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Continue readingCowboys for Social Responsibility: 97% mandate for for sensible gun laws
Earlier today, members of the European Parliament voted 624-17 to complete the implementation of the United Nations Firearms Protocol, the international standard for firearms regulation.The results of the vote are telling. Sensible gun laws draw b…
Continue readingCritical Brain Candy: Union busting
I am in favor of the idea of labour unions and their goals, while I do admit to being skeptical of what many large unions have become in modern times. However, the Harper governments willingness to force unions back to work seems like it has gone too far. Any person or group of people should […]
Continue readingFacing Autism in New Brunswick: Return of the Bad Parents Cause Autism Nightmare Monster
“DR. GABOR MATÉ: Well, the situation with fathers is, is that increasingly—there was a study recently that showed an increasing number of men are having postpartum depression, as well. And the main role of the father, of course, would be to suppor…
Continue readingPhilosophy, the broad and the broader.
Get your pens out, but make sure you get your vocal chords ready too. It’s time for a deeply philosophical discussion. And what does a philosophy discussion consist of? Overestimation, arrogance and typically a disregard for nuances. Broad overestimations backed by arrogance pave the way for many wonderful theories on the meaning
Continue readingReuters gets schooled by one its own writers – Felix Salmon
In a rare move by a modern news outlet, Felix Salmon on his Reuters blog schools Reuters over a wildly inaccurate and conservative-oriented take on the Occupy Wall Street movement that appeared on the news service earlier in th…
Continue readingthe reeves report: Supreme Court of Canada to help clarify what constitutes hate speech
The Supreme Court of Canada is being asked to draw the line between what constitutes free speech and what crosses the faint line into hate mongering. The case against William Whatcott, an unabashedly anti-homosexual Lutheran proselytizer in Saskatchewan, will have lasting implications about where Canadians and Canadian courts should draw the line between protecting what … Continue reading »
BigCityLib Strikes Back: Flaherty Is Right
Canadian banks were insulated from the worst of the 2008 financial crisis because they were better regulated, with these regulations put in place long before the current regime came into power.If you want your protest to be about some specific corporat…
Continue readingSomeone’s cranky about the Ontario elxn
Why so bitter?: Voting Conservative is “Gutter Morality!??” Tsk. So you got a little spanking on Election Day… okay, you were beaten like a gong. No, make that ‘beaten like a Cinco de Mayo pinata’. But look on the bright side: one less vote would have put you in the ’beaten like a crack baby in […]
cmkl: Air Canada vs CUPE: the company charges ‘bad faith’
It would be funny if I didn’t think that the livelihoods of 6,000 or so people hung in the balance. But Air Canada has charged the union with bad faith bargaining because the membership refused to accept the second tentative agreement CUPE negotiators …
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your day.- Thomas Walkom points out that the effect of cracking down on peaceful and legal strikes – as the Cons are so determined to do – is to force workers to take more creative steps to make their concerns heard:Canada’s m…
Continue readingBlunt Objects: NDP a Contender for Second in Alberta?
A couple of polls – one from Lethbridge College and the other from ThinkHQ – have come out in the last month or so which are starting to point towards a bit of an NDP bump in the province of Alberta.I noted a few months ago that polling in Alberta seem…
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: Hippies on Wall Street. Why Not??
There is a recent suggestion that the “Occupation” of Wall Street has become a “hippie haven”. I actually see people of all ages and from all walks of life, but if you want to discredit the movement, dismiss them with a seemingly n…
Continue readingOccupy Wall Street to stand ground at 7 a.m. deadline to exit Zuccotti Park in NYC
The revolution begins tomorrow.
Facing the prospects of being moved out of Zuccotti Park for a cleaning of the area and the establishment of new rules that may end up killing the occupation, Occupy Wall Street protesters have announced that they plan to stand their ground tomorrow morning. . . . → Read More: Occupy Wall Street to stand ground at 7 a.m. deadline to exit Zuccotti Park in NYC
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Liberals, let’s make Steve Janke eat his words
National Post’s Steve Janke thinks we are doomed. He thinks we will shrivel up and die:I have to wonder, therefore, if there is a cure for what ails the Liberal Party. The same dynamic that pushed the NDP up and up is driving the Liberals down and down…
Continue readingOccupy Wall Street to stand ground at 7 a.m. deadline to exit Zuccotti Park in NYC
The revolution begins tomorrow.Facing the prospects of being moved out of Zuccotti Park for a cleaning of the area and the establishment of new rules that may end up killing the occupation, Occupy Wall Street protesters have announced that they plan to…
Continue readingCanadian Dimension Feed: Alert! Episode 190
Murray Dobbin examines the recent provincial election outcomes across the country. Derrick O’Keefe discusses the Occupy Wall Street movement as it develops in Canada while; Student activist Dan DiMaggio discusses the movement from the streets of …
Continue readingwmtc: urgent: nyc to move on occupy wall street: call and voice your outrage right now!
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has announced plans to evict the Occupy Wall Street protesters at 7:00 a.m. tomorrow morning. Please pick up the phone! Call the Mayor’s office, call Brookfield Properties, the owners of Zuccotti Park. Tell them wh…
Continue readingMorton's Musings: Best practice accused be alerted during plea inquiry of implications of a court-ordered NCR assessment
R. v. Williams, 2011 ONCA 641 deals with a plea followed by an NCR assessment. The Court of Appeal suggests that the judge should alert an accused, where an NCR assessment would likely follow, of the implications of that so as to ensure …
Continue reading"Hands off our CBC" a poor choice of words
While I applaud the Liberals and their defence of the CBC, I am a little taken aback by the slogan they’re employing. I realize the Liberals are being inclusive but not everyone will see it that way. Critics will surely jump on the ‘our’ reference to p…
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