Fossil Fuel Industry’s Bottom Line Will Destroy Our Climate: Do The Math
Wednesday night was one to remember. After a scramble to get my passport renewed (I only noticed last week it had expired over the summer), my husband and I traveled…
2012
NDP health critic consults Oshawa community – no LHIN in sight
The organizers had to put out more chairs as the audience filled the small room in the Oshawa Seniors Centre. Upstairs they were playing Bingo, downstairs about 50 people came…
Sandra in Ottawa!
Nice. And who’s the smiling young man in the front row on the left?
It’s Easier If You Think of Them as Horses
Remembrance Day is just around the corner. The local guys around here with their warbirds will do a memorial fly-past and we'll have a ceremony at... wherever they hold it…
Social impact bonds: totally whack
Human resources minister Diane Finley announced this new thing this week - social impact bonds wherein the federal government contracts with a charity or NGO to provide some sort of…
Free Transit Can Improve Cities
A small city in France had a problem: their transit system was failing and it was expensive to run. Their solution was to make ridership free for all, and it…
Peek a boo
Jaws?
Do cellphone bail restrictions make sense anymore?
R. v. Wong, 2012 ONCA 767 upholds a 30 day sentence for a bail breach of having a cellphone. The purpose of the ban is to limit the accused in…
remembrance day: not denial and distortion, not spin and propaganda
David Watts: So despite the popular rallying "for King and country," the outbreak of war in 1914 was not a coming together but a coming apart of a European order.…
Manufacturing Grounds for War with Iran
The United States claims that Iran opened fire on a U.S. Predator drone in "international waters." Washington seems intent on casting Iran as belligerent. Examined a little more closely and…
A "Comeback"
...is Crappy Tire shop-talk for a customer who gets home and finds out the car problem he or she just spent $100s on is still not fixed. And so here…
Another Victim of Globalization – Britain’s Trees.
British Columbians were, and remain, incensed that trade agreements prevented our government from blocking the export of raw logs. We wanted the log processing jobs from the sawmills to wood…
Great, Wrong Again.. or, Surprise, Sandy Has Sisters!
The U.S. National Centre for Atmospheric Research reports they, and the larger scientific community, got it wrong. Once again they erred on the conservative side resulting in unduly optimistic projections.Now,…
Heavy is the Head That Wears the Crown: Tar Sands Expansion May Violate Crown’s Legal Obligation to First Nations
Today the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation (ACFN) will argue in the Alberta Court of Appeal that Shell Canada’s proposed Jackpine Mine expansion is in violation of their Constitutional rights and…
Telling your Cell Phone Horror Stories
For the past few weeks we've been asking you to share your CellPhoneHorrorStory.ca to tell decision-makers at the CRTC what steps to take in fixing our broken telecom market. Now,…
remembrance day: one man’s view in memory of his father, a veteran
John Bell: When I was a little boy, my brothers and I were rummaging through boxes of old, packed-away stuff in our basement, and came across what we thought was…
EPA And TVA Nix Coal Ash Spill Cleanup Efforts
Four years after a coal processing plant operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) accidentally released tons of toxic coal ash into waterways in Kingston, the cleanup has finally come…
Obama’s victory in pictures
Courtesy of Edison Research, here's a simple way to analyse the Obama 2012 victory – as they say, a picture is worth a thousand words ...The empathy gap:Romney lost the…
There is no offence of "armed robbery"
R. v. Moore, 2012 ONCA 770 points out that the offence of "armed robbery" does not exist. There is robbery and if a firearm is used an enhanced penalty. Similarly…
Oh America’s Right Will Have a Field Day With This
Americans will choose their next president in 2016. That, according to the OECD, will also be the year that China overtakes the United States to become the world's largest economy.Four…