… cuz I kinda like this theme. We’re pretty sure that our youngest has a nut allergy – at least to tree nuts, but since tree nut and peanut allergies often go hand in hand, we are keeping nuts of all types away from both of the young ‘uns. We’ll know for sure when he […]
Continue readingArt Threat: Let’s not make money – Friday Film Pick: 10 docs on capitalism & economics
Ten great docs that bring context to the Occupy Wall Street movement.
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: Sask Party Shills for PotashCorp
Yesterday’s strong earnings report from the Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan confirms what this blog and the NDP have been contending: even modestly increasing Saskatchewan’s extremely low royalties on hugely profitable potash mines could fund substantially better provincial public services. The Saskatchewan Party still refuses to review potash royalties. In a well-timed column, Greg Fingas developed […]
Continue readingA Novelist's Mind: Lilian Nattel Online: Happy Anniversary
A and I got married 14 years ago–but our anniversary isn’t special. Every night, when he comes to bed–our comfy bed with the extra padding–I am grateful and aware of the blessing. I was volunteering with seniors, facilitating a writing group when A & I moved in together. One of these wise women said to […]
Morton's Musings: The cost of lifting every Canadian out of poverty is $12B
To raise that much money you need to raise GST by 2%. Hmmn, remind me, isn't that the amount the Conservatives cut the GST?(Source, Maclean's Oct 31)
Continue readingMarg Delahunty as Mary Walsh responds to Rob Ford furor
Looks like Marg was as surprised at Rob Ford’s pearl clutching as we were. Mary relates: Find more videos like this on Zoomers
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Another Excellent Column From Rick Salutin
As I have written elsewhere, in my view there are few Canadian columnists who can match or exceed the depth and range of intellect consistently reflected in the work of The Star’s Rick Salutin. In today’s piece, entitled Drawing inspiration from the …
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Quickie Cabinet Reaction: Happy Campers #nlpoli
If you don’t want the job, then quit: All these people in cabinet and every one looks like they have had something shoved up inside them, sideways. Even Kathy Dunderdale herself looks sour as sour can be in the picture illustrating the…
Continue readingBuckdog: Brad Wall SCRAMBLES To Change Channel From Windfall Potash Profits To ….. No School Until After Labour Day!?
PotashCorp embarrassed Sask Party Leader Brad Wall yesterday by releasing Third Quarter figures which prove that the province is being robbed blind. The last phase of the provincial election seems to be focusing on the Billions of dollars being gouged …
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: FRIENDS at the Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics
FRIENDS tells a Parliamentary committee looking into CBC’s access to information policies that the root cause of the public broadcaster’s disclosure avoidance is patronage appointments of it’s Board and President.
Continue readingPample the Moose: Rick Mercer, the Globe, Bullying and Gay Visibility
This post is my response to the recent public debate about Rick Mercer’s Rant and the subsequent Globe and Mail editorial attacking his position on the need for gay adults to come out as part of the answer to fighting homophobia and bullying. If you…
Continue readingAnti-Racist Canada: The ARC Collective: Supreme Court: CHRT Can’t Impose Costs. Says Nothing About Constitutionality of Sec. 13
A number of bloggers, as we did ourselves, opined that when the Lemire case makes it to the Supreme Court, the financial penalty part would be dropped but that Sec. 13 of the Human Rights Act would be itself found to be constitutional. While we can'…
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Die Postmedia Die!
TORONTO Postmedia Network Canada Corp. will roll out a plan to charge readers for online content to more of its newspapers as it struggles with lower advertising and print circulation income.Seriously. Bye bye. I’m hearing rumours Jon…
Continue readingkirbycairo: The Looming Crisis. . . . .
Every instinct I have suggests to me that we are entering a time of a crisis of capital similar in form, if not content, to the crisis that gripped it in the nineteen thirties. Just as the depression in the thirties was brought on in part by the o…
Continue readingProgressive Proselytizing: Peggy Nash announces candidacy for NDP leadership
Peggy Nash, the NDP incumbent for my riding of Parkdale-Highpark and the candidate I voted for, has just announced that she is running to be the next NDP leader. I wanted to share my thoughts on her announcement and recall some previous comments I have…
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Canadian Embassy Coaches Diplomats To Promote Tar Sands, Overstate Environmental Protection Efforts
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The Canadian government, on the provincial and federal level, needs to tag team on tar sands public relations, according to an internal Canadian Embassy document reported on by …
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: By Day He Denies, Part III
Whenever U.S. pundit Victor Davis Hanson reels off one his tired diatribes against the “AGW Hoax”–Climategate, Al Gore is Fat, and etc.–I like to point out that he is on the advisory board of CAPS (Californians for Population Stabilization), a fringe…
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 4132…Hillary For President?
She has a nice resume and this cut and paste from the USA Today says that “A new Time magazine poll shows Clinton easily defeating the major Republican candidates, were she somehow to become the 2012 Democratic nominee for president. Clinton leads Mit…
Continue readingMorton's Musings: A stay of criminal proceedings is justified only in the “clearest of cases” where no other remedy is available
R. v. P.A., 2011 ONCA 673 is a good current source for the principle that a stay is only available in criminal (and quasi-criminal) cases in the clearest of cases. Stays for, say, minor police misconduct are not appropriate:
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Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 4131…Condoms Should Be Banned In Quebec
Kevin Dougherty in the Montreal Gazette this morning opens thusly:Ottawa’s plan to add 30 seats to the House of Commons, including three more in Quebec, will diminish Quebec’s weight in the federal Parliament, says Yvon Vallières, the province’s…
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