This week’s Friday Film Pick is the beautifully shot and tenderly rendered Scrappers, a documentary that quietly follows two Chicago residents as they eke out a living from the salvaging…
When a clock strikes 13, you can never trust it again. So it must be for anyone who lies about information he is using to back up a serious scientific…
Chrystia Freeland says that the top .01 per cent control about 8 per cent of the world's wealth. So crazy that's is probably true! Check out her interview on CBC's…
Interesting commentary from Kevin Willey, which I quote at length from LinkedIn:Performance management is nothing more than buzz words in the government departments, and I speak from experience on this.…
After some bleating about how no one wanted the “poisoned chalice”, an impressive field of six candidates has declared for the OLP leadership race: Glen Murray, Sandra Pupatello, Eric Hoskins,…
Food and Water Watch (FWW) released a report today titled "U.S. Energy Security: Why Fracking for Oil and Natural Gas Is a False Solution." It shows, contrary to industry claims,…
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Wednesday, November 14, 2012: Pet peeves of in-house counsel: Don’t put juniors on our files Lack of records…
If Justin Trudeau becomes Liberal leader, the party will finally return to sensibility on marijuana. Further, Liberals will actually offer a truly progressive vision of ultimate legalization, never mind decriminalization.…
A leadership race race that’s barely two months long doesn’t give the candidates much room for error but it’s more exciting for the rest of us. Think the Academy Awards…
Tom Walkom takes some consolation from the fact that yesterday Jim Flaherty said the government was willing to spend some money to give the economy a boast. But, Walkom writes…
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Duncan Cameron highlights the choice between austerity and prosperity facing the governments of both Canada and the U.S.:The economic realities faced by working people…
Impressive group. Impressive candidate, too, but you knew that already.
Please watch this 45-second video, then sign a letter a to Ken Salazar, US Secretary of the Interior. Your click may or may not save the lives of wolves. But…
I've got a bit of a busy morning ahead, so just a brief post for now. In a study reported in this morning's Star, geneticist Dr. Gerald Crabtree offers his…
In case you haven't seen this yet, it's 9-year-old football sensation Sam Gordon, the only girl on her Utah football team. Dave Zirin raises the question: why do we assume…
Wildrose is going to win a huge majority! The Quebec Liberals are going to a distant third place! The Cons are going to lose in Calgary Centre! This poor, um,…
Right on AA! You did done good. Now maybe the Jays can once again contend in the AL East! Woo-hoo (5) Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
The defence of qualified privilege holds that an otherwise defamatory communication can be justified if it is a “responsible communication on a matter of public interest” and: 1) the publication…
Montreal (The Skwib) — In their yearly survey of how much trust we have in a variety of occupations, Leger Marketing discovered that journalists were more trusted than quite a…
