20 Tips in 20 Days for first-year students: #2 – Choose a
club that matches your interests
Second in this
20-part video series is my friend Alex Dalton (fifth-year Honours international
relations) discussing the best way to choose the …
20 Tips in 20 Days for first-year students: #2 – Choose a
club that matches your interests
Second in this
20-part video series is my friend Alex Dalton (fifth-year Honours international
relations) discussing the best way to choose the …
A new poll shows that the Conservatives are at 36.2, The Liberals at 27.0% and the NDP at 26.8%. We are now just over a month past the last election the NDP and the Liberals are now in a tie. And the Conservatives are now at their minority levels. Not …
Continue readingHere are today’s leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter:Bribery Got Bin Laden – http://goo.gl/j7r49Wage gap growing between male, female lawyers – Canadian Lawyer Magazine – http://goo.gl/FyEGUUS Supreme Court Justice Breyer at Toronto ABA An…
Continue readingwhen we do not laugh and gyrate and forget…
we remember and rage and resist and their streets burn…
if what you’re reading here grips you, holds you, fascinates you, provokes you, emboldens you, pushes you, galvanizes you, discomfits you…
Continue readingYep, there’s nothing trickier to manipulate than a system based on fear and greed. You humans should consider changing your approach to markets. Back on my home planet, I changed our stock market system to take most of the greed out of it, and increased the amount of fear. How, you ask? Simple. On a […]
Continue readingThis is why the American Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) needs to be repealed. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services have denied immigration benefits to a bi-national married gay couple in San Francisco and have ordered the expulsion of the Australi…
Continue readingThe editorials about London and the ongoing riots reflect, as always, the writers' predisposition. The riots are a sign of moral decay, failed government cutbacks, racism, British national character, global warming (I really did see that on one blo…
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THE FUTURE IS TOTTENHAM?
As the USA rapidly continues its rapid descent today, we turn instead to England which went down a whiles back and is a hint of the future. What are called “riots” by some, “uprisings”…
Arnie Lemaire, of Imaginit Technologies, is still in trouble with Richard Warman:Latest – Warman v. Arnie Lemaire (aka Blazingcatfur and husband of Kathy Shaidle). In December of 2010, this libel action was moved into simplified proceeding…
Continue readingI’m on a bit of a holiday this week, at a rental cottage up in the Muskokas. It’s quiet, the air is clean and the loons are warbling as sun sets. Meanwhile the world seems to be going to hell in a hangbasket – what’s up with that?
Global stock markets…
Continue readingThere is an op-ed in the Globe today by Todd Hirsch, a Calgary-based senior economist at a financial firm out there: “Debt is the new carbon.” His premise is essentially as his title states, that climate change, despite a lack of action to date, will f…
Continue readingPolitics, Don Jamieson once said, is no place for fools. But you don’t have to be a fool to expect that people act with basic human decency. Definitely not acting with such decency are the number of people over the course of Monday who spent very l…
Continue readingDrought-Stricken Texas Town faces choice between conserving water or drinking own waste products, chooses to drink own waste products. The American spirit is strong in these ones. Not that I should really be making li…
Continue readingDes photos en noire et blanc, en 2011, c’est plutôt triste. Surtout sur un iPad!Ceci-dit, lorsqu’on lie quelques chose sur l’app Kobo en mode "nuit",et qu’il y a une photo en noir et blanc…En passant, vous pouvez maintenant télécharger gratuitement l’AcadieNouvelle du jour via le site de la bibliothèque (auparavant il y avaitun délais de trois jours). http://gnb.ca/0003
Continue readingThe Foreign Affairs committee met yesterday
afternoon to discuss the situation in Libya. The progress is largely halting,
with mere incremental progress, and small surprise, the NDP don’t want to
extend the military mission past Septe…
You may have noticed that London is burning. The flames of anger are spreading .The violence, which began in Tottenham, north London, on Saturday spread south and east to Brixton, Streatham, Walthamstow, Edmonton, Enfield, Oxford Circus and Isling…
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Joint letter questions why government is avoiding debate on ‘chilling’ legislation
August 9, 2011 – A group of academics and public interest organizations released a joint lett…
It was another hot and humid day in Hogtown. But that didn’t stop me from running down to the golden towers of Bay Street. I wanted to see if the brokers and other stock stuffers were jumping out of the windows after another bad day…
Continue readingSeparatist Conservative cabinet minister Denis Lebel being sworn in while Prime Minister Stephen Harper lovingly gazes on. That was then, from the prime minister’s web page. Is this now? Below: Mr. Lebel’s official mugshot.
This just in! Senior fe…
Continue readingSo the deed is done, the U.S. has now officially been rated AA+ for an entire trading day during which the S&P took the ratings axe to many U.S. institutions. Many people who have read this blog probably look at it with an overly negative outlook. Please now look back
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