This Old Man Wants Adults to Play
Here’s a fun video to start your week with, this old fellow plays all day for his health and to inspire his next invention. He wants all people from kids…
2012
5378…Toronto Is The City Of Champions
Irony.100th Grey Cup goes to the team that has now won their 16th Grey Cup. Toronto Argonauts are the 2012 Grey Cup champions.Irony being that in a city that soooo…
Democracy, Corporatism, and the RIghtwing agenda. . . .
Public discourse is finally beginning to wake up to the fact that democracy is now in retreat all over the world. Despite the supposed democratization of many former dictatorships that…
5377…Tory, Tory, Tory
It is bye election day in Durham, Calgary and Victoria.Wishful thinking says Red, Red, Red.Reality says Tory, Tory, Tory.WFDS
140Law – Legal Headlines for Monday, November 26, 2012
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Monday, November 26, 2012: Mayor Rob Ford guilty, kicked from office but can run again Legality of Warrantless…
Catholic Bishops Cave To Tories!
A couple of posts by Gruending give the best run-down of a story I've been following out of the corner of my eye for awhile now: the suspension of Development's…
Pennsylvania’s Top Environmental Regulator Champions Drilling Industry at Shale Conference
When Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection Secretary Michael Krancer stepped to the mic at a shale oil and gas conference earlier this month, he offered one of his most candid…
Harper pushing for larger DND role at Goose Bay #nlpoli
According to the Ottawa Citizen’s David Pugliese, the prime minister’s office directed defence minister Peter MacKay to “find a new role for the Canadian Forces at Goose Bay”. The PMO…
Taking Harper Down
Michael Harris -- who I quote a lot these days -- has uncovered Stephen Harper's recipe for governing Canada:3 cups of fear; 3 cups of information burial; 3 cups of…
Nov. 26:z-z-z-z-z-
My last questions to the Ministry of the Environment have not been answered, though they were quite simple. What is the law on reporting contaminated land? What are the terms…
Bring on the Astronaut Puns
The moment headline writers have been waiting for all summer has finally arrived, with Marc Garneau set to formally launch his Liberal leadership candidacy this week. Despite having a lengthy…
Vote Harvey Locke: The Progressive Choice for Calgary-Centre
Today (November 26th) is by-election day in the great riding of Calgary-Centre! The Liberal campaign has been as exciting as it has been improbably and for the first time since…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- The U.S.' budget negotiations are leading to some public lobbying as to whether wealthy Americans will make any contribution whatsoever to closing the country's…
The Not-So-Hidden-Hand of Harper
Although I believe unreservedly in the vital role that unions play in both protecting and promoting workers' rights, I make no apologies for the times that I have been critical…
Further applications for bail pending appeal require a change of circumstances
Tremblay c. R., 2012 QCCA 2073 is a good source for the principle that ince a bail pending appeal application has been refused a further application requires a change in…
Open thread: Is this Rob Ford’s last day?
I’ll have more to say about the case later, but for now, Marc Weisblott has put together a selection of what various pundits have to say. Read it here. My…
Excerpt from The Fridgularity: a ski in the storm
Given the arrival of Winter here in Souwesto, I thought I’d put up an excerpt from the second half of The Fridgularity (A Cold Reboot), in which the lead character…
Gender Failure
I’ve set up a google alert for ‘transgender’ so I can keep abreast of transgender news and activity on the internet, since my favourite part of my new job is…
The History of Climate Negotiations In 83 Seconds
While the east coast of the U.S. continues to deal with the impacts of Frankenstorm Sandy, and the global food prices rise because of a climate destabilized by our carbon…