Premier Clark Buys Time on Enbridge
Premier Clark’s fight with Alberta Premier Redford over the Northern Gateway project is a very dangerous ploy. She has, by this action, said plainly that the BC environment is open…
July 2012
4944…Mitt Romney Swings For The Fences
The presumptive Republican candidate for POTUS caused a media fire storm the other day when he, I am quoting from The Guardian, was “…questioning whether London was capable of staging…
Bruce Carson Charged
Designed as expiring news on a Friday in the middle of Summer, instead of last Winter when the report on his alleged guilt was complete, these charges come a year…
Friday morning Scrutinizing the Scrutineers blogging
The two major media pieces on the stories I’ve been following in these Friday morning posts were both more about Elections Canada itself than about the events EC has been…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Frances Russell comments on how the Harper Cons are ready to impose exactly the kind of centralized and unresponsive decision-making they’ve long loathed…
On cooperative efforts
The reports on fiscal arrangements and health care developed in the lead up to this weekend’s meeting of Canada’s premiers have both received some coverage. But there are a couple…
In this morning’s mailbox: Jon Latvis writes
Mr. Latvis mustn’t be enjoying all the publicity very much. That makes me very sad. Here’s his pithy note to me, just received: Jon Latvis wrote: It’s not a swastika…
4943…London Olympics Start Today
Officially that is. Beauty of the Olympics is the fact that within a week myself and thousands of other sports fans who don’t follow rhythmic gymnastics, weightlifting or even know…
One year after Greece stopped Freedom Flotilla
One year after the Greek government bowed to pressure and enforced he outsourced Israeli blockade of Gaza, the international movement to challenge the blockade is still very much afloat: we…
the boss comes out: bruce springsteen reveals his 30-year battle with depression
Thank you, Bruce! In a long feature story in The New Yorker, Bruce Springsteen reveals he has been in psychotherapy for 30 years, and has at times been depressed to…
Meow face
Filed under: art, digital, drawing Tagged: 100 cats
humans of new york: a photographic census of nyc
Assuming I am not the last person on earth to find this site, you might share my enjoyment of Humans of New York, a photo project by Brandon Stanton, documenting…
Olympian insult
For the life of me, I cannot understand why the hedonistic Olympics brass refuse to permit a moment of silence for the Israeli athletes murdered at their Olympics in 1972.…
Mostly competent government
The Harper Government™ is so determined to stall the repatriation of Omar Khadr that it’s prepared to anger an ally and make itself look incompetent and duplicitous in the process.…
140Law – Legal Headlines for Friday, July 27, 2012
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Friday, July 27, 2012: Changes Reportedly Make Skype Chats More Accessible to Police A tale of two epidemics:…
CHCH hit by loss of programming fund
FRIENDS says the LPIF was flawed, but the CRTC should have rewritten the rules to truly help independents such as CHCH.
The Magic Number #nlpoli
“Nalcor’s position”, wrote the joint federal-provincial review panel on the Lower Churchill project, “was that up to 800 MW of energy from the Project would be required to meet provincial…
Would you discuss transit issues with a guy dressed up as a stormtrooper?
Rob Ford did. That’s what his staff are claiming, in any event. As I said to a Globe reporter yesterday: ”If a guy wearing a white hard hat, with a…
what i’m reading: invisible man meets the zombies of zone one
I’m in the middle of reading Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man, now removed from the Famous Books I Haven’t Read Yet list. The novel is an exploration of African-American identity in…
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford’s Official White Supremacist Portrait: PHOTO
Our Ford, the (Lord) Mayor of Toronto is rabidly right-wing. No doubt about that. After all, he recently proposed exiling Toronto’s convicted criminals, most of whom tend to be persons…