It’s Never Enough, Is It?
Forget for the moment that Macdonald’s is one of the world’s biggest corporations; forget for the moment that a steady diet of its food will likely shorten your life; forget…
June 2013
Blatant Hypocrisy
Martin Regg Cohn calls Rob Ford’s bluster, after his meeting with Ontario Finance Minister Charles Sousa, exactly what it is — blatant hypocrisy. And Cohn provides a little historical context:…
Global Warming: Right Here, Right Now
* I’m in Washington DC, attending the fourth annual Citizens Climate Lobby gathering. Monday morning, climate scientist and hero Dr. James Hansen addressed the crowd of 350. And today –…
Does that mean he “Coyned” it?
It was National Post political columnist Andrew Coyne who used the term. He wrote that “Toryism, in its current incarnation, resembles less an ideology than a pathology.” If too many…
Amateur Hour
I’m not sure this should surprise anyone, given the way the PMO has acted recently: The Prime Minister’s Office orchestrated a protest earlier this month at which Conservative party interns…
Mistake of fact and due diligence are different defences
R. v. Legrande 2013 ABCA 229 makes clear the distinction between mistake of fact and due diligence. For strict liability offences a reasonable belief in a mistaken set of facts…
Rather Apt, Don’t You Think?
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Fat cells galore, and what we can learn from them
Fat Fact Every part of the human body contains fat cells, except for: the eyelids parts of the esophagus the brain the penis. From this we can learn three things:…
Rob Ford is a liar
…and employs liars. Surprise, surprise. What do those boys get up to after dark, I wonder. Is someone ever going to write about that, I wonder.
The Saviour Lives… Again #nlpoli
With the polls looking bad for the Conservatives and good for everyone else, there’s no surprise at word over the long weekend that Dean MacDonald is thinking about a run…
Holiday road
Tomorrow we’re off on vacation for a couple of weeks — we’re going west and I will try to post a few photos along the way! In the meantime, enjoy…
Paulie’s Continues To Display White Supremacist Views in Public
Our readers (will not be at all surprised by the above headline) are well aware of Paulie's involvement with the virulently racist Council of Conservative Citizens in the United States.…
Alberta :(
I’m not sure how to express the remorse I feel for my province and everyone who lives here being affected by it. It’s a devastation which has and will continue…
The Resource Trap Explained
Canada is suffering from the Resource Trap, or Resource Curse. We don’t have it acutely yet, to the point of sterotypical corrupt petro-states, but we are suffering numerous symptoms from…
Can We Be Sure People Like Snowden Are On Our Side?
The recent blow-up over Edward Snowden’s leaking of NSA documents detailing some pretty nasty homegrown surveillance programs in the US, and the subsequent manhunt period we’re now in, has got…
Duke Study Links Fracking to Water Contamination As EPA Drops Study on Fracking Water Contamination
Last week, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) kicked the can down the road on a key study designated to examine the connection between hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) and groundwater contamination…
RIP Silence. 1999-2013.
I mention this briefly since I brought it up last week… but unfortunately, my cat Silence had to be put down on Saturday. His high liver enzyme issues were actually…