What’s On Randy Hillier’s Mind?
A rocky economy? Declining manufacturing numbers? Wind farms, even? No! For anyone interested, Mr. Schmidt has ended his hunger strike.
November 2011
140 Law: Legal Headlines for November 21, 2011
Happy Monday to you all! Rachel is on vacation this week, so I’m filling in to bring you our regularly scheduled update of today’s leading legal headlines from Wise Law…
Occupy: Canadian media turns its back on the homeless, the marginalized, the disenfranchised
While many of us progressives like to think that the Occupy movement has awakened Canadians to the 99%, the reality is different. Editorial boards across Canada have seen to the…
Burnaby Overwhelmingly Rejects Anti-Gay Municipal Party
Parent’s Voice, the municipal political party whose sole purpose revolved around revoking the Burnaby District School Board’s anti-homophobia and anti-bullying policy, has been soundly defeated. Parent’s Voice was a staunch…
Inadvertent fiscal black humour
There’s something truly frightening listening to politicians and former politicians discussing the provincial government’s supposed plans to apply a surplus in the current fiscal year to the provincial debt. They…
Fox News Viewers are the Most Misinformed: A Seventh Study Arrives to Prove It (and to Vindicate Jon Stewart!)
cavuto-20070117-global-2.jpg Two of my most popular posts here at DeSmogBlog were a pair of items documenting 1) just how many surveys have found Fox News viewers to be more misinformed…
Omnibus crime bill reminders
Here’s a long and thoughtful piece that reminds us that according to the new omnibus crime bill, teenagers passing a joint around at a party makes them a trafficker and…
Former Minister Jim Prentice Forgets to Mention Conflict of Interest in Opinion Piece?
One of the long-running themes of this blog are the unstated corporate conflicts of interest which the major newspapers cheerfully allow to proliferate on their editorial pages. Monday’s strange promotional…
Welcome to the new Mind of Dan
After a heroic effort, the Mind of Dan has been rebuilt… well almost rebuilt. There are still a few kinks to work out, but they will be ironed out in…
Voters trounce P3 proposal
One interesting result from Saturday’s municipal elections was Abbotsford voters’ indisputable rejection of water supply privatization. New mayor Bruce Banman, an opponent of water delivery through a proposed P3, believes…
Polling Company Trying to Discredit Liberal MP Has Conservative Ties
As you may have heard by now, a polling company has been phoning around Montreal, claiming that Liberal MP Irwin Cotler is about to resign and asking who they plan…
A Perspective on the Heritage Front and Grant Bristow From Someone Who Was There
First, while we are not a commercial website, we would like to promote a novel written by Elisa Hategan. Her novel, Race Traitor can be found at amazon.ca and the…
The Power And All The Glory Of The Kids At UC Davis
NonViolence ReallyMattersVille When I saw the footage of the campus police macing the faces of non-violent kids sitting in a row on the Quad at UC Davis the other day…
Never mind non-disclosure claims or Bill 24: Albertans still deserve an independent judge-run health inquiry
Zipp it! You have a non-disclosure agreement. Below: Premier Alison Redford; Dr. John Cowell of the Alberta Health Quality Council. Albertans who want to see a judicial inquiry into allegations…
Dismantling Isn’t Giving Up!
I continue to be skeptical that the Occupy Canada protests really are relating to any of the middle class, regardless of how many facts there are on the ground. I…
The science behind a climate headline
The scope of the science that goes behind a single headline is greater than almost anyone realizes. Related Posts (auto generated and almost random): Sea will rise ‘to levels of…
I Can See Lieutenant Pike Doing That
Indeed I think that’s exactly how Georges Seurat would’ve visualized ol’ Lieutenant Pike. As Jymn said, he is definitely UC Davis’ answer to Toronto’s Officer Bubbles. Other fun images of…
That was then and this is now
I was thinking this morning about what Canada was like on November 20, 2005.Paul Martin was Prime Minister. He had negotiated a national day-care program and the Kelowna Accord. With…