5119…More On Quebec Elex
Looks like Jean Charest may be moving back to Ottawa; he apparently is done in La Belle.My Facebook and real world friend Rachel Decoste has this on FB.I share with…
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The Internet Addiction
One of the most powerful and pervasive of our recent inventions has been the Internet, the digital magic that has compressed time into microseconds and space into irrelevance. The distance…
5118…Montreal Gazette Says To Vote For
Francois Legault and his Coalition Avenir Québec in next week’s, or, since it is Sunday, this week’s election.The latest polls I have seen have the Parti Quebecois ahead of the…
Sunday Morning Links
Assorted content for your Sunday reading. – Plenty of commentators are using the Labour Day weekend to discuss the place of workers in Canadian society. Sid Ryan notes that depressed…
U.S. "Suspends" Afghan Police Training
Apparently yielding to the Taliban, American forces in Afghanistan have suspended training of Afghan Local Police recruits. The Afghan recruits, it appears, have become too heavily infiltrated by the Taliban…
Ottawa Labour Day Event: POSTER
Event sponsored by the Ottawa and District Labour Council (ODLC), its affiliated unions and the community. Celebrating labour, family and community.
Canada-Russia ’72. Why it mattered.
It’s 40 years ago today that Canada and Russia faced off in Montreal to start the most gut wrenching, confidence shattering, depressing and joyous sporting even in Canadian history, and…
Clint Eastwood enjoying Whitehouse beer with imaginary Obama
Whitehouse has its own brand of beer and Clint Eastwood developed a liking for it. Click for Whitehouse beer story here.
Unsavory witnesses
R. v. Pelletier, 2012 ONCA 566 deals with the law regarding unsavory witnesses – it has a helpful summary of the governing principles: First, as a matter of general principle,…
Charges laid against Toronto officers for man’s injuries during arrest
Before everyone leaps to the conclusion the police are guilty, remember most arrest situations are murky — let’s see what happens to the charges. That said, for SIU to lay…
Why Fair Taxation Is Crucial
Now here is something everyone who wants to be well-informed should watch. Part of TVO’s Big Ideas series, it is a talk entitled How Did Taxes Become a Bad Word?…
Rural Internet Survey
Democracy requires dialog and part of that dialog should come from my fellow rural citizens however for some that is more difficult than their urban counterparts. Attending a townhall meeting…
Sunday morning
If you’re not entirely awake yet, this might do the trick.
Take Time To Renew Your Spirit
Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live…
The Romney and Ryan smoke and mirrors show
During the Republican nomination race Rick Perry described Mitt Romney as a “vulture capitalist” – a sinister cartoonish metaphor that perfectly describes the predatory business practices that have made Romney…
5117…High School Named After Wilson Phillips
The insipid pop group from two decades ago that even if you haven’t heard of you have heard on Magic, Mix, Kiss, Power, whatever the soft rock less talk station…
STC: Broadband costs decline – so why don’t our prices?
Canadian citizens are being price-gouged by Big Telecom even as their costs seemingly go down. We’re paying more but falling behind and getting less than our global counterparts due to…
Climate Change: Lines of Evidence
Produced by the National Academies of Science.