Brazil: ‘Miss Bum Bum’ Pageant
Would they get anymore absurd? It is derogatory to women and disgusting to display tushies, in public, in this manner. The pictures are too gross to post them on my…
October 2012
Quality Problems Plague Britain’s Largest Privatized Laboratory
The Guardian newspaper reported a decline in quality at the Kings College Hospital trust and the St. Thomas Hospital trust’s recently privatized pathology services. The report cited in the article…
Cuomo Resets New York Fracking Review, "Consigning Fracking To Oblivion"
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced today that his administration is pushing the controversial decision on whether to allow fracking in the state back to square one. This encouraging move…
Meet Andrew Nikiforuk
SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement and The Tyee present: De-Friending Oil: An Evening with Andrew Nikiforuk How petro-dependency corrodes our humanity. And what it will take to pull free…
Montreal mayor reacts to kickback allegations
Nasty story; but the rumours have been floating around for years: Story Ex-tycoon Lino Zambito says 3% of value of city contracts was paid to Tremblay’s party Quebec firms charged…
Elements of civil tort of bribery
Enbridge Gas Distribution Inc. v. Marinaccio, 2012 ONCA 650, released today, sets out the elements of the civil tort of bribery: The civil tort of bribery is the payment of…
Idiotic neanderthals flourish
Lunch with Anders: Speaks from conviction and going nowhere, Laura Stone, iPolitics, October 1, 2012 “I actually think one of the great stories that was missed by journalists was that…
Conservative Party machine still dominates the Canadian political space
The Conservatives have maintained their muscular advantage over both major competitors in fundraising in 2011: The Liberals raised $10,119,908.62 from 49,650 donors last year, according to their annual financial return.…
Regulating for benefit of regulators
CRTC exec who spent evening in Bell box operated in ‘gray area’: Ethics expert, DANNY JONCAS, QMI AGENCY, Toronto Sun, Sept. 28, 2012: “MONTREAL – Nine months after his appointment…
What’s the best way to carve wood?
Whittle by whittle.
Leadership 2013 Candidate Profile: Ryan Meili
Ryan Meili started the 2009 Saskatchewan NDP leadership campaign at a distinct disadvantage against his opponents in terms of both time and name recognition. But he nonetheless came within just…
Omar Khadr Back in Canada, At Long Last, and the Harperites Play the Media Masterfully
I was glad to see that most of the news outlets and newspapers are making a big thing out of the return to Canada of Omar Khadr, the child soldier.…
Oct. 1: a great day for free ads…
The new condos overlooking the golf course are selling well. And there’s even a picture of the developer to prove it. And it’s in a “lifestyle community”. Wow! Lifestyle! This…
A "Green on Blue" Battle?
Has it really come to this? A U.S. Army unit has engaged in a firefight with an Afghan Army unit resulting in two dead Americans and three Afghan Army fatalities.…
Cardus: Lifting Sentences Doesn’t “Break the Spirit of Plagiarism”
Continuing our merry tour through the pro-plagiarism world of journamalism, we arrive at the Christian right think tank Cardus, an organization which somehow manages to draw on “more than 2000…
Tory Attacks on the Canadian Soul
To suggest that the Harper regime is working relentlessly to diminish the Canadian soul is hardly a remarkable insight. Examples abound of its flinty resolve to undermine traditional Canadian values…
Review: Are You My Mother?
I don’t remember how I first encountered Alison Bechdel’s work. The compilation of her long-running comic strip Dykes To Watch Out For and her graphic novel-style memoir (graphic memoir?) about…
Khadr: Back in the Great White North
Omar Khadr returned to Canada this past weekend to serve out the remainder of his sentence at Guantanamo Bay. Unlike the “military commission” which gave Khadr no credit for time…