How Rob Ford could improve T.O. | Toronto & GTA | News | Toronto SunThe Toronto Sun suggests outlawing panhandling, scrapping the bag fee and licensing bicycles are ways to improve Toronto. Let’s look at these:Outlawing PanhandlingThere is already …
Continue readingDeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science: The Attacks on Climate Science Education Are Picking Up Steam
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A few months back, those who care about accurate climate science and energy education in high school classes registered a minor victory. Under fire from outlets …
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian home page: The BC Liberals and the "Family" Issue
What do families have to do with the
environment?
Quite a bit, actually.
The Campbell/Clark government is
looking for an issue to run on and the Family is the answer the backroom boys
and girls have decided is the best one.
This decis…
Continue readingGeoff at Mount Allison: 600+ Views on Tips for Mount Allison University Students
Hi everybody,
I just wanted to make a quick comment on the “20 Tips in 20 Days for first-year students” video project I’ve been working on. In less than 50 hours there have been over 600 views of the three video tips posted so far and an incred…
Continue readingBlast Furnace Canada Blog: Latest Fed decision, and de Tocqueville on bombastic simpletons
The US Fed dropped its usual pretentiousness and the technocratic language often used in its statements on interest rate decisions and was remarkably clear in yesterday’s decision, in which it pledged (by a vote of 7 to 3 with two abstentions) to…
Continue readingWhy is the BC government hamstringing the Pickton Inquiry?
Was Robert Pickton merely a lone, crazed killer who capitalized on regrettable police errors, or are there wider issues that the Pickton Inquiry should properly explore—the flaccid police response, not only with respect to Pickton’s many victims, but to missing…
Continue readingThey’ve been through quite a bit of organizational shite…
…some of it I witnessed pretty up close or heard about from people who were better situated to observe goings on behind closed doors. still…this is pretty fucking horrible. and they have been an institution in the city and a voice for many grassr…
Continue readingRecreating Eden: Putting out the Fires in Britain–and Elsewhere–Is Not Going to End Trouble: What Happens When the Social Contract Fails
The pictures of burning buildings in Britain are extremely disturbing, not least because we know first hand how much damage a fire can do. But the question arises: why? It seems too simple to blame it all on hooligans, because even hooligans have a r…
Continue readingMorton's Musings: Changing the Common Law
Smith v. Smith, 2011 NBCA 66, a New Brunswick family law case dealing mainly with spousal support, has a useful discussion of changing the Common Law. The Court holds: [31] In the case before us, we need not…
Continue readingNah, not prepared to come in from the cold…
i may not be prepared to resurrect but i do reincarnate on a fairly regular basis.
“flee from the city. it’s getting shitty.”
if what you’re reading here grips you, holds you, fascinates you, provokes you, emboldens you, pushes you, galvanizes y…
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Spawn of Guantanamo Bay – SuperMax Prison Hell
Prison is not supposed to be a walk in the beach. I understand that. People that commit offences need to be consequenced for their transgressions against what society deems to be the proper set of standards. Consequences should not include psychological torture, self-mutilation and degradation. “Supermax prisoners’ daily lives are chock full of alienating and […]
Accidental Deliberations: On broken systems
Let’s add one more to the list of theories as to how the other parties’ pearl-clutching over interim NDP leader Nycole Turmel may actually play to the NDP’s advantage – and this time with a far more immediate effect.
Keep in mind that the last nationa…
Continue readingHarper’s Greek tantrum
(Ottawa, August 10) DawgNews has learned that Stephen Harper, on his state visit to Greece earlier this year, threatened to “hold my breath until I turn blue” unless his host, Greek PM George Papandreou, allowed him to have a second…
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: Tea Party North
Last week, Travis noted Terry Corcoran’s strained argument that over-regulation of banks is what ails the global economy. Terry’s next column went even further off the deep end, endorsing the hard-money libertarianism of gold bugs like Eric Sprott. Today’s column is a full-blown defence of the US Tea Party. I have the following response to […]
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Hamilton’s Vindication?
While long regarded as something of a provincial backwater vis-a-vis its ‘world-class’ cousin 70 kilometres down the highway, the City of Hamilton is surely feeling a measure of cultural vindication now that the barbarians have breached the gates of To…
Continue readingBlunt Objects: Angus Reid Poll is Good News for NDP…. Or Is It?
Regular readers here know of my criticisms of Angus Reid which, from time to time, are proven exceptionally right. Their most recent poll, however, is kind of a mixed bag – especially for the New Democrats.But first, the topline numbers:CON: 39%NDP: 31…
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: Has the Ottawa Press Gallery Joined Big Bird’s Red Army?
The late Dalton Camp, former president of the now defunct federal Progressive Conservative Party, tells a story in his book: Whose Country is This Anyway, of a group of young conservatives who had disrupted a speech by Jean Charest.Charest at the time,…
Continue readingLeDaro: Stephen Harper: Report of Potty Tantrum
Stephen Harper had a Potty Tantrum in Brazil.
“The Brazilian newspaper Folha reported Tuesday that Harper angered the country’s president and her aides Monday by locking himself in a bathroom until Brazilian officials agreed to hold staged toasts…
Continue reading350 or bust: The Theft Of Our Children’s Future Is A Crime
This week, the world lost a leader in sustainable business practise. Ray Anderson, founder and Chairman of Interface Carpets, passed away on August 8th. After reading Paul Hawkens’ The Ecology of Commerce in the mid 1990s, Mr. Anderson felt con…
Continue readingScott's DiaTribes: Political tidbits
This is stupid. If you don’t like the Mayor of Toronto, you vote against him next municipal election (or his councillors that support him). You don’t utter death threats, or God forbid, act on it.
This is tragic. This is done by people (lower class and mostly youth) who have nothing to lose and nothing to hope for, and worse, don’t particularly fear the consequences. By all means, bring the rioters to justice, but the underlying social issues are going to need to be addressed at some point.
Could it happen here? Probably not, but I bet there are more people feeling bereft of hope over their […]
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