Photo parade
Hooray, the US health care law was upheld! So here’s some cheerful photos for today: Pictures that will restore your faith in humanity Pictures that will make you say awwwww…
June 2012
The Premier and her glass house #nlpoli
One of Kathy Dunderdale’s more obnoxious qualities is her love of insulting other people. She couldn’t let the House close without doing it a few times just for good measure.…
Our Cowardly Governor-General
Ex G.G. Michaelle Jean agreed to prorogue Parliament in December, 2008 apparently because she was intimidated by our thug prime minister, Stephen Harper, and feared that the Tory slime machine…
Dean, Dean, Dean (redux)
Do you hear the sound of that shovel hitting bedrock? You have nowhere to go but up, big guy! OTTAWA — Two donors to Conservative MP Dean Del Mastro’s 2008…
I love it when right-wing assholes screw up
I’m petty that way.
More reasons for a "no" vote
Victoria teachers met yesterday to take a look at the tentative agreement. Feelings are mixed. While there is certainly some sense of relief that the concessions are now off the…
Harper Government Must Set Canadian Scientists Free
Nature, one of the biggest and most-read scientific journals in the world, made this call in a February 29th editorial. The journal lamented the Harper Government’s undisguised hostility to openness,…
June 28:
There’s a story on section A, p. 5 about our New Brunswick fishermen and the low price they get for lobsters, the lowest of any Atlantic province. There has always…
On Growth and Its Limits
George Monbiot offers a fascinating insight in the wake of last week’s United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) in Rio de Janeiro. While rightly deriding the declaration adopted by…
Government Pushes Raven Coal Mine to Next Stage, Comox Valley Residents Remain Defiant
Despite widespread public concern and opposition, and the lack of a social license being granted by the residents of the Comox Valley and Port Alberni, the EA process continues to…
Wrongful dismissal in Nunavut
In most jurisdictions in Canada there are statutory and common law protections for employees who have been terminated without cause. Basically, a statute provides for a minimum notice period before…
Obamacare ruling, explained
In Plain English: The Affordable Care Act, including its individual mandate that virtually all Americans buy health insurance, is constitutional. There were not five votes to uphold it on the…
What was Justice Rand thinking, eh Andrew Coyne?
Noted conservative columnist Andrew Coyne is in postmedia today stumping for the Ontario Tories’ proposals to change labour laws that allow unions to collect dues from everyone in the workplace.
The Mulcair posts I threw on here…
over the past few days were fun… kinda like the #Harperhistory or #tellviceverything tags. A point that I was trying to make is that these attack ads that are the…
Air of reality test in Supreme Court of Canada
R. v. Mayuran, 2012 SCC 31 was just released. It deals with when a defence ought to be put to a jury. Broadly speaking, a proposed defence to a criminal…
ExxonMobil Response to Extreme Weather Events Linked To Climate Change: Adapt
* Compare Tillerson’s response to what super-scientists Stephen Hawking and Carl Sagan have to say about a destabilized climate from unchecked fossil fuel emissions: “The ‘hell’ of Venus an important…