The Vaughn Report
The Harper government rues the day it appointed Kevin Page to the office of Parliamentary Budget Officer. Today, it must also wish that Scott Vaughn had never been appointed Environment…
2012
Cold Today: Gonna Take a Nap
After passing the winter without getting sick, I seem to have been wacked with something. So no post today.
4613…North Carolina Bans Gay Marriage
Civil unions too. The Ticket reports that 61 to 39 was the spread. This vote makes the Tar Heel State the 29th in the Union to proscribe gay marriages and…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Martin Papillon offers up some lessons for the NDP in Francois Hollande’s French presidential victory: Being ideological does not have to mean being…
Rob Ford can be a moneymaking machine for Toronto
Torontonians should put this baboon in a cage and put him in the Toronto Zoo. Surely people will come from all over the world to see this baboon. Children will…
4612…Did Rob Ford Play Football Sans Helmet?
NowToronto, which is a free gay paper that is big in certain quarters of the Centre of the Universe, reports that the LGBTQ community in Toronto is getting pretty frustrated…
Fear And Loathing From The Right
The other day I wrote a brief post linking to a site developed by the Conservative party that seeks to sow fear about Thomas Mulcair’s ‘shadow’ cabinet. That campaign of…
A river runs through it #nlpoli
Jerry Bannister’s paper “A river runs through it: Churchill Falls and the end of Newfoundland history” is now available in the latest issue of Acadiensis. This paper was the basis…
The band name Against Me! now makes more sense
Still thinking about the big news. My kids, too. All four of them are huge, huge Against Me! fans. My daughter is still processing it, she says. Son One was…
CBC: Mobile app empowers people with disabilities
Here’s another reason why protecting our digital future is so important: accessibility. Since we started out, we’ve been getting a lot of email from people with disabilities and elderly people…
Immigration and attitudes
Canada prides itself in being a country of immigrants. In recent years, immigration has become an important part of the Canadian identity. This trait is particularly prevalent in provinces other…
Immigration and attitudes
Canada prides itself in being a country of immigrants. In recent years, immigration has become an important part of the Canadian identity. This trait is particularly prevalent in provinces other…
Immigration and attitudes
Canada prides itself in being a country of immigrants. In recent years, immigration has become an important part of the Canadian identity. This trait is particularly prevalent in provinces other…
Immigration and attitudes
Canada prides itself in being a country of immigrants. In recent years, immigration has become an important part of the Canadian identity. This trait is particularly prevalent in provinces other…
"Made In Canada"
Have you heard the stunning news? The Conservatives have done little on the climate change file, they won’t meet their own modest targets, nor have they even bothered to do…
Oath-helping
R. v. Hariraj, 2012 ONCA 294 deals with oath-helping. Specifically, prior consistent statements (except to disprove recent fabrication or the like) cannot be used to buttress credibility: During the course of her…
Has Harper Government declared war on environmental groups?
Ross McMillan of Tides Canada is interviewed by Evan Solomon. Tides Canada is one of the organizations targeted by the Harper government. It looks Harper is determined that nothing stands…
marxism 2011 program notes: racism, economic recovery (not), canada’s vietnam
This is the last installment of my notes from the 2011 Marxism conference in Toronto. The series starts here. This post is less complete than the preceding Marxism 2011 posts.…
MulcairsNDP.ca
This is the first installment of what I suspect will be a long-haul attack campaign by the Conservatives against Thomas Mulcair and the New Democrats, and instead of focussing on…