Coleman, Palmer on Hydro: Ignoring the $50 Billion Elephant in Room
This will be harsh, I warn you. In preparation I urge you to read Dr. Marvin Shaffer’s (SFU) article in the Vancouver Sun last Monday. My position today is that…
June 2011
Hansen, Palmer on Hydro: Ignoring the $50 Billion Elephant in the Room
This will be harsh, I warn you. In preparation I urge you to read Dr. Marvin Shaffer’s (SFU) article in the Vancouver Sun last Monday. My position today is that…
Conservative Economics
What would you do if you had a shaky economy with not great employment numbers and you want to balance the books? Well if you are the Harper government, you…
Sex trade on trial: Court considers prostitutes’ right to work safely
It is always dangerous to judge a judge's mind from a judge's questions but ... if Justice David Doherty is inclined to uphold the decision below the Crown is in…
Goguen Art Gallery at Corner of Centre and McGrigor, Oshawa
Second Empire Cottage, 1905
I´m out of country!
But I´ll keep up on the news, and post when I feel the issues are most dire. Like how about those Conservatives making a good decision for once? Certainly news…
First It Was the US, Then Iceland, Ireland and Greece. Is China Next?
America's prophet of fiscal doom, Nouriel Roubini, is warning that China now faces a "meaningful probability" of a hard economic landing. Roubini came to prominence by warning of the US…
Another police beatdown, this time on a busker in Vancouver
During the celebrations after Friday's Canucks victory, among the joy and peaceful gathering, a phalanx of cops beat down a licensed busker. Apparently, he was 'disturbing the peace'. In a…
Poem of the week: The Rolling English Road by GK Chesterton | Books | guardian.co.uk
The Rolling English Road Before the Roman came to Rye or out to Severn strode, The rolling English drunkard made the rolling English road. A reeling road, a rolling road,…
Conservatives plan sustained attack on media
With Conservatives lording over the great majority of our national media, it's laughable that the party is about to wage another war - this one on the media. But who…
Roubini Reads Redbedhead For Economic Advice
What do you think: is Dr. Doom, the soothsaying economist, famous for predicting the banking sector meltdown back in 2006 - two years before it happened - taking a peek…
In Which I Swear, Repeatedly, or, TorontoEmerg Gets Bullied
I write this blog for a number of reasons: my own amusement, to educate, to share various random thoughts, to tell stories, to stimulate discussion on topics important to nursing,…
Rush Limbaugh Seizes–and Freezes?–on "ClimateGate"
Rush_Limbaugh.jpg For some time, it has been clear that “ClimateGate” has a dramatic meaning for the political right in the U.S. Somehow, “ClimateGate” gave those conserva...
They’re Bandits. They’re Supposed to Make Out Like Bandits.
The Pentagon and the Iraqi government are giving up trying to locate $6.6 billion in greenbacks that went missing in the chaos after the American conquest of Iraq. Their conclusion…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Rhys Kesselman rightly points out how the populist message that propelled the Cons to power has given way to elitist policy-making:Once the federal budget…
Do you find it surprising?
I find it surprising not at all that even though many people who support politically right-of-centre parties (such as our current government, senate, and supreme court) often say things like:…
TEXT: Alfred Apps On A Charter Of Economic, Social & Cultural Rights
There were two major policy intiatives advanced by Liberal Party President Alfred Apps in his speech before The Empire Club of Canada last week. One was on electoral reform for…
Eating Local Is Delicious With Rhubarb Kuchen
Here in northern Ontario where I live, rhubarb is the first harvest from the garden that we look forward to. In anticipation of a meal of homemade pasta and grilled…
Hack Pundit Of The Week: Bronwyn Eyre
I often wonder if newspapers aren't better off publishing high school essays instead of paying columnists. The writing might suffer but the research would be much better.Case in point: Bronwyn…
Montreal Guerrilla Gardening: "Tour de Guerrilla" Silent Film
OuVert is an open urban sustainability lab that I'm helping to start here in Montreal. Below is an occasionally Chaplin-esque video of our first event - a seedbomb workshop and…