Rounding the Square Pegs
Rounding square pegs. That, in a nutshell, is the message being delivered by the Royal Society and 104 other national science academies, to delegates of the Rio+20 Earth Summit if…
2012
TVO’s The Agenda: Forgiving the Unforgivable – Akaash Maharaj Videocast
Our capacity to do violence to one another is the worst tragedy of the human condition, but it makes our still greater capacity to forgive one another all the more…
TVO’s The Agenda: Forgiving the Unforgivable – Akaash Maharaj Videocast
Our capacity to do violence to one another is the worst tragedy of the human condition, but it makes our still greater capacity to forgive one another all the more…
Was Andrew Cuomo’s NY Fracking "Sacrifice Zone" Plan Hatched by NRDC?
shutterstock_15465343 (2).jpg Has New York Governor Andrew Cuomo just made the southern tier of the state a "sacrifice zone," as alleged by award-winning author and "fracktivist," Sandra Steingraber? Was it…
An Independent M.P. Condemns Harper Omnibus Bill
I was just reading my weekly community paper, and my M.P., the disingenuous David Sweet, indulges in a debasement of language befitting Orwell’s 1984. For example, despite the tremendous havoc…
BlackBerry maker Research in Motion is giving Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis a $12 million golden parachute
I know I know, we must never complain about the way capitalism distributes wealth because the market is always right… A company filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission…
Justin Trudeau…
… will he or won’t he? I haven’t a clue and don’t pretend otherwise. But Warren Kinsella does have some insights and recently (as in “today”) outlined 10 Reasons why…
Eye of Scheer over Peace Tower of Sauron #LordOfTheBills
What’s going on inside the House of Commons today is no laughing matter. In fact, Minister Tony Clement told me that if I don’t like his joking about the step…
Your Law School called… #nlpoli
The more they talk, the worse it gets. In the House of Assembly on Thursday, justice minister Felix Collins gave some examples of what he would consider "frivolous and vexatious”…
West Coast goes to Ottawa to talk about how the Omnibus Bill will harm Canada
Thursday, June 14, 2012 On May 31, 2012, I travelled to Ottawa, on behalf of West Coast Environmental Law Association, to speak in person about the budget bill’s attack on…
How to codify anti-discrimination in law
This is great: Ontario amends Human Rights Code to extend protections to transgender people, but really, can’t it be possible to write the law in such a way that we…
Contrarian optimism and the omnibus ballet
The Canadian economy, ‘the envy of the world‘. Remember that? Of course that in itself was a complete lie more of which is revealed all the time. But who needs…
Musings on the Dr. Dawg case
“Nonetheless, although the respondents come close to asserting – but do not quite assert – that “anything goes” in these types of exchanges, is that the case in law? Do…
4740…"Have you stopped beating your wife yet?"
That’s what David Stern, the commish of the NBA, talking smack, asked Jim Rome on today’s The Jim Rome Show, heard in Ottawa on The Team 1200. Ouch. Deadspin reports…
Courtesy of…
@StephenLautens. LMAO! (9) Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
4739…Happy Birthday Mr. Vice President
No not Joe Biden. It is sixteen candles plus for the man who wants to be Mitt Romney’s Veep, Donald Trump. I hope someone got him a new toupee for…
4738…Liberal Party Of Canada Makes Beeg Error
Mike Crawley, he is the president, er, President, of the Liberal Party of Canada, sent me an email this morning. In that missive he told me that the leadership convention…
And that was the point, Felix #nlpoli
Justice minister Felix Collins and his colleagues are having a bad week. Felix and his buds want to limit public access to government information. They want to make it harder…
Things are still messed up…
… in Prestoland! And it’s looking more and more like I may be able to use my EcoPass a little bit longer than I thought! Which is important to me…