Paul Martin’s right
Never thought you’d see that headline here, eh? But he is. Just had lunch with a very senior Conservative – friend of Mike Harris, Brian Mulroney, all of them –…
2012
The illness or the environment? Is Ontario Shores responsible for high rate of violent incidents?
Most mentally ill patients are more likely to be the victim of the violence than the perpetrator of it. Most evidence would suggest individuals experiencing mental illness are no more…
Looking Inside Mitt Romney
It may be a bit premature but New York Times columnist Charlie Blow offers an elegant autopsy of Mitt Romney. Romney is trapped by a desperate desire for legitimacy. He…
Public school teachers or corporate online learning…
The wholesale elimination of public schools would be a political impossibility. So too would be the wholesale replacement of brick and mortar schools with online learning. As a result, those…
The Victoria Times Colonist Calls "Bulls__t" on Christy Clark.
You Go Girl. No, Seriously, Just Go. The untested, unproven and unbelievable premier of British Columbia is paying dearly for her cracks about her very own legislature. The centre-right Times…
Weaver to Run for Greens in Victoria
One of Canada’s top climate scientists, University of Victoria prof Andrew Weaver, is going to run for the Green Party in Victoria in the next election. Finally the Greens will…
The American right wingnuts can be…
…crazy as batshit. (6) Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
5176…I Bleed Orange
Which is odd coz I am Irish Catholic and we are Green. Actually what it means is I am a big Syracuse fan, primarily men’s hoops. I even have a…
Beware the Bandersnatch, my boy
I would make a shitty spy. Seriously. Espionage would totally not be my strong suit. I’d wriggle my way to someone’s baccarat table, receive a SECRET MESSAGE jotted on a…
Why the Wall Street gang aren’t in jail
Many Canadians (and many more Americans) ask the eminently reasonable question, Why aren’t the bankers who precipitated the financial collapse of 2008 in jail? The damage they inflicted on the…
Monica Lewinsky is writting a tell-all book
She will get $12 million for it. What are Republicans up to? I thought Obama was running for president and not Bill Clinton. Maybe they don’t like Clinton’s ads supporting…
Facts are assumed true on pleadings sufficiency motions
Schembri v. Way, 2012 ONCA 620 has a good passage making clear that pleading sufficiency motions are not to be determined on evidence but on the pleadings alone: The motion…
The Passing of a Fine Man: Mel Charney Dies at 77
CHARNEY, Melvin. On Monday, September 17, 2012. Mourned by his wife Ann, daughter Dara, son-in-law Cameron McKenzie, grandchildren Rachel and Samuel McKenzie, brothers Morris and Israel, and their partners Carrie…
Action Urged to Protect Ancient Incomappleux Valley from Proposed IPP
The upper Incomappleux River and its very ancient rainforest are the gems of the Selkirk Mountain Caribou Park Proposal. Having avoided the ravages of logging for years, this special part…
Meet David Merner
David Merner, or as he will soon be known to Canadians watching Liberal leadership debates – “that guy standing next to Justin Trudeau” On Sunday, long shot Liberal leadership candidate…
Sept. 2 0: What isn’t in the TandT…..
….and what shouldn’t have been…. Drones are unmanned aircraft that are used for espionage, rocket fire, and bombing. You have probably heard that the US is using drones in Pakistan,…
The 2013 BC Election Is Now Underway!
Richard ‘Hub’ Hughes-Political Blogger Welcome to the 2013 Provincial Election Campaign, now underway. It is revealing to compare the approaches by the competing leaders, BC Liberal Leader Ms Christy Clark…
West Wing returns
The thing below is both funny, and a coincidence. A coincidence because a DNC guy was in here yesterday, and I told him (a) I once reviewed West Wing for…
On diverging paths
Earlier this morning, I noted that the NDP is developing on a promising line of economic messaging – highlighting the Cons’ determination to place the interests of the wealthy and…
My kid…
… she won a frsoty. (7) Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario