I am old, I am old
I shall wear my trousers rolled. Dare I eat a peach, etc. There’s all kinds of fun political stuff happening, and it’s exciting and positive and great. But you know…
2012
No Herd Left Behind: Federal Caribou Recovery Strategy On "Collision Course with Industry," Leads to Caribou "Zoos"
This post is a part of DeSmog’s investigative series: Cry Wolf. Five years overdue in a legal sense and ten years after caribou were officially listed as ‘threatened’ according to…
Photographing and filming police officers in Canada
Here’s an excellent passage from The Canadian Privacy Law Blog: Full Post There is no law in Canada that prevents a member of the public from taking photographs or video…
Creation In Peril: Protect What You Love
Tomorrow I’m going to be spending much of the day at Creation in Peril: Protect What You Love, a conference on faith and the environment. This is one of the…
Is this for real?
C’mon. At the very least, these folks deserve to have their final arrangements paid for by the state. I guess the Harperites don’t agree. (5) Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
Muskrat Falls Trends #nlpoli
Just for the fun of it, here is a graph of the frequency of searches for the term “Muskrat Falls” in Canada since November 2010. According to Google the numbers…
How Multinational Corporations Evade Canadian Income Tax Law
In the wake of the recent Ted Opitz case, in which the Supreme Court of Canada issued a bizarrely partisan split ruling, written by two Harper appointees to the nation’s…
ConCalls: The Sanctity of Election Fraud
Below is my comment left on Sixth Estate regarding the disastrously wrong Supreme Court decision yesterday. It protects the sanctity of election fraud, instead of Canadians’ right to vote in…
Visualizing Open Energy Data in Canada
If you haven’t seen it yet, Glen Newton has done some really awesome visualizations of Canada’s energy production/consumption data. Here’s a version I “edited”: What is cool is that, what…
Is All Genetic Autism Research Fundamentally Flawed?
The assumption in traditional genetic expression analysis that mRNA content is similar between cells (represented by orange and black dots) does not affect the final results when the cells in…
Jim Manly Is Back At Home In Nanaimo ;-)
Jim Manly Former Nanaimo-Cowichan NDP MP returns home in time to celebrate his 80th birthday. Jim Manly, the retired United Church Retired Minister has answered the call and travelled as…
The Kelvin CC Comeback: How Do I Feel?
It’s good. Yeah. But it feels strange. We spent years fighting to keep Kelvin Community Centre open, and then the community spent a few more years after that trying to…
Geoff Campbell, storified
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Buckle fracture
Last Tuesday Mallory fell off a play structure at school when another kid slammed into her. She came home complaining of arm pain and when it was clear that it…
Read this
I’ve been hearing about this all day, and now I’ve finally read it. You will remember it for a long time. I hope Ann Coulter does.
Pharmaceutical billionaire Daryl Katz gave $430,000 to PC Party, Globe & Mail reports.
TweetI am still processing this news and will have more to say soon. In the meantime, kudos to Globe & Mail reporters David Ebner and Dawn Walton for digging this…
Even if you have seen this before, it still will make you smile.
This really is special. Enjoy.
Exchange Rates, the Price of Oil and the Enbridge Northern Gateway Project Joint Review Panel
This is a guest post by Paul Tulloch, of LivingWork.ca and frequent commentator on this blog, reporting on some significant and timely work he prepared for the northern gateway pipeline…
By the way, it is perfectly legal to photograph police (but it may not prudent)
The RCMP don't like being photographed. This sounds familiar – RCMP who don't want to be photographed or subject to review. So they demand a photograph be deleted and if…