December 2011
Blue Skies Again
Sunshine! Thank God I did not awake to the pitter patter of rain. I am probably the only person in Toronto who was glad glad glad when yesterday’s rain turned…
Spam-A-Lot Revisited….Why Won’t The proMedia Follow The Money?
AllTheNewsThatDoesn’tQuiteFit MissingLinkVille Look. I like Doug Ward’s stuff in the VSun. A lot. He’s a hard-nosed guy who clearly digs and then often writes hard-boiled stories that are anything but…
Unnecessary complexity of the jury charge can constitute a stand alone basis for the reversal of the verdicts?
R. v. Rowe, 2011 ONCA 753 is an interesting case dealing with the proper treatment of an unsavory witness who is both inculpatory and exculpatory. The case also considers, without finally deciding, if an…
A great clip from ‘Designing Women’ on World AIDS Day…
This scene and this episode of ‘Designing Women’ meant so much to me when it first aired in the late 1980s. I was a closeted teenager living in homophobic and…
Nathan Cullen, the republican NDP candidate? #ndpldr
Nathan Cullen seems to be finding his niche as the controversy candidate in the federal NDP leadership race. His first idea to hold joint nomination meetings quickly moved him to…
Rob Ford’s Budget Con Job – "a giant scam being perpetrated on the citizens of Toronto."
The Grid TO | Budget 2012: Rob Ford’s sleight of hand If Rob Ford hadn’t cut or cancelled all those taxes, we’d have enough to cover the entire budget hole…
Who’s Profiting from Those Day Care Centres–Families or Entrepreneurs
Jeanne and her parents are looking for good child care these days. She’s 15 months old, and until now they’ve been able to work their schedules so that one of…
Gingrich & Romney: The Tale of the Intensity Chart
A very interesting chart by Gallup measures the intensity of support of Republicans of their candidates for the presidency. It takes the positives and deducts the negatives. Since July the…
Where the trial judge intends to jump the Crown on sentence the judge should advise counsel and give them the opportunity to make submissions
R. v. Hagen, 2011 ONCA 749 deals with the situation where a judge intends to exceed the sentence sought by the Crown. While in Canada the judge is not bound…
Update
Its been since May, since I wrote a blog, but there has been some really interesting developments in the Liberal Party Of Canada, so tomorrow I will have my endorsements…
Update
Its been since May, since I wrote a blog, but there has been some really interesting developments in the Liberal Party Of Canada, so tomorrow I will have my endorsements…
Not So Much Reform as Special Interest Groups
Jeffrey Simpson has an interesting column this week: Remember the Reformers? They’re still here In it he suggests that the Conservatives are now putting policies in place written for the…
Where Did the Fed Get $7.7 Trillion?
The Fed in the US as explained by Dennis Kucinich.
Resources re: Attawapiskat
Trying to sort through the muck the HarperCons are spinning around the humanitarian crisis on the Attawapiskat First Nation and First Nations communities across the country? Well, here are two…
Shorter Harpercons: Yeah, We’re Behind Those Pesky Phone Calls, Spreading Irwin Cotler Resigning Rumours, So What?
It’s not like it hasn’t been done since 1999, they say. Let’s see how some of them justify these latest actions, shall we? “Every political party in the House identifies…
Meat and sustainability
I posted a new article over at YouSustain: Meat and Sustainability: The Facts. It has some interesting comparisons of how resource-intensive it is to produce various types of food. Let…
guy boutilier’s secret election campaign.
Earlier this week, I wrote about Councillor Don Scott‘s entry into the Progressive Conservative nomination contest in the soon to be created Fort McMurray-Conklin constituency. Now, from the website MyMcMurray.com…
Update
Its been since May, since I wrote a blog, but there has been some really interesting developments in the Liberal Party Of Canada, so tomorrow I will have my endorsements…
This shows quite clearly…
… how childish and petty the “Mayor” of Toronto can be! Mayor Ford has no obligation to speak to or be interviewed by the Star. That is entirely his choice.…