An adjournment sought merely for delay is properly refused
R. v. Phung, 2012 ONCA 720 is a good source for the principle that an adjournment sought merely for delay is properly refused: In our view, the trial judge did…
2012
Tales Of Ice-Bound Wonderlands
It’s TED Talk Tuesday on 350orbust: Diving under the Antarctic ice to get close to the much-feared leopard seal, photographer Paul Nicklen found an extraordinary new friend. Share his hilarious,…
Dominus Vobiscum
After the disastrous Papacy of Benedict XVI, all the secret societies decided to go a different way with the new pontiff. The Freemasons were keen to start putting their new…
Getting ready for the onslaught #nlpoli
Some things to bear in mind as the provincial government starts its latest information offensive on Muskrat Falls: These aren’t “final” numbers. Whether it’s a government phrase or a media…
Opportunities For Blogging At Ontario Liberal Leadership Convention?
Are there going to be any? I’m told that the big do will be held at Maple Leaf Gardens, the site of so many glorious victories these last years. One…
Conservative MPs: Climate Change Not Relevant to Environment Canada’s Mandate
An extraordinary exchange took place in the House of Commons environment committee a few days ago. It was so extraordinary that it made the news, but only just. A little…
The Big Storm and My American Nightmare
It's been a living nightmare. The dirtiest election I've ever seen.An election corrupted by Big Money, two billion dollars worth of attack ads, and more Big Lies than you can…
Both the BC NDP and the BC Liberal’s Support Shale Gas Fracking!
Richard Hub Hughes-Political Blogger Fracking is the latest profit making bonanza for the already too rich and powerful oil and gas corporations and they seem to have our politicians by…
Undemocratic impulses? Who ya gonna call? Not Jimmy Carter!
When it comes to ensuring the integrity of foreign elections, take it from Alberta Diary, Jimmy Carter is outstanding in the field. Below: Alberta MP Linda Duncan and Ukrainian President…
Canada Has Lost it’s Democracy
I can't even start to translate what is going on in our supposed "democracy" except to say that I don't see it as a democracy at all anymore. We have…
Canada Has Lost it’s Democracy
I can’t even start to translate what is going on in our supposed “democracy” except to say that I don’t see it as a democracy at all anymore. We have…
Canada Has Lost it’s Democracy
I can't even start to translate what is going on in our supposed "democracy" except to say that I don't see it as a democracy at all anymore. We have…
Canada Has Lost it’s Democracy
I can’t even start to translate what is going on in our supposed “democracy” except to say that I don’t see it as a democracy at all anymore. We have…
Frankenstorms and climate change
“If the study to which you apply yourself has a tendency to weaken your affections, and to destroy your taste for those simple pleasures in which no alloy can possibly…
A unique visualization of Sandy
The website hint.fm/wind/ (which understandably is currently very slow) has an incredibly interesting visualization of the wind patterns over the entire continental United States. An instantly recognizable feature tonight is…
Message to my American friends. Please vote.
It is election time in the States and some of my political friends are posting on facebook text-in-box images that say that voting is legitimizing whatever government gets elected and…
Fight The Right on BT in BC this AM!
Right here! Now, off to Cap College to talk about values and words! And conservatives! And progressives! And exclamation marks!
CARBON TAX! ON EVERYTHING!
Especially relevant if you are a Canadian, or paying any attention at all to our present political situation in Canada, where the governing party fantasizes its opponents. Filed under: art,…