April 2013
The practice of imposing "global" sentences for multiple offences is to be discouraged, because it undermines the transparency of the sentencing process
R. v Hanna, 2013 ABCA 134 holds: The sentencing judge did not proportion the totality discount between the two offences. The practice of imposing “global” sentences for multiple offences is…
Relationship Spring cleaning
Apropos of the season, I’ve been tossing out a few “friends.” I do this periodically. Out they go to the blue bin, like old magazines. Bye-bye. A couple full-on lied…
It’s About Fair Trade, Not Free Trade
Canada’s three major parties now endorse Free Trade. Tom Walkom writes: Free trade is now orthodoxy in Canada. It used to be debated fiercely. It no longer is. Stephen Harper’s…
Take Your Shirt Off for Democracy.
I am not sure that any of the major political parties gets it, but Harper definitely does not, attacking the leader of a party as if he and he alone…
Our Inconvenient Civil Liberties/Charter Rights
It may be that I am overly sensitive to the reactionary agenda that seems to dominate society today. It may be that I am misinterpreting a public statement made by…
Our Inconvenient Civil Liberties/Charter Rights
It may be that I am overly sensitive to the reactionary agenda that seems to dominate society today. It may be that I am misinterpreting a public statement made by…
Take Time To Renew Your Spirit
Before you were conceived, I wanted you Before you were born, I loved you Before you were here an hour, I would die for you This is the miracle of…
Clean energy progress too slow to limit climate change, says report
By: Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive: An annual report by International Energy Agency (IEA) says the development of low-carbon energy is progressing too slowly to limit climate change. “The…
Stephen Harper Goes After Justin Again
Oh no. I see Stephen Harper is still trying to politicize a tragedy.Still trying to portray himself as a strong leader. Still trying to portray Justin Trudeau as a girly…
UPDATE-3: Dangerous Precedents
It’s always difficult for me to decide whether to comment on tragedies such as Boston or not. I am not one to publicize my grief, if I choose to comment…
The Undemocratic Elected Senate & The Democratic Appointed One
90% of Americans support universal background checks for guns yet on Wednesday the American Senate struck down that legislation. That’s not very democratic, is it? Those in Canada who fervently…
Well, thank goodness that’s over
Was it just me or did the United States completely lose their mind over the last week? Shortly after the blasts occurred, the tabloid falsely claimed that 12 people had…
5891…Leafs Make The Playoffs: Brilliant Observation
From the man we all love to love, Scott Tribe, on Facebook: Scott Tribe The last time the Leafs made the playoffs, neither Twitter nor Facebook were around Brilliant observation.…
The Big Pot Party and the Criminal Cons
I didn't have a chance to attend any of the pro-marijuana rallies today.Like this one in Vancouver.Or any of the many others. Canadians gathered in cities across the country Saturday…
In Sunday’s Sun: the anti-Trudeau ads will work. Sorry.
What’s amazing about the Conservative Party’s Justin Trudeau advertising isn’t their content, or their tone, or their mere existence. Some of us predicted (a) the anti-Trudeau attacks were coming and…
Stephen Harper takes partisan politics abroad
Harper’s government reacts with overwrought rage when other Canadian politicians express opinions outside Canada. So which way is it? By: Tim Harper | Toronto Star, Published on Fri Apr 19…
Boston Bombers Echo Home-Grown Terrorists in Madrid, London Attacks
By: Sebastian Rotella | ProPublica, April 19, 2013, 4:30 p.m. The FBI interviewed Tamerlan Tsaerov, the elder of the brothers suspected in the Boston bombings, in 2011, two U.S. law…
Scary Is “The True Nature of Stephen Harper”, Says PSAC (VIDEO)
By: Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive: The Harper Conservatives thought they were smart with those back-firing Justin Trudeau attack ads. They didn’t see this one from the Public Service…
The Pulp Renaissance
In the late 1950s, I came across a copy (1912; an original edition, I believe) of Edgar Rice Burrough’s first published novel, Tarzan, The Ape Man, on my parent’s bookshelf…