….government and regulators on the take, tremendous dangers, death toll unpredictable…..a government-apppointed, expert panel tells terrible story of the betrayal by government, the corruptiong of inspectors and regulars, and the…
Great reportage on the life of a corner store owner in Quebec, done by the National Film Board and Le Devoir. Check it out: part in English, mostly in French,…
Remember Guelph? That was the original focus of the Elections Canada investigation into fraudulent phone calls but it seems like such a long time ago it may be difficult to…
Perhaps it’s because I’m in Jamaica and don’t give a rat’s ass, or perhaps it’s because I’m becoming even more of a curmudgeon than before: either way – and from…
Well known Toronto litigator Joseph Groia was found by the Law Society to have engaged in professional misconduct for his conduct during the Felderhof/Bre-X trial. The decision is lengthy and…
Dr. Vandana Shiva – physicist, ecologist, activist, author, and founder of Navdanya (a movement for biodiversity conservation) on the most important work of our times: * VandanaShiva.org
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Romney.jpg In Part 1 of this series, we explored the overall environmental issues that are facing the U.S., mostly as a part of coordinated attacks by politicians in Washington. In…
R. v Fuller 2012 ONCA 473 (Goudge, Feldman, Blair JJ.A.) set aside a sentence as excessive having regard to the fact the appellant was a relatively youthful first offender who…
Miscellaneous material to end your week. – Dan Gardner nicely sums up how any Con cabinet shuffles are utterly irrelevant since Stephen Harper prefers ciphers to functional ministers in any…
The Niagara Health System’s supervisor has commissioned a poll on his interim recommendations for the struggling multi-site hospital. If anything, the poll confirmed why Kevin Smith had been appointed by…
Canada’s labour market stagnated again in June. Employment edged up by only 7,000 as the working-age population grew by 30,000. In response to this job shortage, 17,000 Canadians dropped out…
Since coming to power in 2006, the Canadian prime minister “has acquired a reputation for playing fast and loose with the rules.” Harper plays to his social conservative base. He…
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Friday, July 06, 2012: VOIR DIRE AND OPENING STATEMENTS: BLOCKBUSTER REPTILE SEMINAR Distracted driving: OK to briefly hold…
Groups from the StopTheTrap.net coalition are on the ground in San Diego as trade reps discuss the restrictive intellectual property aspects of the TPP—the Internet trap. But TPP negotiators aren’t…
I am sure that like me, many despair over the state of democracy in Canada. Not only is it under continuous assault by a federal government that has repeatedly and…
CBC up there in Northern Alberta tells all that somebody thiefed 150 bee hives from Bill Termeer’s place in Grande Prairie. The point of course is iffen you are in…
If you need a smile today, here it is: Cute pandas playing on the slide – YouTube. Filed under: Beautiful, Fun Tagged: nature videos
On July 4th, while the Americans were setting off fire works and putting out forest fires, Jeffrey Simpson reports that Conservative cabinet ministers were crisscrossing the country, making spending announcements:…
