I forgot to shave today
There. I admitted it. Of course I don’t actually have the sort of facial hair to allow me to grow a beard but I do in fact shave every day…
May 2012
Yay Obama!
Today was a historic day. It’s the day President Barack Obama endorsed equal marriage in an emotional interview with ABC. I think it’s quite meaningful considering there is no consensus…
Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.
Yet it is the one essential, vital quality of those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change. Ernest Hemingway
A Message To Those Arrested on May 1st in Montreal
This past May 1st, in the hours following the anti-capitalist demonstration organized by CLAC-Montreal (the Anti-Capitalist Convergence), 107 people were arrested and several were brutalized by the police. So far…
Judge’s reasons ought not to consist reproductions of the written arguments of counsel
Fuller Western Rubber Linings Ltd. v Spence Corrosion Services Ltd., 2012 ABCA 137 holds that reasons ought not to consist reproductions of the written arguments of counsel. Such a practice…
Conservative lobbyist introduces Conservative aviation exec (and candidate) to Conservative Ornge CEO
…so, if you’re starting to get the impression that Ornge was a run by a network of Conservative lobbyists, lawyers and hacks, you’d be right. “Potter testified he first met…
Toronto Star: RCMP Caught Spying on Aboriginal Pipeline Protesters in BC
Read this story from the Toronto Star discussing the results of a recent freedom-of-information search which revealed special RCMP units have been spying on First Nations in BC who are…
President Obama Evolves on Marriage-Equality. Thankfully, Nobody Pressed “B.”
Mitt Romney reacts–if you wonder why he doesn’t try and slam President Obama for changing his position, it’s probably because he doesn’t believe in evolution and he would lose any…
Stevie and Christy’s ‘Hands-off’ Approach to Enbridge – Gerry Hummel Cartoon
Check out this new cartoon from Gerry Hummel. Christy Clark says she isn’t taking a position on the proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway pipelines – but as we revealed this week,…
Obama, first President in U.S. history to publicly endorse same-sex marriage
Many liberals and democrats will now say: “Finally! ” and ask: “What took you so long Mr. President?” Yes indeed, what prevented Barrack Obama to show his support of gay…
4618…Vidal Sasson Is Done
At 84. Found this story on my very own blog, The World Famous Dan Shields, via the USA TODAY. How cool is that? This guy was cool too. An Israeli…
All the Conservatives’ corporate-like donations
Well, what else would you call this happy set of events? Those SNC-Lavalin execs sure are of a like-mind politically. They all donate to the same two riding associations in…
The End of Growth
I am presently reading "The End of Growth: Adapting to Our New Economic Reality" by Richard Heinberg (2011). The book points out the many absurdities of currently accepted Economic Theories…
The End of Growth
I am presently reading “The End of Growth: Adapting to Our New Economic Reality” by Richard Heinberg (2011). The book points out the many absurdities of currently accepted Economic Theories…
The End of Growth
I am presently reading "The End of Growth: Adapting to Our New Economic Reality" by Richard Heinberg (2011). The book points out the many absurdities of currently accepted Economic Theories…
The End of Growth
I am presently reading “The End of Growth: Adapting to Our New Economic Reality” by Richard Heinberg (2011). The book points out the many absurdities of currently accepted Economic Theories…
4617…Romney Could Win
Just keep that in mind. WFDS
Dirty Laundry
Is this what Peter Kent P.O.S. M.P. was talking about when he said there was laundering of funds that the Senate was investigating? Somehow, I think it wasn’t.
One good reason to vote NDP in 2015
Perhaps Leonard Cohen has something to say to those Canadians who look with dismay upon our broken, undemocratic, first past the post electoral system, and wonder that a man who…
People focus: Ricky Martin – Out and Happy
After the death of Beastie Boys’ Adam Yauch, I have decided to create a new article where I focus every so often on a person who has not only done…