Jason Kenney: Elie Wiesel is wrong, as usual
I wasn’t on Sun News, this week, because I was in Jamaica, where it is less hot than Toronto. While here, I heard from a friend at Sun News, who…
July 2012
The Proof of the Pudding
Americans are catching on to the concept of anthropogenic global warming, finally. That’s mainly because from the Colorado wildfires to the sustained drought across the southwest to the flooding of…
Cushion cat 2 in colour
Filed under: art, digital, drawing Tagged: 100 cats
Stiglitz on Inequality
In Canada, there has not been much comment on an op-ed piece which Joseph Stiglitz published in The Washington Post two weeks ago. Stiglitz examines American economic policy over the…
Is This Really Negotiating?
While I have sometimes been critical of my former union, The Ontario Secondary Teachers Federation, both in this blog and my other one, I have always been a supporter and…
An Act Against Slavery was an anti-slavery law passed on July 9, 1793
An Act Against Slavery was an anti-slavery law passed on July 9, 1793, in the first legislative session of Upper Canada, what is now Ontario. It was the first anti-slavery…
Zorg Report 2012-07-07 07:51:00
CTV.ca throttles down online content to support advertisers Canada’s CTV network, whose employees constitute a notable source of funding for the federal Conservative party, has now begun throttling back its…
Saturday At The Movies
The woman who posted this video of a baby hummingbird’s first flight a few days ago wrote: Anna’s Hummingbird Baby sits next to the nest for the first time (in…
Guess Who Said It
Most people do not have deep values. One person one vote, that is how Hitler was able to define his laws. Special points if you can parse it so it…
Proposed AB Boundaries Offer *Some* Opposition Hope
The new boundaries for Alberta – or at least, the new proposed ones – are fairly interesting, and Daveberta and CalgaryGrit offer up some insightful comments on them, so be…
The Happiness Index #nlpoli
Leave it to labradore to come up with a new way to look at poll results. He took the results of “satisfaction” questions in polls going back about a decade. …
Autism Society New Brunswick 2005 Submission to the MacKay Inclusive Education NB Review
May 24, 2005 AWM Legal Consulting Inc.7071 Bayers Road R.P.O. box 22076Halifax, Nova Scotia B3L 4T7 To Whom It May Concern: The following is Autism Society of New Brunswick’s submission…
Jeanne Reynolds of CLASSE speaks with WSWS
Top: Student protest with CLASSE banner Below:Jeanne Reynolds and Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois The Coalition large de l’association pour une solidarité syndicale étudiante (CLASSE) represents student groups from Quebec CÉGEP colleges and…
Answering Free Dominion: Part I
When we write an article in which Free Dominion is mentioned, it is often the case that they respond in some way. Usually with nasty names with what we could…
Civility. Yes That’s What We Need…
Ah, politics. – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net WRONGFUL DISMISSAL • CIVIL LITIGATION AND ESTATE LITIGATION • FAMILY LAW AND DIVORCE ORIGINALLY POSTED AT…
In Sunday’s Sun, early: a picture really is worth a 1,000 words
Words are about information. Pictures are about emotion. Emotion equals power. Print folks — the ones who pour their souls into writing newspapers and magazines, the ones who craft profound…
Musical interlude
Big Wreck – Wolves
Liberal Party Petition: No More Omnibus Bills, Harper
The just-concluded Parliamentary session witnessed “serious abuses of power by the Harper Conservatives” through the use of two omnibus bills “that are radically changing Canada”: crime Bill C-10 and Budget…
Hot day in July
In the first five days of July more than 1,200 heat records in the United States were broken or tied.And that doesn’t even include the hot air expected at Del…
Friday night
I go with more Metric tonight. For the first song here, Artificial Nocturne, in particular, although you can take your pick! Have a great night!