Give the new Democrats’ Dale Kirby full marks for nailing natural resources minister Shawn Skinner hard over the blatant abuse of taxpayers inherent in having two partisans step down from…
The truth of finding new renewable energy sources and building the societies and economies of the future around harvesting and processing them cannot be denied. In other words, we evolve…
A whole new approach to peace keeping. http://ow.ly/6yCwI Filed under: Miscellany
pem(posted May 20, 2012)/em /p pOne of Friday’s big news items was that a quot;rogue traderquot; at UBS lost the Swiss bank $2 billion.#160; He was apparently led to jail…
William Wilberforce (1759-1833) was a British politician, best known for his work to abolish the slave trade. He helped to pass legislation that imposed fines of £100 on shipowners, for…
The Sovereign General Insurance Company v. Walker, 2011 ONCA 597 deals, in obiter, with relief from forfeiture under the Insurance Act:III. Did the motion judge err in granting relief from forfeiture? &#...
New Democrats who are still considering their options include Paul Dewar, Peter Julian, Nathan Cullen, Libby Davies and Robert Chisholm.http://m.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-notebook/mulcair-does-the-ndp-leadership-math-but-numbers-dont-add...
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Canadian journalist Mike DeSousa, who first wrote three years ago about the anti-science group with the Orwellian name “Friends of Science”, who funded a PR blitz meant to cast doubt…
With polls showing neither the Liberal nor the Conservative parties being able to secure a firm majority in the coming election, we might be poised for a historic breakthrough in…
September 2nd: Thomas Mulcair says he won't run for the leadership of the NDP unless the party agrees to hold its convention in late winter or early spring, because he…
More results here. I count myself among the 46 per cent. Not that my opinion, or the opinion of a plurality of Canadians, matters much.Oh, and this, in itself, is…
According to this Léger Marketing poll, well, yeah - they are.The results without Francoise Legault's Mystery Party as an option has the PLQ leading the Parti Québécois, 31% to 26%,…
Introduction Two incumbent presidents are running for re-election in 2012, Hugo Chavez in Venezuela and Barack Obama in the United States. What makes these two electoral contests significant is that…
Strikes are now considered illegitimate and will be crushed by our government. The real quote is just as ominous: "Any work stoppage would negatively impact Canada's economy and threaten our…
I’ve always been an Apple loyalist. Anything that had that simple, sexy, half eaten apple on it, I was buying. iPods, Macs, iPhones, iPads, you name it. But recently, I’ve…
If you want to try to lose an unpopular announcement, you make it at the end of the week. That's what the Quebec government did last Friday when $800 million…
I’m only 8 questions into the CBC Ontario Vote Compass and have already tried answering several questions as Neutral because the premise seems so ridiculous. I didn’t continue answering the…
N_daily_extent_hires.png Last week, the National Snow and Ice Data Center came out with the estimate that we did not quite set a record for the minimum extent of Arctic sea…
So you wracked up a million bucks worth of jet taxi fares. Fine, maybe it was just a mistake, an error of judgment. Forget about reimbursement. Military types aren't paid…
