Rhode Island To Introduce Gay Marriage Bill
It looks like Rhode Island legislators are prepared to introduce three equal rights bills today, including one that proposes full marriage equality in the state. Well, there you go! Just…
February 2012
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With the passage of Bill C-19 in the House of Commons and its inevitable passage through the Senate later this year, there seems to be little reason to maintain this…
We thank you Shane Ross – for nothing
A big old ‘Thank you’ to Shane Ross who informed Islanders in an opinion piece for The Guardian on Feb. 15th – ‘Climate not right for Abortion Debate’. Thanks because…
At This Moment I Am Not Wearing Any Pants
You too can go on-line and TellVicEverything. Far more classy and imaginative than spilling his divorce deets.
Social Change through Music: El Sistema and a Film That Meryl Streep Didn’t Win an Oscar For
The New York Times has a fine story today about classical music bringing social change in Venezuale: “Fighting Poverty, Armed with Violins.” El Sistema, an innovative way of making music…
Has American Aristocracy Created a Monarchy?
Is the American presidency being transformed into a quasi-monarchy? What else do you call it when 196 enormously rich people can use their money to elect the president of their…
Leave to appeal from summary conviction appeal court the same for Crown and defence
R. v. Steeves, 2012 ONCA 106 deal with leave to appeal to the Court of Appeal from a summary conviction appeal court. In considering the case the Court suggested the test for leave…
What a Republican panel of witnesses on contraception looks like
That’s right, no women. The only woman, a minority one at that, suggested to appear was refused by the committee chairman Darrell Issa. What is it about contraception that precludes…
Jobs, Jobs, Jobs
With unemployment high and rising, job creation should surely be on the agenda. The Government of Canada has a program called Job Creation Partnerships, funded under Employment Insurance. It supports…
But Not For Want of Trying
An integral part of America’s decline is its faltering ability to impose its will on the world, by force if necessary. Its colossal failures in both Iraq and Afghanistan are…
Fitzy For Regina Mayor
Fictional mayors are most impressive, right? I should mention that I’m considering (seriously) running for Regina’s City Council this October.
More on the Drummond Report…
As some of you know, I have a deep interest in and am involved with Ottawa’s childcare community. One of the working assumptions we have had in our forward planning…
More Enemies of the People Identified by Harperites
The Harper regime’s security forces have identified new threats to the people: Greenpeace and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals: In a series of documents from 2005 to 2009,…
Vic Toews and the Day of Judgement
Lordy. I wasn’t going to write anything about the latest episode of the B-movie, Vic Toews and the Con Zombie Internet Eaters. Because it’s sooooooo sordid. And we don’t peddle…
When The Right-Wing Offends The Right-Wing
I have to admit, flawed human being that I am, I’m loving every minute of this. Recommend this Post
Hot Invention Cools Down Environment
A seemingly banal industrial component is a heat exchanger and they can be ridiculously inefficient. What a heat exchanger does is regulate the temperature of machines that have to be…
I want names
Universal surveillance. Torture. Jail, jail, jail. Guns. Death penalty. Criminalizing abortion. Bigotry on rollerskates. Who the @!#$@! got us into this mess? 6,201 Canadians did. In not one of these…
Statistics for Democracy
Statistics Canada is sometimes unfairly blamed for decisions made pursuant to budget cuts and to political direction, most notably in the decision to replace the long form Census with a…
4230…People Who Live In Glass Houses
Must spend a lot of money on Windex. Seriously folks, if I may be serious, Vic Toews, the Minister of Sanctimony for Stephen Harper and the Conservatives, has been widely…
FOX News Mouthpiece Dismisses Rape in US Military
This FOX News correspondent has a message to US women soldiers who fall victim to rape – enough already. And, of course, she kept her job at FOX.