Organic Farming is Better than Factory Farming for Carbon Capture
It turns out that not only is eating organic food better for you than processed foods, growing organic food is better for everyone. Organic farms (and likely home gardens) are…
June 2013
6152…Aislin Salutes Applebaum
And, presumably, all past and future mayors of Montreal. WFDS
Canadian Medical Students Condemn Conservatives’ Refugee Health Cuts
The Canadian Federation of Medical Students (CFMS) and the Fédération médicale étudiante du Québec (FMEQ), condemn the federal government’s cuts to essential health services for refugees. This press release: OTTAWA,…
Beer and popcorn boy is heard from
I was up at the cabin all weekend, attending to more important matters. So I didn’t hear about Scott Reid’s attack on Jean Chretien in the Ottawa Citizen until I…
Blown through
Sometimes, it’s not clear what its about. Pen & Ink app has come out with an update and some new brushes. Filed under: art Tagged: art, Cat, dissolve
6151…MTL Tory Gets Busted With Mayor
I am cherry picking from The Globe and Mail this morning but it is being widely reported that Saulie Zajdel, who “…unsuccessfully ran as a Conservative candidate against Liberal Irwin…
Look good and lie a lot: Tory Action Plan.
It is good to hear that some think tanks are taking a hard look at the Conservative government’s Economic Action Plan. They act surprised. What seems to puzzle the academics…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your Monday reading. – Thomas Walkom, Dan Leger and Michael Harris write about the sketchy surveillance programs in place on both sides of the 49th parallel. But…
Today, Canadians Fight For Refugee Health Care: 2nd National Day of Action
By: Obert Madondo Twitter: @Obiemad Today, June 17, 2013, is the 2nd Annual Day of Action for refugee health care! Canadians, rights activists, doctors and other health care workers assemble…
Justin Ascends To Enormous Heights
This, then, is the measure of the man! O Glorious, GLORIOUS Justin!!! Myself I wouldn’t have offered a penny back to these silver-haired con-artists! No! I would have told them…
PRISM: Tap It
Some really excellent criticism of wide swaths of the MSM, from… Gawker??? Let’s be honest: Edward Snowden (pictured), the man who made a calculated decision to risk everything he has…
140 Law – Legal Headlines for Monday, June 17, 2013
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Monday, June 17, 2013: Lawsuit as Two Groups Rekindle Fight Over Anne Frank Legacy Man suing lawyers fights…
Who Will Give Us Hope?
I recently wrote a post on the ailing Nelson Mandela and why he is so important a world figure. Last Friday Gerald Caplan wrote a piece in the Globe entitled…
Hudak Should Watch His Back
When Tim Hudak was elected the leader of the Ontario Progressive Conservatives, he came in with Mike Harris’ blessing. He was, after all, one of Harris’ young guns. But, since…
Criteria for overturning discretionary decisions
Mission Creek Mortgage Ltd. v. Angleland Holdings Inc., 2013 BCCA 281 holds a discretionary decision should be overtruned only where the decision was clearly wrong or the court of first…
Summertime, And The Livin is Easy (For Some)
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Pozo and Mr. Savage
They lived on the margins of society as a travelling entertainment act. A classic clown-and-baboon show, in the old Czech style. They had terrorized a generation of Eastern European children.…
A Look at Ottawa South
Last week, former Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty (2003-2013) resigned from his provincial seat as representative for the riding of Ottawa South which, amazingly, is located in Ottawa, Ontario. McGuinty’s resignation…
Montreal Mayor Michael Applebaum reportedly in custody CBC News
No details yet. But a story that makes Toronto's follies looks like a trifle! Quebec is always a leader in Canada,,,