Sactimony Unbecoming
Michael Ignatieff wrote an interesting op-ed today, presumably prompted by a recently published report and article examining expatriates. In it Ignatieff shares his less than pleasant experience on the subject,…
2011
#RCMP complaints body says it’s playing ball with @cancivlib | #G20
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The price of a loan guarantee
Ontario is planning to build two new nuclear reactors to meet the province’s energy needs in the near future and finance minister Dwight Duncan signalled on Tuesday that the Ontario…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Yes, plenty of attention is being paid to Canada's weak ranking when it comes to innovation. But it's well worth noting that the failure…
Palliative care following the end of life support is ‘treatment’ and requires consent of substitute decision maker
Rasouli v. Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, 2011 ONCA 482 holds that the end of life support followed by palliative care is 'treatment' for purposes of the Health Care Consent Act and so requires…
The Silence of the Mainstream Media on Private Power, Fish Farms
I sat in my hotel room in London on a recent vacation, reading the comments on my last article in thetyee.ca in which I had congratulated the Vancouver Sun for…
Did Harper Suppress DND’s Climate Change Warning?
A study prepared by Canada's Department of National Defence sounds the alarm on climate change. The report concludes that energy shortages coupled with the rapidly spreading freshwater crisis and compounded…
Kunstler on The City of the Future and "Yesterday’s Tomorrows"
I'm no apocalypse junkie; visions of the end of days don't do much for me. But I am going to recommend James Kunstler's most recent article anyway. Kunstler is a…
Meet your new neighbour
Steve HerperOkay he is an alien and in 20 years’ time you may be meeting him. According to Russian scientist Andrei Finkelstein it is highly likely that it will happen…
Army 2040: First Look moves away from humanity vs. The Environment outlook
I feel as though every decade in North America another article, report, or paper emerges in which The Environment (note the capital letters) is pitted as public enemy number one.…
Wealth transfer
As nottawa noted on Tuesday, the net effect of a provincial tax cut on electricity and a rate hike for the province’s Crown energy company isn’t what might appear at…
Sun News reporter’s conduct results in thousands of complaints
Complaints over Sun News interview overwhelm watchdog - The Globe and MailNo surprise here.Excerpt from article:Viewers have sent in more than 4,350 complaints since the interview aired on the Sun…
Greek Austerity Vote Is Just The Beginning
There was a certain amount of hand-wringing by the business press and politicians internationally that the PASOK government of Greece might not be able to pass the second austerity package…
Bike Lanes Create Jobs
The University of Massachusetts has completed a new study that shows that bicycle lanes create jobs. As a cyclist, this seems obvious to me since whenever I see a store…
Bachmann, Wallace, & FOX NEWS continue to illustrate contemporary conservative "news" expectations.
Wallace asks the obvious question that’s on most rational people’s minds: The aftermath: Wingnuts go apoplectic that Bachmann wasn’t given an even gentler soft-ball interview and Wallace ends up having…
Bachmann, Wallace, & FOX NEWS continue to illustrate contemporary conservative "news" expectations.
Wallace asks the obvious question that's on most rational people's minds:The aftermath: Wingnuts go apoplectic that Bachmann wasn't given an even gentler soft-ball interview and Wallace ends up having to…
Bachmann, Wallace, & FOX NEWS continue to illustrate contemporary conservative "news" expectations.
Wallace asks the obvious question that’s on most rational people’s minds: The aftermath: Wingnuts go apoplectic that Bachmann wasn’t given an even gentler soft-ball interview and Wallace ends up having…
The vertical integration hearing is getting curiouser and curiouser
Cross-posted from The Globe And Mail In the first of two column’s last week I offered evidence and argument as to why the CRTC’s current vertical integration hearing is not…
CUPW will challenge the back-to-work legislation
Canada Post union to challenge back-to-work legislation in court - thestar.comAs I was pointing out, the legislation is illegal, and the union is going to challenge it in court. Now…