Oh now there you go, Dalton. That wasn’t so hard was it?
You’re almost there, premier McGuinty. Just a few more items and we’ll have something to be proud of. Something that runs counter to the current of nastiness emanating from the…
2012
4511…Michele Mandel Is A Female Dog
Coz if you call a thoughtless b*tch a thoughtless b*tch you can get in trouble. The Suns did a piece today on the closing of Kingston Prison, Millhaven, the Mill,…
Meilinomics I: The Little Boats
The following is an excerpt from Dr. Ryan Meili’s new book, A Healthy Society: How a Focus on Health Can Revive Canadian Democracy. There’s a family that comes frequently to…
Test for a judge to vary from a joint submission is the same regardless of whether the variation is to increase or decrease
R. v. DeSousa, 2012 ONCA 254 is an important decision holding the test for a judge to vary from a joint submission is the same regardless of whether the variation is to increase…
Westboro Baptist Church weighs in on Wildrose candidate Allan Hunsperger
Today Wildrose Leader Danielle Smith held a press conference where, much to everyone’s surprise, she didn’t repudiate her anti-gay candidate, Allan Hunsperger’s bigoted, hateful rant about gays and lesbians. Instead,…
Friday night
A no-brainer tonight, new Deadmau5 just released today, very nice! A vocal track, it’s melodic, upbeat, what more could a Deadmau5 fan ask for? Have a good night!
Friday Night Flicks: Undercity
A very cool, slightly edgy exporation of New York City’s underbelly, guided by guerilla historian Steve Duncan. Duncan’s website can be found here. Worth watching for the exploration of the…
Quebec student protests and the big picture
Ten weeks in and the protests in Quebec are showing no sign they will diminish anytime soon. The common take that I have been reading is that the students are…
Friday night: RIP Levon Helm
Levon Helm, best known as the drummer for The Band, passed away yesterday from “complications of cancer.” He had already come back from throat cancer once to resume recording and…
Video: Too much copyright
The founder of popular website icanhascheezburger.com says the imposition of copyright rules that would restrict our use of the Internet “is our generation’s prohibition”. Do you agree? More info about…
Must Read Muckrake on the Whistleblower Behind the Enbridge Tar Sands Pipeline Spill
feature_enbridgemain.jpg On a midsummer evening in July of 2010, heavy crude started gushing from a 30-inch pipeline into Talmadge Creek, near Marshall, Michigan. By the next morning, heavy globs of…
Musqueam Midden Burial Site Compromise
It’s very interesting to see the work that has gone into a possible compromise to deal with the competing demands around the Musqueam midden burial site. See below. Several weeks…
Sixth Estate Opens Competition for New Name for BC Liberal Party
British Columbia is in the process of setting one record, and in the next few months it may set another. I can’t think of another occasion in Canadian history when…
Bidding with Bettman by Ivan Fecan
Ivan Fecan, former President and CEO of CTV, Toronto says CTV/TSN never bid on the Hockey Night in Canada rights.
The goal: “One process” that complies with Canada’s international commitments
Friday, April 20, 2012 20 years ago Canada signed the Rio Declaration, committing us to carry out "environmental impact assessment, as a national instrument … proposed activities that are likely…
Mulcair Exhales Hot Air On Pot
The NDP have “clarified” Mulcair’s stance on marijuana. It’s a bit of sad update, only the most hardened partisans could spin this “progressive”: The New Democratic Party is trying to…
The Canada-New Zealand Fracking Connection
I’m down in New Zealand at the moment, filming for a feature documentary involving the unconventional gas industry – particularly the increasingly controversial practice of hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking” –…
Some Liberals Won’t Read This … but they should!
“If history repeats, we are about a decade away from the publication of a book called “The Strange Death of Liberal Canada.”The history in question is that of Britain’s Liberal…