Great line of the day
Talking about the “sex-selective” abortion motion which Parliament is now being asked to vote on, Dawg says: the abortion “debate” that Harper insists will not be re-opened continues to shamble…
September 2012
Saturday Photo: Resistance Is Important
For reasons that aren’t clear to me, the owners of an apartment building near us recently chopped down all the plantings around it. Not that it was elaborately landscaped, but…
Congressional Report: Impacts of Climate Pollution "A Cocktail of Heat and Extreme Weather"
Ranking members of the House Committees on Natural Resources and on Energy and Climate released a joint report earlier this week that traces the imprints of climate change on recent…
Numbers that count
Most of the education world is filled with numbers that shouldn’t count. A book by John Hattie is making the rounds in BC and Canada. The book is used to…
Weaselling out of the Convention on Cluster Munitions
Cluster bombs are one of the nastier instruments of war. Each bomb can contain hundreds of bomblets, many of which fail to explode on impact and lie unexploded for years…
Musqueam Burial Ground Win Makes the Developer Look Brutally Ignorant
The provincial government has finally relented in its dignity-crushing stance of continuing to allow a developer to pursue building condos on top of a Musqueam burial ground. And while this…
Let’s Consider Having Two Thorium-Fuelled Nuclear Reactors in Northern Alberta and Sakatchewan
Mention the words "nuclear power" , and you're likely to get a knee-jerk reaction against them, particularly from people on the left who assume that "nuclear" means "uranium" or "plutonium",…
The Smiling Face of Dalton McGuinty
… one may smile, and smile, and be a villain— At least I am sure it may be so in Ontario. Recommend this Post
The Innovative Advocate: Canada’s Legal Future
The way legal services are delivered in Canada is changing. Increased competition and a demand for lower prices has pressured law firms to slow hiring and deliver their services more…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Thomas Walkom discusses how the McGuinty Libs are going beyond imposing immediate pay freezes on the public sector, and instead passing what’s better…
Nunavut, RCMP target unsafe gun storage after dozens of firearm incidents
Guns are a necessary tool in the North — but as in the South they are tools that need to be respected: IQALUIT, Nunavut – RCMP and the Nunavut government…
I love Instagram!
Some pics for a Saturday. Notre Dame Cathedral
Sept. 29: button, button…….
Who’s got the button? There was sort of a big story on CBC news yesterday. Norbert, I’m sure, would have been interested in it. A number of oil companies face…
Iran, Embassies, Omar Khadr
Prime Minister Harper took a ridiculous and counter-productive hard line against Iran a couple of weeks ago. Breaking diplomatic ties with Iran was a move that left politicos around the…
Liberal amounts of coverage
An observation. The media can go on and on about (a) how the Liberal Party is irrelevant, in general and (b) how Justin Trudeau is not up to the job,…
In tomorrow’s Sun: Conservative assassins, take heed
This week, Ottawa-based media were in a frenzy over the prospect of a Justin Trudeau Liberal leadership bid. It was a revelation that really wasn’t one. But it portends a…
Institutional Misbehaviour, Redux
While I have written several posts in the past about the seemingly endless capacity of organizations and institutions to behave in ways that best protect themselves rather than serve the…
Hardship: Sorry, none to spare
It is only people who face adversity who have the best stories to tell. No one wrote a book about a perfect family, where nothing ever went wrong. Maybe that…
Justin’s Time
Justin Trudeau has concluded that it’s now or never. He’s probably right. But we still need to know whether or not he’s the right choice. Andrew Coyne writes: We have…