May 2012
When Mayors attack
Apparently, Toronto’s esteemed Mayor Rob Ford got into a tussle with a reporter: Daniel Dale on what happened near the mayor’s home: “At some point, perhaps 10 or 15 seconds…
Jane’s Walks Coming up This Weekend: Learning about Neighborhoods One Step at a Time
The series of walks given all over the world in honour of urbanist Jane Jacobs are coming up this weekend. In past years I’ve given a couple: last year it…
Austerity can be fought !
Asked by an anglophone journalist what the Québec students struggle means for the ROC, this is what I had to say. http://cutvmontreal.ca/videos/1102 I’m was among a varied group of people…
While You Were Sleeping: Fed Policies Make It Easier to Hire a Cheaper You
A shorter version of this article appeared today in the Globe and Mail’s Economy Lab Have you noticed how common it has become to talk about replacing workers with even…
Your community needs you!
With spring in the air, activity is ramping up in the community. There are a lot of fun events ahead – the Tulip Festival on May 12, ArtsPark on May…
The phrases junior nurses and most staff do not care to hear from senior nurses…
… and other examples of nurses eating their young… A few statements I’ve heard in the last few years that I shall share periodically. “It is more important that I…
A doc that makes you want to occupy – We Are Wisconsin at Hot Docs 2012
Yesterday we caught three political docs at Hot Docs, and before I race off to The Law In These Parts, here is the first of many more micro-reviews. We Are…
From Financial Crisis to Stagnation
I am enjoying Tom Palley’s new book – and would post an enthusiastic review except for the fact that I have been unable to find the time to finish it.…
Special treatment for oil industry means poor environmental laws
Thursday, May 3, 2012 The roll-back of Canada’s environmental laws – legal environmental protection that Canadians have worked for decades to put in place – give the oil and gas…
How Martin Luther King would have felt about, Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice?
In a sketch that Art Spiegelman proposed during George W. Bush’s first term, King’s dream becomes a nightmrare as black leaders like Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice provide cover for…
Exporting Coal: Struggling U.S. Coal Industry Trying to Stay Relevant By Shipping Through the Northwest
110326007Paul_K_Anderson_Coal-copy.jpg U.S. coal companies are facing some tricky math these days. Production levels have remained more or less the same since 2005, according to the Energy Information Agency (EIA), but…
French Presidential election holds out hope for millions of Europeans
The reason is that France seems destined for a new Socialist President this Sunday, replacing the feisty Sarkozy, and dramatically changing the permissible dialogue in every capital of every democratic…
Why Canada will have a new government in 2015
Andrew Coyne has put his journalistic finger on the Achilles Heel of the ‘Harper Government’ – its inherent untrustworthiness: Stealth PM Harper But while the public might have been inclined…
Austerity or Growth? I thought it was Austerity and Growth?
Europe debate shifts to growth as austerity is failing. So what was the debate before? Well in September of 2011 it was ‘Developed nations struggle to restore growth‘, and here’s…
Guatemala: Decriminalization?
Guatemalan President Otto Pérez Molina has made headlines around the world for his suggestion that the U.S. led “War on Drugs” has failed, and that other options should be explored.…
Fresh evidence on appeal
R. v. T.S., 2012 ONCA 289 deals in detail with the reception of fresh evidence on appeal: Appellate courts have the broad discretion to receive further evidence on appeal when…