Israel’s paper thin veneer of being a Western-style liberal democracy is being shredded. It’s the inevitable result of Israel having to come to grips with issues it has for decades…
Barack Obama seems to have found Mitt Romney’s petard. Now if he can only light the fuze. The petard, or bombshell, is the issue of income inequality in America. While…
Peggy Nash, my choice for leader of the New Democratic party, released her place to return Canada to the head of the pack as a global leader in innovation. Filed…
You have probably all read, by now, the news stories from Jan 12th about how the Harper government has come out saying that marriages no longer count between gay couples…
* Yesterday I posted a clip from Power & Politics where EthicalOil.org’s spokesperson Kathryn Marshall happily sprayed paranoid, inflammatory rhetoric around the room about how “environmentalists” who are speaking out…
Shorter Lorne Gunter: Murdering scientists is okay as long as it’s our side that does it. And look at the craftsmanship on the part of the assassins! Gunter thinks I’m…
Ethical Oil shares a mailing address with Tony Clement’s old campaign office. Also, note this statement from their “About Ethical Oil” page: The median size of our donations to date…
Cartoon Representation May Not Be 100% Accurate, Much Like Adler's Own Musings After reading a recent post by resident cranky old man of Sun News Network Charles Adler I decided…
The ‘shady science’ of ‘excited delirium’ continues around the world. Here are just a few updates: Editorial: Delirious Fatality report Calgary Herald Provincial Court Judge Heather Lamoureux’s recommendations are curious,…
After reading a recent post by resident cranky old man of Sun News Network Charles Adler I decided to take Adler’s advice; write a letter to the PM. I’ve of…
A small factoid but one pointing out a very real problem.
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Friday, January 13, 2012: Ottawa moves to defuse same-sex controversy – The Globe and Mail After delay, John…
The New Democrats are understandably furious at Lise St. Denis. But, as Chantal Hebert points out, her decision was hardly self serving: Lise St-Denis could easily have continued to collect…
A few years ago, I was at an Liberal Party of Canada in Alberta AGM voting on policies to go forward to the Vancouver Biennial in 2009. We were debating…
This is a very important case: http://bit.ly/w7BEQW They're known as "de facto spouses." Partners in a paperless marriage. Or, in this case, plain old Eric and Lola. But there's…
The CRTC says complaints against Internet providers deliberately slowing down online traffic are way up in Canada.
Anyone who thinks that Harper and his bullies were unaware of the efforts by the Department of Justice lawyers to try to delegitimize same sex marriage is a fool. Obviously…
“So long, good Canadian jobs!” Electro-Motive, a subsidiary of Caterpillar Inc., a huge US company, has locked out 465 workers from its London, Ontario plant. The company has offered a…
If you ever wanted to know which side of the political spectrum the BC ‘Liberals’ fall, it’s pretty obvious by now it’s neither centre nor left. When a supposed centre-left…
Earlier this week, my good friend @cityslikr shlepped out to Scarborough to take in a public meeting about the city budget. He wrote it up for Torontoist; you can read…
