april 26 grading blues, a photo by dewberry1964 on Flickr. Ignatius was working. That was the first rule for writers. It wasn’t about the tools, his teachers had said, way back in school. It was about discipline. Work. A writer must write, even if, as Thomas Mann said: “A writer is someone for whom writing […]
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Unequivocal: Today’s Right is Overwhemingly More Anti-Science Than Today’s Left
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Last week, I took to task a really poor USA Today op-ed making the following claim:
"In short, for every anti-science Republican that exists, there is at least one anti-scie…
The Happy Wanderer: Scary is Governing with Ignorance
It’s been blogged about again and again, but that is because it’s so stupid and at the same time, scary. With their majority government, the Tories are looking to spearhead an omnibus “tough on crime” bill to increase jail time among other th…
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: The Meaning of CLOUD
Several weeks ago, the first results of CERN’s Cosmics Leaving OUtdoor Droplets (or CLOUD) experiment were revealed. This experiment was designed to study the chemical factors behind cloud formation and, more particula…
Continue readingMorton's Musings: A Court is to give very strong consideration to jointly recommended proposals for disposition in a criminal matter
R. v. Lawrence, 2011 NSCA 84 deals with the responsibility of a Court to give very strong consideration to jointly recommended proposals for disposition in a criminal matter. A joint submission resulting from a plea bargain, while not bindi…
Continue readingRedBedHead: Baird’s UN Rant Is A Museum Piece
Baird was the attack dog for the Harper government at the UN yesterday with his meandering rant that read like it was written by the Israeli ministry of international propaganda. Claiming people and nations who didn’t support Israel were akin to appeas…
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Taking your brain out of neutral #nlvotes #nlpoli
He said. She said. Claim. Counter-claim. Simple conflict. Simple news story. No problem? Problem. Well, maybe. You decide. Jay Rosen is a journalism professor at New York University. He doesn’t like “he said,she said journali…
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: What’s Wrong With This Picture?
Certainly not Talia herself, obviously: Rather, its the footwear and what’s on the t-shirt. From the Sun Family Blog:Speaking of the Toronto Sun crashing, it hit bottom (again) today (Sept 25). […]Today’s Girl was wearing a T-shirt with b…
Continue readingDon’t call it a vote to extend the mission
Thanks to a bit of clever wordplay and
misdirection aided and abetted by certain clueless media types, the government
now touts how Parliament voted to extend the mission in Libya. Which is a bit
false – the government has t…
Facing Autism in New Brunswick: YES! US Senate Passes CARA, Combating Autism Reauthorization Act!
US Capitol, Source: Autism Society of North Carolina
Excellent! The US Senate has now passed CARA, the Combating Autism Reauthorization Act, and it should soon be headed to President Obama’s office where it has already been indicated the Presid…
David Climenhaga's Alberta Diary: Will Gary Mar reinvent the Alberta Tories? Fat chance!
Gary Mar at the wheel of the new, improved, “reinvented” Alberta Conservative Party. Alberta politicians and the parties they lead may not appear exactly as illustrated. Below: Mr. Mar, Ralph Klein and a Tory electoral strategist speaking with an A…
Continue readingDavid Climenhaga's Alberta Diary: Suddenly, a search for a Liberal candidate in Edmonton-Goldbar as Hugh MacDonald prepares to pull the plug on politics
Hugh MacDonald with your blogger at the Sept. 10 Liberal leadership vote. Everything is exactly as it appears.With wild-eyed Alberta Liberal party officials about to launch an unexpected search for a candidate in Edmonton-Goldbar, about the last safe G…
Continue readingdickhead Comes to Vancouver . . . .
dickhead cheney came to The Vancouver Club tonight to promote his book.Of course I participated to see Vancouverites welcome him in style.To the best of my knowledge, he signed no autographs for the crowd outside the facility . . . .Recommend this Post…
Continue readingAnti-Racist Canada: The ARC Collective: Don’t Worry Marc! Tomasz Winnicki is On the Case!
Sometimes, we just have the sit back, smile, and marvel at the thought process that boneheads undergo when trying to be all strategic and junk. A recent example is Tomasz Winnicki and what we have to imagine must be his unsolicited pro bono work on beh…
Continue readingRed Tory v.3.0.3: Dreaming of Recession
Well, here’s something rather unusual… Appearing earlier today on BBC, Alessio Rastani, an independent stock trader, confessed to a stunned interviewer that, like most of his colleagues on Wall Street (or in the City of London), they “don’t really care … Continue reading →
Continue readingMike Powell Fanclub: Radio Topics, September 27th
Hello! I’m back in the host’s seat after a couple of weeks away. We’ve got an exciting show as always. At 8, I’ll speak with Wayne Smith from Fair Vote to talk about the provincial election. It’s new music Tuesday, so we’ll break out new songs from Dan Mangan and Elliott Brood.
We’ll also talk about […]
Wise Law Blog: Ontario Judge: Courts Stuck In Documentary ‘Dark Ages,’ No E-Filing In Sight
Via Canadian Lawyer’s Legal Feeds Blog, Ontario Superior Court Justice David Brown recently offered a stinging criticism of the inability of the Province’s courts to accommodate electronic document filings:
“It is now apparent that those who …
Continue readingNotes from the Cheney protest (with photos)
Spent a little over an hour at the protest. Here are some quick observations:Stunned at how few cops there were – maybe a dozen or so uniformed police standing in front of the door. Stunned because they did very little to protect the arriving guests, w…
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Canadian election: Who switched parties in the last week? And why?
The EKOS survey taken after the election throws some interesting light on the Changers. The G&M article is here, and the poll results are herehttp://www.ekospolitics.com/wp-content/uploads/41st_election.pdf.Scott’s Diatribes deals with another face…
Continue readingThe Wandering Joe: If a Tree falls on twitter, does it make a sound?
I wanted to wait on this particular post for a little while to let peoples’ emotions die down a bit, but I would like to write about the death of Jack Layton. I’m not going to write about the man himself mind you, but rather the remarkable response to his
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