Rally for Zzzzzz…
Can one really call ten people gathered on Parliament Hill a “rally”? Perhaps a more concerning issue than the “robocall” scandal and the minimal effect some purport it may have…
2012
A court cannot interfere with a municipal by-law that is unreasonable, but may quash one that is illegal
Friends of Lansdowne Inc. v. Ottawa (City), 2012 ONCA 273 is a helpful source for the distinction between illegal (ultra vires) and unreasonable bylaws: Since municipalities are creatures of statute, their jurisdiction…
Ottawa to sell off Canadian 20 valuable pieces of art
“La Cathédral enguirlandée”, 1951, oil on canvas, by renowned Quebec painter Paul-Emile Borduas is among 20 valuable pieces of art the Department of Foreign Affairs has designated for sale. THE…
Frank Klees: the Herb Tarlek of Canadian politics
You remember Herb Tarlek, don’t you? Well, Herb lives, to this day, in the Earthly form of Frank Klees, Tea Party North MPP. He does: they look the same, they…
The great Canadian bank bailout (now in technicolor)
In case you didn’t notice the plenty of black and white evidence showing you our banks are no more sound and stable than our U.S. counterparts then you are in…
Heather Mallick on Jan Wong
What a load of Deepest Annex bullshit. What a load of crap. Jan Wong wants sympathy, after turning in a student in China to the authorities, which resulted in the…
Stephen Harper And The Conservatives GAVE THE BANKS $114 Billion Of Your Tax Dollars During The Recession ….
Canada’s biggest banks accepted tens of billions in government funds during the recession, according to a report released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. Canada’s banking system is…
Recreating Eden 2012-04-30 11:44:00
Nearly four times as many people have been arrested in the student protests against Quebec’s tuition hike than were arrested during the October Crisis: 1,201 between April 7 and 27,…
Let’s Just Say It: When It Comes to Science, The Right is the Problem
polar_House_Means.jpg This weekend in The Washington Post, two deans of the Washington establishment, the Brookings Institution’s Thomas Mann and the American Enterprise Institute’s Norman Ornstein, finally stated what has been…
Media Bias Project Still Awaiting Report from Challenger
Two weeks have now passed since my favourite reader, “rory,” announced that he was drawing up a list that would prove that my Media Bias project is full of holes.…
State of Play
The opposition between the government and an important social movement like the student movement is reminiscent of a game of chess. Two organizations face off, each unravelling complex strategies both…
Dead and buried
Others have already pointed out last week’s news that oil-sands operators are pulling out of a major carbon capture and storage project. But it’s worth taking a closer look at…
April 30: It seemed to begin well….
(Oh, Oh, Oh…don’t forget. Tuesday, May 1, current events at the Moncton Library from 7 to 8 P.M. we’ll start with why coroporations love politicians, but hate civil servants. Then,…
The Big Banks’ Big Secret
The CCPA today released my report: “The Big Banks Big Secret” which provides the first public estimates of the emergency funds taken by Canadian banks. The report bases its estimates…
UFOs Over Russia: Aliens think “we are idiots, undeveloped people”
“Aliens look at us as if we are idiots, undeveloped people,” said Sergei Smirnov of the Pulkovo Observatory outside of St. Petersburg. “Perhaps they have fenced us in with their…
It’s So Much More Than Just a Dismal Failure
The War on Drugs is increasingly accepted as a hopeless failure. Yet even those who do get it often act like a kid standing at the end of a high…
Witnessing a glacier’s race to the sea
Nature News has more No related posts.
Did the left blow it in Alberta?
Even though the end result was a Stephen Harper majority government, the NDP took a giant leap forward last May. In one election, the party may very well have taken…
Winning at all costs, the Mittpocalypse in 2012
Mitt Romney is so flippant nowadays and his campaign jockeys so clueless as to what to tell him to say in public that it’s painstaking to watch the campaign unfold.…
Michaëlle Jean is the People’s Pick for CBC Chair
FRIENDS says the CBC belongs to all Canadians and its leadership positions should be open to the best and brightest citizens, not just those on the government’s patronage pay-off list