PEI’s Anti-Choice Legislature – Abortion in Canada
A couple Tuesdays from now, March 26th our PEI Legislature is to sit after it’s Winter break (or whatever you call it). To mark that occassion I sent all our…
March 2013
Osgoode Hall, Toronto in 1856
Note there are no “cow catcher” gates on the fence — it is a myth that the fence was put up to keep farm animals out
Greedy Lying Bastards: Exposing The Fossil Fools Who Put Profit Before Human Lives
* One of the few-and-far-between perks of being a climate blogger is that occasionally I get access to books and movies before the general public does. This past weekend I…
The Arse that Laid the Golden Turd #nlpoli
The provincial cabinet has been burning the midnight oil the past couple of nights. Literally. Late night sessions that ended God-knows-when, night after night. Apparently, they are trying to figure…
Joe Oliver Goes to War Again
Uh oh. He's BAAAAACK!!!Joe "Oily" Oliver, the screaming scarecrow of the Tar Sands.First he called Canadian environmentalists job killing extremists, and tools of foreign interests.Then he promised we would be…
Minuscule Canadian Taxpayers Federation in running for ‘Turfy Award’
Former Canadian Taxpayers Federation Alberta Director Scott Hennig, now the group’s Communications VP, in a nice AstroTurf-coloured sweater at last weekend’s Ottawa conference of the Manning Centre for Undermining Democracy.…
Alice Munro’s Brilliance
I am reading Alice Munro because she is brilliant. In the mid 1990s, I studied her stories for “weather,” ie the external details that make a story come alive. In…
Hugo Chavez Was A Tyrant! Umm Are You Sure?
Richard Hughes Political Blogger The framing battle spinning around the death of Venezuelan President Hugh Chavez pits the oil interests against the rest of us. They pretend that democracy and…
Liberals Should Blame Trudeau For Few Supporters
If Justin Trudeau was more concerned about winning the Liberal leadership than winning the next election, not only would his party have more registered supporters, but 2015 would almost certainly…
The right way to shut down a service like Google Reader
My internet world came to an end today when Google announced they were shutting down Google Reader (the best RSS reader in existence). The problem is that Google Reader was…
Let’s Vote For Better Schools! BCTF TV Advertising Is Pathetic!
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger I have watched the BCTF campaign ads over the years. They squander hundreds of thousands of dollars on some really well produced ads and then choke and…
Tarsand Analogy
This is an unpolished analogy of Canada’s attitude toward the tarsand/climate change problem. Let’s say Canada is a person complaining about their weight (they think their carbon footprints are too…
5727…Charles Adler On The Prime Minister To Be
For those of you who don’t know of Charles Adler he is a right of centre talker out of the ‘peg who styles himself as a national talk show host…
“Nazi Scum” by the Scottish anti-fascist punk band…
“Nazi Scum” by the Scottish anti-fascist punk band Oi Polloi Standing outsides the primary school gates,with their leaflets stirring up race hate. Creeping round in the dead of night,setting innocent…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Contained cats.
The doctrine of privity of contract is of considerably diminished force in Canada as a continuing principle of contract law
Brown v. Belleville (City), 2013 ONCA 148 holds: It is important to note at the outset that the doctrine of privity of contract is of considerably diminished force in Canada…
Liberal Party Supporter woes, And Joyce Murrays turbo booster.
So yesterday there was some `bad news` for Liberals in the media, naturally followed by further revelations and commentary today. Well I have news for you, it is not as…
It’s time to fix our broken telecom market.
Despite what Big Telecom says, it is not myth that Canadians pay some of the highest wireless prices in the industrialized world. With our cell phone report, created from your…
Buzz Kill: The psychological impact of living under drones
Imagine that you are living somewhere in Pakistan, Yemen, or Gaza where the U.S. suspects a terrorist presence. Day and night, you hear a constant buzzing in the sky. Like…
A tiger and a kitten
When I downloaded the new version of Sketch Club I tried a few things. I left it for a very long while, then, poking around, I found this. Hah, Trying…