Fragmentation, Private Profit and Home Phlebotomy
Every day there are stories of how the fragmentation of health care hurts patients. A few, when a patient dies, make the media. Most often fragmentation causes small inconveniences, but…
2012
talking radical: a history of canada through the eyes of activists
This the third of the four talks I attended semi-recently. Other recent talks: noah richler, u.s. war resisters, and the militarization of canadian culture, and from greece to chicago to…
One of those things you wonder about
I always thought Bing Crosby’s last Christmas Special was the oddest one ever made, and the Bing/Bowie song was the oddest pairing, in spite of how their voices actually blend…
Dec. 20: how to make a nothing into…
Wow! Big front-page story. “Public like on-street parking”. It seems the city has asked the public what it thinks now it has down-town parking.”It got an overwhelming amount of response.”…
Opto Civilitas
Martin then jabbed the button into Peter Van Loan’s eyeball. Some of you may recall Pat Martin’s noble quest to bring civility to Parliament: “This is my new policy,” Martin…
When Beijing Comes Calling
The people of Morococha situated on a Peruvian hill called Toromocho aren’t much to speak of. Morococha is a shanty town for its 5,000 inhabitants or at least it was…
Pressure mounting on PM Harper to meet hunger striker Theresa Spence
by Obert Madondo: Pressure is mounting on Prime Minister Stephen Harper to tear down his stubborn wall of silence over hunger striker Chief Theresa Spence. First Nations leaders, the opposition,…
Can someone who wears niqab for religious reasons can be required to remove it while testifying? It depends
R v NS 2012 SCC 72 deals with the issue of a witness covering the face for religious reasons. A summary follows: The issue is when, if ever, a witness…
America’s War on Basra and Fallujah Grinds On
And you thought America’s war on Iraq was over. Remember Basra? Remember Fallujah? They were two Iraqi cities that endured extensive fighting when American and Coalition forces moved in. The…
Chief Teresa Spence’s Hunger Strike Now In Day 10- Treaties threatened by PM Harper
Richard ‘Hub’ Hughes- Political Blogger Driven by anguish and rejection of the Harper Government’s disregard for long established treaties and aboriginal peoples rights Chief of the Attawapiskat Nation Teresa Spence…
On dubious partners
I’ve mostly avoided commenting on the federal Libs’ leadership race based on the need for the party’s own membership (and supportership in this case) to decide on a future direction…
Ikea Monkey’s “gif” to all of us
His “owner” seems a little, um, out there. by the way. She needs to get back to her real estate practice. Or something.
The 30-Somethings #nlpoli
The number of babies born to mothers in their 30s in Newfoundland and Labrador has declined over the past couple of decades. But the drop isn’t as dramatic as the…
Taking a break from blogging for the holidays. As the Canadian…
Taking a break from blogging for the holidays. As the Canadian comedy greats Wayne & Shuster used to say at the end of their shows: Good-bye ‘till when we meet…
It’s almost enough to make you think the game is rigged
Supreme Court rules feds don’t need to return $28 billion in pension funds In a unanimous 9-0 decision, the Supreme Court of Canada has dismissed an appeal from public service…
Hunger Striker Chief Theresa Spence’s Exclusive Interview With The CBC
In this exclusive interview with the CBC’s Chris Rands, hunger striker Chief Theresa Spence explains her peaceful protest. Chief Spence started her hunger strike here in Ottawa on December 11.…
Nursing home placement — Who has the greater crisis?
Yesterday we looked at the challenge of CCACs is managing scarcity amid too few available nursing home beds in the province. One of the ways of placing a client into…
140Law – Legal Headlines for Thursday, December 20, 2012
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Thursday, December 20, 2012: Comment on The Law Society’s Misguided Decision: De-Funding OLAP by Darryl Singer via Slaw…
Your morning bullshit
Who paid for this poll? Was it really all conducted on a single day? Wouldn’t the margin of error be much higher? But those are the kind of questions Messrs.…
New column day
Here, expanding on this post as to Simon Enoch’s study of corporate power in Saskatchewan – and suggesting that we use the networks mapped out by Enoch in analyzing the…