Another Outrage for Coastal British Columbians
This is what you’re up against when Ottawa, Alberta, Big Oil and Enbridge come to play. The pipeline operator, gaming an already rigged system for clearance to build the Northern…
August 2012
Australia Gets World’s Toughest Law on Cigarette Branding
It is common knowledge that smoking kills people and, in democracies, providing health care for citizens is important and unquestioned. In Australia, they clearly care about each other as they…
Be Careful Where You Paddle
I guess this is what happens when we forget our place. Recommend this Post
Dis-honouring Our Homemade Monsters
Here’s a headline from CBC online today, talking about a sticker campaign to point out the hypocrisy of naming things after history’s deviates. In this case, the target is former…
Your Choice For Canada’s Next Top Soldier Is? (POLL)
Prime Minister Stephen Harper is reportedly involved in the selection of Canada’s next top soldier, the Chief of Defence Staff.
After Hockney 4
Filed under: art, digital, drawing, painting Tagged: 100 cats
Canadian United Church’s resolution on Israel/Palestinian situation
The United Church is critical of Israel and the treatment/ plight of Palestinians. Spokesperson Sid Shniad of Independent Jewish Voices has some interesting points of view. Rabbi Reuben Poupko defends…
140Law – Legal Headlines for Wednesday, August 15, 2012
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Wednesday, August 15, 2012: Australian court OKs logo ban on cigarette packs England, Wales to consider abolishing contempt…
"God’s Little Joke" – A Tragic Story
I guess I am used to witnessing pain, so I do not cry easily. But this morning I read an article from “Psychology Today” that made me weep silently, my…
Any similarity is purely coincidental #nlpoli
Two announcements. The one in February consisted of three paragraphs, 10 lines, and 111 words. The obligatory quote from the minister: “Ms. Goulding and Ms. Mennie have a wealth of…
Ontario gets worse grade than feds on CMA report card
Ontario is the only region in Canada to receive a worse rating than the federal government on how it deals with health care according to the Canadian Medical Association’s National…
A Tale of Two Countries: G.M. in Canada and Colombia
Corporations have, shall we say, a rather checkered history in dealing with the workers who make possible their profits, often viewing them as disposable commodities to be chewed up and…
This Rob Ford sideshow is becoming embarassing
The latest: Police to Mayor Rob Ford: ‘Please get a driver’. I guess it’s always been kind of embarrassing, but it was still funny, in the way that you hope…
Sea Turtles Swim to Freedom
Sea Turtles Swim to Freedom – YouTube. Filed under: Beautiful, Fun Tagged: good news
Arm the Syrian rebels now
Important column by Tim Harper. Read it.
Everyone should hate Marineland
Amazing investigative reporting by Linda Diebel. A must read. It is also long, long overdue. Those of us who work for animal protection/welfare – my firm has worked for years…
Care and Control
R v Coleman, 2012 SKCA 65 is a useful decision discussing the often-visited question of what must be proven in order for an accused person to be held to have…
Canadians and Climate Change
Stephen Harper likes to claim that his values are Canadian values. If Harper truly based his decisions on evidence, he might begin to revaluate that assumption. According to a new…
Some media moaning about ‘anonymous bloggers’
I don’t tend to do “media bashing” on here a lot, particularly of Canadian media. I’ve met quite a few of them, from all sides of the media spectrum, either…