Acquittal rates
In today's Wall Street Journal David Satter suggests the low acquittal rate in Russia (about one percent) shows an unfair legal system. Perhaps but perhaps not. The low Russian acquittal…
In today's Wall Street Journal David Satter suggests the low acquittal rate in Russia (about one percent) shows an unfair legal system. Perhaps but perhaps not. The low Russian acquittal…
In his review of the year which has almost ended, Lawrence Martin writes: In 2011, Canada took its sharpest turn right in its history. It will go down as the…
Yes, there’s room to quibble about the credit Heather Scoffield gives the Cons for the At Home pilot program. But in the spirit of encouraging better policy from each possible…
Elizabeth May, leader of the Green Party of Canada and the only Green MP in our parliament, didn’t mince words about the Harper government’s betrayal of our children in her…
9/11 has rightly been referred to as the US’s second Pearl Harbor. Now we have a third instance, although this one is much more comical and sad than real. Ah,…
My friend and comrade David Heap is now blogging. Among other things, David will be writing about his experiences on the Tahrir, the Canadian Boat to Gaza, including his arrest…
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Paul Krugman comments on how Republicans’ cheerleading for total corporate control – which has of course been matched at every turn by…
To celebrate, the Globe editors put aside their crutches and patronizing air to low five each other over cocktails and wienies. No report on the obligatory congratulatory call from Stephen…
One of the leading Americans fighting against the under-treatment of pain by the medical community has died. As with people who fight for the rights of patients to have access…
The U.S again goes for the easy way out of a problem by extending tax cuts for two months. Just like the super committee it seems that this congress is…
Year-end political columns and features do nothing if not go for the easy and predictable when it comes to picking the top political story. Jeff Simpson, for example, known to…
That little girl rocks. That is all. It’s falling apart! Yay. (h/t)
In the NDP leadership race, Thomas Mulcair declares that things have turned around for him and that momentum is building. Brian Topp is promising major reform if he gets made…
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Once upon a time North American waste activists looked to Canada for cutting edge moves towards sustainable waste management. Looking back we remember the ban on incineration by the Ontario…
Well, “Nosferatu” was a silent film, so strictly speaking Connie is correct: A haunting musical score, however. But if Ms. Fournier wishes to look for intolerant bullies, she might look…
There are some truths so hard to face, so ugly and so at odds with how we imagine the world should be, that nobody can accept them. Here’s one: It…
Brilliantly evil wordsmith, Republican pollster and Fred Flintstone look-alike Frank Luntz holds forth on C-SPAN’s Christmas program about the current state of politics in America. (It’s kind of sad… but…
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Mallory and I threw a bunch of stuff into the car and drove off to visit Grandpa Mike today. Despite the Ottawa area getting 30 cm or so of snow…