Duty of Crown Counsel
Crown Counsel owes an overarching duty to achieve justice by exercising their power fairly. The classic statement was set out by the Supreme Court of Canada in R v Boucher,…
October 2012
Sandy looks serious…
It looks like a seriously big storm: New York this morning Story NEW YORK, N.Y. – Hurricane Sandy grounded thousands of flights in the U.S. northeast Monday and upended travel…
Not Their Finest Hour
After the Supreme Court’s historic ruling on Etobicoke Centre last week, some commentators applauded the decision as a reaffirmation of Canadians’ right to vote. But Michael Harris points to the…
Video dating
“So is it on?” Voice from off-camera: “Let me check.” “Yep, you’re good.” “Okay, so you might not guess this from looking at me, but I’m actually a real sensitive…
No spectacle of division, not a whit
Vaughn Palmer is pleased with the BC Liberals. His weekend column in the Sun offered this: “…the Whistler convention struck me as a relatively happy affair. “The public sessions —…
The Tory War On Brains
The cancellation of the long form census has already degraded the nation’s primary knowledge product: OTTAWA — Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s cancellation of the long-form census has started to take…
MTV Breaks Climate Silence
Last week, MTV’s Sway Williams broke the climate silence that has been present throughout the American election during an interview with President Barack Obama: * TRANSCRIPT: Q: Until this year…
Russian Anti-Gay Lobby Warns About Gay Milk
Other countries take note. If you enact crazy anti-gay laws forbidding any positive portrayals of homosexuality, here’s what you can expect to happen: A popular brand of milk is being…
Mother Nature weighs in
Not going to talk about climate change during the U.S. presidential election? Mother Nature may be taking her revenge, in the form of the storm bearing down on the U.S.…
Darin King and the Tory Charm Offensive #nlpoli
A couple of the exceedingly small changes in the recent cabinet shuffle came out of the Bill 29 fiasco. Felix Collins went from the relatively low profile job of justice…
Queen Charlottes Earthquake Highlights Weaknesses of Neoliberal-Style Government
This weekend’s warm-up natural disaster, a 7.7-magnitude earthquake west of the Queen Charlotte Islands, should but won’t serve as a vital wake-up call to the federal and provincial governments: British…
Porky Tales and the Madness of Con Canada
After disconnecting myself from the 24-hour news cycle for about a week, I decided to check out what Stephen Harper and his Cons had been up to in my absence.Because…
My Ode to Bud
From the time I hit puberty we (I) called my Dad, “DeadEye.” That didn’t change for the next forty years. Dad came back from Britain with less than he arrived…
Rafe Mair is Back In the Saddle and Ready To Go!
Richard Hub Hughes-Political Blogger Welcome back Rafe, I see that you have mellowed considerably during your time away. I sense absence did not make your heart grow fonder regarding the…
You can stay up until the 9 o’clock gun goes off!
Richard ‘Hub’ Hughes- Political Blogger I grew up in North Vancouver and as a young boy recall my bedtime was set to 9′clock. In Stanley Park was a cannon that…
A History of recent Federal By-Elections in Alberta.
TweetThe November 26 by-election in Calgary-Centre will be the fourth federal by-election held in Alberta in the past twenty-six years. In that time, only one of the by-elections saw the…
The Power of Weakness and the World’s Relationship with America
This past week, I had the enormous privilege of being invited to Washington, DC to attend the Academy of Achievement summit. This event – of which I knew nothing before…