Did BC Energy Minister Rich Coleman outright lie in the Legislature when he promised public consultation for a massive new pipeline to draw billions of litres of water from BC’s biggest hydroelectric dam, the Williston Reservoir, to supply the natur…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: F-35, Yet Another Delay
The overdue, overbudget F-35 will, yawn, be another two years late. A USAF general informed a congressional panel today that the long-delayed aircraft, most recently promised for 2016, won’t be available until 2018.What’s that sound? It’s t…
Continue readingMorton's Musings: The UN atomic watchdog report on Iran — here’s a link:
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Continue readingBlunt Objects: Let Saskatchewan be a Lesson to Liberals
Let the tale I’m about to explain in greater detail than before be a lesson to Liberals across Canada.In 2007, the Saskatchewan Liberals attained 9.6% of the vote in a province-wide election, and came within 5% of winning one seat in Saskatoon, where t…
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Geist: A recent history of net neutrality enforcement
By Michael Geist
The enforcement of Canada’s net neutrality rules, which govern how Internet providers manage their networks, was in the spotlight earlier this year when documents obtained und…
Herman Cain – serial sexual harasser? That’s nothing. Try being a female Mountie.
– Your life will be a living hell. Welcome to the famous RCMP, home to sexual harassment and thuggery. “Everything that came out of his [a supervisor’s] mouth was sexual,” Galliford said. “If I had a dime for every time one of my …
Continue readingMorton's Musings: Contextual consideration in interpreting contracts is not dependent on a finding that the words themselves suggest some ambiguity, but is an integral part of the interpretive process
Schneeberg v. Talon International Development Inc., 2011 ONCA 687, released today is another decision considering the context in which contracts arise as being relevant regardless of ambiguity in language:[38] …
Continue readingOccupy…..RailGate?
SometimesTheWheelsOfJusticeGrindWeirdlyVilleDoes Bob Mackin never sleep?Apparently he stayed up late last night combing the BC Supreme Court Registry and discovered the following:…[the]…”Vancouver Supreme Court List” shows the city application [to …
Continue readingGeoff at Mount Allison: The Association of Colleges and Universities of Canada’s (AUCC) Ursula’s visit to Mount Allison University, Storified
[<a href=”http://storify.com/geoffatmta/new-story” target=”_blank”>View the story “@Ursula_AUCC’s visit to @MountAllison University” on Storify</a&am…
Continue readingLeDaro: Rush Limbaugh’s take on Sharon Bialek
As you know Sharon Bialek is the latest accuser of Herman Cain for sexual harassment or even sexual assault. Limbaugh pronounces her name as Buy-a lick and makes fun of her. This guy is a big crazy himself.As my previous posts show, I am no fan of Cain…
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Not A Coincidence – Defend the Constitution!
It’s not a coincidence that Occupy Regina is being threatened with an illegal dispersal notice from Regina Mayor Pat Fiacco. The Mayor has no legal authority to tell peaceful protesters they must leave public property, and his bylaw that prohibits camping in city parks is not lawful in this circumstance. Regina Police ought to tell […]
The Disaffected Lib: Can Canada Escape Getting F-35’d?
One of the most worrisome aspects (there are several) of the Harper government’s F-35 fetish is the paltry number of them we’ll be able to afford. This deal is already stretched so tight, and getting tighter with each passing week, that we’…
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Weird or what?
CBC’s otherwise outstanding website turned up a few weird glitches the past week or so. In the video preview pane, the picture and the text didn’t match. This is probably the weirdest of the lot but it wasn’t the only one to have a bad p…
Continue readingThings Are Good: Canadians Like the Occupy Movement
Even the right-leaning Canadian press can’t disagree that the Occupy Movement is a positive thing in and of itself. A new poll reveals that almost 60% of Canadians view the movement in a positive light, while some others tend to have problems because it is “leaderless”.
It’s great to see Canadians (who have not suffered […]
Irony alert. Contempt party accuses CBC of contempt.
Well if anyone should know contempt, it would be a Conservative. Oh and you can forget that whole legal matter of the appeals process. That’s just for Conservatives.
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Why the Occupy Movement Has Relevance in Canada
Thee are many who assert that the Occupy Movement has no relevance in Canada because we have a social safety net and other measures that provide a modicum of protection to the most vulnerable. They also argue for the superiority of our banking system, …
Continue reading350 or bust: Australia Leads In Climate Fight, Passes Carbon Tax
Australia’s Senate passed a comprehensive carbon pricing scheme yesterday, to the applause of members of the public who were present. Australia is one of the world’s worst greenhouse gas emitters per capita because of its heavy reliance on…
Continue readingThe Sixth Estate: John Ivison and the Case for a Canadian Foreign Intelligence Agency
Today’s example of a woefully uninformed journalist spouting off on a subject of crucial national importance is John Ivison, whose Monday column in the National Post is what presently passes for “balanced” commentary on what Ivison says is a renewed push by the government to transform the Canadian Security Intelligence Service into a foreign intelligence […]
Continue readingPaper Dynamite Online: Andrew Coyne Misses The Point On Open Primaries
Andrew Coyne tweeted:This proposal to elect Liberal leaders, and I gather nominate riding candidates as well, by open primaries is a terrible ideaLiberals, and all parties, need to make leaders more accountable to caucus, not less. Leaders elected by p…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Sarkozy to Obama, Netanyahu is a "Liar"
An unguarded moment. They didn’t think anyone could hear. That was when French president Nicholas Sarkozy turned to Barack Obama and said exactly what he thinks of Benjamin Netanyahu, “I can’t stand him any more, he’s a liar.” To whic…
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