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May 2012
An order cannot be made requiring a hospital to take a s.672.58 patient where there are no beds
Centre for Addiction and Mental Health v. Ontario, 2012 ONCA 342 was released today. A treatment order under s. 672.58 of the Criminal Code can be makde requiring an accused to…
Dwell’s Top Green Projects of 2012
Architecture magazine Dwell has released their top ten green projects in the USA for this year. It would be great to see this done in a global perspective. On April…
4670…A Prog View On The New EI Regs
From my soon to be mustached friend Joseph Roman: Joseph RománOh look! Workers at the bottom end of the labour market can now get screwed even more. Not only can…
Parliament in Review: April 30, 2012
Monday, April 30 featured discussion of two opposition motions dealing with the federal government’s responsibility to ensure the safety of Canadians. And on both fronts, the Cons went out of…
On the lesson of Alberta, and Grits
…polls, and pollsters, get things wrong. The Angus Reid Group was one of the pollsters who got things dramatically wrong in Alberta, for instance. That said, this puny online survey…
4669…Where The MP For Outremont?
Thomas Mulcair. On the subject of civil unrest in his riding for the last 100 plus days? Where is he? WFDS
Feds Shipping Their Trash to BC…..
Disgraced RCMP officer transferred to B.C. Sgt. Don Ray admitted to sexual relations with subordinates and harassment CBC News Posted: May 23, 2012 5:37 PM PT Last Updated: May 23,…
Some Things Are Important
Bernie Farber explains why this one is. Donate here.
4668…John Baird Wot Were You Thinking
In our town, Ottawa, it is rumoured, and has been since his days at Bell High School in the Ottawa ‘burb of Bell’s Corners, that John Baird plays for the…
Israel’s Race Riots
To us, they’re “refugees.” To many Israeli’s, including Netnayahu, they’re “infiltrators.” In Israel’s Knesset, refugees and asylum-seekers are derided as “cancer.” Demonstrators have attacked African migrants in Tel Aviv in…
Quebec, Protests, Activism, and Threats to Power. . .
So-called “radical” political protest and activism, from the great peasant revolts to the ‘velvet’ revolution, has always been, in the final analysis, about the big issues of justice, social and…
An Argument Even Albertans Should Understand
Even today, simply mentioning the Trudeau-era “National Energy Programme” or NEP to an Albertan is putting a match to gasoline. Yet, in yesterday’s Edmonton Journal, the argument was made that…
4667…On The Other Hand The Beer Is Cheap
In Montreal. Sure the State Department is warning Yankees to be careful visiting Montreal but they left the above fact out. And you can bring wine to many restaurants. WFDS
Mulcair Takes on the West
What started out as musings on the health of Ontario’s manufacturing sector has quickly escalated into a full fledged war of words between Tom Mulcair and the western Premiers. It’s…
Mulcair Takes on the West
What started out as musings on the health of Ontario’s manufacturing sector has quickly escalated into a full fledged war of words between Tom Mulcair and the western Premiers. It’s…
Free The Hostages… Give MPs Back Their Right To Debate and Dissent
This story got a lot of play yesterday. Just another Conservative MP behaving like a human being and voicing an opinion. Well, we can’t have that now can we? But…
Key EI Data No Longer Available
As Heather Scoffield of Canadian Press reports here, Statistics Canada are no longer publishing key EI data because HRSDC have stopped providing it. Data on the dollar value of EI…
A Note On Carbon Emissions
From one of Mike De Souza’s fine pieces on Canada’s GG emissions policy, noting a statement made by Environment Minister Peter Kent in the HOC earlier this month: “This reduction…