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These "occupy Wall street" protestors and the various satellite venues have been letting the side down in no uncertain terms. The media have rightly been very severe on this issue, and the pictures also make it clear. It is glaringly evident that not just a few, but many of the people who show up to these events, much less the one who camp there day in and day out, have been just strikingly poorly dressed. I understand that many of them are young. After all, unemployment is far higher among the young, the massive student debts and unaffordability of housing strike them far harder, and if the final reckoning for unsustainable practices both ecological and economical can be put off a few years they are the ones who will still be here come the deluge. But honestly, do they have to go around acting as if they were young? Dancing, and playing their infernal music like young people do?! And worst of all, dressing as if they were young? What is worse, many of them look like poor people. Imagine, poor people with the nerve to protest poverty! Clearly they should be leaving it to their betters, or at least…

The first Question Period after a
constituency week can be a bit sleepy, and today was no exception to the rule. Nycole
Turmel kicked off by asking how Lisa Raitt could order Air Canada flight
attendants back to work after she accepted upgrades by ma…

Michael Ruse addresses the American First Amendment with a deft argument but with a base of knowledge that does not extend to actually dealing with the hateful. He writes:I detest laws that restrict freedom of speech. Apart from anything else, like …

Ice T, renowned philosopher, rapper and actor once said that “The world is divided into pimps and whores.” The WFDS says that there are no pimps and that we are all whores. The Tea Party, the band, are now total whores. They are selling their domain …

What do the #Occupy folks stand for? What are their demands? What do they hope to achieve? We’ve seen variants of these questions for the past few weeks, often wielded more like accusations. They are usually rhetorical questions, because, in…

R. v. Klundert, 2011 ONCA 646 holds a conditional sentence may be available in a tax evasion matter: [19]         First, the trial judge’s strong reliance – arguably his sol…

I recently was trained as an ambassador for Dying With Dignity Canada, so I’m excited to hear this from former Captain Jean-Luc Picard. We are campaigning for assisted dying in circumstances where a person is terminally ill and mentally sound, able to make their own choices. Where is the ethical problem in a situation like […]