Someone Was Convicted of Murder, Just Not the Murderer
Someone was convicted of murdering British businessman Neill Heywood in Beijing, only it might not have been the accused, Gu Kailai, the wife of the disgraced politician Bo Xilai. The…
2012
It Was True Then, It’s Just as True Now
“You can have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, or democracy. But you cannot have both.” Louis Brandeis (1856-1941), Justice of the United States Supreme Court (1916-1939)
Historical Revisionism: A Balkan Cottage Industry?*
*My apologies to the good hard-working people of the global cottage and cottage cheese industries and the good people of the Balkans for once again being sullied by Western analyst-cum-charlatans.…
Ontario moves ahead with plan to divest the ONTC
"This disheartening news comes as a huge disappointment for those who understand the social, cultural, historical, environmental and economic benefits of passenger rail. CAPT will continue to fight for passenger…
Ontario moves ahead with plan to divest the ONTC
“This disheartening news comes as a huge disappointment for those who understand the social, cultural, historical, environmental and economic benefits of passenger rail. CAPT will continue to fight for passenger…
Ontario moves ahead with plan to divest the ONTC
"This disheartening news comes as a huge disappointment for those who understand the social, cultural, historical, environmental and economic benefits of passenger rail. CAPT will continue to fight for passenger…
Ontario moves ahead with plan to divest the ONTC
“This disheartening news comes as a huge disappointment for those who understand the social, cultural, historical, environmental and economic benefits of passenger rail. CAPT will continue to fight for passenger…
Canadian banks use of tax havens keeps growing
A growing share of Canada’s investment overseas is being channeled by Canadian banks into tax havens. The latest Statistics Canada figures show 24% of Canadian direct investment overseas in 2011…
Enbridge Sure Can Fabricate the BS!
Many of you have seen the Enbridge video revealing their deceptive handiwork falsifying the reality of the tanker route out of Kitimat. Some of those You Tube videos have been…
Deaths associated with C. difficile sharply underestimated
A new report indicates that C. difficile is linked in hospital records to more than 30,000 deaths a year in the United States. That’s about twice as many as federal…
International Internet restrictions: Weekly News Update from OpenMedia.ca
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Denier Comes To T.O., Denies
Susan Crockford tells Sun News that polar bears are doing A-OK. But Susan Crockford gets paid $750 a month from the Heartland Institute to say such things. And she’s been…
Fracking Industry Paying Off Scientists For "Unbiased" Safety Studies
science-and-money.jpg As a whole, Americans have an unfortunate tendency to distrust scientists. The number of those who distrust science and scientists is skewed heavily by ideology, with self-identified “conservatives” overwhelmingly…
5042…Crime In Ottawa
This is what passes for crime in your capital, a metro of about 1.3 million btw.580 CFRA is actually broadcasting this story and has it on their website. Police seek…
The Following Is Completely Unsolicited. Centre du Rasoir is Terrific
Let’s hear it for the Centre du rasoir and Sunbeam/Osterizer. In these days of instant obsalesence how heartening it is to be able to replace a part for an appliance…
Paulie Isn’t Even Trying Anymore; Racist Comment on Racist Photo Montage
Nothing Paulie does ever really surprises us all that much, but that doesn't mean that we won't continue to comment every time he lets that veil of "racialist" respectability, already…
The Economic Crisis: Notes from the Underground
Tom Palley has published a new book – The Economic Crisis: Notes from the Underground. I recommend it unread, having learned a lot from his excellent recent book, From Financial…
Dangerous Driving
R. v. Adams, 2012 PECA 15 has a helpful summary of the law regarding dangerous driving: Section 249(1) <http://www.canlii.org/en/ca/laws/stat/rsc-1985-c-c-46/latest/rsc-1985-c-c-46.html#sec249subsec1_smooth> (a) of the Criminal Code <http://www.canlii.org/en/ca/laws/stat/rsc-1985-c-c-46/latest/rsc-1985-c-c-46.html> reads as follows: 249.(1) Every…
BC NDP Challenge on Enbridge But Embrace Fracking and the Pacific Trails Pipeline!
Richard Hub Hughes-Political Blogger The BC Liberal’s have sold us out over the Enbridge Pipeline no matter how you cut it. The BC NDP are the Enbridge Opponent Champions! The…
Good news on climate change … I think
A new survey indicates that Canadians are increasingly acknowledging the reality of climate change while recognizing that we are the culprit. An Insightrix Research, Inc. poll reported that 98 per…