update: municipal by-elections in rimbey and beiseker.
Tweet Two quick updates to the list of municipal by-elections being held across Alberta over the summer months. Joe Anglin Wayne Clark and Scott Ellis are contesting a by-election in…
2012
Another Failure of the Press
I had an experience yesterday that served only to deepen my cynicism about the mainstream press (The Toronto Star being the sole exception). I called The Hamilton Spectator’s Stephanie Crozier…
New Report on What We Need: Green Invest, Not Oil Sands
Very interesting report out of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives today. This is the kind of cage-rattling that the Harper government wants to stop. According to their press release:…
Quebec By-Elections Show Charest Still Treading Water
The Premier who many people have written off dozens of time before, just in this past year alone, came out with a middling performance last night in two by-elections in…
A person can be found guilty of first degree murder as a party to the offence
R. v. Ferrari, 2012 ONCA 399 finds that, where the special mens rea requirements for murder are met, a person can be found guilty of first degree murder as a…
Canadian Democracy in Disarray
* There is mounting alarm and opposition across Canada, even among many conservatives, about the Harper government’s omnibus budget bill, Bill C-38. Yesterday Parlliamentary Speaker Andrew Scheer (a Conservative MP…
Glenn Cochrane
What a huge, huge loss to the Beach and this City. Such a kind and decent man, and what a writer he was. God bless him and his family.
Desire Lines: Walking through the World, One Step at a Time
I’ve been working on the short story collection for which I’ve had a grant this year, called Desire Lines: A Geography of Love. I think I’ve got a suite of…
Norway
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Photos of the 49th Night Protest, June 11, 2012
The 49th night protest in Montreal was peaceful, like most of the nocturnal marches, which is why mainstream media outlets hardly cover them at all. Remember for them, if it…
Photos of the 49th Night Protest, June 11, 2012
The 49th night protest in Montreal was peaceful, like most of the nocturnal marches, which is why mainstream media outlets hardly cover them at all. Remember for them, if it…
Photos of the 49th Night Protest, June 11, 2012
The 49th night protest in Montreal was peaceful, like most of the nocturnal marches, which is why mainstream media outlets hardly cover them at all. Remember for them, if it…
Photos of the 49th Night Protest, June 11, 2012
The 49th night protest in Montreal was peaceful, like most of the nocturnal marches, which is why mainstream media outlets hardly cover them at all. Remember for them, if it…
China’s Toxic Farmland Time Bomb
China has a bagful of environmental challenges. You name it, they got it. Polluted waterways, contaminated air, greenhouse gas emissions that confound attempts to measure them – the lot. When…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Plenty of commentators are rightly speaking out against the Cons’ anti-democratic omnibus bill, including Tim Harper and the Star-Phoenix and Vancouver Sun…
For Liberals, the Way Forward is the Way Back
If the Liberals are ever coming back, and that’s a lot more iffy than many of them want to admit, it will be under a leader determined to reverse the…
A Green Industrial Revolution
Today the CCPA released a new big picture report by myself and student researcher Amanda Card calling for a Green Industrial Revolution. The report builds on work done for the…
PS – Read this, Andrew
Still think it was okay to make jokes about their son’s fate?
Jagged angry cat
Filed under: art, digital, drawing Tagged: 100 cats
Question for Liberals isn’t should we merge, it’s should we exist
An Ipsospoll released over the weekend claiming a majority of Liberal and NDP supporters (voters, not necessarily activists) favour merging the parties has re-ignited the debate about whether or not…