Some caterpillars
…will never become butterflies. Goodbye, Progress Rail, and good riddance. May labour uprisings follow you wherever you crawl.
February 2012
USA, Canada and jobs: two divergent paths
For the fifth straight month, the US has shown solid gains in jobs. In January, the country gained a healthy 243,000 of them. During the same month, Canada gained only…
More Hands Found in Harper’s Deep Pockets
In 2007, knowing that they couldn’t ride Adscam forever, the Harper government put our tax dollars to good use, by hiring a private investigator to dig into the Liberal’s polling…
As Harper Picks Away at Canadian Values, Krugman Suggests What May Be Ahead
If I seem to be spending too much time on this Canadian and Quebec blog talking about the US, it’s because I’m afraid that Stephen Harper and his friends slowly…
Susan G. Walther-Komen soft on guns. Hard on women.
It’s OK. It’s pink! I felt a little bad feeling so much animosity towards a person, but Nancy Brinker’s reaction to her disengagement from Planned Parenthood has quickly become the…
140 Law – Legal Headlines for February 03, 2012
Here are the leading legal headlines for Friday, February 03, 2012 from Wise Law on Twitter: International Court of Justice: Germany can’t be sued in foreign courts for Nazi crimes…
James Moore should apologize to Sun News’ Kris Sims
“Hi, I’m Kris Sims. I used to be a journalist.” He called her a “pawn” of QMI and Pierre Karl Peladeau. He should have called her a pawn of the…
Alberta Liberals Trend Towards Zero-Seat Finish
There’s a new poll out for Alberta this week, done by the company “Return on Insight” (ROI), which I don’t know very much about but is commissioned by the CBC…
Inadvertent humour, the MHI report edition #nlpoli
The Telegram editorial on the Manitoba Hydro review of Muskrat Falls is a tidy bit of work with some sound advice: The bottom line? Anyone who wants to say anything…
Speaking of political theatre
While the National Post does its best to hype the threat posed by Iran, here’s the news I can’t seem to find from a Canadian source: WASHINGTON, Feb 1, 2012…
Shoot for the cure
Only in America. Yet another reason to give the Komen franchisers a wide berth. Because breast cancer is too important, too real and too lethal to be so shamefully (http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/292206/20120202/planned-parenthood-susan-komen-penn-state.htm)…
The Fault Is In Ourselves
We have nurtured an old curmudgeon. He or she has been with us for a long time. However, we have never had so many of them at the same time.…
Your Daily Nazi: If Anyone Is Still Looking For CanCon In The "Nazi Leaks" Docs
While the original site is down, it is being mirrored here. I haven’t had a chance to go through it yet myself. Maybe over the weekend. There are apparently a…
Video fail: Gay Chicken – SteamRoomStories.com
This video, Gay Chicken, one of the webisodes of Steam Room Stories, makes me want to put a bag over my head in shame for being of the same species…
help me get rid of zip
When we lived in NYC, I was hugely into Netflix. The selection and convenience were terrific, and for frequent movie watching, the flat monthly fee was a great value. After…
Budget Cuts Could Worsen Rising Unemployment
It was not a happy new year for Canadian job seekers. Statistics Canada reported today that unemployment rose for a fourth consecutive month in January. Overall employment remained flat as…
Remembering My Dad, Bryan Hayday
Today would have been my Dad’s 60th birthday. We had been planning to hold a huge celebration, because making it to sixty years old was going to be a really…
On The Line: Conversations Along The Pipeline Route
Talk about timely! On The Line is a eco-documentary that follows the two filmmakers, Frank Wolf and Todd McGowan, on a 2,400 kilometre self-propelled journey by foot, bike, raft, and…
When it is appropriate to assign counsel for an individual who is party to an appeal in a criminal matter
R. v. Hoskins, 2012 BCCA 51 considers when it is appropriate to assign counsel for an individual who is party to an appeal in a criminal matter. The test is…
Excited Delirium Chapter 68: Get Garamond
Chapter 68 of Excited Delirium, where our heroes hatch a plan for getting Garamond.