4800…Simon Cowell Likes Justin Trudeau
Well, actually I would think the American Idol star doesn’t know Justin Trudeau but if he did he would like him. You know why? Coz JT has the X Factor.…
June 2012
Publication ban the right decision for Eaton Centre victims
The Justice of the Peace was right. Yes, freedom of the press is important. But so is the freedom of people to live their lives in peace. Here a young…
4799…Happy Birthday To The Toothbrush
It was invented on this day in 1498. In China of course. It is expected to be rolled out in England any day now. WFDS
4798…Don’t Stay In School
That is what someone should have told Ohio State baller Jared Sullinger this time last year. The man is finishing his sophmore year and if he had of come out…
4787…Rob Ford Pride Update
The Toronto mayor is in the news yet again for blowing off the Gay Pride Parade in the Big Smoke. Um, like, uh, he does this every year eh? It’s…
Track of the Day: Ty Segall Band “I Bought My Eyes”
If you think your summer needs a bit more fuzzed-out, pile-driver garage rock, then friend, have I got an album for you. Ty Segall’s latest album (out today) is like…
Appealing To Our Better Angels
It is hard to predict the future of the Liberal Party of Canada. Richard Gwyn wrote yesterday that Bob Rae’s decision to not seek the party leadership has made it…
Thomas Mulcair?
He hates hockey… he really does. See this hockey player? Thomas Mulcair hates hockey. He would ban our children from playing hockey. THIS CHILD WOULD NEVER REPRESENT HIS COUNTRY AT…
Amongst the stars
Filed under: art, digital, drawing Tagged: 100 cats
wmtc survey: what would you do?
Survey time! Please choose the answer closest to what you would actually do. More information: 1. The acquaintance does not read this blog. 2. After answering the question, please feel…
Reading for Faster Freedom in Brazil
Prisoners in Brazil may be able to shorten their stay in jail by reading and writing. It’s only 48 days but it can make a difference, the prisoners need to…
New York Times: Copyright restrictions limit innovation
What’s at stake when we fight for Internet openness by tackling copyright and other intellectual property issues? This article describes it well: “It’s not that we don’t need to protect…
Final and interlocutory orders
Alfano v. Piersanti, 2012 ONCA 442 is a good current example of the principle that where a decision disposes finally of a material issue the decision gives rise to a…
Nature Is Now On Her Own. World Governments Throw In the Towel On Climate Change.
Rio + 20 was, according to U.N. Gen-Sec Ban Moon, too important to fail yet that’s exactly what it did and that’s all it did – fail. Guardian enviro-scribe, George…
RCI: Another small way in which the Harper Cons are chipping away at Canada
Radio Canada International’s shortwave service was, quite literally, Canada’s voice to the world for nearly seventy years – through wars, through triumphs and disasters, through it all. It has literally…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Dr. Dawg highlights Peter Russell’s take on the Cons’ 2008 efforts to prevent a Parliamentary majority from actually exercising its right to…
Conservative values are Canadian values
Toronto Sun, June 1, 2011: Conservative values are Canadians values, Prime Minister Stephen Harper told his new team of MPs Wednesday, but urged them to stay “humble” as they kicked…
Russia & Quebec, Don’t Protest The Similarities
Vladimir Putin recently issued new fines for unsanctioned protests, $9,000 for protesters and $30,000 for protest organizers. Meanwhile a few months ago in Canada, Quebec Premier Jean Charest issued new…
Major Autism Research Breakthrough: EEG Study Involved Classic Low Functioning Autism Subjects
Two thumbs up for Frank H. Duffy, M.D., of the Department of Neurology, and Heidelise Als, Ph.D., of the Department of Psychiatry at Boston Children’s Hospital, for conducting an autism…
The Ongoing Failure Of Toronto’s Chief Magistrate
Admittedly, the ideological girth of Toronto’s chief magistrate makes him an easy target. Always outspoken, heedless of who he offends, with the political instincts of a brawler, Rob Ford has…