Jan.18: Wow! Read all about it!
NOTE.For some reason, my column suddenly narrowed, and some of the print turned red. I have no idea why, and the computer refused to discuss it with me. I shall…
January 2013
The Bad Taste and Big Waste of Public Private Partnerships
This is a guest post written by Eric Newstadt, the GM of the Ryerson Student Centre. This post highlights why P3s are a preordained and preplanned market failure. —————- For…
Why it Takes a Whale to be Heard: Public Blocked From Enbridge Hearings
by JODI STARK, one of the independent artists who created Hope the Whale, and an environmental public engagement specialist. The most striking part of Enbridge’s Northern Gateway community hearings in…
Roller Coaster Life–From Freezing to Deep Freeze in Hours
Okay, guys, compared to Winnipeg it’s not all that cold this morning (-23 C on the back porch or about -5 F) but tomorrow they’re actually predicting temps near the…
Retreat from Science: Interview with Federal Scientist Peter Ross Part 1 of 2
When the Harper government announced deep funding cuts to science programs across the country, the Institute of Ocean Sciences, one of Canada’s largest marine institutes located in Sidney, B.C., was…
A Promising Biofuel
UC Berkeley chemical engineers have used an old way to make explosives to make biofuels more efficiently. They are using a technique that can turn sugar-rich plants (like corn and…
Duress
R v. Ryan 2013 SCC 3 clarifies the law of duress: The defence of duress, in its statutory and common law forms, is largely the same. The two forms share…
Dunderdale hits churn record for 2012! #nlpoli
A retroactive appointment announcement issued Thursday secured Premier Kathy Dunderdale’s record for the most changes in the senior ranks of the public sector in recent history. On December 11, Dunderdale…
Ronald Reagan Era US Military Trained The Leaders Of The Mali Al-Qaeda To Fight The Old USSR …
“A lot of the terrorists the French are battling in Mali were well-trained by the US and know how US special forces operate, and can use that knowledge against American…
140Law – Legal Headlines for Friday, January 18, 2013
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Friday, January 18, 2013: Pregnant? That Might Get You Arrested The Second Amendment was Ratified to Preserve Slavery…
Near The Bottom
The Conference Board of Canada — not a left leaning think tank — has released a report on Canada’s environmental health. The news is not good: The study ranks Canada…
urgent: help defend ontario’s endangered species!
The Government of Ontario is poised to gut the province’s Endangered Species Act. Right now, according to the David Suzuki Foundation, Ontario’s Endangered Species Act is one of the strongest…
Rogers and Me Part 2: When You Have A Monopoly I Guess You Don’t Have to Tell Your Customers What They Are Paying For
After my original attempts to get Rogers to answer my questions via e-mail failed I posted my questions to Google Drive (originally Google Docs) and tweeted the location to them…
Rogers and Me Part 2: When You Have A Monopoly I Guess You Don’t Have to Tell Your Customers What They Are Paying For
After my original attempts to get Rogers to answer my questions via e-mail failed I posted my questions to Google Drive (originally Google Docs) and tweeted the location to them…
Urban River Valleys Mean More Growth for Ontario Greenbelt
Ontario’s Greenbelt – Halton Region It’s a new beginning for Ontario’s 1.8 million acre Greenbelt. On January 10, Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty was in Newmarket to announce a significant new…
We get letters
From “John Hanus,” whose name is perhaps unfairly misinterpreted as “Anus.” From: Johnmarymac@rogers.com Subject: Your time has come Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2013 08:50:47 -0500 To: Warren.Kinsella@sunmedia.ca You will be…
Stupidity watch: “Controversial reporter”
So says the Office of the Prime Minister of Canada about Stephen Maher. Words do not fully express how breathtakingly stupid this is. Stupider than a box of hair. Stupider…
Not a joke
The ad you may have heard about, and possibly seen. First reaction: whoever did this was drunk, or on drugs, or both. I’ll have plenty to say about the NRA…
things i heard at the library: an occasional series: # 8
At the branch library where I’m currently working as a page, the magazine section is along a back wall forming an L shape – the long part full of magazines,…