Earlier this month, John Cook of Skeptical Science and his team of volunteers at the Consensus Project released the latest definitive study of global warming scientific consensus, revealing that 97…
Most people are familiar with the concept of a boycott to punish companies who do negative things by not buying their goods or services. The opposite of that is a…
Sweet tit-humping Christ I’m tired. Tired of the chronic lack of accountability in Ottawa. Of a parliamentary press corps that been for far too long too prissy and timid to…
Sweet tit-humping Christ I’m tired. Tired of the chronic lack of accountability in Ottawa. Of a parliamentary press corps that been for far too long too prissy and timid to…
I am not too happy that Elections Canada is getting nowhere with their robocalls investigation. Back on the EDay in question, I too received a robocall informing me that my…
(And, yes, I was one at the Ottawa Citizen and Calgary Herald, many moons ago.) If Rob Ford was indeed heading out to Dixon Road to get really f**ked up…
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Wednesday, May 29, 2013: Wal-Mart to Pay $81.6M for Illegal Waste Disposal Insubordinate’ Articling Student Dismissed For Cause…
Community Safety and Correctional Services Minister Madeleine Meilleur must immediately apologize for blaming correctional staff for violence by inmates at London’s Elgin-Middlesex Detention Centre (EMDC), says Warren (Smokey) Thomas, President…
Rob Ford Fiddles as his Administration Burns Well the Gawkers crowd source manage to raised the money. Gawker is now giving it a month to get their hands on the…
Today’s payroll figures indicate that, while average weekly earnings rose, the number of employees on Canadian payrolls declined by 22,100 in March. This decline was concentrated in Quebec, where payroll…
A Great West Life Assurance executive recently claimed that private insurance for drug plans was becoming unsustainable — unless changes are made. Almost all private drug insurance plans are paid…
It’s easier to deal with returning chickens — or kids — if they don’t all come home at the same time. During the Mulroney years, Michael Den Tandt writes, scandals…
You may or may not have seen this interesting bit of news recently, but it is important I feel: Des centaines d’indépendantistes ont entrepris de démêler les enjeux reliés à…
The seventeenth floor at 320 Dixon Road, in Kingsview Village. Bullet marks can be seen on a door on that floor, above. The Sun has more: “Several days after the…
What we are all looking for…is the readymade, competent man ; the man whom some one else has trained. It is only when we fully realize that our duty, as…
Last week, Prime Minister Stephen Harper fled to South America to avoid the unraveling Senate expenses scandal. On Monday, he skipped Question Period in the House of Commons. He did…
There is something about Kathy Dunderdale’s speech to the Board of Trade that leaves you decidedly uncomfortable. Part of it is the mention of her grandson – yet again –…
R. v. A.P., 2013 ONCA 344 is a useful reminder that a judge in a criminal matter is not there to determine what happened but rather to see if proof…
Finally! With an early morning video message to supporters, embattled Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) announced she would not run for re-election next year, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reports. Said Bachmann:…
This is the view, right now, of the Don Valley Parkway – which Son One and I take to get downtown every day. We won’t be going that way. Thanks,…
