The end of news as we know it
The following article was first published May 24, 2010. Since then, Sean Holman suspended the Public Eye website, Postmedia has focused on serving business not public interests, the destruction of…
November 2011
Oil Industry Co-Opts Occupy Movement to Sell the Keystone XL Pipeline
99percent.jpg The AFL-CIO's America's Building Trades Unions and Oil and Natural Gas Industry Labor-Management Committee are attempting to co-opt the Occupy movement with a new initiative...
Promoting “Conservative Values”
Judge William Adams, caught on tape in 2004 after his daughter secretly filmed him repeatedly beating her on the backside with a belt, apparently for illegally downloading music and games…
Types of Statutory Procedural Remedies in Corporate Law
Jeffery v. London Life Insurance Company, 2011 ONCA 683 was released late today. The decision is lengthy and deals with specific issues in insurance law. In so doing, however, the Court makes useful…
Police investigate smear campaign against Rob Ford
Sources on Toronto Police Services Board confirmed today that an investigation has been initiated into "libel, slander, and ad hominem attacks" on Toronto co-mayor Rob Ford. Police discovered an intentional…
Stupid Sex(less) Tricks: No cuddling, please, we’re British
Okay. Leaving out the obvious gender stereotyping that the media are crammed full of (guys don’t like to cuddle? Not in MY experience), it’s shit like this, Britain… A staggering…
Refuting the theology of Debbie and Micheal Pearl, No Greater Joy Ministries
In light of the post below on the viral video of Texas Judge Michael Adams beating his 16 year old daughter, I’m grateful to The Wartburg Watch for bringing this…
Cancelling the Greek Referendum and Angela Merkel’s Steely Focus
Two final thoughts today on the Greek crisis: 1) Under immense political pressure from within his own party, the opposition, and the EU - i.e., Germany - Papandreou was forced…
QRApplets
*QRapplets*I don't know why I didn't think of this sooner. Though to be honest, I don't know whether they will work - but I see no reason why they shouldn't.…
Fracking Linked To Earthquakes In The U.S.
Earthquake.jpg On the heels of yesterday’s report detailing Cuadrilla Resource’s admission that their fracking practices were responsible for small earthquakes in the U.K., new report...
Nail injured in clash with hammer
As a journalist I understand the need to use value neutral terminology in describing events much of the time, but sometimes my colleagues and I go a bit overboard. I…
Budget time!
Well, city budget time is upon us again. Is it just me or does the process seem a little hasty this year? Draft documents were released last week, on October…
More from the “Had To Happen” files
No societal phenomenon worth its salt escapes the rapier wit and jabbing mockery of Parker and Stone! Fast and furious on the moneygrubbing heels of this little explosion of Occupy…
4139…Detroiters Turn On Canadians
Murder City madness in Dee Troyit.NESN reports that "Lions fans are outraged over the halftime performance scheduled for their Thanksgiving day game against the Green Bay Packers...the action will come…
Quebec City Moves to Evict its Occupiers
It looks as if the first Canadian occupiers to be evicted are going to be the occupiers of Quebec City.Occupy protesters in Quebec City are facing imminent eviction after the…
A nice bit of anti-bankster agitprop | #OWS
moveyourmoney2.pdf Download this file Not sure at this point whether Papandreou's Eurozone referendum is a go or not, but I'll settle for this in the meantime. Well, look ... no…
4138…No PDA Allowed In Iran
Check this out from Len Berman:Wow, they take things seriously in Iran. Two soccer players were suspended for their "immoral" behavior following a goal. The players reportedly had their pay…
4137…Happy National Sandwich Day
They have a day for everything, eh?In honour I had a wish sandwich for lunch.A wish sandwich, of course, is a sandwich that you wish you had an ingredient to…
The Seinfeldian candidate
It's becoming harder to consider NDP leadership candidate Nathan Cullen as a serious contender. Cullen's failure to take a stand on the Tory bill to repeal the long gun registry…