Ask General Kang: What is the penalty for plagiarism on your planet?
Plagiarism is the “act of stealing the ideas and/or expression of another and representing them as your own,” though I can’t remember where I got that quote from — just…
2012
Impermissible to reject accused’s testimony solely as a consequence of believing Crown witnesses
R. v. E.M.W., 2010 NSCA 73 para 56 is a good source for the foundational (but often ignored) principal that an accused’s evidence ought not to be rejected just because…
Glen Murray’s Good Idea
Frankly, everyone in the OLP’s leadership race ought to get behind the idea of abandoning delegated conventions, because: “Liberals from everywhere in Ontario should be able to participate fully in…
Chief Theresa Spence speaks on first day of her hunger strike (VIDEO)
Maggie Padlewska of One Year One World interviews Attawapiskat First Nations Chief Theresa Spence on Victoria Island on December 11, 2012, during the first day of her hunger protest against…
A Crisis. Or Not. #nlpoli
“Muskrat Falls is a project that will not impact net debt by a single dollar,” finance minister Tom Marshall said in a provincial government news release. Unfortunately for taxpayers, they…
Alberta and Atlantic Canada Should become One
As you know, many people born in Atlantic Canadians now live in Alberta. A recent unfortunate example of this is an elderly lady who's entire family is in Alberta. She…
Major IPCC Report Draft Leaked Then Cherry-Picked By Climate Sceptics
A CLIMATE sceptic blogger Alec Rawls has taken it upon himself to leak the current draft of an entire major Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, which is not due…
eaves.ca 2012-12-14 01:54:55
Just a brief update for those interested in participating in or organizing an event for International Open Data Day on February 23rd, 2013. The Wiki The Open Data Day wiki…
Hundreds March In Regina As Saskatchewan’s First Nations Fight Against Harper’s Bill C-45
REGINA — Saskatchewan’s First Nations are “idle no more.” On Thursday, hundreds of aboriginals and their supporters marched down snowy Regina streets in protest of the Harper government’s passing of…
Who are Alberta’s top MLAs of 2012?
TweetIt has become tradition on this blog that near the end of each year I publish a list of Members of Alberta’s Legislative Assembly who have been the best, worst,…
Would you be interested in hearing a ‘Canadian Trends’ podcast?
Here are some samples of a podcast I did back in 2010, and is probably what a ‘Canadian Trends’ podcast would sound like (although I might be better at it…
This is all I ever wanted for Christmas
A Calvin and Hobbes Search EngineHere’s my favorite “research” strip:
Did you hear the one about the four rabbis and a half-wit
Looks like Steve will be posting a lot of pictures of himself before the end of the year.
But sometimes, good things happen
I have been pooping an awful lot on and around social media lately. The truth of the matter is that I haven’t missed effbook at all since we broke up.…
Why did Ontario’s PCs attack Pupatello?
…because that, in and of itself, is quite interesting. They issued the limp attack piece below – helpfully edited by Your Humble Narrator – within minutes of Sandra making her…
Occupy the MP Party / A Harper Year in Review
Parliament is winding down, and it’s getting close to Christmas…do you know where your politicians are? Most likely they’re boarding a plane and heading back home to sip egg nog…
5437…The State Of Ontario
John Ibbitson, I do hope I got that right, of The Globe and Mail, wrote an interesting piece today about Ontario seceding from Canada and become its own Home and…
5436…Man Bites Dog
You read correctly. Pulled this story out of today’s Ottawa Sun but I am pretty sure it is world wide. The man bites dog thing happened in Pembroke, Ontario, which…
A Lesson From Egypt
The other day I wrote a post contrasting the fervent engagement of the Egyptian people as they pursue their demands for a representative democracy, contrasting that passion with our own…