Israel: Self-Defence or Mass Murder
Obama calls current aggression of Gaza by Israel ‘self-defence’ and that Israel has every right for such self-defence.Watch the following video and you decide that whether it is a self-defence…
November 2012
Why Historical Novels? Why Not Just History?
For my various book groups I found myself reading two historical novels this week end. One is Caleb's Crossing by Geraldine Brooks and the other is The Midwife of Venice…
Australia Starts Two-Year Super Trawler Ban
Commercial fishing is one of the most damaging things one can do to gather a food source. Trawlers are so inefficient they perform the equivalent task of cutting down an…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your Monday reading.- Peter O'Neil and Tara Carman report on the Cons' strategy of importing temporary foreign workers to drive down wages across Canada. And Craig McInnes…
Calgary By-Election Has National Consequence
What is currently happening in Calgary Center is nothing new, in fact we are simply witnessing a tried and true Conservative election tactic. Joan Crockatt is skipping debates, just like…
Ten Lessons Learned From the Petraeus Affair
After watching the recent, exaggerated – and sordid – upheaval over the story about an extramarital affair that the (now former) head of the CIA had with his biographer, I…
140Law – Legal Headlines for Monday, November 19, 2012
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Monday, November 19, 2012: The Future of Articling – in Canada For Nunavut judges, going to court 'truly…
a good-news, bad-news update: buddha, the brockways, and iraq war resisters in canada
Last month, I took a little road trip with a few friends from the War Resisters Support Campaign, to welcome a new baby and meet a new dog. This nice…
Twinkie Nostagia
The demise of the Twinkie, Paul Krugman writes, has unleashed a wave of nostalgia for the 1950's -- a world many conservatives think of as a Golden Age. But, Krugman…
CBC asks CRTC to lighten its regulatory burden
The strict regulatory shackles of the past don't work in today's fast-moving environment, CBC president Hubert Lacroix told a CRTC.
Meilleur, Orazietti, Mauro and young Liberals back Pupatello
Meilleur: “Je connais très bien Mme Pupatello. En tant que ministre provincial du Développement économique et du Commerce, elle a créé beaucoup d’emplois. Comme ministre des Services sociaux et communautaires,…
From Platitude Central – Part 3
Well, it would be nice to report that things are progressing well in terms of specific policy announcements in both the Ontario and federal Liberal leadership campaigns, but sadly, that…
Elections Canada to probe robocalls
Story here. The mandate of the probe is unclear, but those currently engaged in robocalling in Ontario (OLP candidates Wynne, Murray) will doubtlessly take note.
Book Review: Shannen and the Dream for a School
I found a great book. It is a chapter book, about two hundred pages long but with big font and small pages. The story tells of a young native girl…
Excerpt: Internet addicts, looking for a fix in The Fridgularity
The Fridgularity begins with the Big Crash — the Internet goes down, as an entity takes over all the horsepower available through all the devices connected to it. This has…
Aliens, Duncan, and the Baby of Science
This was a busy weekend – we went to a friend’s for dinner on Friday, then breakfast club and a vet appointment for Duncan on Saturday, and the vintage clothing…
On the value of legislative hearings #nlpoli
United States senator John McCain (Republican – Arizona) thinks that Parliament should hold hearings into the prospective purchase by the Chinese national oil company of Alberta-based Nexen. “I think it’s…