4075…Amber Miller: Mother Of The Year
Picked this up from the L. A. Times. Amber Miller, 39 weeks pregnant, ran/walked the Chicago Marathon, grabbed a bite to eat and then had a 7 pound, 13 ounce…
October 2011
4074…More Unemployment Woes For Ontario
The NBA, a league which includes the Toronto Raptors, has cancelled the first two weeks of its season.Looks like the whole shebang could be cancelled.The players can afford to take…
4073…Windsor Ontario Be Partying
The Lions are 5 and 0 for the first time since Louis St. Laurent was the Prime Minister.The Tagers are in the American League Championship.The Windsor Lancers, although they lost…
Your Daily Nazi: A Regular Plethora Of Nazis
When discussing hate speech legislation, Section 13, and so on and so forth, its important to get a handle on the kind of people these tools are typically used against.…
Review of a custody decision
N.E.R. v. J.D.M., 2011 NBCA 57 deals with the standard of reviewing a custody decision: ...
Heroes for Today: Alan Grayson
Don’t you love how, in just a minute and a half, he shuts up a whole table full of rightards with nothing but the facts? (And yeah, how about that…
Boaters need to be schooled on the rules of the water
What is it about a Personal Water Craft that give its rider an enhanced sense of entitlement? We constantly deal with it at the canoe club; idiots who scream up…
Cherry in more hot water
To follow up on my last post about "Grapes":The three NHL players that Don Cherry criticized last Thursday night -- that three retired NHL players, namely Stu Grimsom, Chris Nilan…
The Republican Debates Now Turning Into the Reform-Alliance Debates
Watching the Republican presidential hopefuls duke it out to determine who is the most absurd, I'm reminded of how far this party has fallen since the days of Eisenhower. I…
Belated September Traffic #nlpoli
In the rush of the uber-exciting election, your humble e-scribbler forgot to post the September stat porn list. Consider this your bit of exciting information during an otherwise dull voting…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- No, it's no huge surprise that the Cons are planning to launch systematic attacks against labour as the next step after making it…
140Law – Legal Headlines for October 11, 2011
We hope all of our reader's had a lovely weekend! Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter: B.C.'s missing women inquiry set to begin - http://goo.gl/YCmYP…
On mutual interests
As a general rule it's fairly safe to say Gerry Nicholls' advice to left-wing parties is based on something other than a desire to see them succeed - and his…
Chris Hedges: At This Moment In History, Either You Are A Rebel Or A Slave
Chris Hedges, Pulitzer Prize-winning war correspondent and author, had this to say about the “Occupy Wall Street” movement last week: “The only word that these corporations know is ‘more’…There is…
occupy wall street: the most important thing in the world right now
In case you missed any of these, here's some great stuff on the Occupy Wall Street movement.Naomi Klein: Occupy Wall Street: The Most Important Thing in the World Now: If…
Policy By Other Means
Lawrence Martin's review of Murray Brewster's book, The Savage War, illustrates yet again Von Clausewitz's observation that war is "policy by other means." Canada got into Afghanistan because the Martin…
Civil Disobedience: The Courage of Tim DeChrisotpher
I had not heard of Tim DeChristopher, a brave young man who, in the dying days of the Bush administration in 2008, attended an oil and gas auction in Utah…
Australian equality movement gains steam with support from Christian rugby star David Pocock
Support for marriage equality in Australia continues to gain momentum since the lower house of the state of Tasmania became the first in the country to formally support same-sex marriage…
Cuts with consequences
The Harper government's cuts to Environment Canada and their tinkering with our ozone monitoring systems deserve lots of ongoing attention. Note this from Climate Progress Saturday, the giant ozone hole…
What’s Wrong With Canadian Politics?
A couple good reads this morning, digesting low voter turnout, the general malaise that is objectively putting our "democracy at risk". I'd like to point to another story that came…