Spirit Bear from British Columbia
This a wonderful article in National Geographic about the Spirit Bears of British Columbia. They are not polar bears. They are Black Bears with white fur. There are about 1000…
August 2011
140 Law – Legal Headlines for August 3, 2011
We hope you enjoy clicking through today's leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter:Egypt's Mubarak appears in courtroom on gurney -http://goo.gl/NS4HWAl Gore: 'Our system of government itself, is in…
Enlightenment Is Less Than 48 Hours Away!
As Imp notes, it will take the form of a T.O. bloggers get-together at 6:30 tomorrow night at a West End Pub with, I am informed, a humongous patio. There,…
Our Crubbling Infastructure!
Our Montreal mayor is right we need more money into Infrastructure I quite frankly am happy to see that the Montreal mayor has taken an unpopular stance on increasing fees…
Following up on Quebec’s infrastructure debacle…
… is this article in The Star on how these problems should serve as warning signs for the rest of the country. The city’s roadway problems are perhaps the most…
Suquamish Tribe in Washington legalizes marriage equality
The Suquamish Tribe in Washington State on Monday became the second in America to recognize marriage equality with a the passage of a new law that allows the tribal court…
Reminder: T.O. blogger event tomorrow night
A quick reminder here...tomorrow night - Thursday the 4th - is the casual, Toronto-based progressive bloggers get together, organized haphazardly by some of we blogging types. 6:30 p.m. at a…
So, My Little NDP Brothers: Official Opposition Is Harder Than You Thought! HUH? HUH?
Here's the official talking points from the NDP website. And they're not all wrong. Connections are rife between the Harper government and Quebec separatists, as they are between the Harper…
Why Is The NDP Buckling On The Bloc?
It's sad to listen to Nycole Turmel's mea culpa's in the news as she pleads over and over that she is now and has always been a federalist. Almost half…
PR Campaign Uses Gays To Clean Up Tar Sands Image
Well, here’s a very special way to have your struggle for equality used by large corporations! The Alberta tar sands, condemned internationally as one of the most harmful environmental projects…
Why drug store owners – and some politicians – will lose
Shills might like you to believe that their party is on the side of the angels by backing some drug store owners in the province, but all they are doing…
"Kenney amateurism"
So editorializes Embassy Magazine: Five down, 25 to go. But five what?The Conservative government, lead by Immigration Minister Jason Kenney, would have every Canadian believe that the 30 men whose…
An "interim" sovereigntist as well
Oh, NDP. It seems your interim leader, Nycole Turmel, held a Bloc Quebecois membership while she was also a member of the Federal NDP. And she’s a current member of…
DSM-5 Autism Spectrum Disorder: 3 Domains Become 2 and Exclude Intellectually Disabled
In the DSM-5 the new Autism Spectrum Disorder will, for the most part focus on those with Aspergers' and high functioing autism. The vast majority of those with Autistic Disorder…
Shooting themselves in the foot?
Steve is right that the Nycole Turmel story speaks to the emerging media narrative that the NDP are cynically trying to be popular in Quebec by pandering to separatists.By letting…
Market Craps on Debt Ceiling Deal
Funny that shortly after the U.S. Congress passed the largest – and arguably most catastrophically stupid – deficit reduction package in history, the market promptly reacted by taking a nosedive.…
Someone Should Do a Shakedown On That Poll
In a somehow unsurprising result, an online poll of the greatest Canadian political book in the last 25 years ended up giving Ezra Levant's "Shakedown" the top spot.Take a moment…
From Separatist to Socialist: Nycole Turmel & Quebec
Those who criticize Nycole Turmel for leaving the Bloc Quebecois for the NDP only publicize how well she represents a people who did the exact same thing.It was recently revealed…
If Stephen Duckett wasn’t fired, why was he paid out in full?
Well, it wasn’t like he didn’t offer to share! Maybe that’s why Stephen Duckett wasn’t fired for the Notorious Cookie Incident ™? Below: Dr. Duckett, AHS Chair Ken Hughes.How do…
Open Source Data Journalism – Happening now at Buzz Data
(there is a section on this topic focused on governments below) A hint of how social data could change journalism Anyone who’s heard me speak in the last 6 months…