Kill the Tory Crime Bill
The John Howard Society of Manitoba estimates Canadians will pay $2 billion annually to cover the costs of Stephen Harper’s omnibus crime bill. Bill C-10, which calls for mandatory minimum…
2011
Family law disclosure obligations
Donna Reid Spettigue and Charles Spettigue v. David G. Varcoe, 2011 ONSC 6618 has a useful summary of the law relating to disclosure obligations in family law: A. The Parties’…
Enough with the Sunshine Girl already
So, a recent “Sunshine Girl” is headed to the pages of Hustler magazine. Must be a proud moment for her. I admit, I clicked the link in the article that…
Berlusconi out, not because of "bunga bunga" but bonda bonda
After sticking around what seemed like forever, and beating off one sleaze scandal after another, the world's most powerful womanizer, Silvio Berlusconi, has finally said he's going to resign after…
Complex problems have simple, easy to understand, wrong answers: Henry Louis Mencken
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/1083622--middle-class-is-key-to-economic-recovery-rae-says?bn=1OTTAWA—Restoring the pillars of a strong middle class is key to Canada’s economic recovery, says Liberal interim leader Bob Rae in an address ...
Rush Limbaugh: Meat Eater, Science Denier
Rush_Limbaugh.jpg Recently, Rush Limbaugh went on another of his anti-science rants. This one was particularly fascinating, though, because of the things he actually got right—even as he &n...
Dear Mississippi…
Sorry to resort to pictures, but it seems that an awful lot of anti-choicers have difficulty reading. Amazing how many of these unsentient adults there are in Mississippi Goddamn, and…
Open Primaries – A Primer
With all the discussion and talk about the Liberal Party of Canada moving towards a primary system, and most of the talk being on the so-called "open primary" model, I…
The landscape exhibition #12
Filed under: art, design, digital, painting Tagged: art, collage, digital, iPad, landscape, painting
QMI news flash: Sunshine Girl graduates to cover of Hustler.
I find it first of all to be a strange bit of braggadocio from the ever serious news organization that is Sun Media. But it's the comments from the Sunshine…
Happy Publishing Story
A novel that, less than a year ago, was without a Canadian publisher has won the country’s most prestigious literary prize. Esi Edugyan’s Half-Blood Blues, about a jazz musician who…
Quebecor’s profit dips, but wireless network has its strongest quarterly growth by Iain Marlow
Montreal-based telecom and media conglomerate Quebecor Inc. has suffered a 35 per cent drop in profit in the third quarter on weak broadcasting and newspaper revenues but saw strong subscriber…
Valero Positioning To Export Tar Sands Oil, Guarding Pot of Gold at End of Keystone XL Pipeline
Valero Logo.gif In the heated Keystone XL debate, the Canadian company TransCanada, which is attempting to build the line, and the Koch brothers, who are throwing their considerable weight behi...
Apple: 1, Flash: 0
Well, not quite so dramatic, but still a big deal if true: Gone in a Flash? Adobe Said Halting Development on Mobile Version of Its Plug-In. I’ve mentioned a few…
When Every Vote Counts
Every several decades, David Shribman writes, the United States has an election in which "the country seems to approach one of the hinges of history." The election of 2012 will…
London Ontario: Home of the Intolerant
London, Ontario becomes the first Canadian city to turf occupiers.
Something John Baird should actually get grumpy about
Canadians face two months of incarceration in Israel without trial On Tuesday, Freedom Waves to Gaza activists detained in Israel -- including Canadians David Heap and Ehab Lotayef -- came…
Movember…Day 9
Give to the cause. Any amount helps out in a great cause.
Liberal "Primaries"
The best thing about floating new ideas, it generates debate, pumps some life into the process, gives a sense of "where the action" resides. I note quite a bit of…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Nanos confirms that even as cities are starting to crack down on the Occupy movement, the general public is highly sympathetic to the message…