4978…Ramadan Problem At Olympics
It has to be rough being a practicing Muslim at the Olympics this time out. It is Ramadan which means that they gotta fast from sun up to sundown. Like,…
July 2012
4957…Andrea Horvath Breaking The Law
Breaking the law, breaking the law she is. It was Jonathan Jenkins of the Toronto Sun who broke the story of the NDP leader and her peeps are driving the…
Why seek validation from the IOC? Instead, flip it the bird
Share this: I love the Olympics, but not for the reasons you might think. It can be truly inspiring to watch the best athletes in the world – and the…
Romney should audition for Keystone Kops with his mouth
Remember four years ago and Barack Obama’s goodwill tour of Europe — well before the Democratic convention — and how it brought out people in the tens of thousands; including…
Employment & Labour Legislation Submission
Plenty of others will be chiming in today on the future of employment and labour law in Saskatchewan; here’s my personal contribution. Many other voices have expressed concerns about the…
Act of Valor, Redux
“Before my father died, he said the worst thing about growing old was that other men stop seeing you as dangerous….Dangerousness was sacred.” Last night I watched Act of Valor.…
Road through Time, or Roads in Time: World Heritage Site and My New Book Project
Now that I’ve put aside the short story collection Desire Lines: A Geography of Love that I’ve been working for the last several months, I’m back to working on the…
Great article about the demise…
… of Katimavik, by my old friend and fellow PSHS alumnus, Michael Johansen. (6) Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
rtod: extremism normalized
Revolutionary thought of the day: Remember when, in the wake of the 9/11 attack, the Patriot Act was controversial, held up as the symbolic face of Bush/Cheney radicalism and widely…
In New York City Gay Marriage is Worth $259 Million
You read that correctly, a $259 million (USD) boom in New York City’s economy is thanks to respecting human rights! Changing the law to reflect reality and letting homosexuals marry…
Bipartisanship
via techdirt
July31: Have they no shame?
The first page of today’s Monton Times and Tribune has at least two stories from yesterday’s paper – without adding much to them. (They cover the weather and a home…
The ‘t’ word
Feds taking steps to protect against environmental terrorists OTTAWA — The federal government doesn’t want to detail the steps it has taken to protect against environmental terrorists but says it…
White spy cat
Filed under: art, digital, drawing Tagged: 100 cats
A Big Tell on Muskrat Falls Exports #nlpoli
A meeting of the Eastern Canadian premiers and all the New England Governors and the provincial government here sends Keith Hutchings. Who? The minister in charge of the innovation and…
4956…Parental Control Tip
From George Takei WFDS
Climate Change: Lines of Evidence
The National Academies, America’s preeminent independent scientific advisory body, has produced a series of videos about the science of climate change. This one,the second in the series, explains how scientists…
140Law – Legal Headlines for Tuesday, July 31, 2012
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Tuesday, July 31, 2012: Law societies – Aylward v. Law Society of Newfoundland and Labrador On Overcriminalization and…