Via ImpactedNurse.com, another study showing prolonged emergency department stays are less than optimal: There were 41,256 admissions from the ED. Mortality generally increased with increasing boarding time, from 2.5% in…
…will never become butterflies. Goodbye, Progress Rail, and good riddance. May labour uprisings follow you wherever you crawl.
For the fifth straight month, the US has shown solid gains in jobs. In January, the country gained a healthy 243,000 of them. During the same month, Canada gained only…
In 2007, knowing that they couldn’t ride Adscam forever, the Harper government put our tax dollars to good use, by hiring a private investigator to dig into the Liberal’s polling…
If I seem to be spending too much time on this Canadian and Quebec blog talking about the US, it’s because I’m afraid that Stephen Harper and his friends slowly…
It’s OK. It’s pink! I felt a little bad feeling so much animosity towards a person, but Nancy Brinker’s reaction to her disengagement from Planned Parenthood has quickly become the…
Here are the leading legal headlines for Friday, February 03, 2012 from Wise Law on Twitter: International Court of Justice: Germany can’t be sued in foreign courts for Nazi crimes…
“Hi, I’m Kris Sims. I used to be a journalist.” He called her a “pawn” of QMI and Pierre Karl Peladeau. He should have called her a pawn of the…
There’s a new poll out for Alberta this week, done by the company “Return on Insight” (ROI), which I don’t know very much about but is commissioned by the CBC…
The Telegram editorial on the Manitoba Hydro review of Muskrat Falls is a tidy bit of work with some sound advice: The bottom line? Anyone who wants to say anything…
While the National Post does its best to hype the threat posed by Iran, here’s the news I can’t seem to find from a Canadian source: WASHINGTON, Feb 1, 2012…
Only in America. Yet another reason to give the Komen franchisers a wide berth. Because breast cancer is too important, too real and too lethal to be so shamefully (http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/292206/20120202/planned-parenthood-susan-komen-penn-state.htm)…
We have nurtured an old curmudgeon. He or she has been with us for a long time. However, we have never had so many of them at the same time.…
While the original site is down, it is being mirrored here. I haven’t had a chance to go through it yet myself. Maybe over the weekend. There are apparently a…
This video, Gay Chicken, one of the webisodes of Steam Room Stories, makes me want to put a bag over my head in shame for being of the same species…
When we lived in NYC, I was hugely into Netflix. The selection and convenience were terrific, and for frequent movie watching, the flat monthly fee was a great value. After…
It was not a happy new year for Canadian job seekers. Statistics Canada reported today that unemployment rose for a fourth consecutive month in January. Overall employment remained flat as…
Today would have been my Dad’s 60th birthday. We had been planning to hold a huge celebration, because making it to sixty years old was going to be a really…
Talk about timely! On The Line is a eco-documentary that follows the two filmmakers, Frank Wolf and Todd McGowan, on a 2,400 kilometre self-propelled journey by foot, bike, raft, and…
R. v. Hoskins, 2012 BCCA 51 considers when it is appropriate to assign counsel for an individual who is party to an appeal in a criminal matter. The test is…
