Peace, Dude (It Pays)
The Global Peace Index asks us to consider the economic value of peace. Hint: It's in the trillions.
June 2011
Boiling Blood of Photographers Everywhere
YouTube is never short of videos showing police and security guards pushing their weight around enforcing a ridiculous notion that the way to catch terrorists is to harass photographers in…
140 Law – Legal Headlines for June 07, 2011
Here are today's leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter:Why lawyers will love iOS 5 - http://goo.gl/s71RsSettlement Approved in Canadian Music Industry "Pending Lists" Lawsuit - http://goo.gl/sljlKOfficer jailed for…
Most Exciting Ridings in Canada
We've now had 4 elections under the current 308 riding electoral map, a period over which the Canadian political landscape has completely transformed itself.2004:2011:Still, that doesn't mean every local election…
Regrets – its never too late to fix it!
How many of us live with regrets? I expect most of us do. Bronnie Ware was a palliative care nurse for many years who has compiled a list of the…
Rich Albertans jump emergency care queue lines thanks to Cons
Is anybody really surprised? Rich, white Canadians voted for the Conservatives. There's a reason. Look at Alberta, the model the Cons have used for the rest of Canada, whether we…
No Comment: Campaign Life Coalition
“Then we have the enormous demographic cost of the 3.2 million Canadians killed by abortion since 1969. By now, these individuals would be in the workforce, paying taxes and generating…
Syrian lesbian blogger abducted in Damascus (update)
Fellow blogger, Amina Araf, who writes the popular A Gay Girl in Damascus under the pseudonym, Amina Abdallah, was reportedly kidnapped by armed men on Monday night. Holding dual American…
Should We Keep The Royals?
The Royals are coming to Canada this summer. With the comments from people like Amir Khadir saying that the Royals are Parasite's. It may bring to Question on the Issue…
Rae 1, Layton 0
Let's have some post-budget fun in bleak majority land! Let's compare the Rae and Layton reactions to the budget: "Opposition slams Tories’ ‘groundhog budget’." (Well, some of us look at…
Rehash budget
The second time is hardly twice as nice as we found with a barely warmed-over rehash of the previous budget, which was released some 76 days ago. There were only…
Get the book: Climate Change Denial
Cross-posted from Irregular Climate John Cook, a regular contributor to the podcast and the mastermind behind SkepticalScience.com, along with Haydn Washington an environmental scientific have written the must read book:…
The federal budget: whose fantasyland?
So apparently every year for the next three years the federal government is going to find $4 billion in operating expenses that it just doesn't need to spend to eliminate…
queue jumping for political insiders could unleash the wrath and fury of albertans.
The beginning of a slow news week, the rantings of an angry fall-guy, or the first tremor of an earthquake that could shake the foundation of a 40-year political dynasty?…
“Shame on you!”
Hotel maids in New York turned out en masse to protest Dominique Strauss-Kahn at a legal hearing. I wonder if the French press considers things like this to be “barbaric”…
Expanding our Horizons
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Short ‘n’ Stubby: Ms. Manx loves Brigette!
Hark! What’s that I hear? A stump-tailed kitty meowing? That can only mean one thing: Ms. Manx has been prowling the Internets again. Whatcha got for us, kitty? Ooooo…good stuff:…
Zwozdesky parries Duckett: Does anyone seriously believe this is ‘just another’ allegation?
Alberta Health Minister Gene Zwozdesky parries a thrust by former Alberta Health Services CEO Stephen Duckett. Alberta politicians and other public figures may not appear exactly as illustrated. Below: Mr.…
On flattering comparisons
Yes, it'll take time to break the habits that have formed over the past few years - and it may well be that the Harper Cons will continue to stonewall…
how men and women make decisions under stress
Stress causes men and women to respond differently to risky decision making, with men charging ahead for small rewards and women taking their time, according to a new study in…