Sunday Morning ‘Rider Blogging
Yes, yesterday’s loss to Hamilton made for another painful result for a team which outplayed its opponent for most of the game. But as with the previous week’s defeat against…
July 2012
Putin is afraid of these grrrls
Big tough judo guy, scared of a punk grrrl band called Pussy Riot. Chickenshit. We’ll be raising money for their defence at out Ottawa show. You can donate directly here.…
4949…James Holmes Is The New 911, JFK Etc
James Holmes is the stronzo who allegedly got all armoured up and murdered twelve people at the new Batman flick’s debut in Aurora, Colorado last week. He is also the…
4948…Dean Del Mastro Off The Hook
No, he is not a rapper or a hip-hop star, not that kind of off the hook.According to Brendan Wedley in Friday’s Peterborough Examiner “Elections Canada doesn’t seem to be…
The 2nd Amendment Right to a Rocket Launcher
This morning on Fox News: WALLACE: What about… a weapon that can fire a hundred shots in a minute? SCALIA: We’ll see. Obviously the Amendment does not apply to arms…
What Law School is Like
In 5 minutes.
Those Lesser Mortals
While it may be true that Alison Redford and Christie Clark are having a strong and public disagreement, at least they can sit around the same table and talk. And…
Cat mountain landscape
Filed under: art, design, digital, drawing Tagged: 100 cats
Canada Requires A Unifying Force
In the absence of defining moments, it is sometimes hard to ascertain incremental drift. There is a certain subtlety to Canada’s federation unravelling that tends to undermine the true severity.…
No Talent Thug Back In The News
Purported comedian Guy Earle his back in the news, trying to convince a judge that assaulting lesbians is free speech. Because the article through the link is a piece of…
The Cost of Profound Ignorance
At the risk of sounding arrogant, I have to admit that the profoundly ignorant deeply distress me, especially those who revel in that ignorance, wear it as a faux badge…
There is a need for Theatre in Law
There is a reason lawyers in Canada wear robes in Superior Court. There is a reason judges wear robes almost everywhere in the Common Law world. The reason is to…
Scrutinizing government Expenditures.
Members of Parliament receive conflicting, outdated information about how billions of tax dollars are being spent each year, and get little opportunity to review fiscal plans. Those are some of…
ten years too long: bring omar khadr back to canada
Today marks 10 years since Canadian citizen Omar Khadr, then 15 years old, was picked up in Afghanistan. For an entire decade, he has lived in prison, first in Bagram,…
Take Time To Renew Your Spirit
“We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.” – Angela Y. Davis
Koch funded climate change study making news in a good way
Big climate change news that is making a splash, this New York Times op-ed by Richard Muller that gives an overview of a Berkeley study which he led: “The Conversion…
Stockwell Day for Premier?
Thank you Georgia Straight editor Charlie Smith. I needed that. In the midst of unrelenting bad news broken up only by worse news — pipeline debates, carnage in Syria, the…