4829…Weird Wisconsin Union Fact
I am doing this from memory coz I am too busy to look it up, busy of course being the 2012 code word for I am too lazy to look…
2012
Summer TV watch list
The hottest months of the year are usually a dumping ground for the big four television networks. Yet some of the greatest shows of all time first aired in summer.…
Does Mayor Robertson really want to build condos on parkland?
A story in the Straight quotes Vision Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson of supporting the idea of building housing on a portion of the Langara golf course. “Meanwhile, Vision mayor Gregor…
Fun with Google Maps
Teddy here again. In my spare time, I like to make political and politically-related maps on Google Maps. I have more than just the Quebec Senate Divisions. I decided that…
Bev Oda’s Sweet Double Resignation
GOOD RIDDANCE! The minister responsible for the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) has resigned from both Stephen Harper’s cabinet and her elected position as Conservative MP for the Ontario riding…
Bev Oda’s luxurious, tax payer funded lifestyle comes to an end
After months of continued pressure, Minister of International Development, Bev Oda’s ridiculously obscene, tax payer funded lifestyle has come to an end: she has resigned. I won’t say more here…
Taking Back Our Democracy: Bridging the Generational Divide
These are tough days for Canada’s parliamentary democracy. Having endured years of steady erosion, it is now under frontal attack. Journalists and public leaders, across the political spectrum, have begun…
Harper Wasting No Time Slashing DFO Habitat Jobs as Notices go out to Staff
According to Otto Langer, the former senior DFO scientist and manager who first blew the whistle on Stephen Harper’s plan to gut the Fisheries Act, the job cuts associated with…
The messy divorce of horse racing and slots in Ontario
I play online poker regularly. My wife loves to watch horse racing on TV. Given this, one might think I would be sympathetic to the long running slots-at-racetrack program which…
Bev Oda
is quitting her job… And the blogosphere and pundit-class lose an easy target. She and her pricey OJ and smokes behind centre block will be missed. Well, not really. So…
God Damn, But He Might Be Right
It might not be just the climate that’s at risk this century. We might be on the brink of a much larger sea change sweeping through our political, economic and…
4828…Andy Griffith Will Live Forever
On YouTube and in Mayberry and, of course, as old people’s fave lawyer, Matlock. He passed just a while ago at the age of 86. Say a prayer. WFDS
Circumstantial evidence
R. v. Uhrig, 2012 ONCA 470 is a good source for the proposition it is not individual pieces of evidence but their cumulative effect that maters: When arguments are advanced,…
4827…Buffalo Tim Hudak Hates Unions
That is why the failed Progressive Conservative leader in Ontario is, in his most recent White Paper, embracing the union busting style of the Dixiecrats and Republican Governor Scott Walker…
June 3: The news vacuum.
There is a story on p. C8 that deserves a close reading – very close. “UNB eyes role in continuing shale gas debate” Sounds reasonable. Except…. The statement is from…
Grinding Nemo: Unsustainable Fish Meal for Thai Prawns, Farmed Salmon
A 6 min video from the Swedish Society of Nature Conservation, exposing in graphic detail the unsustainable methods of producing fish meal for both the Thai tiger prawn industry and…
Grinding Nemo: New Video Exposes Unsustainable Fish Meal for Thai Prawns, Farmed Salmon
Watch this new 6 min video from the Swedish Society of Nature Conservation, exposing in graphic detail the unsustainable methods of producing fish meal for both the Thai tiger prawn…
Young Carers’ Rap
Tricky P, rapping on being a young carer for his grandparents. A terrific young artist giving voice to the experience of roughly 108,000 in Canada alone who are under 18…