Car Free Days in Caracas are a Huge Success
In Venezuela’s largest city they’re looking to make roads usable for people again. The city of Caracas is encouraging people to come out and enjoy reclaimed public spaces on specific…
2012
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Andrew Coyne is rightly alarmed at the Cons’ move to short-circuit any debate about major policy changes through an omnibus budget bill.…
4567…Change Becomes Forward
Rumours abound that President Obama’s slogan for the upcoming election will be Forward. Brilliant. It is what it is and what it is is whatever you want it to be.…
Bob Rae, Mike Crawley, The Leadership Committees And The "Rules"
Yesterday, in an article for Postmedia News, Lee Berthiame reported: The board , which has a number of new members, including party president Mike Crawley, is currently in the process…
Comparing Territories: Tar Sands Blanket Caribou Habitat
Picture 3.png As the controversy surrounding Canada’s proposed wolf cull in Alberta grows, the provincial government is attempting to limit criticism directed at the country’s polluting Tar Sands – the…
The Bullshit Vision Thing #nlpoli
Dean MacDonald, the undeclared leader of the provincial Liberal Party spoke to a crowd in Port de Grave district on Saturday night. There’s an account of his speech in the…
Techvibes: Study shows Canada’s cell phone market is overpriced and anti-competitive
Yet another report has recently come out to demonstrate just how closed our cell phone market truly is. We’ve improved in the last four years, but we’re still seeing a…
Study exposes secret Canadian bank bailout
The Harper Conservatives are fond of touting Canadian banks as more stable than other countries’ big banks. They claim all the credit for Canada’s stability during the 2008-10 global financial…
McGuinty’s Majority Move
As I wrote on election night last fall, the line between majority and minority isn’t as rigid as it’s often made out to be. When the margin is this thin,…
140Law – Legal Headlines for Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Tuesday, May 1, 2012: DNA Testing Clears Colorado Man After Serving 18 Years Social media and the employment…
4566…Whitney Houston Still In The News
She is still dead. No Tupac or Elvis for Mrs. Bobby Brown. But…The Daily Star, a Brit fish wrap, reports that her family is thinking of encasing her final place…
Taking Parliament Hostage
Globe and Mail columnist John Ibbitson writes that Stephen Harper has been “unbound.” What that really means is that he has neutered Parliament. If you don’t believe that’s true, writes…
4565…May Day Today
Doesn’t have the same zip it had a century a go. WFDS
Another Victory For The Star
As a direct result of their investigative series, Police Who Lie, The Toronto Star is once more contributing to the social good. The following is reported today’s edition: Ontario’s chief…
Pigheaded…
OK, so I haven’t been here a whole heck of a lot lately, but there also hasn’t been a heck of a lot to boil my blood, either – at…
#M312 – How will your MP Vote?
What a rollercoaster ride! it has been since little old PEI screamed out into the universe that women here were no longer going to be ignored and silenced. Okay, well,…
Parliamentary impotence is nothing new
Andrew Coyne has a column where he rages over Parliament’s redundancy or seeming lack of influence – specifically over Bill C-38, the Conservatives “omnibus bill”, which basically combines several different…
Languages shmanguages
Today in Harper government infractions: “Ottawa blâmé par le commissaire aux langues officielles.” Le gouvernement Harper n’a pas respecté la Loi sur les langues officielles en nommant l’anglophone unilingue Michael…
occupy may day
Today is May Day, the International Workers’ Day, a day to celebrate our strength and our unity as working people. Although May Day is an official holiday in many countries…