Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Jeffrey Simpson criticizes the Cons for killing off the National Roundtable on the Environment and the Economy as punishment for telling the…
2012
Taste pride tonight at City Hall
Looking to support Capital Pride while sampling a rainbow of goodies from local eateries? Then you can skip dinner and make your way to City Hall tonight at 6 pm.…
"Hey there’s a movement to draft Erin Weir to run for NDP leader in Saskatchewan! Seconded!" – Andrew Coyne
(Click on image to enlarge …) Our Own Erin Weir Would Make a Great Sask NDP Leader! Posted by Jim Stanford June 19th, 2012 I’ve worked closely with Erin for…
Deconstructing Dinner: BC Food Broadcaster Launches Fundraising Campaign for New Series
Jon Steinman, host for five years of the popular “Deconstructing Dinner” radio program, launches a crowd-funding campaign to support his forthcoming video program by the same name. Steinman and his…
4760…Ralph Kramden Meet Dean Del Mastro
Were they separated at birth? WFDS
June 21: The Queen must be doing a great job….
….she got a pay raise of 20% for a total of over $57million Canadian dollars a year. I’m so happy. It’s even higher than the 16% paid to corporation executives…
Looking up
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4759…Brain Drain
Love him or envy him one has to admit that Ben Mulroney is a pretty decent talking head. Now the star of Canuckistanian TV is taking his talent to America,…
Life and Books
I am braving the heat in my sunny and a/c-less work corner (it’s the 3rd day of 34 degree heat) to post because it’s been so long. Last week, before…
EI: More Workers Fall Through the Cracks
Statistics Canada reported today that the number of Canadians receiving Employment Insurance (EI) dropped by 29,000 in April. Meanwhile, the Labour Force Survey indicates that unemployment rose by 14,000 in…
Armed Confrontation in West Germany in the 1970s and 1980s
La Belle Epoque(1984 Wellington, metro Charlevoix)Saturday, June 30, 1PM traduction anglais-français disponible After the surge of protest that was the sixties, all around the world radicals were drawn to new…
Are “high hazard” nursing homes “efficient?”
In BC they have a ratings system for residential care homes, or what we would refer to as “long-term care” homes in Ontario. The ratings look at complaints and critical…
140Law – Legal Headlines for Thursday, June 21, 2012
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Thursday, June 21, 2012: Scales of Justice: Obesity & Child Custody California ethics opinion warns lawyers that boastful…
Burning question
Jim Flaherty is taking credit for saving consumers money by tightening mortgage insurance rules. So how many extra thousands of dollars did he cost Canadian homeowners when he loosened precisely…
What is the Leadership Race About? Vlog Edition
Tried out this “Youtube” thing and, while not the greatest quality ever, it’s a short 5-and-a-bit minute video on my ideas about this race. I’d have made it longer and…
Rio+20: Our Leaders Toy With Us
The Rio+20 conference was officially launched yesterday, where world leaders – minus some heavy hitters like US President Barack Obama, British Prime Minister David Cameron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel,…
Mostly competent government
Stakeholders cry foul as feds cut funding for emergency preparedness Complaints from provinces, municipalities and fire departments across the country are mounting, as are concerns for public safety, after the…
The Star Continues Its Stellar Work
One of the Atkinson Principles guiding The Toronto Star is to champion the rights of working people; to my ongoing delight and gratification, however, this tenet does not mean the…
Extreme intoxication is not morally blameless
Section 33.1 of the Criminal Code says that self-induced intoxication which renders a person unaware of or incapable of controlling their behaviour is not a defence where the person is…
Something Rotten
It goes without saying that a lot hangs on the Supreme Court’s review of Justice Lederer’s decision to rerun the election in Etobicoke-Centre. Some claim that it’s only a matter…