On Bill C-30 and Internet Surveillance
“You’re either with us on this bill, or you’re with the child pornographers.” That was essentially Vic Toews’ sentiment in recent days following all the backlash over bill C-30, which…
2012
Back to yoga class this eve
Oh my that was challenging. Leigh who teaches Tuesday evenings gives great instructions, has great energy and wit but I found this class quite challenging. Quite likely because it’s the…
Sure. Private-sector involvement in police work. | #areyououtofyourfuckingminds
Via a helpful reader, one of the most disturbing things I’ve seen this week: I don’t know Joe Couto, and I’m sure he’s a perfectly decent guy in real life,…
Conservative Double-Standard?
Why, I’m shocked, simply shocked, I tell you, to discover that Conservatives would employ a flagrant double-standard when it comes to the matter of… well, anything. Of course, in this…
City Council is Supreme | politics | via @Torontoist and @hamutaldotan | #TOpoli
… we are optimistic. We have a government that is working. It is making decisions based on evidence, and it is defending those decisions over time. It is a government…
Stand with us
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Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Comfy cats.
The dog that didn’t bark
Interesting: Conservatives didn't declare payments made to robocalls company, can't explain why http://natpo.st/xpSNln "OTTAWA — Elections Canada investigators probing the robocalls scandal are interviewing workers on the Conservative campaign in…
I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don’t trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance, any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.
Charles Dickens"Hunted Down" (1859)
Lessons from the world’s top Environmental Law Conference
Tuesday, March 6, 2012 The Public Interest Environmental Law Conference held each year in Eugene Oregon is, perhaps, the Mecca of environmental lawyers. It brings together literally thousands of lawyers,…
What is this strike about? A moving letter from a Saanich teacher
I would like to thank you, Mr. Abbott. My wife and I have just had an excellent discussion with our daughters about power, and about the importance of checks and…
Stephen Harper and the Con Robots
Well there he was in Question Period, looking and sounding like a robot, refusing to say why his Cons are refusing to cooperate with Elections Canada. Repeating the same answer…
Caribou, Coal Mining and the world’s First Twitter Moot Court
Tuesday, March 6, 2012 Many were scratching their heads when they heard that West Coast was running the “World’s First-ever Twitter Moot.” Say what? What’s that, and how does it…
I was out, finished! and I took an arrow to the knee
I had given up on blogging and then I dabbled with it for a bit, off an on. The reasons for leaving are complicated,… various events in the blogosphere sour…
#Robocall Movies: Canadian Political Humor Par Excellence
Canadian politics in the age of Stephen Harper and the Conservative majority government are depressing, to say the least. Luckily our political satire still kicks ass. Inspired by the unraveling…
No Accidental Tyrant
Stephen Harper is despotic by design. That much is apparent in an excerpt from a letter Harper wrote in 2001 while head of the National Citizens Coalition, known as the…
The F-35’s Lowered Expectations
Now it’s not only way over-budget, way overdue but the Pentagon is having to lower its performance requirements so it won’t have to call the F-35 a complete turkey. If…
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – In the latest on Robocon, John Ivison rightly notes that the scandal figures to give many Canadians a long-overdue first look at…
Stephen Harper’s Pathological Hatred
While I stand by my comments about The Globe and Mail in my last post, the paper does have one real asset in the person of Lawrence Martin. Unlike other…