Lieutenant John Pike’s blog!
Read it, or you’ll be pepper sprayed until your eyes bleed! UPDATE: A meme is born.
2011
UC Davis Chancellor Katehi running on ego and disillusionment
Wow. This woman has balls of steel. This morning Linda Katehi told Good Morning America (emphasis mine): But Chancellor Linda Katehi told ABC’s Good Morning America on Monday that she’s…
Summary judgment — evidence needed
Conn v. Goldstone Resources Inc., 2011 ONCA 727, released today on line, is a helpful case reminding us that on a summary judgment motion evidence is needed: In our view…
Some Misgivings on the Part of Some Harpercon Backbenchers on the Asbestos Issue?
I was surprised when I read this piece from Jennifer Ditchburn and Andy Blatchford last night. It appears that some Harpercon backbench MPs are getting a tad uppity and starting…
Geist: The CRTC sided with indie ISPs with the Internet metering decision
By Michael Geist Last week, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission released its much-anticipated usage based billing decision. While the ruling only focused on the use of data caps (or…
emergency rally to defend occupy toronto: 5:00 today
Message from Occupy Toronto: OCCUPY TORONTO IS BEING EVICTED. Mayor Rob Ford has angrily taken to television, even gritting his teeth, to say he wants protesters “gone NOW”. City Manager…
On conservative madness
Conservatism, once again, is shown to be less a politics than a diagnosis. Werner Patels appears to be off his meds. Junior chickenhawk Adrian MacNair spares us, at least, his…
Ethical Asbestos – How Canada’s Conservative MP’s Continue To Push Deadly ASBESTOS Onto Poor Nations
“A growing number of Conservative MPs are questioning their government’s position on the export of asbestos, with a group of them independently summoning industry experts to a meeting on Parliament…
Climate Change Isn’t Happening If You Can’t Learn About It
How else can you explain the extraordinary efforts of the Harper regime and its US Congressional counterparts to suppress climate change information getting to the public. As chronicled in The…
alberta’s second fall sitting starts today with redford’s tories on a high.
Premier Alison Redford Part two of the Fall sitting of Alberta’s Legislative Assembly begins today for a short two-weeks of business. Aside from the two-day speech driven sitting held last…
Canada, possibly a leader in solar
Sounds good: World’s Largest Solar Power Plant Produces Power with Canadian Solar Modules.
Teddies Make People Share
Feeling as though we belong is important for our mental and physical wellbeing. Social exclusion hurts and it darkens our mood. Unfortunately, this sets up a vicious circle because we’re…
Who’s protecting YOUR water?
This should really make us all wake up: Someone from Russia (it could have been the government or a private interest, we don’t know yet) was able to remotely shut…
Getting the User to Pay: Toll Roads Aren’t That Awful, Poll Says
A Canada-wide poll commissioned by the CBC shows that Canadians are not averse to letting the user pay when it comes to roads and bridges. More than three-quarters of those…
The Creation of Adam
Adam is a man. He is just 20 years old, though he’s had to endure more heartache and hardship than most his age. He smiles almost constantly, with a playful,…
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…
America – Segregation is Back
The United States has been wrestling with racial segregation for decades and, while considerable progress has been made in some areas, plenty remains to be fixed. But a new form…
The landscape exhibition #18
Yellow moon Filed under: art, design, digital, painting Tagged: art, collage, digital, iPad, landscape, painting
On rare independence
Yes, there’s some good news in the revelation that some Con MPs are asking questions about their party’s insistence on supporting and subsidizing asbestos exports. But let’s not minimize the…
Occupy Vancouver on the move
With the likely scenario of violence in Toronto as Bill Blair’s baddies descend on the occupiers who refuse to move, Occupy Vancouver has taken a different stand. Instead of confronting…