Breaking The Taboo on Monetizing Deficits
In a very long and fascinating speech which has been amplified by Martin Wolf in the FT, Lord Adair Turner seeks to break the taboo on discussion of the potential…
February 2013
Our Climate Choice
I boarded a jet plane this past Friday and traveled 16 hours through the night to Washington, DC. I was back on a plane again on Monday morning flying the…
Jeremy Hammond: Aaron Swartz & the Criminalization of Digital Dissent
It is not the “crimes” Aaron (Swartz) may have committed that made him a target of federal prosecution, but his ideas – elaborated in his “Guerrilla Open Access Manifesto” –…
5667…Stephen Harper Understands Canada V.2
He’s doing what every other Canuck is doing this time of year. Huffington Post Canada just ran the pic and the story that our beloved Prime Minister is following a…
Frankster vs. Puffster
Here. I know the whole sad tale (believe me, I’ve heard it from both Bate and Duffy, ad infinitum), so it sort of bores me now. What I liked to…
Hey, I should’ve run for the LPC leadership, too!
I’d be second only to that guy with the great hair! FWIW: @justintrudeau now has 187,000+ followers on Twitter. @marcgarneau: 11,565, @mhallfindlay 7,456, @joycemurray 4,814 #LPCLdr — David Akin (@davidakin)…
Elephant in the room: Hudak continues to flip-flop on power plants
The literal elephant in that picture is from a PC photo op stunt done in Mississauga on September 28th, in an attempt to attack the Liberals over the power plant…
Keystone XL: Massive Civil Disobedience is Next
For many people, climate change is the sine qua non issue of the 21st Century – no matter what else we might do, if we don’t get this one right,…
Andrea Horwath Will Scream Coverup
…but not bring down the OLP government over the discovery of more gas-plant cancellation related docs, because, she claims, she’s so damn straight. Her party has also fallen into 3rd…
Not Green, For Now
I had to resign my membership in the Green Party to do it, but now I’m a Liberal Supporter. I didn’t join the Liberal Party and I won’t unless something…
Oiled Up
There’s a suspicious situation uncovered at the UofR, by CBC. IPAC, the CO(2) CCS project was audited, and there were apparent conflicts of interest in how some of the money…
Ontario cuts cataract surgeries by 10%
The North Bay Nugget reports that the government cut cataract surgeries by 10% across the province this year. This reportedly has forced the North Bay Regional Health Centre to stop…
The Social Science of Climate Change
What does social science have to do with climate change? Quite a bit, actually. Climate change denialism has given social scientists rich pickings to scrutinize, pick apart and analyze. One…
Always Wanted to Visit "The Big Easy"?
Many of us have at one time or another wanted to visit New Orleans, The Big Easy. If you still want to go, you might want to go sooner rather…
Private clinic deal ends badly while Ontario inks up more
Health Edition reports that the Quebec Health Minister has decided not to renew the contract with RocklandMD, the private hospital that has done about 9,000 publicly funded surgeries since 2008…
The Butcher’s Price of the War on Drugs
Mexico’s drug wars have been brutal. Upwards of 70,000 have been killed, often brutally, usually near the U.S. border. Now it’s emerging that another 27,000 have simply disappeared. Combined with…
When does detention commence?
R. v. MacMillan, 2013 ONCA 109 has a useful passage on the meaning of detention and when detention commences: As is made clear in R. v. Suberu, 2009 SCC 33,…
Forum Ontario Poll: 36% PC, 29% Liberal, 28% NDP
Forum Research has released its February poll, and its first post-Wynne win poll, giving us Ontario Liberals great news that we’ve gotten our first lead versus the NDP since November…
5667…It Is Tim Hudak’s To Lose
Ontario is Tim Hudak’s to lose. Mr. Hudak is the leader of the opposistion in Ontario, that being the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario. He is also anything but progressive.…