5854…Street Food Hits Montreal
Montreal, one of the greatest cities in the world for food, hasn’t had street food for 65 years.That’s what I learned from a Globe and Mail I found on the…
April 2013
The animals on our screen – A review of The Ghosts in Our Machine
Over the last decade of programming political documentary for Cinema Politica I can say with confidence that there are two subjects that have always been decidedly divisive and caused the…
April 14: Good guys, bad guys, and the Koreas.
I’m surprised nobody has challenged me on my defence of Kim of North Korea in the present crisis. After all, Kim is not a nice man, and that whole, North…
5853…NDP Imploding
Check this out from their convention via ex Global and Montreal Star biggie Ray Heard on Facebook: Ray HeardRetweeted Terry Milewski (@CBCTerry):The New Anti-Socialist Democratic Party in action: leading socialist…
London, Ontario: Today’s Bonehead March in Perspective
They had been planning this for a while (goodness knows they had to make up for the disaster that happened last year) and though we expected it soon, we didn’t…
5852…In The Blink Of An Eye An Era Ends
Kobe.Not many people on the planet have been universally recognized by a single name.Kobe. Elvis. Messi.A few more.It looks like the Kobe era ended late in last night’s game against…
5851…In Less Than 24 Hours
The Liberals will select a new leader. The future will actually have a future. Bye bye mon Stephen Harper. WFDS
Cochrane | When the media is the target by David Cochrane
Columnist says that facts don’t change, regardless of how some politicians treat the journalists who cover them.
Cochrane | When the media is the target by David Cochrane
Columnist says that facts don’t change, regardless of how some politicians treat the journalists who cover them.
"… mere silence, even where it would be reasonable to expect a denial in the face of an accusation, will not constitute an admission"
R v Scott, 2013 MBCA 7, para 19. Sed contra R v J.F. (2011), 85 CR (6th) 304 (Ont C A) para 46.
"Stringent pre-trial bail conditions” and sentencing
R. v. Peterkin, 2013 ONSC 2116 has a helpful summary of how pretrial bail conditions are to impact of sentence: In R. v. Downes 2006 CanLII 3957 (ON CA), (2006),…
Saving Canadian English, one word at a time.
Is Canadian English dying? Or should I say, Canadian English is dying, eh? First, is there such a thing as Canadian English? The answer is — and this is classically…
#mtlqc13 – Day 2 Review
Aaron Wherry has been documenting the resolutions passed at the NDP’s convention in Montreal – and so I haven’t seen much need to comment on them in detail. But the…
Joe Oliver and the Pipeline Parable
The last time I saw Joe Oliver he was still trying to sell his dirty oil pipeline.Still trying to convince us that the water from the tailing ponds was safe…
unpaid labour used to be called slavery. now it’s an internship.
Image found at Youth and Work blog In recent years, I’ve been very disturbed by the proliferation of so-called unpaid internships, more properly called unpaid labour, previously known as slavery.…
Liberal Leadership Vote Turnout
Teddy here. I’ve complied the data from ballots cast as of 3pm on Sunday Saturday (turns out I don’t know what day is its!) Note that while this is the…
Verdun, April 12, 2013
Can only remember this much snow a couple of times in my life this far into April and probably only in the last 15 years or so. My father was…
NDP — socialist now a dirty word?
Barring a huge shock, it’s almost certain Justin “Not Ready for Prime Time” Trudeau will become the leader of the federal Liberal Party, tomorrow. But the one I’m watching this…
Rehtaeh Parsons: Top Liberal strategist asked Anonymous to intervene
By: Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive: On Friday, hactivist collective Anonymous announced it had a confession from one of the boys who gang-raped Rehtaeh Parsons, the 17-year old Canadian…