We took my visiting in-laws to the farmers market last week and bought a bushel of sweet red peppers. My mother-in-law couldn’t figure what the heck I was going to do with them all or how we could eat a whole bushel before they spoiled. Fortunately, I …
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Debunking Toews: Warrantless online spying is anything but "balanced"
Pro-Internet community member Valerie Vuillemot recently wrote to Public Safety Minister Vic Toews and Industry Minister Christian Paradis, expressing concerns about usage-based billing (Internet metering) and the impending “Lawful Access” (online spyi…
Continue readinggritchik: Hudak supports homophobic flyer, doesn’t support choice
Kind of tells you everything you need to know about Tim Hudak.
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: Private Member Bill on Union Financial Disclosure
Conservative MP Russ Hiebert tabled his private member bill in the Commons yesterday, calling for changes to the Income Tax Act to require unions (which are income-tax-exempt under the Act … duh! since they are, after all, non-profit organizations) to publicly disclose their financial statements. Here are a few quick points that came to mind in […]
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: Perry Down – Protesters Up
Rick Perry is now dropping in the polls, with Mitt Romney taking the lead.I guess having a ranch named “Niggerhead” didn’t win him any points. The Tea Partiers would have loved it, but the Republican leader has to be able to win over more than the…
Continue readingHeroes for Today: Jesse LaGreca nails FUX Snooze
This was making the rounds on Facebook yesterday:
FUX didn’t air this. Gee, I wonder why…
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: Neo Liberal Globalization Kills Good Jobs
Well, you’ve heard that kind of line from labour and the left, but now the IMF seems to have been pretty much won over to the argument that global supply chains and technological change are killing more good jobs than they create. In a distinctly gloomy Box starting on p.41 in the latest World Economic […]
Continue readingSketchy
I’m indebted to Globe & Mail columnist Doug Saunders for this. I’d like to know what the follow-up is. Until then, I’m withholding judgement on the #fail part. Incidentally, this isn’t the only example of the possible intrusion of news…
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Thomas Mulcair: You need a Story
Welcome to the race for the leadership of the federal NDP.And before you launch into your campaign, you would do well to ponder the campaign strategies devised for two recent success stories in Alberta by Stephen Carter.This is a summary of his w…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: The Older I Get, The Less I Like Old People
“Most men die at 27, we just bury them at 72”- Mark Twain It’s interesting living in the human equivalent of the fabled “elephant graveyard.” My town is a place where the climate is, by any Canadian standard, idyllic. It’s as though there w…
Continue readingRecreating Eden: Red Hair: A Drug on the Market or Sign of Fertility?
Vivaldi was a red head, so were Napoleon , Galileo, Eric the Red and Thomas Jefferson. A rather distinguished group, don’t you think? But apparently, the sperm from red heads is not moving at an international sperm bank, and they have announced they’…
Continue readingCities—the provincial option
The possibility of Toronto becoming a province has popped up in the news again. The idea has floated around for years, supported by a variety of civic thinkers including the urban guru Jane Jacobs.The idea has considerable merit and not only for Toront…
Continue readingCuriosityCat: The Heart of OccupyWallStreet
The British are deft with words – is every Briton born a wordsmith? – and today The Guardian has come close to defining the heart of the American Spring now taking place in many cities there (my highlights):But the ultimate failure here is of imagi…
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: Who’s Bailing Whom? Challenging the Private Credit System
The time since 2008 has been a crucial historical moment for progressive economists to pull back the green curtain that surrounds the operation of the for-profit banking system, and expose that system for what it is: a government-protected, government-subsidized license to print money. The problem is, as soon as you start saying things like that, people […]
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Chris Selley points out the absurdity of Ontario’s Libs and PCs both running away from the idea of a coalition just as needlessly as their federal counterparts. But let’s remember that since the NDP spoke up for…
Continue readingWhat Do The Wall Street Protestors Really Want?
AllTheExplanationsThatFitTippingPointVillePersonally, regardless the various points of view, I think it comes down to two words.Which are….Fair.And…Play.And, as Simon and Cathie point out, it is getting harder and harder not to think that all the f…
Continue readingMorton's Musings: Standard of review from NAFTA tribunals is correctness
Mexico v. Cargill, Incorporated, 2011 ONCA 622 deals with the standard of review from a NAFTA trade tribunal. The Court, after lengthy review, holds the standard is correctness:
[42] I con…
Continue readingMy journey with AIDS...and more!: Bursa – and not the city in Turkey!
The ever-increasing pain I have experienced recently now has a name – bursitis. It follows the hip-femur repairs in 2003 and from years of strain on my minimal maximus – gluteus, that is. Yesterday I began physical therapy treatments and le…
Continue readingAs Memory Serves, This Happened Before
Imagine my surprise when I read in today’s Globe and Mail that Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said he was “relatively confident” that we would see modest economic growth in Canada. What is modest economic growth, I wonder? Is it 0.3%, …
Continue readingTrashy's World: At least there’s one victory for the Liberals…
….as PEI can welcome another Grit government for 4 more years! Congrats! And, as a sidebar, the Cons kept true to form in using personal attacks during the campaign to try to gain political advantage. The premier used most of his victory speech to condemn the personal attacks he says he suffered at the hands […]
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