Prime Minister Harper-Let’s Get Tough On Crime, Real Crime!
Richard ‘Hub’ Hughes-Political Blogger PM Harper is a law and order guy supposedly. In reality he is softening laws on guns and making noises about getting tough on pot smokers!…
2012
5468…Revise The Bible Says Piers Morgan
The Daily Mail drops this knowledge on the world “CNN host Piers Morgan has said he believes the Bible and the U.S. Constitution are ‘inherently flawed’ and that the Bible…
Navigable waters nightmare
Robin Rowland, a B.C. based journalist writes about an overlooked aspect of the omnibus Bill C-45, its drastic reduction of rivers, lakes and streams protected by the Navigable Waters Protection…
George H W Bush
Bush the elder was a moderate Republican – and it seem unlikely he could be nominated today. His illness reminds us of the gulf between the Republican Party of twenty…
Fabrication versus disbelief
R. v. Cyr, 2012 ONCA 919 deals with the distinction between disbelieving an accused and finding an exculpatory statement made by the accused is a fabrication. A fabrication may be…
Killer whale totem
With a baby in the blowhole, a bear, a thunderbird and two salmon at the bottom. By Doug Horne Jr. The problem wasn’t getting it. The problem is where to…
Eugenides Advice on Writing
To follow literary fashion, to write for money, to censor your true feelings and thoughts or adopt ideas because they’re popular requires a writer to suppress the very promptings that…
Home
I spent the first 32 years of my life in and around Vancouver. I miss it. Not the rain, though.
2012 ClawBie Nominations (#ClawBies2012)
‘Tis that ClawBie time of year again, and the Canadian legal blogosphere continues to evolve. I have to be honest. Most of the new Canadian law blogs I’ve encountered (and…
"Free to Be" — 40 years on
For what I think will be my last post of the year, I wanted to reflect on something I heard about a couple of weeks ago — the 40th anniversary…
And what it’s like with Brazilian soundtrack…
Muito obridgada para a Immigrercom.
Dec. 27: ….sigh……
The whole front page of today’s Moncton Times and Transcript is an advertisement. It features a cartoon of young boys playing hockey on a village pond. If you open the…
Back at Work…But Not Really
Lots and lots of snow today–glad everybody made it home yesterday from the holiday festivities. I was out for a while this morning, and ended up taking buses on a…
Guest Post: The State of the Alberta Liberal Party
As one might imagine, the Alberta Liberal Party has been doing some soul searching in the wake of a difficult election earlier this year. In the past month, controversy has…
Middle Earth Safety Briefing
Air New Zealand capitalizes on Peter Jackson and his love of Tolkien: -srbp-
Whistleblowing
You may know from visiting my site that I have some experience with this. A bad experience, but an experience nonetheless. I’m happy that Ornge has finally put a formal…
North Van: there ain’t no white stuff here!
Morning conference calls now complete, I offer my fellow Easterners a view of Bjorn and Bab’s backyard. No snow in BC, kids!
A Tale of Two Men
No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn…
Make a mark. Alter it. Stamp it.
Interesting effect using the markers as stamps. Filed under: art, digital, drawing Tagged: Cat