U.S. spying bill CISPA defeated on the Senate floor
After a long battle, the global pro-Internet community saw a victory today as U.S. online spying bill CISPA was defeated on the Senate floor. Like Canada’s online spying bill C-30,…
August 2012
By my count, the Liberals are allowed at least one more
Liberals rehire Vikileaks creator sacked after tweeting Toews’s divorce details A disgraced Liberal staffer who was fired after splashing the lurid details of a Conservative cabinet minister’s messy divorce all…
Syria: US backs significant increase in the civil war
Sometimes you have to read between the lines to understand who is doing what in the world. But at other times, the media provides more than hints. President Obama is…
Punk contest! Vote!
Here. (And, no SFH isn’t on there. During the round-robin, we deliberately threw our guitars at the netting to ensure we got a shitty band to go against in the…
Hospital can’t turn beds over to retirement home
A Windsor hospital has been officially blocked from setting up hospital beds in a for-profit retirement home. As noted in June, the Hotel Dieu Hospital was trying to create 18…
Errors on a preliminary inquiry
R. v. Hawley, 2012 ONCA 528 was released this morning. It has helpful language about the nature of potential errors on a preliminary inquiry: In R. v. Sazant, 3 S.C.R.,…
There’s an Apps for that
I (and one other, who wants to tell her story) warned plenty of folks. They didn’t listen.
An Interesting Blog about Canadian Literature
It never hurts to post about oneself on Facebook, I guess. If Fred Stenson hadn’t, I never would have stumbled upon his very interesting blog about Canadian literature, Along with…
David Suzuki on Site C Dam and ‘The Economy’ at Paddle for the Peace
David Suzuki’s powerhouse speech at the 7th annual Paddle for the Peace, which inspired hundreds of people from the Peace Valley and around the province who turned out to voice…
Video: David Suzuki on Site C Dam and ‘The Economy’ at Paddle for the Peace
Watch David Suzuki’s powerhouse speech at the 7th annual Paddle for the Peace, inspiring hundreds of people from the Peace Valley and around the province who turned out to voice…
Crowdsourcing the Meaning of Life
Some filmmakers are channelling the world to find out what the meaning of life is. Their project has started an Indiegogo campaign to fund their project and they can use…
No change to sentence in Asian angler attack
The Appeal Court of Ontario has upheld a man’s jail sentence for criminal negligence and assault after a racially motivated attack on anglers that left one of them with permanent…
Unintended consequences—Bangladesh suffers from Iran sanctions
The Bangladeshis are entirely innocent of any real or imagined transgressions on the part of Iran, yet they are being punished nonetheless. Their sin is a heavy reliance on the…
Hey, I’m going to run, too!
I haven’t lived full-time in Calgary since 1987, when I graduated from law school, but who cares! If “Calgary Joe” can run, so can I! Anyone else wanna run with…
What a joke
And, when the CRG starts digging into the private lives of Liberal leadership candidates, they won’t be able to say a word about it. Because they brought this guy back.…
John Kasich for VP? Part 2
And now as promised the final question as well as the recap and the overall score. Third Question Does John Kasich Bring any Baggage? John Kasich does come with some…
John Kasich for VP? Part 2
And now as promised the final question as well as the recap and the overall score. Third Question Does John Kasich Bring any Baggage? John Kasich does come with some…
John Kasich for VP? Part 2
And now as promised the final question as well as the recap and the overall score. Third Question Does John Kasich Bring any Baggage? John Kasich does come with some…
John Kasich for VP? Part 2
And now as promised the final question as well as the recap and the overall score. Third Question Does John Kasich Bring any Baggage? John Kasich does come with some…
4971…Tell Lowell About This Too
Huffington Post reports that the USDA, that is the United States’ Department of Agriculture, reports that more than half of American counties are disaster areas. No rain. I cannot speak…