openmedia_logo.jpg April 12, 2012 – Today, the Ontario government announced plans to adopt measures to protect cell phone users. Grassroots group OpenMedia.ca is lauding these measures, noting that with only…
My fellow seekers of the Cat Truth, Please take a moment to send the Honourable Jim Flaherty a short request. Besides a bit of shameless Flaherty flattery, the following petition…
From David Pugliese at the Ottawa Citizen: ■ Military housing at Goose Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador, Toronto, Vancouver and Winnipeg will be shut down. The story appeared on April 11.…
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You see this is why I love the internet, where else can you find news on some of the most ridiculous shit in the world today? And since the net’s…
We’re almost to the point when the trees will leaf out, two weeks or more ahead of usual. The importance of trees has been unlined this week in two stories…
Last night I had a long telephone conversation with my good friend Dave, who lives in Winnipeg. Like me (and probably more so), Dave has a keenly developed sense of…
It was a restaurant in Guanzhou, China. I couldn’t speak enough Chinese to order anything. (My Chinese is limited to “Excuse me, foreigh devil.”) The waiter couldn’t speak English. So…
Blog years probably should be counted like dog years. And while I’d be remiss if I didn’t note that the seventh anniversary of the commencement of this blog came and…
Centa says the questions of whether Ford improperly took funding from his family company and overspent his campaign limit are important to the provincial Municipal Elections Act, and to democracy…
From Stephen Bruneau’s submission to the public utilities board hearing on the Muskrat Falls project: In 2010, the withdrawal and use of natural gas as a fuel for electrical generation…
”This isn’t about the planes, in other words, or costs, or accounting. This is about accountability. This is is about whether departments are answerable to their ministers, and whether ministers…
MacGregor v. Potts, 2012 ONCA 226 is an interesting example of a case where the party filing a jury notice successfully moved to have the jury struck: The respondents (plaintiffs)…
British authorities are meeting with their Icelandic counterparts to consider powering the UK with geothermal electricity. It’s a terrific, low-carbon solution. Take the heat the earth naturally brings to the…
Poor are getting poorer and rich are getting richer. Here is a one story and there are many more here.
By now, the details of the proposed Enbridge pipeline (and its disastrous social and ecological implications) are well-documented, so I’ll spare you. Most people reading this are probably convinced that…
The new leader of Team Dip, Thomas Mulcair, has an exit strategy just in case this whole becoming Prime Minister of Canada thing doesn’t work out. In a Toronto Star…
As of right now. The late night talker turns 65 today. If only he was a Canuck. WFDS
Broadcaster/writer Steve Lendman makes a strong case against NATO intervention in Syria. Feminist and community activist Adrie Naylor explains why Harper’s austerity agenda hurts women particularly hard.
This photo was taken just before Ontario NDP leader Andrea Horwath’s latest press conference, today. Where she claimed she doesn’t want an election. That’s her campaign van. Anyone believe her…
