Post debate bounce for The Mitt
Seems so. His favourability rating is up and with about 70 million people watching him take President Obama behind the woodshed and whack him, more people know him. If, as…
2012
Friday miscellany…
The War of 1812, WHO THE HELL CARES, edition! Will someone PLEASE tell the war-lovin’ CPC that a $30 million investment to “celebrate a war that happened 200 years ago…
Central Park craziness continues…
Guess what’s got councillors’ goats this morning? It seems the Central Park Steering Committee were informed in September, 2011 that the YMCA lost out on a provincial/federal grant it was…
We can do better
So there were 52,000 new jobs in September, but we needed 72,500 to keep up with labour force growth. 33,800 of those jobs were self-employed workers, and none of those…
5218…Our Courts Do Not Reflect Canada
My real world friend Rachel Decoste makes that point on Facebook today Today in 1967: Thurgood Marshall becomes 1st Black Supreme Court Justice. 2012: Canada’s Supreme Court still 100% white.…
Mitt Romney: Big Bird is the cause of economic woes
Clash between Big Bird and Romney continues.
HIV cases
“Specifically, today’s decisions said that in order to obtain a conviction for aggravated sexual assault, the Crown must show that an accused person failed to disclose his or her HIV…
Justice vs. Verdict
I’ve been following the sex assault trial of Steve Desjourdy, the Ottawa police officer who cut off the t-shirt and bra of a young woman while she was pinned to…
Conservative Cabinet Minister Gerry Ritz’s ‘Death By A Thousand Cold Cuts’
“That it took XL Foods until Thursday to not only take full responsibility for the E. Coli outbreak at its Brooks plant, but also to say anything about the issue…
More Sloppy Quoting Work from Margaret Wente — Plus, Bonus Fake-Feminist Rubbish
Recently a famous ethicist named Margaret Somerville, whom I will not link to because of the ongoing plagiarism link boycott, said that criticizing Wente’s plagiarism because we don’t like her…
Sexual consent vitiated only where misrepresentation leads to a significant risk of serious bodily
R. v. Mabior, 2012 SCC 47 has upheld the test for when consent to sexual activity is vitiated. The Court holds: This Court, in Cuerrier, established that failure to disclose…
Loopholes and leverage
I’ve previously wondered whether we’d see many substantial policy differences between Saskatchewan’s NDP leadership candidates. But Erin Weir hasn’t taken long to challenge what’s often seen as party orthodoxy: NDP…
Oct. 5: Good stories; but….
The most important stories, from a New Brunswick point of view, in today’s paper are two related stories. They concern fracking for shale gas, and its impact on public health.…
Costa Rica poised to ban hunting as sport
An environmentalist wearing a frog mask is seen near members of Congress (rear) who are voting on an anti-hunting law inside the Legislative Assembly building in San Jose, Costa Rica.…
Caregiving for Step-Children
Parenting healthy children is challenging, so imagine parenting a step-child with disabilities. Blended families are nearly the norm nowadays and it follows that a contemporary phenomenon will be shell shocked…
No Gateway
Northern Gateway, Jeffrey Simpson writes this morning, is dead: Yes, regulatory hearings before the National Energy Board will continue until the NEB approves the project. And yes, Enbridge will keep…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Michael Harris follows up on the previous activism to save the Experimental Lakes Area by noting that efforts to work with the Harper…
TRANSFORM!
I think it isn’t so much like a transformation, actually. It’s more like a palimpsest. A dog-eared, loose-leafed unbound monstrosity that’s been erased upon so much the paper is balling…
Harper’s China Syndrome: PM in a Pickle Over Nexen Buyout, Trade Deal
Following an eventful couple of weeks for the Canada-China energy trade file, Stephen Harper finds himself in quite a pickle. The Prime Minster is stuck between his resolute commitment to…