asbestos-bangladesh.jpg Last week, the Canadian government successfully and unilaterally stonewalled efforts to list chrysotile asbestos as a hazardous chemical at a United Nations conference in ...
Whenever I hear a Fox News (or one of its northern version) defender rail on about how the network is 'fair and balanced' and in no way related to the…
Finally, I post my thoughts about the NDP filibuster of Stevie Spiteful’s draconian Back to work legislation of locked out Canada Post workers and the press coverage it has received,…
In posting about the DND's "First Look" at where Canada is headed, Mike DeSouza focuses on a seemingly throwaway sentence mentioning the Green Party. But the more striking part of…
For me, "vision" is perhaps the emptiest and most ill-used word in politics. It's easy for someone to wake up in the middle of the night and say he or…
It is amazing the lengths that politicians will go to in order to give a rather mundane message a twist, a hook, a pull, some pizzazz, or often, a point.…
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Andrew Jackson points out and sums up a Statistics Canada study showing how much possible revenue is lost to the underground economy:Statscan have…
In response to the outrage expressed by the handful of Ontario Liberals still hanging on to that sinking ship over the American photo gaffe by the NDP, I redirect you…
I wonder how many women are feeling like I do, especially older women. I look around and see that men are running the world, and no matter how screwed up…
all-alone-conference-funny.jpg Wake up and smell the fossil fuel funding. That's right, it's that time of year again: the Heartland Institute is hosting its Sixth (annual?*) International Confere...
Eventually the only source of humour that will be socially and politically correct will be bodily functions, spoonerisms and puns, and the sort of humour where people inadvertently slip on…
R. v. Cloutier, 2011 ONCA 484 is a sad case of sexual abuse of children by a priest. The case deals mainly with appearance of fairness at trial but concludes with a useful…
Last week a global oil emergency was declared and the response rolled out, but almost nobody noticed. The International Energy Agency (IEA) started tapping into member state’s emergency oil reserves,…
MSNBC proved that it is still amateur hour when it comes to cable news. The network is suspension city. In he past, it has suspended both Joe Scarborough (also involved…
In Nikolai Gogol's novel Dead Souls, his protagonist Chichikov seeks to purchase serfs who have died but are still registered against their owners as taxable assets. By relieving the owners…
This is a problem I am sure almost anyone who works with data runs into form time to time. It is also something we need to teach our students. Which…
Hope you all get a chance to kick back and enjoy the first nice long weekend of the summer! Happy Canada Day canuks!
You think that the Republicans would be serious about reducing he deficit that they should look at ways to reduce the deficit without hurting the economy too bad. John Boehner…
In the course of Western civilization we have a rich history of blundering into emergencies unprepared, a history that teaches us the consequences of neglect are often horrendous. In most…
Or so I’m forced to conclude from this press release, in which new foreign affairs minister John Baird appears to express surprise and dismay at the “appointment” of North Korea…
