Hurricane Sandy relief?
Is the Canadian or any provincial government helping out at all? I know we have sent crews to the States to provide assistance before, and I know it’s still early,…
2012
5281…This Is Odd
Ottawa = great weather. While the rest of the north east and Ontario suffer Ottawa, the city that has the worst weather, has the best weather. May be these are…
Calgary-Centre By-Election: Forum Poll has Tory at 48%, Harvey Locke (L) at 28%, Greens and NDP at 8%-11%
Forum Research released a poll of the Calgary-Centre byelection to gauge the support of each candidate in the riding. Conservative candidate Joan Crockatt sits at almost half of the support…
Has Mr. Katz done Alberta democracy a favour?
Alberta has the laxest election funding rules in the country, rules designed to favour the rich. Toward the end of this spring’s election campaign, billionaire Daryl Katz nicely illustrated this…
Wildrose MLA’s “panties” comments recorded in Hansard.
TweetNearly every word uttered during debates on the floor of Alberta’s Legislative Assembly is recorded into the official transcript known as Hansard. Sometimes, Members of the Legislative Assembly make odd…
Government Releases DG3 and a Natural Gas Teaser
Today the government released the Decision-Gate 3 numbers, the key analysis before sanction of the Muskrat Falls mega-project. While we’ve all been looking forward to these numbers for a long…
Albert Eistein’s view on God
Albert Einstein (1879-1955) Clarification: While the New York Times noted that “Einstein consistently characterized the idea of a personal God who answers prayers as naive, and life after death as…
Montrealers Getting Screwed By Tremblay
C’mon, tell us how you voted for Tremblay again and again and how much you thought he was a good mayor. Tell us you had no idea that there was…
The view from CBC in Calgary
Snowy, looking out towards my folks’ old place off Memorial. Lots of memories. Snow, too.
Lindberg rejoins Pennywise!
Forget about the book tour, the US election and everything else: Lindberg has come back to Pennywise! Oh my Lord, this makes me so happy! Yes, yes, I am weird.…
Steve Harper’s Betrayal of Canada
David Suzuki is credited with pointing out that you cannot have a healthy economy without a healthy biosphere. The first is utterly dependent on the second. A corollary. If you’re…
Americans and global warming—science bounces back
Earlier in this century, almost 80 per cent of Americans accepted that the Earth was warming and almost half believed we were causing it. Then skepticism increased and those believing…
Will Frankenstorm put climate change back on the political radar?
In recent years the world has experienced a sequence of climate-change-related disasters. Hurricane Sandy comes on top of massive drought through the summer that has led to 40% loss of…
Why Natural Disasters are Good for Capitalism
It’s been amusing today to listen to the pundits discuss the economic implications of Hurricane Sandy. Of course, we all know it closed the financial markets in NYC for two…
Drill, Baby, Drill
Severe storm events of increasing frequency and intensity. That has been one of the core predictions we’ve been getting, and largely ignoring, from the climate science community for the past…
Adequacy of reasons
R. v. P.J.B., 2012 ONCA 730 has a helpful review of the adequacy of jury instructions (and by implication reasons for judgment) and the duty to review evidence: Basic principles…
Plug-in Prius payback period…
I’ll start with a preamble, expressing hope that the tragedies and suffering from Hurricane Sandy can be limited to a minimum. And, recognizing that there are undoubtedly other tragedies I’m…
Abuse of process before administrative tribunals
S. v. College, 2012 ONCA 727 is a sad case. That said, it makes clear that delay in bringing administrative proceedings will not amount to abuse of process unless prejudice…
Letter From the Chair by Kathleen Sharpe
CCA came to the conclusion to shut down operations immediately due to lack of funding.