Bob Rae on the Economy
Good speech from last week by Bob Rae on the Canadian economy in the global context. It’s short on details, but well aimed in its critique of “ideological islands of…
November 2011
With Keystone shelved, Northern Gateway must not go ahead
Monday, November 14, 2011 Throughout the debate about whether the Keystone XL Pipeline should be b...
Rafe on Supporting the Common Sense Canadian – Plus Our New Op-ed Blog
The Common Sense Canadian has been going well over the past year-plus and this seems to be a good moment to reflect on what we’ve done, not done, and will…
Globe & Mail Confuses Medicine with Shamanism
Recently the British Columbia government ordered a B.C. physician named Gabor Maté to stop treating addicts with ayahuasca, an illegal psychotropic drug which Maté claims cures addictions. Maté had a…
Quote: Beyond Marriage Equality
The recent efforts to promote lesbian and gay marriage also promote a norm that threatens to render illegitimate and abject those sexual arrangements that do not comply with the marriage…
Announcement
This was never part of the plan.When I started blogging – exactly 5 years ago, as oftomorrow – the idea was to help my fellow citizens understand what was going…
A litigant should not be deprived of counsel of its choice without good cause
Kaiser (Re), 2011 ONCA 713, released today, has a good summary statement of the general rule a litigant should not be deprived of counsel of its choice without good cause:…
changes…
changes…, originally uploaded by vdaaccord06. First draft, page 12. This is what it’s like to begin: with hope and trepidation. Filed under: Miscellany
Missing Stephen
This was a headline in the Huffpost. As usual Stephen Harper missed one of the photo-op at APEC. He would pay billions of taxpayers’ money (G-8 and G-20 in Canada)…
The Shakey Effect.
LotuslandianCivicElectionCountdownFiveDaysToGoVilleJust to be absolutely clear here....I will vote for any candidate of any party running for any office who promises to make PavCo stop forcing the son of Betty Fox…
Paradis, the digital economy, and Tuesday’s UBB decision
Industry Minister Christian Paradis has announced an investment initiative to further the adoption and use of digital technologies by small and medium-sized businesses. $80 million will go to su...
Book Groups This Week: The Way to Paradise by Mario Vargas Llosa
I'm expecting fascinating discussions this weeks as two of the book groups I lead will be talking about Mario Vargas Llosa's historical novel about Paul Gauguin and his grand mother,…
Dammit Janet nails Conservatives
Your MASSIVE Con Jobs - senators Doug Finley and Irving Gerstein, past party director Michael Donison, and past CFO Susan Kehoe - charged with criminal offenses were ^NOT "cleared of…
Crisis in the encampments
Millions of Americans are as mad as hell, and they’re not going to take it anymore! In the largest action of defiance since the 2008 economic collapse, an estimated 650,000…
Unbelievable
Another I Know You Are But What Am I moment from our Harper Conservatives -- Tories accuse opposition of hindering agenda: Mr. Van Loan notes that at the same time…
The Tory Centipede
The allusion will be familiar to cinephiles: the rest of you will have to look it up. I thought I’d track a sample Conservative talking-point through the shared digestive system…
If you can’t track the guns, you can’t track the criminals
The Brady Law in the States, which is supposed to ensure felons don't have access to guns (they are supposed to be flagged by a background check), has proven to…
Nowak: The ruling on Internet metering in Canada
By Peter Nowak The CRTC is set to announce the results of its usage-based internet billing proceeding Tuesday afternoon. Far from being one of the regulator’s many dull procedural announcement...
Quebec adds 300 MW of wind #nlpoli
Enbridge will invest $330 million for a 50% stake in a 300 megawatt wind farm 400 kilometres northeast of Quebec City. The Lac Alfred project will consist of 150 2MW…