Prominent Academics Respond to the TPP (via EFF) We asked several academics to let us know their thoughts about the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP). The TPP is a secretive, multi-national…
Desmond Tutu wants Tony Blair and George w. Bush tossed into the prisoners’ dock before the International Criminal Court. The Archbishop wants the pair tried for the invasion of Iraq.…
Actually I don’t think that the worst football coach in the history of football ever left the Waterloo Warriors; the team was suspended for a bit but played last year…
Indigenous Pipe Line (Twinned) Filed under: Political Humour Tagged: Aboriginal, bitumen, chanupa, First Nations, indian, indigenous, native, oil sands, peace pipe, peacepipe, pipe line, tar, twinned
“Can you recommend a good doctor?” This is the final question in an article by Tony Bates about teaching, and it frames the debate nicely. We would be very disinclined…
Looks like Jean Charest may be moving back to Ottawa; he apparently is done in La Belle.My Facebook and real world friend Rachel Decoste has this on FB.I share with…
One of the most powerful and pervasive of our recent inventions has been the Internet, the digital magic that has compressed time into microseconds and space into irrelevance. The distance…
Francois Legault and his Coalition Avenir Québec in next week’s, or, since it is Sunday, this week’s election.The latest polls I have seen have the Parti Quebecois ahead of the…
Assorted content for your Sunday reading. – Plenty of commentators are using the Labour Day weekend to discuss the place of workers in Canadian society. Sid Ryan notes that depressed…
Apparently yielding to the Taliban, American forces in Afghanistan have suspended training of Afghan Local Police recruits. The Afghan recruits, it appears, have become too heavily infiltrated by the Taliban…
Event sponsored by the Ottawa and District Labour Council (ODLC), its affiliated unions and the community. Celebrating labour, family and community.
It’s 40 years ago today that Canada and Russia faced off in Montreal to start the most gut wrenching, confidence shattering, depressing and joyous sporting even in Canadian history, and…
Whitehouse has its own brand of beer and Clint Eastwood developed a liking for it. Click for Whitehouse beer story here.
R. v. Pelletier, 2012 ONCA 566 deals with the law regarding unsavory witnesses – it has a helpful summary of the governing principles: First, as a matter of general principle,…
Before everyone leaps to the conclusion the police are guilty, remember most arrest situations are murky — let’s see what happens to the charges. That said, for SIU to lay…
Now here is something everyone who wants to be well-informed should watch. Part of TVO’s Big Ideas series, it is a talk entitled How Did Taxes Become a Bad Word?…
Democracy requires dialog and part of that dialog should come from my fellow rural citizens however for some that is more difficult than their urban counterparts. Attending a townhall meeting…
If you’re not entirely awake yet, this might do the trick.
Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live…
