Here’s Lil’ Stevie
This shouldn’t come as a surprise but here’s Rick Mercer’s take on the dickhead we know as Steve Harper Yeah, it’s Lil’ Steve and, yes, he’s a dildo. CBC “comedian”…
2012
Mitt Romney’s China Doctrine
Every president needs a foreign policy doctrine (ala the Monroe Doctrine) to act as a package for his foreign policies. What will Romney’s Doctrine be? Romney has told Americans what…
Campaign Update: Cam Broten
This is the first in a flurry of posts for today, given that all of the campaigns have been abuzz with activity recently. We’ll start with Cam Broten. Cam’s campaign…
Tomorrow on Earthgauge Radio: James Kunstler (part 2) and The Climate Reality Project
On Earthgauge Radio this week, part 2 of our Earthgauge exclusive interview with James Kunstler, acclaimed and influential author of The Long Emergency and, his latest, Too Much Magic: Wishful…
Meet Your By-Election Candidates
So for the three – possibly four – by-elections we have coming up, I thought I’d do a quick post covering who the Liberals have nominated to carry our flag…
Discoverability
Duchesne v. St-Denis, 2012 ONCA 699 deals with limitation periods and discoverability. The Court holds that a claim is discoverable when the facts necessary for the claim are known; the…
The Costs of Keeping Cool
North Americans had a tough and expensive time keeping cool over the summer. A prolonged heat wave coupled with sustained drought (that continues in many places) drove demand for plenty…
$9 M hospital settlement for law-suit alleging poor cleaning
Joseph Brant Memorial Hospital has agreed to settle a law-suit by approximately two-hundred victims of a C. difficile outbreak at the hospital for $9,000,000, the Hamilton Spectator reports. That is…
Loyola Sullivan and conflict of interest #nlpoli
From the report by federal conflict of interest and ethics commission into certain actions by former fisheries ambassador Loyola Sullivan: In June 2011, after consulting with my Office about whether…
Kenny’s power play should be opposed
Immigration Minister Jason Kenney is proposing legislation which will give the minister the power to deny visitors entry to Canada even if they don’t have a serious criminal record. Now…
"Binders of women", Mitt?
There have been many foot in mouth moments in debates over the years. Think Gerry Ford’s comments in 1976 about how he would not allow the USSR to dominate Poland…
Mercer on the Economic Action Plan ads
Yes, I’ve been posting Mr. Mercer’s rants of late. The last three have been bang on and deserve to be widely shared. It’s unfortunate that we don’t see more of…
Fire Peter Penashue
This story is amazing. A full member of Canada’s cabinet and the only Conservative MP from Newfoundland and Labrador essentially broke several major rules in his campaign attempt to out…
How Brad Wall’s ‘Plan For Growth’ Will Grow Washington’s Treasury With No Benefit For Saskatchewan
“When an American company like Mosaic repatriates profits from Saskatchewan to the US, it pays the 35% American federal corporate tax rate minus a credit for corporate taxes paid in…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Erika Shaker describes the effect of the “right-to-work” laws so popular among our more regressive politicians: “Right-to-Work” still remains a dubious—even Orwellian—term, probably…
Judicial Independence
All judges, whether appointed to provincial or federal positions are entitled to judicial independence in Canada. The source of such independence for federal appointments is in part from the text…
As It Happens, Oct. 16: more or proroguing
I’m on after Robert Ghiz, who would’ve made an excellent Prime Minister, by the way. Nine minute mark.
Canada’s Outrageous Geoengineering Scam
The Harper government knew of Russ George’s plan to seed the waters off the Queen Charlotte Islands with a hundred tons of iron sulphate. The Harper government also knew that…
Freedom Has Consequences
This article is about a London, Ontario man who posted a cruel comment on the memorial site for Amanda Todd (the 15-year-old Port Coquitlam, BC girl who committed suicide last…