Parliament in Review: December 6, 2011
Tuesday, December 6 saw a day devoted primarily to debating the Cons’ seat redistribution bill. And the result was some interesting interplay between the three official parties in the House…
February 2012
Canada’s new national animal?
May as well be. Any moment now they’ll be dragging Nicole Eaton out of her Senatorial mothballs to offer a new suggestion.
Liberals Riding High in Quebec?
There’s been a lot of buzz lately over the small snippets of a recent federal Forum poll that shows the Liberals gaining steadily on the NDP, especially in the province…
Test for testimonial competence of adults with mental disabilities
R. v. D.A.I., 2012 SCC 5 deals with the requirements of s. 16 of the Canada Evidence Act for the testimonial competence of persons of 14 years of age or…
Toronto-Danforth Federal Liberal Nomination Meeting 2012
Filed under: Canadian Politics, Liberal Party of Canada, Ontario Tagged: Bob Rae, Byelection, Craig Scott, Grant Gordon, Liberal, Liberal Party of Canada, Toront-Danforth
Fraser Institute Penalizing Rich Students… Sort Of
Unfortunately I was buried in research over the past week, which not only slowed down my usual production of posts but, worse yet, means I missed the fact that the…
Blogger faces beheading
In Saudi Arabia, it’s only 1433. Hamza Kashgari, a young blogger and poet who until recently worked for the Saudi newspaper al-Bilad, could be executed shortly, if a doddering sheikh…
Music for a Sunday: Whitney Houston, RIP
This isolated vocal track from my favorite song of hers feels ghostly now that she’s suddenly, sadly gone. But it also illustrates just how well her voice stood on its…
Greece: You Say You Want A Revolution?
It’s hard to make sense of the hubris and cruelty of European Union leaders towards Greece, unless their goal is to goad the Greek population into overthrowing their government. Why…
Robert Lepage Wrecked the Ring Cycle
He had help. CostumesThroughout, the costumes were an unfortunate distraction. They didn’t enhance the characterization or help to set a tone or place. They were unflattering. Poor Waltraud Meier, who…
Speaking Of "Boring"
What’s your definition of boring, bland, yawn inducing? For myself it’s predictability above all else. From a purely partisan perspective, I suppose this now on going media categorization of the…
On the "Reawakening" of Debates. . . . .
Well, as anyone with a pulse and 10% of political common sense knew, now that the conservatives have a majority we, as a nation have begun to talk about abortion…
Poverty As Moral Trupitude
As the Harper Conservatives peddle the myth that the Old Age Security program is unsustainable, we should be prepared for the next assault. It comes in the form of Charles…
Conservative Ethos: Caviar for Corporations, Cake For Canadian Masses
Stephen Harper and his wrecking crew continue their agenda of altering the fundamental nature of Canadian society. By engineering an ever-dwindling supply of government revenue through corporate tax cuts that…
Ontario PCs…
… give the Liberals another election victory! Great news that the PC’s walking-talking campaign disaster has been given the nod to continue to “lead” the party… probably into another election!…
Does he believe anything he says? #nlpoli #cdnpoli
Now that he’s safely latched on the public tit in Ottawa, Noob Bloc-NDP MP Ryan Cleary says that everything he ever wrote was just to stir debate. Well, that’s what…
A Mea Culpa ….of sorts!
In recent days much hasbeen said about MPLarry Millers comparing those that favor the gun registry to theHitler regime, whilst I think that in this casethere is no comparison its…
How An Environmentalist Might Support Northern Gateway
From Simon Donner, who studies coral reefs: If the Harper government were not so consistently obstinate on federal climate policy, people like me (a climate scientist who has long been…