How long will the same depressing theme emerge before somebody advocates FORMAL co-operation, “merger”, “non aggression pact” between the opposition? Another Nanos poll out today reinforces the macro problem, currently…
I haven’t written a blog in a long time but the recent attack on Gaza has moved me to write. During the last attack in 2009, I was angry, furious…
Seems that the post about the recreational lobster fishery got Jamie Baker over at the Navigator thinking about a bunch of things. The biggest one was the idea that maybe…
FRIENDS says that despite promises from Prime Minister Stephen Harper, there is a 37 per cent gap between the increases in overall government spending and the CBC's decreasing portion of…
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Thursday, November 22, 2012: Good morning all! Looking forward to the #articling debate today. See you soon at#osgoodehall…
In the various incarnations that the series Star Trek has enjoyed, The Next Generation was my favorite. Starring the well-known Shakespearean actor Patrick Stewart, whose regal commands propelled The Enterprise…
We are told that a hard-charging local FBI agent, Frederick Humphries, Jr., had uncovered amorous e-mails sent by General Petraeus to his girlfriend-biographer in the course of investigating a complaint…
We have another odd Nanos poll that isn't really supported by other pollsters (though I suppose this one Forum poll I have no details for yet may end up being…
Here, on the need to question both the importance of trade agreements compared to other forms of interjurisdictional cooperation in general, and the Cons' warped priorities in particular.For further reading...-…
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Diana Carney discusses the public's growing recognition of inequality in Canada:I see three root causes of our concern with inequality in Canada (three…
The public utilities board is good. The public utilities board is bad. She said.. He said. Confused aren’t you? Well, there’s no surprise when Premier Kathy Dunderdale and natural resources…
I had the pleasure of sitting down for a recent chat on the state of the legal universe with Mitch Kowalski, Toronto lawyer, Legal Post blogger and author of Avoiding…
Always knew this, but videos of Hillary Clinton explaining how the US funded insurgent forces in Afghanistan in the late 1970s and earlyl 1980s to defeat the Soviet invasion have…
Like Chris Hedges, Michael Harris speaks truth to power. Today he takes on the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians -- and the Harper government's Middle East policy:Question for Stephen…
A report by the UN Environment Programme warns that world governments are doing too little to meet the stated goal of limiting global warming to 2 C. In failing to…
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If you ask an Environment Canada media spokesperson about contamination resulting from tar sands operations, they will not tell you the federal government has failed to adequately monitor the mega-project's…
49 years ago today life long Boston Red Sox fan John Fitzgerald Kennedy was murdered by Lee Harvey Oswald while on a pre elex swing through the Lone Star state.Changing…
Rashomon 羅生門StoryPalestinian papers are broadly supportive of the Gaza ceasefire agreed between Israel and the Islamist Hamas movement, while reactions in Israel are more mixed.The Hamas-run, Gaza-based Filastin newspaper runs…
