How Ottawa will reveal shipbuilding winners
Credit where credit is due -- this is how government contracts should be awarded: http://bit.ly/oixiGc "The Harper government, meanwhile, won't learn the names of the winners until about 3:30 p.m.…
October 2011
Public transit blossoms in Calgary
When Calgary's GoPlan, the blueprint for the city's transportation development for the next 30 years, was created in the mid-1990s, it predicted that by 2024, 50 per cent of commuters…
Occupy Vancouver live photo blog Day 5
10:00 This will most likely be the last day for live blogging. Work beckons.Click on photos to embiggen. Scroll down for updates.12:00
Text, hyperlinks and defamation
A unanimous ruling from the Supreme Court of Canada will permit hyperlinks to defamatory material. Here’s the meat: Traditionally, the form the defendant’s act takes and the manner in which…
Arrest George Bush
On Thursday, George W. Bush and former U.S. president Bill Clinton (himself an accomplished war criminal) will be attending the Surrey Regional Economic Summit at the Sheraton Vancouver Guildford Hotel.…
Crookes Case…Gone Badly Wrong?
First thing, the entire decision is here. It isn't too long nor hard to follow.Second thing, its pretty clear that Crookes v. Newton deserved to fail.Third thing, this bit of…
Spouse a louse? There’s an app for that…
Whether it’s legal for this use, though, is another story: When Apple released its new iOS 5 operating system to go with its iPhone 4S, it touted a new app…
greetings from occupy toronto
I'm writing this from the IS encampment at Occupy Toronto, in St. James Park. It's chilly and wet out today, but people here are warm and energized. There are at…
What’s it like to be beaten in School
My condolences to Jamie Hubely and his family. It's time to take action to protect queer kids in our schools. Jamie Hubely's suicide certainly makes that clear. I am haunted…
Now, Peggy Wente, It’s Not Nice to Slam An Ideological Sister Like Kathy Shaidle
Vintage Peggy Wente. She does prove that she is, indeed, Chrissie Blatchford’s sob sister, along with Tash Kheiriddin. Peggy, of course, misses the point of the #occupy movement. What a…
Canadians have a jaundiced view of journalists
The Vancouver Sun thinks it may be because of the Murdoch phone hacking scandal in the UK. Mmmm, about that 90% of the media endorsed Stephen Harper’s Cons last federal…
Viva Las Vegas!
Well, another week, another silly Republican “debate” during which the would-be leaders of the free world squabbled like a fractious bunch of children scrapping over access to the school’s playground…
Supreme Court Of Canada Rules: ‘Hyperlinking doesn’t constitute defamation’
"The Supreme Court of Canada has erected a shield to protect those who post defamatory internet links to other sites.The Court was unanimous in ruling that anyone whose site supplies…
New seat distribution formula to look a lot like the old one.
I've taken a close look at the proposed numbers in Harper's new plan for seat redistribution.This is a difficult to understand issue, so I will begin by explaining the history…
Liberal Party Renewal Proposal I
Since in my last post I said I'd try to come up with some ideas for changes to the Liberal Party, let's get started (note that the "I" in the…
Mother Jones gives Ezra Levant a hot oil message
I don’t think Ezra will get it. With Mr. Levant any publicity, even when you’re being eviscerated, is what being a ‘gadfly‘ is all about. Cross posted at Let Freedom…
Link away as much as you want, sez SCC
The Supreme Court of Canada has handed the blog world a big victory. Writing for a unanimous Court in Crookes v. Newton, Justice Rosalie Abella wrote that merely providing a…
Delta Council Paves Way for Massive Housing Development on Farmland, Over Public Opposition
On the eve of municipal elections, Delta Council has unanimously voted to begin amending its Official Community Plan, paving the way for a highly controversial housing development by Century Group…
Another Lickspittle Cometh!
Review?WeDon'tNeedNoStinkin'ReviewVilleYesterday, we commented on the first BC Liberal Lickspittle to kinda/sorta speak out against his party's decade long assault on the poorest and the most vulnerable amongst us and asked,…
Former PM John Turner sez old generation must go
"We've got to get a revival, a renewal, of the whole political process," Turner told Postmedia News. "We need a whole new generation in there. We need a restoration of…