BEY Grits: Fight The Right tonight!
I’m going to be reading from and/or talking about Fight the Right at a meet the candidates thing in my home riding of Beaches-East York tonight at about 8 pm.…
December 2012
Fashion for the Discerning Climate Science Denier
Whether you’re skydiving onto the beaches of Durban, galavanting across the U.S. on the Tea Party‘s invitation to spread Birther lies about President Obama’s birth certificate, pitching ‘Fox News Australia‘…
Einstein’s Estimation of the Age of the Universe
According to Einstein, when objects approach very near the speed of light (one of the boundary conditions of the universe) the passage of time will slow, among other bizarre effects.…
5408…A 756,000 Dollar Shirt
Man that is more pricey than Harry Rosen’s.Len Berman’s That’s Sports drops the knowledge that “Don Larsen’s 1956 perfect game jersey sold at auction for $756,000.”WFDS
5407…Support A Starving Senator
The downtown Senators not the Kanata Senators. The Ottawa Citizen reports that the poor men and women of the Conservative caucus of the Canuck Senate have such a hard time…
John Baird finally says something about Israeli settlements
John Baird and the Harper CONS had been trying to outdo Netanyahu on the UN vote recognizing Palestine, threatening to cut off ties to the Palestinians showing incredible indifference to…
International Forum on Globalization: Kochtopus "Carbon Billionaires" Create "Climate Deadlock"
While international cooperation to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions has never been a greater imperative, climate progress has never been more stymied, more corrupted by those who stand to gain…
Are health services really shifting, or is the health minister being shifty?
We can all relax now. All those hospital cuts we’ve witnessed recently – Health Minister Deb Matthews says they are not happening. She says these services are instead being shifted.…
Who’d a thunk it? #nlpoli #cdnpoli
There is something truly frigged up in a world where the Premier who has admitted to fiscal mismanagement by she and her colleagues for years and hasn’t done anything to…
Review: Cooking without Measuring by Rachel Wizenfeld
Several years ago I went through a phase where I obsessively borrowed cookbooks from the library. I poured over them never to ever attempt to follow them. I couldn’t follow…
The Day The Cons Went Wild!
Richard ‘Hub’ Hughes-Political Blogger A few months back I affiliated with ‘Progressive Bloggers’ an independent group of the centre-left persuasion. One of the bloggers ‘Montreal Simon’ is a prolific poster…
Girls with guns, boys with blow dryers – Is this gender-neutral toy catalog just a holiday publicity stunt?
Designing a toy catalog — or most any mass-market consumer catalog for that matter — is usually an exercise deeply rooted in the status quo. Top-Toy, the largest toy retailer…
Carbon Zero: Imagining Cities that can Save the Planet
Alex Steffen, the man behind the excellent inertia defying and inspiring WorldChanging blog, has just released his new book. Carbon Zero: Imagining Cities that can Save the Planet is a…
Carbon Zero: Imagining Cities that can Save the Planet
Alex Steffen, the man behind the excellent inertia defying and inspiring WorldChanging blog, has just released his new book.Carbon Zero: Imagining Cities that can Save the Planet is a short…
Carbon Zero: Imagining Cities that can Save the Planet
Alex Steffen, the man behind the excellent inertia defying and inspiring WorldChanging blog, has just released his new book. Carbon Zero: Imagining Cities that can Save the Planet is a…
Conservative Rorschach Test: Part Five #nlpoli
“Quebec” -srbp-
Hearsay and reliability
R. v. P.G., 2012 ONCA 859 has a helpful analysis of the reliability requirement of the principled approach to hearsay: The principled approach to hearsay evidence focuses on whether there…
carolyn egan: we will leave no woman behind
On this day of remembrance of women lost to violence, here is Carolyn Egan, a woman I am proud to call friend and comrade, accepting the the Constance E. Hamilton…
Charles Sousa wants all of Ontario working: Take a look at his GTA and rural policies
Like the Sousa campaign on Facebook!Follow Charles on Twitter! With today being the “Day of Debates” (an all candidates luncheon at the Canadian Club and a special taping of The…