://goo.gl/q0Ruw GTA’s top employers of 2012- Globe & Mail (amazing
Continue readingTrashy's World: Is it within a muncipality’s…
… jurisdiction to forbid Christmas music before December 1? How about exterior lights? Hey Ottawa? How about it? Yeah, yeah, I’m an old atheist Grinch… I know, I know… but seriously, I don’t recall seeing it anywhere in the Bible that music and decorations had to be out in November!
Continue readingCowboys for Social Responsibility: The factualy flawed and incorrect Vic Toews
If I was the Minister of Public Safety, I would want to make sure that my answers to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security were well rooted in fact. Others, it seems may not share that passion. Responding to a question from Liberal MP
Continue readinggay persons of color: Video: Occupy Wall Street security guard calls gay veteran a "faggot"
In the aftermath of New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s order to remove all Occupy Wall Street protestors and their belongings from Zuccotti Park early Tuesday morning, gay videographer and six year US Army disabled veteran, Joey Boots, went to film the site and encountered a security guard working for the
Continue readingScott's DiaTribes: The new enemy of Canada as the Harper government sees it; anyone who questions them
One of the trends this Conservative government has shown since it came to power is the need to demonize their opponents and to paint anyone who oppose them as being somehow disloyal to the country. This isn’t a new trend among conservative-type governments – George W Bush and the Republican
Continue readingThe Happy Wanderer: High Speed Rail…. Study!
In Canada we are lagging behind when it comes to high speed rail. Europe has high speed rail and they have seen it to be very beneficial to the environment and the economy. High speed rail in Canada is profitable, and it is almost silly that we have to keep
Continue readingWise Law Blog: Ontario Employment Law: Prejudgment Interest On Wrongful Dismissal Damages
In Chandran v. National Bank, Pollak J. in his endorsement on costs dated July 21, 2011, neatly summarizes how prejudgment interest is calculated in a wrongful dismissal action as follows: … [T]he prejudgment interest on the damage award is calculated as follows: – first, the interest owed from the beginning
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Twitterverse Tilts Left
From a Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism study on how selected U.S. MSM print and media outlets use twitter: Other interesting bits from the study; the kind of thing our own beloved Kady O’Malley does pretty frequently–crowd sourcing her news gathering–seems to be quite rare in U.S. journalism:
Continue readingSlap Upside The Head: B.C. Apologises For Bizarre Gay Tourism Promotion Ban
Tourism BC has apologized after distributing a marketing brochure telling business owners in the province that they are not allowed to promote gay tourism in China. The brochure, entitled How to Market Your Business in China, states that advertising to gay tourists in China was forbidden by the Chinese National
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Nalcor’s own studies back NG as Muskrat alternative #nlpoli
According to Nalcor’s final submission to the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency review panel, the company dismissed natural gas as an alternative source of electricity instead of Muskrat Falls. This alternative is purely hypothetical, as the current offshore operators have looked into the technical and economic feasibility of transporting and marketing
Continue readingThe new top Mountie
The word is out – deputy RCMP commissioner Bob Paulson, a long-time Mountie (who, interestingly enough, initially trained as a jet pilot in the Canadian Forces), is going to be named the new commissioner. Thus ends the experiment of having a civilian commissioner, and Vic Toews has assured us that his very
Continue readingMind of Dan: The unethical proponents of ethical oil
The decision to approve the keystone XL pipeline might have been delayed until 2013 (which the cynic in me says is just so that it can then be approved without hurting Obama in the next election), but that doesn’t mean the argument over the tar sands is over. In fact,
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