Police Facial Recognition Skills Continue To Decline
Whether it is a food, air, or water-borne virus, or a strange and hitherto undocumented brain condition, there is no question that police facial recognition skills are declining, calling into…
July 2011
Former Tory fin min not giving up in fight against Muskrat
Former Conservative finance minister John Collins is fighting the Muskrat Falls project as fervently as ever. The 80-something has a new letter in the Telegram taking issue with recent comments…
Is Irony Dead, Or…..
....Did the Conradian pot really call the Rupertian kettle out for being blacker than he himself could ever possibly be?RUPERT Murdoch is probably the most successful media proprietor and operator…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Henry Farrell points out why supposedly progressive ideas which don't do anything to counter corporate power are doomed to failure:Neo-liberals tend to favor…
mississauga has arrived: sexy suburban buildings make real estate splash
These sexy buildings are right down the street from us. Allan and I both like them a lot, and have watched their progress in the Mississauga skyline with interest. Apparently…
New column day
Here, on how the TILMA's regressive trade rules are spreading across Canada in other forms. For further reading...- I've posted several times before about just some of the problems with…
Love trumps freedom
Logan is practically blind now from the diabetes or the insulin, I’m not sure which, so he moves very slowly. After returning from a walk one day last week, he…
The Refrain Is The Same
Jeffrey Simpson notes that income inequality in Canada is getting worse. According to a Conference Board of Canada report,The richest group of Canadians, those in the top fifth of income…
I guess the ‘almighty dollar’ spoke
Apparently, a majority government has changed the Conservative’s attitudes towards China: Canada’s relationship with China will be the “centrepiece” of its Asian diplomatic ties, said Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird…
Fraser Institute’s Ethically Challenged Drug Experts Release Another BS Report
The Fraser Institute has released a new report on healthcare, and as usual, it’s a whopper. They claim that we should get rid of price controls because our system provides…
toronto’s ford brothers: does a true word ever leave their mouths?
James posted this in comments yesterday, but it deserves its own thread: Top Five Ford Lies. If you haven't seen it yet, please go read.Of course, politicians with a privatization…
A Revolution In Our Midst
Sometimes real "change"- not the phony word of political convenience- occurs, of a variety that is hard to completely fathom whilst in the midst. Ontario is smack dab in the…
The True Story of Little Match Girls in Canada: Why Unions and Government Regulation Are Important
"The Little Match Girl" is one of those Hans Christian Andersen stories that wrench the heart: the poor little match seller outside a grand residence dies of cold after slowly…
Ghana minister orders arrest of all gays and lesbians in Western Region
Paul Evans Aidoo, Minister for the Western Region of Ghana, has reportedly tasked Ghana’s Bureau of National Investigations and security forces to immediately round up and arrest all gays and…
Toulouse Le Grandfig’s Summer Vacation: Voyage’s End
February 29, 1933, Capipi Bumonsis I sense the voyage is about to come to an end. The customs agents here are strange men. Their beards are not mellow, but wild…
Photo Challenge 23 – Fences
I suspect that the voting will be fairly tough for Kate’s FENCES theme, as all the pics look excellent to me. Very often by the time I post I already…
Meet the new Toronto
2011 Federal ElectionIt's a much more colourful place from previous elections. See the 2008 map, by contrast:2008 Federal ElectionThanks to Blunt Objects for posting links last night to the above…
Jason Kenney Blows Off Bishops
...says lawyer up if you don't like law. Also, the CPoC is still officially against section 13. Not that the government plans to act.
Ann Coulter is Not a "Free Speech Heroine". She’s an Idiot.
I must admit that I had never heard Ann Coulter speak, but have read many of the things she has written. Certainly no intellectual, but if I understand correctly, she…