Evidence of corruption mounts
Economist Erik Andersen, writing at The Common Sense Canadian, contemplates why BC Hydro “indulged in its aggressive contracting with Independent Power Producers in BC when domestic demand increases are non-existant.”…
2012
IRPP: No Denial of Dutch Disease
Canadian Press writes, “Mr. Mulcair’s analysis of what ails Canada’s economy is contradicted by a new independent study produced by the Institute for Research on Public Policy.” Really? What does…
Molly’sBlog 2012-05-16 22:57:00
ANARCHIST THEORY:BUT WILL THE TRAINS RUN ON TIME ? The short answer is “yes”. In fact, given the lower “neighbourhood costs” of rail versus road traffic they will run even…
Indian state attacks artists – Poets & performers jailed, driven underground
Last week the award-winning documentary filmmaker and activist Anand Patwardhan, along with Ratna Pathak Shah, Sudhakar Suradkar and Prakash Reddy launched a defence fund for Kabir Kala Manch, a cultural…
Vic Toews and the Bill that Wouldn’t Die
OMG. That'll teach me to stroll through a graveyard in Con Canada, when a Harper moon is in the sky. First I read that Vic Toews' internet snooping bill had…
Removing a judge for conflict
Bailey v. Barbour, 2012 ONCA 325 deals with when a judge must recuse themselves because of conflict. The issue is a difficult one. Parties will, on occasion, seek to remove a judicial officer…
"This isn’t Canada right now": @TorontoPolice officer says
A new report has been released today slamming G20 police for “excessive force”. While damning, this report is a whitewash. It continues to play the “few bad apples” routine spewed…
James Moore, all your child are belong to us!
Museum’s sex show gets dressing down from feds- Politics – Canoe.ca. I was raised by prudes who never gave me “the talk.” I grew up in an uptight, WASP suburb…
Pro-Internet Community Must Fight the TPP: Weekly Update from OpenMedia.ca
Hello! Here’s Lindsey with your update: read more
Heartland’s Joe Bast lashes out at Institute’s own "friends"
Josph Bast.jpg The somewhat hysterical Heartland Institute President Joe Bast has lashed out at the lengthening list of "friends" who are trying to distance themselves from the institute's increasingly embarrassing…
Tendencies at the top
This is a troubling story that deserves attention: “RCMP conducted five-month national security probe into leaked F-35 story.” The Harper government called in the RCMP to investigate a politically embarrassing…
Saskatchewan Manufacturing Hits the Wall
Premier Brad Wall was Tweeting about today’s Statistics Canada report of an uptick in national manufacturing sales in March. It is an odd report for him to trumpet, given that…
4644…Strippers Are Not Coroners
Most of them anyhow. Not that I have ever been in a strip club. Well, once, but I need change and only stayed a hour or three. If strippers were…
New details of Canadian government’s tar sands cheerleading campaign
This article is not new but I felt it was important to mention it given the shocking length to which our federal government is willing to go to lobby on…
Canadian government will be up to old tricks at Rio+20 Earth Summit
In case you were wondering how the Canadian government is preparing itself for the upcoming Rio +20 Earth Summit, a small excerpt from an otherwise unrelated article in Grist provides…
Canada Live, May 16: Mulcair is dumb, Oreos aren’t, and Ont. PC sexism
I try and get Rageaholic Tom to calm down. Doesn’t work.
Sikhs’ ceremonial daggers now allowed in Toronto courthouses
http://www.thestar.com/mobile/NEWS/article/1179301 Toronto has become the first city in Canada to develop a formal policy allowing Sikhs to bring their ceremonial daggers into its courthouses. The kirpan, which is a…
99 musicians for the 99 percent – Occupy This Album features music by Yoko Ono, Tom Morello, Yo La Tango and others whose names have fewer o’s
If you support the Occupy movement, relish discovering new music, and are gainfully employed, then you seriously need to plunk down ten bucks and purchase Occupy This Album. An autonomous…
Criminal jury decisions not mere majority rule
R. v. Vivian, 2012 ONCA 324 is a good source for the principle that a judge must be scrupulous not to suggest a juror should be swayed by mere numbers to change her…