Blogposts – Past Favourites: A Small Vegetable Garden in the Backyard
The picture of the garden is from Google and not of our garden. This spring we restarted a small vegetable garden in the backyard. I said “we” because it is…
2012
Was There an Organized Poll Suppression Operation in Spring 2011?
After weeks of Conservative pundits telling us that Ted Opitz should keep his seat because there was no evidence of vote fraud in Etobicoke Centre, CBC has shown the value…
Blogposts – Past Favourites: Human Body and Human Senses
We all know the five miraculous human senses: SightHearing TasteTouch Smell Otherwise the human body is just a physical being but those miraculous senses make it a very unusual and…
Blogposts – Past Favourites: Nelson Mandela – A Leader Extraordinaire
“After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.”Mandela It was recently Nelson Mandela’s ninety-third birthday. We live today in an era marked…
How Do We Explain Scientifically Literate But Anti-Science Conservatives? Paging Drs. Dunning and Kruger
dunning_kruger_percieved_actual_graph.gif As regular readers of this blog know, I have spent a lot of time discussing what we call the “smart idiot” effect: Political conservatives who know more about science—or,…
Parliament in Review – May 8, 2012
Tuesday, May 8 saw another day of debate on the Cons’ omnibus budget legislation – and another day of general non-responsiveness from the Cons as to its actual effects. But…
The Importance of Singing about Good Things: The Sunny Side of the Street
Been thinking about the importance of optimism in the various fights we have in front of us. Feeling somewhat inundated by bad news worldwide, I decided I’d trying singing some…
No experience preferred: energy corp pork edition #nlpoli
The provincial government announced the latest round of Pure Pork (TM) patronage appointments on Friday. They've stuck four people on the board of the provincial energy corporation. Aside from Tory…
Project Sanctuary: 27 Children Safe
This is the sort of story I collect, the kind that inspired Web of Angels: Det. Paul Krawczyk and D/Const. Janelle Blackadar of the Sex Crimes Unit Child Exploitation Section…
June 8: Teacher makes great sandwiches
That’s front page stuff in the Moncton Times and Transcript. Then there’s a story by Brent Mazerolle about how Transportation and Infrastructure Minister Wilson explained why Royal Oaks was chosen…
Morning Nanos Poll: 33.6% NDP, 33.5% Con, 24.9% Liberal
Once again Nanos brings Liberals everywhere a small ray of hope in the form some slightly-trend-breaking numbers, in more ways than one. Nanos Research (Federal – May 26-31, 2012) New…
Start-ups Founded by Women on the Rise
The tech industry is filled with men and a near-machismo culture that can be intimidating to both men and women. Fortunately inroads have been made by women into the tech…
Contempt provisions of the Rules are not inconsistent with a Criminal Code charge of disobeying court order
R. v. Gibbons, 2012 SCC 28 holds a the contempt provisions of the Rules are not such as to bar the application of a Criminal Code charge of disobeying a…
A sign of the problem #nlpoli
One of the reasons why the provincial Conservatives are in political trouble is that their communications are frigged up. For those who are wondering, that is the relatively polite version…
Iggy staffer on Rae: predictable results, worthwhile reading
Here. It’s wonderfully written (what is “brine” in this context, anyway?) by the Liberal Party’s leading gold-plated, jet-setting Tweeter. He’s a total pain in the ass, he behaved very badly…
Steve Harper’s Taxpayer-Funded Enemies List
Last evening I wrote of a state security operation on behalf of the Tar Sanders that has been launched by Stephen Harper. It is a supposed counter-terrorism organization staffed by…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content for your Friday reading. – Michael Harris neatly sums up the Harper Cons’ legacy: In many ways, the Harper legacy will come down to this: how much can…
PEI Liberals – #Ghizonomics
So, I mentioned this in a previous post, that I attended a rally for Plan B and Dialysis last week, and made the sign you see in the previous post.…
Labour Market Stalls
Canada’s job market stalled in May. Employment edged up by 7,700, almost all of it part-time. In fact, the number of employees paid by Canadian employers fell by 15,600. Total…