Erik Rush: Another Fox News Crazy
This idiot on Fox News thinks the Boston Marathon should be a call to kill all Muslims? Aside from the fact we don’t even know who the perpetrator was, responding…
April 2013
A Few Thousand Dead Indians
What makes me mad? People like Saskatchewan’s infamous shock-talk-jock John Gormley, who thinks the world needs fewer “activists”. Here’s the resulting story from a recently released PLUSD cable from the…
The Still Islamophic States of America
The the greater scheme of things the Boston Marathon bombing was a fart in a hurricane. Except, of course, it happened in Boston during a notable footrace run mainly by…
A tangible response to physiotherapy cuts – the province finally adds community capacity
After significantly cutting outpatient physiotherapy at hospitals across Ontario, the government is finally putting something back. The Ministry of Health says it is making a major investment in community-based physiotherapy,…
Sentencing for criminal negligence causing death in alcohol-related circumstances
R v Smith 2013 BCCA 173 is a tragic case of death resulting from impaired driving. The trial judge gave a sentence of one day because of the circumstances and…
Work-Life Balance On The Beach
My SlawTips post this week considers the thorny question of maintaining work-life balance – with a bit of ocean breeze on the side. True confession time – I still work…
Sierra Club Canada: Great Lakes ‘do nothing’ plan unacceptable
By: Sierra Club Canada | Press Release: Restore Our Water International (ROWI) and Sierra Club Canada criticize the International Joint Commission (IJC) Draft Great Lakes Regional Adaptive Management Plan as…
April 18: I’m actually starting this on April 17….
…guessing what won’t be in tomorrow’s TandT. You won’t find any mention of the pipeline spill of Alberta tarsands oil in Arkansas. It’s hard enough to find much even on…
Next Time Someone Chides Anonymous
...for their allegedly reckless approach to the Rehtaeh Parsons case, remind them how professional news organizations like the NY Post and CNN covered the Boston bombings. Then tell them to…
Allan Gregg on Attack Ads
I have written about Allan Gregg on this blog before; probably his most noteworthy recent contribution to political discourse came in his speech to Carleton University’s School of Public Affairs,…
Pinball wizard
And I am, by the way. Didn’t know that about me, did you? When the other kids were playing Pong and its succedents, Your Humble Narrator was whiling away the…
Harper cut to Health Council of Canada could signal end of national health care
By: Canadian Health Coalition | Press Release: OTTAWA, April 17, 2013 – The Canadian Health Coalition issued an urgent alert to Canadians in light of today’s news that the Harper…
Call me Ducky
The Nipper has the Best Ideas Ever Invented. He said, last night on the way to rehearsal, “you know what would be cool, would be if they made a Call…
In a voluntariness analysis the fact the statement was made by the accused must be demonstrated albeit to a minimal degree
Montgomery, 2011 ONSC 5331 (at para. 9): On a voir dire to determine whether a statement made to a person in authority is admissible, a trial judge is required to…
The lamp above the couch
Filed under: art Tagged: couch, Lamp, light
Twitter links
Readers may recall I once looked at who was followed by the PMO’s Office — you do have to at least try to avoid inappropriate links but I don’t see…
new zealand joins the world of marriage equality and their parliament breaks out in celebratory song
This is so beautiful! New Zealand, we thank you! We love you!
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Ellie Mae O’Hagan and Nicholas Shaxson annihilate the claim that perpetually lowering corporate and upper-income tax rates offers any competitive advantage: Tax…
‘Bugsplats’: civilian death count from U.S. drone strikes
Some child casualties of covert US drone war The Pakistan government has released its figures for civilian casualties of American drone strikes. The Pakistani Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that…