Yes, Let’s Do It!
Four former BC attorneys-general have joined the call to legalize marijuana. They cite the usual evidence – escalating crime, unconscionable profits for gangsters, lost opportunities for legitimate entrepreneurs and an…
February 2012
Vikileaks lights up Twitter with alleged details of Vic "Minister of Family Values" Toews divorce
@vikileaks30 has caught the attention of more than 850 followers since yesterday when details from affidavits of Vic Toew’s divorce began appearing on Twitter. Even the MSM has caught on.…
Vic Toews and Big Brother Syndrome
Uh oh. Call the Ministry of Truth. It seems that the Con Zombie Vic Toews is trying to rewrite history. After failing to parse himself properly… My diagnosis? If he’s…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Heather Scoffield gives far too much credence to the Cons’ spin on what their focus group results mean. But her report offers what…
In the NDP Quest For Votes, Nothing Is Sacred, Not Even The Canada Health Act
I am well past the age where disillusionment comes easily, so it did not really surprise me to read of Peggy Nash’s willingness to abandon the principles of the Canada…
Tough week for the Cons
And it’s only Wednesday. Chris Selley’s mid-week round-up.
Analysts remarks reveal underlying bias, I say
Sometimes PostMedia News goes so far as to almost parody itself. One might even think that this article from the Vancouver Sun could have been written by Fox News North…
Evidence, not submissions, is required for a determination by a Court
Salem v. Kourany, 2012 ONCA 102 deals, in passing, with the situation where parties do not put evidence before the Court but merely tell the Court information. Such cannot form…
Prince Justin the Flake Says What I’ve Been Thinking: Canada Is Becoming Something I Don’t Recognize
If there are two words that I use with scorn, they are “flake” and “princess.” In my mind they sum up a panoply of selfish, unhelpful characteristics. The latter I…
Michael Geist on the Harper government’s new “Lawful Access” law: it’s bad
University of Ottawa professor Michael Geist has a really good summary and critique of the Tories’ new bid to give police “Lawful Access” to ISP data and to require ISPs…
Activist Communique: 2nd Ottawa Annual Day of Justice for murdered and missing Indigenous women
Hundreds of Ottawans are expected on Parliament Hill tomorrow to demand justice for 600 missing and murdered Indigenous women in Canada. The event is part of the nationwide February 14th…
Paranoid Delusions
When Vic Toews proclaimed this week that those who didn’t stand with the government “stand with the child pornographers,” Ann Cavoukian — Ontario’s Privacy Commissioner — responded, “What it showed…
The cares of a family man
So Vic Toews wants to know all about us? Let’s have a little counter-surveillance. It’s impossible to stop reading about the private life of this Christian gentleman. Turnabout is fair…
Leadership 2012 Roundup
Apparently there have been a few developments in the NDP’s leadership race – and indeed enough that I’ll likely need to apply a bit more a filter on what I…
Free Mohamed Harkat
Mohamed Harkat has been either imprisoned or subject to restrictive bail conditions for over nine years without ever being convicted of a crime. He’s been the subject of a Security…
How The Conservative Party Fought The Canadian Red Maple Leaf Flag – Feb. 15, 1964
“From the Tory benches the prime minister (Pearson) was greeted by jeers and hoots and shouts of derision. ‘Vote with pride’, “All right,” exclaimed Mr. Pearson, “they have turned it…
Canucks On Heartland Institute Payroll
DeSmog Blog has dropped the bomb: leaked documents from the Heartland Institute outlining their campaign against the science of AGW. Goals include hiring a fellow named David Wojick to write…
Harper Knows How to Walk Away from International Commitments, Why Is He Stuck On the F-35?
Steve Harper knows how to weasel out of commitments. Remember how we were in Afghanistan “to stay” until we had the Taliban crushed and the country safe for democracy? Harper…
Data Wars: A mini-case study of Southwest Airlines vs. TripIt and Orbitz
As a regular flyer, I’m an enormous fan of TripIt. It’s a simple service in which you forward almost any reservation – airline, hotel, car rental, etc… to plans@tripit.com and…