Tear gassing 84 year old woman and homophobia at Occupy
It looks like the Occupy folks have really pissed off the management. In Seattle the police pepper sprayed woman, Dorli Rainey, 84 who was part of the occupy protest. Dorli…
2011
Warren Kinsella Is Wrong (sort of)
Earlier this morning, Warren Kinsella offered a broader set of reasons then I have, concerning the folly of the Liberal caucus’ opposition to the government’s Fair Representation Act. One of…
Another reason why I won’t subscribe to the Ottawa Citizen…
How is this news???? Tell me! Please!!! Seriously? This is People Magazine stuff. Not journalism. Who cares who is dating whom? Eyebrows were raised at the Gold Medal Plates culinary…
The Danube Runs Dry
The UN recently issued a report warning of the effects of global warming on the world’s major river systems. Increased evaporation, drought and irregular rainfalls are expected to leave water…
Canada: Peace, Order, Good Government…and Violence?
A version of this article first appeared on the website of Strategic Culture Foundation, a Russian online paper. Let me explain the title to this article. Canada’s overriding mission, according…
Okay, so which members of the Security Intelligence Committee AREN’T amateurs?
The National Post has a column by self-declared former Mossad officer Michael Ross complaining that he cannot understand how we could allow someone with dubious ties to an international lobbyist…
Democracy is too expensive is a poor argument
There are lots of good arguments you can make that just adding more and more seats to the House of Commons to address shifting populations is a bad idea. For…
Yucky Goo
After looking at this picture would you be able to eat the final product? Believe it or not this goo is for chicken nuggets which you might eat at fast…
Father Knew Best – Not Really.
It seems our European cousins are coming to grips with the utter madness of the past. Along the Atlantic coast and in the Baltic sea thousands of tonnes of chemical…
Freddie Mac employee Newt Gingrich tries to worm his way out of another fix
Psst, did I forget to mention Freddie Mac? Now that it’s public knowledge Newt Gingrich’s favourite villain Freddie Mac actually paid the disgraced Speaker $1.6 million for lobbying ‘advice’, I…
Robert Redford And I Occupy Vancouver
Never let it be said that as a climate activist I’m not occasionally smitten by the desire to do a little Hollywood star-gazing. In the past, I’ve been known to…
Confess and avoid defence
R. v. Armstrong, 2011 ONCA 709 deals with 'reasonable excuse'. In both civil and criminal law a common defence is 'confess and avoid'. Such defences accept the cause is made out but say…
Donald Trump still on TV, Contemplations of the Apocalypse
Arrgh. I had planned on writing about something else, but this is bugging me. Short form: Donald Trump, still on TV, why? I wonder if anyone else is as tired…
Writing the Back Story: Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea
Last month we talked about Jane Eyre at the Atwater Library, and tonight it will Jean Rhys’s idea of why the first Mrs. Rochester went mad, Wide Sargasso Sea. Both…
Filed under: Who gives a shit?
Why this is news, I’m not sure. The fact that it’s the lead story on NNW boggles my mind. Leave them alone.
A Few Good Men
Canada may be a Pacific Rim country just not, perhaps, to our corporate news media. There’s a lot happening in the South-Asia/East Asia arc involving China, India, the United States…
The Mowat Centre and Employment Insurance
The Mowat Centre final report on Employment Insurance (EI) released today has won a fair bit of media attention, and will serve to deepen the national debate over Canada’s most…
Did a Fanatic Fire on the White House?
There’s a warrant out for Oscar Romero Ortega, suspected of firing a couple of shots at the White House Friday evening. According to BBC News there is evidence one round…
China Pushes Green Technology Forward
China has to confront a lot of environmental problems brought forth by its own quick development, and when China confronts an issue they go all out! Renewable Energy World has…
Railway bridges are falling down in Hamilton
You’d think that if a bridge carries a railway then it should be the railroad company that pays for repairs and/or replacement. Not necessarily. Hamilton has about 400 bridges across…