Mount Allison University Class of 2012 Video
I just finished up working a video on graduating students’ plans for after graduation. It’s been great to see so many students willing to share their plans. Here’s the video:…
May 2012
Mount Allison University Class of 2012 Video
I just finished up working a video on graduating students’ plans for after graduation. It’s been great to see so many students willing to share their plans. Here’s the video:…
5 Questions: Paulina O’Neill
I met Paulina O’Neill while canvassing for Grant Gordon in Toronto-Danforth (though I have been receiving e-mails from her for the past year on the UofT Young Liberals listserv.) She…
Bob Dylan’s Ladder of the Law and Rupert Murdoch
The bombshell findings of the UK Parliamentary Committee that heard the two Murdochs testify about their role and their innocence in the phone hacking case, gave rise to Bob Dylan…
“The Jet That Ate the Pentagon”
Interesting headline on the front page of The Huffington Post about F-35. “Claimed to be near invisible to radar and able to dominate any future battlefield, the F-35 will replace…
Pierre Elliott Trudeau’s Speech in Support of the Abolition of Capital Punishment (House of Commons, June 15th, 1976.)
“I am sure that very few of us consciously contemplated, when we decided to run for public office, that we would find ourselves playing a decisive role in the resolution…
Who Owns Creations
One of my most popular videos is one of Richard Stallman answering my questions about the proprietary nature and danger of iPads and cell phones. YouTube linked me to this…
Public Policy: The Big Opportunity For Health Record Data
A few weeks ago Colin Hansen – a politician in the governing party in British Columbia (BC) – penned an op-ed in the Vancouver Sun entitled Unlocking our data to…
Political Language. . . .
Continuing on with the theme of political machismo, we should talk about the degree to which specific, everyday language reinforces the notions of machismo. Common expressions of attack against liberally…
A judicial officer may rely on what is submitted during a sentencing hearing unless there is a dispute on the facts
R. v. Ducharme, 2012 MBCA 35 is a helpful source for the proposition that a judicial officer may rely on what is submitted during a sentencing hearing unless there is…
May 1: Today’s prize for bad journalism goes to……
…me. About I week ago, I was critical of a Moncton Times and Transcript story because it was trivial. It was about the world shortage of helium – and the…
Happy May Day
The Occupy movement is busy all over the world today. Standing up for your rights and the rights of all those that will come after, even if you think they…
We Lose, We Win?
Here’s an interesting idea. The best and quickest way to restore peace to Afghanistan is for Western forces to pack up and get out. “Most insurgent fighters are not interested…
When Green Energy Meets Endangered Species In Ontario
…you get something like this decision from the Environmental Registry, allowing Grand Valley Wind Farms Inc. to build nine wind turbines in the Township of East Luther Grand Valley on…
Just do it (direct action)! – Activist documentary made free for May Day
From our activist and filmmaker friends in the UK: Constellation and Occupy.com present A FREE 24-hour ONLINE SCREENING of Just Do It – a tale of modern-day outlaws, in celebration…
The Right-Wing Propaganda Machine Gears Up
Deeply affronted, perhaps even frightened by the recent change to the Ontario budget that will impose an increase of 2% on the income of those making over $500,000 per year,…
Ontario PC MPP Rick Nicholls is a coward
Say what you said in the Leg outside, coward. We dare you.
Ol’ Rupe Ain’t Gonna Like This – "Unfit" to Lead
News Corp boss Rupe Murdoch showed “willful blindness” toward the behavior of News of the World staffers in the lead-up to the British phone hacking scandal, according to a report…
The muzzling of Canada’s scientists
In a press conference, Environment Minister Peter Kent said that the perceptions of scientists being muzzled has been caused by journalists who want to set their own agenda of who…
Enbridge pipeline gets thumbs-down from B.C. NDP – British Columbia – CBC News
Enbridge pipeline gets thumbs-down from B.C. NDP – British Columbia – CBC News: ‘via Blog this’ Brilliant move by the NDP. It does a number of things: its makes the…