Rob Ford Removed From Office
He was an embarrassment to Toronto, it is good that he's been removed from office on conflict of interest charges.You can click here to read the story.
November 2012
Draft One Done!
You may have noticed that I’ve been blogging less and less of late and the result is…drum roll please…the completed first draft of a New Book. Yes, folks, there is…
Ford Out
T.O. mayor Rob Ford has been given da boot.
Wtf Newsday
First, we have Rob Ford losing his job as Mayor of Toronto, thanks to his own stupidity.Then, Mark Carney leaves the Bank of Canada to go work with the British…
Argos win the Grey Cup…
…and Rob Ford is ordered to be removed from office! Ontario Superior Court Justice Charles T. Hackland said in a ruling released Monday that Ford violated the Municipal Conflict of…
US Disappoints World on Emissions Cuts, So Does Everyone Else
Barack Obama's campaign pledge to act on climate change is beginning to look like electoral hot air. Despite the urging of poor countries at Doha, the U.S. is holding to…
When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course
Peter F. Drucker
Justin Bieber and Chris Brown
Justin Bieber at the Grey Cup wasn’t the only ‘interesting’ pop music story of yesterday. I’m not a Bieber expert (Belieber), but I did watch his biopic a few months…
Goodbye
Rob Ford is removed as Mayor of Toronto, and Mark Carney is flying across the pond to become Governor of the Bank of England. If any politician is looking to…
Is This the End? History from Taticus to The Doors and Sandra
Very interesting meditation on time and the river(s) flowing by James Atlas in The New York Times, entitled "IsThis the End?" A sample:"History is a series of random events organized…
This Old Man Wants Adults to Play
Here’s a fun video to start your week with, this old fellow plays all day for his health and to inspire his next invention. He wants all people from kids…
5378…Toronto Is The City Of Champions
Irony.100th Grey Cup goes to the team that has now won their 16th Grey Cup. Toronto Argonauts are the 2012 Grey Cup champions.Irony being that in a city that soooo…
Democracy, Corporatism, and the RIghtwing agenda. . . .
Public discourse is finally beginning to wake up to the fact that democracy is now in retreat all over the world. Despite the supposed democratization of many former dictatorships that…
5377…Tory, Tory, Tory
It is bye election day in Durham, Calgary and Victoria.Wishful thinking says Red, Red, Red.Reality says Tory, Tory, Tory.WFDS
140Law – Legal Headlines for Monday, November 26, 2012
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Monday, November 26, 2012: Mayor Rob Ford guilty, kicked from office but can run again Legality of Warrantless…
Catholic Bishops Cave To Tories!
A couple of posts by Gruending give the best run-down of a story I've been following out of the corner of my eye for awhile now: the suspension of Development's…
Pennsylvania’s Top Environmental Regulator Champions Drilling Industry at Shale Conference
When Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection Secretary Michael Krancer stepped to the mic at a shale oil and gas conference earlier this month, he offered one of his most candid…
Harper pushing for larger DND role at Goose Bay #nlpoli
According to the Ottawa Citizen’s David Pugliese, the prime minister’s office directed defence minister Peter MacKay to “find a new role for the Canadian Forces at Goose Bay”. The PMO…
Taking Harper Down
Michael Harris -- who I quote a lot these days -- has uncovered Stephen Harper's recipe for governing Canada:3 cups of fear; 3 cups of information burial; 3 cups of…
Nov. 26:z-z-z-z-z-
My last questions to the Ministry of the Environment have not been answered, though they were quite simple. What is the law on reporting contaminated land? What are the terms…