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2012
Pre-Mature Verdicts
I’ve been utterly amazed at how many supposed political “experts”, pundits, observers, have been so quick to pass judgement on the robo-call affair. There is a dismissive tone, intertwined with…
Redford in Dire Straits Over Money for Nothing Controversy
In 1993, the Alberta PCs were on the ropes, and many felt Lawrence Decore would end their 22 year reign in power. When the issue of MLA pensions bubbled to…
Pro-Northern Gateway Pipeline Astroturf Group Struggles To Find Warm Bodies
The Northern Gateway Alliance, a community coalition established to support the project, was in Grande Prairie for a reception to meet its local members and try to increase membership Wednesday…
4372…The Exodus Has Begun
Ah if you were at Uplands, the Ottawa Airport, sorry, Ottawa International Airport, this morning you would have seen all the smart boys and girls from Team Orange making their…
Nursing Makes Nurses Less Empathetic
Irony alert! The best way to decrease empathy in nurses, apparently, is to actually practice nursing. A new study of nursing students found that as students gained more clinical exposure,…
FOI For BeeCee…A New World Record!
AllTheFreedomOfInformationThatDoesn’tFit RedactEverythingVille And The Record Is 1,751. Number of FOI requests by one person? ….Nope. Number for FOI requests aimed at one government department? ….Nope. Number of FOI requests involving…
Thank You Maude Barlow As We Remember Site 41
283_22484445714_714085714_1295357_3440_a.jpg Taken from response to For The Water, http://www.dominionpaper.ca/articles/2858 Submitted by Paula LaPierre on Thu, 2012-03-22 10:33. The Alliston Aqu...
Thank You Maude Barlow As We Remember Site 41
283_22484445714_714085714_1295357_3440_a.jpg Taken from response to For The Water, http://www.dominionpaper.ca/articles/2858 Kichesipirini Assert Alliston Aquifer An International Concern Submitted by Paula LaPierre on Thu, 2012-03-22 10:33. The Alliston Aquifer is part of…
Thank You Maude Barlow As We Remember Site 41
283_22484445714_714085714_1295357_3440_a.jpg Taken from response to For The Water, http://www.dominionpaper.ca/articles/2858 Kichesipirini Assert Alliston Aquifer An International Concern Submitt...
Thank You Maude Barlow As We Remember Site 41
283_22484445714_714085714_1295357_3440_a.jpg Taken from response to For The Water, http://www.dominionpaper.ca/articles/2858 Kichesipirini Assert Alliston Aquifer An International Concern Submitted by Paula LaPierre on Thu, 2012-03-22 10:33. The Alliston Aquifer is part of…
For Once, I’m Glad I’m Not Voting
Democracy is the greatest sport on Earth. I feed on elections and leadership contests but I’m kind of glad I don’t have a vote this Saturday in the NDP leadership…
For Once, I’m Glad I’m Not Voting
Democracy is the greatest sport on Earth. I feed on elections and leadership contests but I’m kind of glad I don’t have a vote this Saturday in the NDP leadership…
Can someone explain?
I’m offended as anyone else at the robocalls scandal, but this picture, put up recently by Saskboy and apparently influenced by the, erm, objective website Rabble.ca, deserves some explanation before…
Supreme Court this morning: "lawyers should not be expected to behave like verbal eunuchs. They not only have a right to speak their minds freely, they arguably have a duty to do so. But they are constrained …to do so with dignified restraint"
Doré v. Barreau du Québec 2012 SCC 12 deals with the right of lawyers to express themselves freely but their duty to use that right of expression in a professional…
Should Quebec Students’ Strike for Lower Tuition be Spread to Rest of Canada?
Students in Quebec have been protesting a 75% tuition increase over five years announced by the provincial government. there are two sides to this story In favour of keeping lower…
Should Quebec Students’ Strike for Lower Tuition be Spread to Rest of Canada?
Students in Quebec have been protesting a 75% tuition increase over five years announced by the provincial government. there are two sides to this story In favour of keeping lower…
Should Quebec Students’ Strike for Lower Tuition be Spread to Rest of Canada?
Students in Quebec have been protesting a 75% tuition increase over five years announced by the provincial government.there are two sides to this storyIn favour of keeping lower tuition1. many…
Should Quebec Students’ Strike for Lower Tuition be Spread to Rest of Canada?
Students in Quebec have been protesting a 75% tuition increase over five years announced by the provincial government. there are two sides to this story In favour of keeping lower…
#NDPldr Race – Turnout’s Gonna Suck
I just noticed that according to official (I think they’re official) estimates, only 40,000 NDP members have voted so far in their leadership race, out of 131,000. In other words,…