In May, Corporal Catherine Galliford filed a claim of being sexually harassed by her male superiors during her 16 year career with our national police force, the Royal Canadian Mounted…
UK police drop climategate investigation.png "Our Priority is You," reads the tagline of the Norfolk Constabulary. The rest of the sentence ought to read, "unless you are a climate scientist."…
No small amount of surprise was generated by the recent elections in Egypt when Islamist parties swept the parliamentary elections and the Muslim Brotherhood candidate won the presidential election. Coming…
Temperature has dropped. Ought to get back to work on the next thing. But I came across this: a great spoof of the writing life.
The minister in charge of important stuff has shown his absolute non grasp of basic history.You may recall that a couple of years ago the Honourable Peter MacKay had California…
SaskAdapt.ca feels like waving the white flag, but it is an important website, and a project at the UofR. It’s also the closest we’ll get to an admission from the…
Indcondo Building Corp v. Sloan, 2012 ONCA 502 has an interesting comment in obiter. The governing principle regarding counsel acting on contingency and security for costs is that such is improper because to…
The proposed changes to the riding boundaries in Quebec manage to erase the names of Liberal prime ministers from the landscape: Laurier (Mtl) = gone; Louis Saint-Laurent (Qcity) = gone.…
If Generation X, the class of ’61 to ’81, is truly disengaged, disinterested, disbelieving of global warming and its impacts, what does that hold for the future? As the Boomers…
For those stopping by my page because of my OSCON keynote here are some links on community management that might be of interest: Structurelessness, feminism and open: what open advocates…
Mr. NFL player.Len Berman’s That’s Sports has a nice little piece this morning about the 50 and the NFL. The catalyst for the piece was Dez Bryant’s recent arrest for…
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Wednesday, July 18, 2012: Mounties issue sweeping denial in B.C. harassment lawsuit Court upholds ex-nurse’s conviction for assisting…
When King Louis XIV woke up in the morning, courtiers would crush into his room to flatter him about the grace with which he put his pants on, the delicacy…
Just in time for discussion by political junkies at their latest BBQs, EKOSon July 13 released their findings on the below surface movements in Canadian political currents. Their findings should…
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…stopped. If some big pile of concrete lands on me, it’s been a slice. Vote Liberal, etc.
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Michael Harris continues to highlight some of the fundamental problems with the Cons’ view of politics, this time identifying Stephen Harper as being…
Air conditioners use a ton of energy and when everyone has their’s running the load on the power grid can be pushed to the limit. At night, when it’s generally…
Many thanks to Montreal Simon, who created this trenchant attack ad: Recommend this Post
A Moment of Sanity From Rachel Maddow
Were it not for Americans like Rachel Maddow, I would not be able to hold out even a glimmer of hope for the benighted nation: BTW, you need to click…