Discussing Quebec Student Protests on Talk Radio
Last Friday, I blogged here about the Quebec student protests. Subsequently, I was invited to appear on 580 CFRA News Talk Radio, with hosts Rob Snow and Lowell Green. I…
April 2012
This Is Beyond Gross
Egyptian women are fighting for the block of their country’s proposed “farewell sex” law. The provision would allow men to have sex with their wives, or their bodies, up until…
Canada in Distress
Many thanks to Paul Morrison for this: Paul would like any and all to take this image and put it up on their blogs as a way to get this…
How Many More Canadians Does Harper Want Killed?
“When planning a military expedition into Pashtun tribal areas, the first thing you must plan is your retreat. All expeditions into this area sooner or later end in retreat under…
Novel way of seeking job
Mario Anzuoni / Reuters Kelly Edwards, 54, who was laid off 4 years ago, holds a sign at a street corner in Pasadena, California April 25, 2012. Edwards has resorted…
The Metamorphosis of Thomas Mulcair
Mulcair is riding high wide and handsome in Quebec, with even arch enemies now thinking he is the best PM of the choices open right now, according to threehundredandeight’s analysis…
Analytical Thinking Curbs Religious Conviction
Duh, really? We now have a scientific study, courtesy of UBC, that shows analytical thinking can be really bad for clinging to religious faith. The psychology report, published today in…
New Poll: American Voters Very Concerned About Global Warming Pollution, Support Taxing Dirty Energy
global climate change.jpg A new poll released today shows that American voters take global warming pollution very seriously and want to see action from government and the private sector to…
Focus on Fewer and Smaller
The Royal Society, which is celebrating its 350th anniversary, has a warning for mankind – there are too damned many of us and we’re all consuming too damned much of…
Whip It Good
Yes, MP’s should have more latitude to vote their conscience and/or represent their constituents. Yes, too much control is isolated in to few hands, individual MP’s deserve a more influential…
Half Full or Half Empty? Two Readings of the Same Data on Organic Agiruculture
This morning, underneath a banner story in Le Devoir about continuing conflict between student groups and the Quebec government over tuition fee hikes, I was encouraged to read a report…
Arbitration not blocked because agreement giving basis to arbitration challenged
Kolios v. Vranich, 2012 ONCA 269 holds an arbitrator may rule on its own jurisdiction to conduct the arbitration and may in that connection rule on objections with respect to the existence or…
Whip It Good
Stephen Woodworth’s person-hood motion will not be defeated by Bob Rae’s whipping or not whipping his caucus against the measure. It will be defeated because Stephen Harper needs it to…
Federal NDP On The Rise In Vote-Rich Ontario
ThreeHundredEight.com: Massive NDP leads in Quebec, Ontario competitive: Two federal polls conducted recently in Quebec by Forum Research and CROP indicate that the New Democrats have not only taken the…
If the Liberals want to stand up for reproductive rights, they should stop pretending and whip the dammed vote
Today Parliament will debate a “private members” motion from Conservative MP Stephen Woodworth that would effectively re-open the abortion debatein Canada, and put the reproductive rights of women at risk.…
The Exxon Valdez? Child’s Play.
For decades we’ve used the Exxon Valdez incident to define oil supertanker disaster. Yet what Harper is planning for coastal BC, south and north, will make the Exxon Valdez disaster…
Auditor General – Tories Ducking True F-35 Costs
You can never go far wrong by underestimating the integrity of the Harper regime. They seem to lie when it would be easier to tell the truth and what they…
There’s no greater fraud… “unsustainable” version #nlpoli
The provincial Conservatives promised on Tuesday that they had a 10 year plan to reduce the provincial debt. They have been in office since 2003. in that time they boosted…