Aluminum is made from electricity and bauxite. The former ingredient is by far the most important, aud since bauxite is more easily transported than electricity, big aluminum foundries are built…
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past few weeks, the robocall affair has been, if not a topic of water cooler conversation, at least of some interest.…
Why don’t you sue Harper? In Federal Court? For declaratory and injunctive relief. To force Harper to take the gags off the public service and the armed forces. To allow…
From Leonard Cohen’s Anthem, sung here by Newfoundland’s The Once: You can add up the parts but you won’t have the sum You can strike up the march, there is…
Why have you requested that Canadian monitors pay attention to Burma’s upcoming April elections to ensure the process remains legitimate? Didn’t you know that Canada is no model for clean…
It is getting increasingly redundant to write about the Harpercons, it is like continually writing that evil is bad – yes, it is, but how many times can you say…
That’s right – people are good! You might think that the world is a dangerous place or what have you, but, when you get down to it people just hate…
Stephen Harper’s ideologically driven corporate tax cuts have been a complete failure. After stoking the engines of big business with Billions and Billions of dollars in tax cuts, Canada has…
Amidst all the rhetorical hippy kicking and general wingnuttery in the Senate over Northern Gateway and the tar sands recently (for example Senator Finley and his “It should never be…
In a news release from the federal natural resources minister that heralded the future of Newfoundland and Labrador is energy, they didn’t mention the Lower Churchill once. – srbp –
Suggestive but not dispositive: http://bit.ly/xElnoQ OTTAWA — On the day "Pierre Poutine" activated the burner cellphone used to launch his robocall blitz on voters in Guelph, Ont., a young Conservative…
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Friday, March 9, 2012: Toronto to look at expanding outdoor smoking ban now aimed at playgrounds Judge orders…
TheManning-UpOfThe… RepublicOfBananastanVille Hey. Look who’s going way, way out for breakfast this morning according to a nice bit o’ proBlogging by the VSun’s JFowlie: Premier Christy Clark will be in…
For those living in or around the Toronto area, please consider attending Sunday’s rally to protest both the voter suppression crimes committed during the last federal election and the ‘strange’…
A few days worth of news from the NDP’s leadership campaign… – Niki Ashton appealed to NDP members to consider the need to build among younger voters. – Co-campaign manager…
Mercer Gold Corporation (Nevada) v. Mercer Gold Corp. (B.C.), 2012 BCCA 103 deals with leave to appeal from an order granting an interlocutory injunction. The appellant argued that the respondent,…
That was the question Senator Howard Baker asked as the United States Congress moved toward its decision to impeach Richard Nixon. And that is the question Lawrence Martin asks this…
Few people know the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer had an advanced understanding of modern physics, but only alluded to it in some of his works because he dare not reveal…
… to screech that fraudulent calls were the result of a massive solar storm. Possibly caused by Stephen Dion. Or Taliban Bob. Solar system frauds. A proud legacy of the…
Statistics Canada reported this morning that 38,000 people gave up looking for work in February. The official unemployment rate fell because these Canadians were no longer counted as being unemployed.…
