I have one word: OY… http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/06/11/speaker-green-lights-800-proposed-opposition-ammendments-to-omnibus-buget-bill/ OTTAWA — The Speaker of the House of Commons has given a green light to more than 800 proposed opposition amendments to the Conservative…
Under BC’s Vladimir Putin, Cop Supreme Rich Coleman, this government is about to ruin several more BC rivers to get more private power. As we sit and digest this, BC…
* It’s time for a tour of my garden, as promised. I should preface this by saying there’s a reason that I’m attracted to the randomness/wildness of the “hugel kultur”…
Frail and elderly residents in Ontario’s nursing homes may be paying in more ways than one for the province’s budget shortfall. While Health Minister Deb Matthews is holding the line…
Quebec’s biggest celebration is coming up two weeks from now, the Fête natonale. The official day is June 24, but since that’s a Sunday this year, Monday also is a…
DUFFERIN CALEDON FEDERAL LIBERAL ASSOCIATION PRESENTS AN INTIMATE LUNCHEON WITH SPECIAL GUEST JUSTIN TRUDEAU, MP TUESDAY, JUNE 26,2012 12:30 -3:30 P.M. THE CONSULATE DINING LOUNGE 15430 INNIS LAKE…
What is ACTA? The Anti-Counterfeit Trade Agreement is a secretive international treaty for the enforcing of new copyright and intellectual property laws. Not much is known about the actual content…
R. v. Campbell, 2012 ONCA 394 is a good source for the principle that deference should be given to a trial judge's Charter analysis: Deference is owed to a trial judge's s.…
What is ACTA? The Anti-Counterfeit Trade Agreement is a secretive international treaty for the enforcing of new copyright and intellectual property laws. Not much is known about the actual content…
“We will amend the Access to Information legislation to enhance the transparency of government actions and decisions.” Danny Williams, Leader of the Opposition, February 2003 There truly is a greater…
June 9, 2012: Citizens opposed to Bill C-38 pause for a moment outside of Conservative MP Joyce Bateman’s Winnipeg South Centre office before continuing to distribute literature in the constituency.…
In dictatorial regimes, tyrants rule by manipulating prevailing public emotions. They use the smallest emotional opportunity to create draconian laws that take away the people’s rights and freedoms. Public Safety…
My wife and I will be taking our annual mini-vacation to the nation’s capital this coming weekend. Usually I try and put aside one afternoon (usually Sunday) to meet-up with…
Every day, I remain in touch with old friends in journalism – mostly in Montreal, but also scattered to London, Japan, and China. Their politics range anywhere from moderate liberal…
Afghan Army Soldiers One way of knowing for sure that America has lost a war is when the Pentagon begins navel-gazing. That’s exactly what the US military is doing now…
Wednesday, May 9 saw the first Committee of the Whole discussion of the Cons’ budget bill – with the opportunity for hours of direct questions about military spending giving rise…
I received the following from one of the people I was protesting with the other day near Conservative M.P. David Sweet’s constuency office. It offers yet another tool in the…
hockeybookmann (1).jpg This is a review of The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches From the Front Lines, by Michael Mann. I first became familiar with the name Michael…
Plains Midstream Canada, wow, what an ironic name given their midstream oil leak on the plains of Alberta. I hope Plains Midschool Canada, or Plains Midlake Canada don’t operate in…
Von Daniken, with a pipe given to him by an ancient astronaut. Oh my God (pun intended), I was totally into this dude when I was a teenager. I thought…
