As the lawful access debate moves into full swing, the government spin machine has been busy responding to the many emails received by MPs as a result of OpenMedia.ca’s recent…
It is a rare occasion when I experience a good belly laugh, but the following bogus media release, reported by the CBC’s Allison Crawford, had that effect. While I doubt…
Conservative-speak can be confusing for the less practice ear. I know, I know, it sounds like English, but perhaps it is just a different dialect? And it just all sounds…
Agreement seems lacking, among researchers, on the question of which citations to a scientific article are “legitimate”, i.e., worthy of being included among the total number of hits received by…
Or, alternatively titled, 2012 Toronto budget. Closing homeless shelters, cutting student nutrition programs (affecting more than 14,000 of Toronto’s poorest kids) and cutting several HIV/AIDS programs. These are just a…
So, a couple of weeks ago, after I got invited to LPoC President’s meet&greet thingy that’s taking place this evening, I finally decided to join up. If I was going…
I recently received an e-mail from a parent of a prospective parent who was worried by, among other things, rumors she heard that Mount Allison graduates don’t perform do well…
Serves you right (emphasis mine): Mayor Rob Ford’s proposed 2012 budget would close some swimming and wading pools and homeless shelters, cut programs for student nutrition, AIDS prevention and arts,…
This is hardly a surprise. Remember what Stephen Harper said about Kyoto? “Kyoto is essentially a socialist scheme to suck money out of wealth-producing nations.” http://www.canada.com/technology/Environment+minister+Peter+Kent+skates+around+departure+from+Kyoto+climate+treaty/5778658/story.html#ixzz1f1wKt5A0 OTTAWA — Environment Minister…
Brian Topp released his tax package today, which demonstrates why I prefer him in the NDP leadership race, FROM a Liberal perspective. This document should win rave reviews from the…
I wrote this morning’s post last night and scheduled it, assuming in part that it would be a few weeks to never when I received a reply (as if often…
Miscellaneous material for your Monday reading. – With prorogation looking like it’s bound to be back on the table fairly shortly, Lori Turnbull offers a worthwhile suggestion to end the…
via mta.ca: Visiting Scholar Sheila Watt-Cloutier to lecture on human dimensions of climate change 2011-11-24 12:31:20 Sheila Watt‐Cloutier, an Inuk climate change advocate and Nobel Peace Prize Nominee, will be…
It is kind of Thunderbirds meets the Prisoner via Monty Python, the Batman TV series and a really low budget Japanese sci-fi series.This is just the trailer, the series started…
On the week the memorandum of understanding between Nalcor Energy and Emera on the electricity transmission link between Nova Scotia and Newfoundland and labrador is due to expire, take a…
Cleaning out the digital mailbag this morning, I found a few gems pertaining to the Occupy movement, economic collapse, and intentionally bad, prizewinning art: Salon asks how the appalling image…
I have huge respect for Nik Nanos and his firm, but this recent poll is just a bit much, even for a die-hard Liberal: Con – 35.6% (-1.1%)Lib – 28.1%…
The fact that Ford is going to hike taxes on Torontonians by two-and-a-half percent probably doesn’t strike anyone as surprising, since we knew where all of his populist rhetoric that…
Oops, wrong Peter Kent Anti-science. Anti-environment. That’s today’s Canada. Well on its way to being a third-world nation because it denies the very existence of actual science. To hammer the…
R. v. Janusas, 2011 ONCA 742 has a useful summary of when leave to appeal in summary conviction cases will be granted: Before and since the decision of Doherty J.A. in R.…
