The Rules Have To Change
Tom Walkom writes that, as things stand, not much could have been done to keep the doomed Electro-Motive plant in London. He points out that Bombardier no longer manufactures locomotives…
February 2012
Haper’s Trade Deal With China: Less Than Meets The Eye
Stephen Harper’s pending foreign investment protection agreement with China, hailed as a breakthrough that will one day make a “very practical difference” for Canadian companies seeking to invest here, (more…
140 Law – Legal Headlines for Thursday February 9, 2012
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Thursday, February 9, 2012: Mississippi pardons to be challenged at court hearing Reining in the rhetoric on copyright…
New column day
Here, on how the evolution of labour rights under Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms can be traced directly to anti-labour overreach by right-wing governments – and how Brad Wall…
Harper Government Does Not Have The Right To Declare Canada Open For Business
From the Union of B.C. Chiefs, Coast Salish Territory/Vancouver, Canada – February 8, 2012: Close to 100 Chiefs and representatives from Indigenous Nations in BC along with 400 Chiefs from…
When CPC MPs lie to Parliament
On Tuesday during the debate on the life saving long gun registry, Harper Tory MP Larry Miller compared gun control supporters to Hitler. Shortly after Question Period that day, Miller…
shadow art of a higher magnitude, by tim noble and sue webster
Isn’t this amazing? Many other wild shadow creations by Tim Noble and Sue Webster can be seen on a slideshow on Environmental Graffiti and on this Daily Mail story. BuzzFeed…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Mind you, some of the stories are a couple of days old precisely because there’s been an embarrassment of riches in the…
Surreal Morning
I hate it when the day starts off non-Euclidian, and then just gets weirder. It’s a straight line to humor at Alltop.
Brahms: Ein deutsches Requiem, 2. Denn alles Fleisch, es ist wie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBAtf5o9er8 Denn alles Fleisch, es ist wie Gras:Ein deutsches Requiem, 2nd movementJohannes Brahms (1869) Otto Klemperer, Philharmonia Orchestra, 1961
It Would Appear The Mdme (not)Premier’s Math Skills Are Failing….
TwoPlusTwoDoesNotEqual $125,000Ville …Us. Well, whaddy’a know. Pointless initiative #3,459,423, brought to us by the Campbell/Clark Government, has arrived. Stephen Thompson of the GStraight had the story up first yesterday: The…
Why Flaherty was so upset with the PBO yesterday
Well, there was the main takeaway from Parliamentary Budget Officer Kevin Page’s report release yesterday on the fiscal sustainability of Old Age Security that Flaherty would not have been too…
APA Ignores Concern Over DSM Autism Exclusion of Intellectually Disabled
On July 17 2011 I made a submission to the Neurodevelopmental Disorders DSM Work Group of the American Psychiatric Association. My submission dealt at length with the exclusionary language added…
Response and Responsibility #nlpoli #cdnpoli
“How satisfied are you with what they had to say?” And with those words, CBC Here and Now’s Jonathan Crowe asked the man whose officials were responsible for directing the…
Failing healthcare managers paid handsomely
Doctors vow to take back Royal Columbian ER, Tara Carman, Vancouver Sun, February 7, 2012 “Emergency-room doctors at Royal Columbian hospital served notice to administrators Monday they will no longer…
Keeping the ability to cross the floor
The NDP private member’s bill that would force a by-election after a floor crossing died after a vote in the Commons last night, as well it should. Bitter comments from…
Pipelines: Which side are you on, planet or profit?
Since the Northern Gateway pipeline hit the news, the regina mom has read more posts about science than ever before. And it’s not because science claims a place in her…
BC Liberal motto: Be Prepared
A REPLAY from March 1, 2011 ER doc takes a coffee break CBC News item: Staff at Royal Columbian Hospital near Vancouver were forced to turn the facility’s Tim Hortons…
A New Era in Humanity…A New Sign of Hope!
I have been unable to post a new entry over the past few days due to being ill and not having the energy to write down my thoughts. Now that…