Four More Weeks, Four Long Weeks
British Columbians are counting the days until we send Christy Clark and her sullied neo-Liberals packing. The NDP are going into the election campaign up by 12 points over Clark’s…
April 2013
How Harper, Trudeau and Mulcair are Steering Canada Toward a Cliff
Canada went through the 2008 Great Recession and fared better than most of the developed world. It turns out Harper didn’t have enough time to let Canadian banks off their…
Detailed #LPCLdr By the Numbers & Analysis
So, in an effort to give myself carpal tunnel issues, I’ve managed to get the raw vote counts for all 308 ridings in Canada, collate them into one place, and…
Pipeline Deadline: Rushed Review Process for Tar Sands Line 9 Stifles Public Participation
Canadians you will need to brush up on those resume writing skills and sharpen your pencils because it is time to fill out your 10-page applications to get permission to…
CBC Can’t Stop Spinning, Even When It “Fact-Checks”
I view the rise of so-called “fact-checking” in the mainstream corporate news with mixed emotions. First of all, it is nice to see them, you know, doing their jobs for…
BBC Refuses to Pull Controversial North Korea Documentary by Stuart Kemp
The BBC says it will broadcast a documentary about North Korea after a war of words between the public broadcaster and the London School of Economics over the use of…
April 15: credit where credit is due….
It’s been a pleasant surprise to see the Moncton Free Press (Presse Libre de Moncton) website evolve into an excellent newspaper with a quality and breadth of coverage far, far…
Temps Libre: an album filled with hope, inspired by the printemps érable
Something happened last spring: a whole generation of Montrealers was mobilized, politicized, made aware that they had a voice. Finally opening their windows onto spring mornings as the snow melted…
Kingston votes 96 per cent against hospital privatization
It had all the trappings of an election. There were lawn signs, TV commercials, and door-to-door campaigners. The local media solicited the views of both politicians and citizens as everyone…
When it comes to climate change, the devil is in the details
The Fall 2012 edition of Our Schools Our Selves includes an article by Victoria Wills about environmental education in schools. She points out that school field trips are the dominant…
Are The New Anti-Trudeau Ads Effective?
How the heck should I know? You can see ’em here and make up your own mind. A couple of things; Trudeau was stripping down and wearing the stash for…
Globe and Mail: Why your cell phone bill will likely go up
Last week we heard that all three of our independent cell phone companies may be taken over by Big Telecom. If this happens, this will mean less choice for Canadians…
Albert Einstein: More pearls of wisdom
“Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. “ Albert Einstein is one of my favourite scientists/philosophers. His Relativity Theory is well-known and he is also famous for…
Civil remedies forfeiture may be refused if Crown delays excessively
Attorney General of Ontario v. 20 Strike Avenue, Bowmanville, Ontario, 2013 ONSC 2130 holds that an application by the Attorney General of Ontario for an order for forfeiture of property…
5862…Bad Day For A Boat Ride
At least it was on this day in 1912. The unsinkable Titantic spawned a legend when it went down near Newfoundland 101 years ago today. WFDS
It’s vital we support the lower class, Mr. Trudeau
I voted for Justin Trudeau yesterday, despite my enthusiasm for Martha Hall Findlay’s supply management proposal. I wrote a blog about Justin Trudeau a few months ago, where my main…
Someday, this could all be ours
Sure, we know that an undue obsession with standardized testing leads to incentives for administrators and teachers to cheat in order to give the impression of improvement. But that’s nothing…
‘Winds’ Of Change: Is That the Smell of Filthy Lucre?
Winds of change blowing hard as B.C. goes to the polls Can Liberal Premier Christy Clark break the NDP’s momentum? By Stephen Smart, CBC News Posted: Apr 15, 2013 2:18…
5861…"Alcohol May Have Been A Factor"
Mixed with guns of course. From Deadspin and USA Today via Gawker and Russell Barth’s News Aggregator comes this: Man Shoots Himself in Head at NRA-Sponsored NASCAR Event Taylor Berman…
April, the cruellest month
April, wrote T.S. Eliot in his remarkable poem, The Waste Land, is the “cruellest month.”* And not merely because of the inclement and unsettling weather that seems to mix winter…