Bipartisanship
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2012
July31: Have they no shame?
The first page of today’s Monton Times and Tribune has at least two stories from yesterday’s paper – without adding much to them. (They cover the weather and a home…
The ‘t’ word
Feds taking steps to protect against environmental terrorists OTTAWA — The federal government doesn’t want to detail the steps it has taken to protect against environmental terrorists but says it…
White spy cat
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A Big Tell on Muskrat Falls Exports #nlpoli
A meeting of the Eastern Canadian premiers and all the New England Governors and the provincial government here sends Keith Hutchings. Who? The minister in charge of the innovation and…
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Climate Change: Lines of Evidence
The National Academies, America’s preeminent independent scientific advisory body, has produced a series of videos about the science of climate change. This one,the second in the series, explains how scientists…
140Law – Legal Headlines for Tuesday, July 31, 2012
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Tuesday, July 31, 2012: Law societies – Aylward v. Law Society of Newfoundland and Labrador On Overcriminalization and…
To Jerusalem — Via New York and Toronto
The Globe and Mail reports that Mitt Romney’s foreign policy has Canadian roots. Dan Senor, who has accompanied Romney on his tour of Israel, was born in New York but…
Occupy Movement Call for Global Day of Action: Chalkupy the World!
via Occupy Los Angeles: On July 12th, participants in OccupyLA met to raise awareness for unlawful arrests of activists that had been targeting a lobby group with a stranglehold on…
Media Quietude Over Climate Change
A few months ago, when we were seeing mid-summer temperatures during early spring, I remember Tom Brown, the CTV weatherman, looking grim and saying words to the effect that “This…
Oil May Well Destroy Canada
A fairly devastating economic analysis of the oil sands “benefits” as it relates to the federation. Despite the continual sales pitch that oil sands development is of great benefit to…
Sam Harris and Free Will and Double Predestination
Sam Harris’s view on free will is really nothing new. It is merely a secular restatement of the Calvinist concept of double predestination – we are saved or damned without…
Instant Run-off voting – Toronto considers it.
There is a column in the National Post about the City of Toronto possibly considering a voting reform; implementing Instant Run-off Voting (IRV) or Ranked Balloting as in time for…
Canvassing: There’s an App for that
Canvassing gets with modernity courtesy of the Obama campaign: “Obama Campaign Releases iPhone App for Canvassing.” The app, which is available on Tuesday, will allow supporters of Mr. Obama’s to…
Ask General Kang: Did you have the Olympics on your home world?
That is a ridiculous question! I come from another planet, deep in another galaxy, on which the dominant lifeforms have evolved along a completely different track from you humans. What…
Back to P Dot today!
Maybe I’ll be inspired to write an old fashioned rant or two about Big Tony! Hell! Maybe I’ll drop in to see how his gazebo is holding up! But mostly,…
A finalized term sheet? #nlpoli
Nalcor and Emera signed a finalised term sheet to develop Muskrat Falls in November 2010. The next step was supposed to be negotiation of a final agreement between Nalcor and…
The Pipeline and the Terrorist Menace
Some days this summer its been too hot to go to the beach. And when I do go, and I lie there on the baking sand, I can't help thinking…