Globe: CRTC approves plan for Broadcast Participation Fund
High media concentration means that Canadians will be evermore impacted by the decisions that Big Telecom makes. When Bell bought CTV, the CRTC made them promise to put money aside…
2012
Narrative evidence
R. v. D.A.R., 2012 NSCA 31 has useful language regarding narrative evidence: Narrative evidence may be admissible for a variety of purposes: to understand the unfolding of events surrounding an…
ConCalls: Tough on Crime
Information is the lifeblood of democracy. Stephen Harper knows that, he said it. Ask yourself why the Chief Electoral Officer’s report on electoral fraud this week, is being given to…
Ontario’s Impending Austerity Budget
Reading my morning Star, I learned that there is wide-spread support among the public for austerity measures to reduce Ontario’s deficit. I suspect that there will be a particular appetite…
Whose Sacred Cow?
Lawrence Martin writes this morning that Canada is about to take a sharp right turn. In the process, several of the country’s sacred cows will be sent to the abattoir:…
God is not a statistician
Wow. 100,000 years of wow. Alltop is a standard deviant from the mean.
Climate Change Conspiracy Revealed
* Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America: Expert Credibility In Climate Change Open Secrets: Senator James Inhofe, Top Industry Funders
What Canada really needs — as the Ontario Court of Appeal majority hints — is for Parliament to rip up the existing system of prostitution laws, which is based on centuries-old common law concepts, and start afresh
Jonathan Kay: A worthy, measured blow for prostitution-law reform http://natpo.st/H8V8vs
7 Robocon lawsuits filed
The latest from McMaher: The Council of Canadians has launched legal challenges of May federal election results in seven ridings, on behalf of electors living in those ridings. The ridings…
The difference in lost lives #nlpoli #cdnpoli
In the past month, at least two people have died as a result of misadventure in the wilderness on motorized vehicles. One was was a 23 year old young man…
Mulcair’s making changes
And that was Mulcair’s first day as leader in the House. As one of the changes the NDP will be making under the Mulcair Era is to immediately start advertising…
Autism Research Bias and the DSM-5 Autism Do-Over Exclusion of Those with Intellectual Disabilities
Why has the APA decided that the DSM-5 Autism Spectrum Disorder should eliminate or substantially reduce the numbers of persons with ASD who are intellectually disabled? The removal from an…
Gary Mason tweets about van Dongen
Globe and Mail columnist Gary Mason has never been a docile follower of the Liberal-friendly press gallery clique. He demonstrates independence this week in his column and especially in his…
Time to Take Stock – On Turning 500,000
Stay or go? I feel like a Bill Moyers zygote. I have never achieved his serene altruism, not even close. I don’t aspire to his higher moral purpose. Yet I’ve…
Behind the ostensible government
Before Gordon Campbell, the BC Liberal Party had been roused from the near dead and invigorated by Gordon Wilson, then a youthful populist leader. However, business interests chose Wilson’s party…
Alberta Campaign 2012, Day 1: Fear & Loathing on the Shaganappi Trail
The “chicken ranch” proposed for Calgary back in 2003 by Danielle Smith, now leader of the Wildrose Party, may not have been exactly as illustrated. (You didn’t seriously think I…
Election 2012 Begins – A real race is expected.
As expected Premier Alison Redford visited the Lieutenant-Governor’s office today and started Alberta’s 2012 general election. She waited until the Alberta legislature passed the budget to get the campaign started…
alberta election day 1: campaign kick-offs and legalizing prostitution.
Alberta's political leaders are off to a slow start on the first day of the 2012 election. With hours of the election being called yesterday, Premier Alison Redford kicked-off the…
The Failed Assault on Thomas Mulcair
Well I see that even before Thomas Mulcair rose in the Commons today, the Cons sent out one of their attack chihuahas to try to “define him.” Or in their…