The right-wing media has been all abuzz from the beginning of the Occupy movement, provoking and reporting on any little incident to prove their case against the occupation. Despite the media’s initial indifference and gathering antagonism against Occupy, the real danger to those in the movement is the increasing agitation from outside.
Threats, . . . → Read More: You knew this was coming. Bomb thrown into Occupy encampment.
Continue readingI have written many times before that life is very complex and human intelligence has serious limitations to understand it. We still fully have not understood the complexity of an atom. Yes we made atom bombs and killed fellow humans but many elements …
Continue readingThe right-wing media has been all abuzz from the beginning of the Occupy movement, provoking and reporting on any little incident to prove their case against the occupation. Despite the media’s initial indifference and gathering antagonism against Occu…
Continue readingOne of the best books I’ve read in recent years is Lawrence Hill’s The Book of Negroes (Somebody Knows My Name in the US) It is the story of a woman born free in what is now Mali and who after crossing Atlantic three times dies in England in 1803 as t…
Continue readingInsufficient reasons are a common basis for appeals to be granted.
Harrison v. Burns, 2011 ONCA 664, released this morning, holds that, in some cases, written reasons are necessary:
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Continue readingThe Harper Government is set come good on an election promise to establish a new office within the Minister of Foreign Affairs. The new Office of Religious Freedom will investigate issues of religious freedom around the world. The budget will be five …
Continue readingEspecially for Democratic women.
It’s an under-reported story of 2011, and one that advocates of Democratic women say could be part of the story of the more feisty Democratic party that has emerged in recent months.
Let’s breakdown the history. Heading into the 2010 elections, there were 73 women in the House (including . . . → Read More: 2011 turning out to be good year for women elected to Congress
Continue readingAfter reading Tina Collen’s book Storm of the I: An Artobiography
(Art Review Press, 2009), I am left with a delightful and very real sense of the value of simplicity.
Collen’s creative memoir takes us from her childhood and youth in New York and her relationship with her family, to her life in Aspen with her […]
Whatever they pay her is not enough.Jane Taber has made quite a reputation for herself as a hagiographer for women – Conservative women, that is. Today, Taber doubles down on Lisa Raitt whilst adding Rona Ambrose to the mix.It’s not so m…
Continue readingThe truncated fall sitting of Alberta’s Legislative Assembly begins today and breaks tomorrow. The fall sitting will reconvene in late November, conveniently scheduled for the convenience of the spouses of rural Tory MLAs, who can make their annual Christmas shopping trek into the city. Tweet This Post
Continue readingAssorted content to start your week.- Romeo Saganash comments on the need to recognize and act on our common social bonds:Whether you live on reserve, in the remote north, or in the heart of a city, there is much healing — much teaching and learning -…
Continue readingThat Toronto’s Blue Jays won the World Series. They repeated again in ’93 and since then nada for them, the Leafs, the soccer team and the Raps.WFDS
Continue readingSince when does “free thinker” mean the same thing as “screechy right-winger?” In Ottawa, however, it appears to. Fred Litwin is the man behind the so-called “Free Thinking Film Festival,” and this will give the flavour of it: [P]lease don’t…
Continue readingWe’re still enjoying the bounty of our summer garden in the form of plenty of fresh tomatoes. I’ve been looking for creative ways to eat/cook with them – even tomato sandwiches, which I love, can become tiresome. I’m not a hug…
Continue readingIt’s certainly a plus to see Stephen Gordon mention corporate governance issues as part of his latest Economy Lab piece. But there are a couple of points that demand far closer scrutiny.First, there’s the disconnect between how Gordon wants to assume e…
Continue readingBack again.Yeah, I’ve been away for a while, for reasons that have absolutely nothing to do with writing or blogging. However my unintentional sabbatical has had the benefit of leaving me refreshed and full of ideas and so maybe wasn’t such a bad thing after all. I mean, in the two years I have operated […]
You gotta love organizations like One Million Moms for campaigning against the humorous (and I hear delicious) confection known as Schweddy Balls, based on an SNL sketch featuring Alec Baldwin.You have to hand it to castrating conservative women -…
Continue readingNow we have a new Major Minority Government (hey, that’s what the Ontario Liberals call it?) we can see them move on the school sex education curriculum. Especially after the tragic story of Jamie Hubley.
The new curriculum was proposed in 2010 an…
Continue readingAt the end of last week, we had 2 special dinner guests. My daughters were star-struck. One could barely speak; the other requested signatures on a notebook, origami birds, and a length of fabric. This is the way it came about. I was ordering tickets for Canadian Women’s Hockey day, and got to chatting with […]
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