The Soul of the Nation
Last April, as part of a larger post, I write the following about the pernicious effects of bad political leadership: If we consider, for example, the widespread cynicism and disengagement…
2011
Conservatives: to hell with the courts. Where’s the outrage?
Conservatives and family gather in Chicago to re-enact the ‘good ol’ days’ With the Wheat Board fiasco roaring, the Conservatives don’t seem to care about rule of law or even…
Iceland Photo
Your Scandinavia Photos — National Geographic. Filed under: Beautiful Tagged: nature photography
The Future of Canada’s Health Care System: Don’t Forget NDP Outremont’s Forum on Saturday.
Don’t forget:Three panelists of note will participate in a forum on the future of our health care system, organized by the Outremont NDP Riding Association. Mathieu Vick, parliamentary assistant to…
Abuse of Power
Jennifer Ditchburn reports this morning that, having installed a new unilingual auditor general, the Conservatives would rather not hear from him: Five different individuals – inside and outside Auditor-General Michael…
Tom Flanagan: Time For Climate Change Deniers to Come Out of The Closet
Yep, ol’ Tom is a denier and proud of it, boys ‘n’ girls! He also wants all deniers to ‘come out of the closet’! Er, Tom, hasn’t that ship already…
Still No Digital Goldmine For National Post
This article is several hundred words of Paul Godfrey whistling past the grave-yard. Meanwhile, PostMedia stocks take a familiar course: Meanwhile, they’ve turned out the lights to trim their power…
Ethical Smoke – Replay
If dumping megatonnes of extra carbon dioxide into earth’s atmosphere produces ethical tar sands oil, I suppose eco-friendly ethical cigarettes are plausible too. Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Co., a subsidiary…
140 Law – Legal Headlines for December 9, 2011
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Friday, December 9, 2011: Durban climate talks mean life or death for poor island states http://bit.ly/rQPQaN Maple Leaf…
Should Rick Perry’s YouTube ad be banned as hate speech?
The question, broached by Amber MacArthur in Thursday’s The Globe and Mail, comes with its own set of issues that perhaps merits a bit of precision. As MacArthur points out:…
Peter Kent: Let’s do Nothing!
Our Environment minister wants Kyoto to die and wait until 2015 to make a new accord. Why not just start a new accord now why wait three years? Our Environment…
Friday miscellany – robots, OC Transpo and the Leafs!
It’s about time the Board moved to do something about the negative image and messages that Christmas imparts! Way to go Androgynous, Holiday-Neutral Robot! Long may you, uh, live… Thanks…
Ask General Kang: Do you have Santa Claus on your home planet?
No, we didn’t have Santa Claus when I was growing up. We didn’t have Christmas. Heck, we didn’t even have your primitive paleo-brain concept of religion. We did have the…
The truth hurts #nlpoli
Brace yourself. Peter Jackson’s column in the Wednesday Telegram is spot on. Yes. You read that correctly. Peter Jackson’s column is spot on the money and the mark and the…
The $19 billion prison agenda
A new report pegs the cost of the various Conservative crime bills at some $19 billion, $14 billion of which will be borne by the provinces. But hey, they’ve been…
Open Data Day 2011 – Recaps from Around the World
This last Saturday was International Open Data Day with hackathons taking place in cities around the world. How many you ask? We can’t know for certain, but organizers around the…
Tom Flanagan: Out of the Closet!
Speaking on CBC’s Power & Politics show about the government’s decision to renounce the hapless Kyoto Treaty, Harper mentor and political “scientist” Tom Flanagan admits he believes global warming is…