6110…Abbotsford And Number 2
Number 2 as in pooh.Chicken pooh.Abbotsford, a city in the Fraser Valley just east of Vancouver, has a problem with homeless people. Instead of providing them with a place to…
June 2013
6109…Toronto Considering Name Change
Not the city though. Although I think Laketown has a ring to it. No, it is the Toronto Raptors, who, by the way, suck. They, the people who run the…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – David Miller makes the case to take aim at inequality in Canada: With globalization being the holy grail of efficiency, it became a…
#RobFordLooksAtThings – 00004
Damn that is a big stomach,… Rob Ford looks at his stomach
140 Law – Legal Headlines for Friday, June 7, 2013
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Friday, June 7, 2013: Defendant said he shot lawyer to death ‘because he made our lives a misery,’…
Things Fall Apart
Humpty Dumpty is teetering on his wall. Michael Den Tandt writes in the Postmedia papers: Edmonton MP Brent Rathgeber’s resignation from the Conservative caucus, which dropped inside the Ottawa bubble…
Location, Location, Location: the Story Behind Montreal’s Mega Hospitals and the Future of Mount Royal
An extremely important conference is being held today on the future of Mount Royal–but it may be too late. In a couple of years, four health establishments on the flanks…
The new Gomery: Ann Cavoukian
This week, Ontario’s “Information and Privacy Commissioner” – her oxymoronic title neatly lays out the point I am about to make – excoriate some of the folks I know pretty…
Ambulances and Public Health get cash while other sectors starve
From time to time there are rumors that EMS (ambulance services) and municipal public health services may move over to the tender mercies of the Local Health Integration Networks (LHINs),…
Ford’s friends
Quote: One resident of the home where Mayor Rob Ford was photographed with murder victim Anthony Smith has been convicted of trafficking cocaine. Another was found guilty of possessing a…
Ride to Conquer Cancer
My ex is riding a bike tomorrow all the way to Niagara Falls. She won’t be alone. Lots of folks are doing likewise, for the Princess Margaret Ride to Conquer…
Carol Goar: why won’t Wynne government help the victims of institutional abuse?
A must-read: Ontario once ran 16 of these institutions. All are closed now. But shutting the doors doesn’t undo the damage provincial employees did to thousands of cognitively disabled youngsters.…
Could This Be the 21st Century’s Most Powerful Idea?
This is a guest post by Chris Wood, adapted from his brand new book, Down the Drain: How We Are Failing to Protect Our Water Resources. What we have here…
Your Daily Nazi: Marc Lemire Throws In The Towel
From Richard Warman’s site: It was only a matter of time after the Supreme Court unanimously upheld civil law controls on hate speech as constitutional in the Whatcott case, but…
Get worried-er #nlpoli
Here are a bunch of stories all of which would deserve a post of their own but that are presented here cut down to the barest of bare essentials. King…
Today in tweets
I was going to make an NSA Twitter joke but they just called & told me they’d heard it already— Thers (@Thers) June 7, 2013 #NSACalledToTellMe that I left my…
Ahead of the Eight Ball
Just when we thought things couldn’t get lower in Ottawa, CBC News breaks the story of the PMO’s special fund; an ultra-secret cash reserve that few people knew about. The…
Lemire Cries Uncle
We figure we’ll go right to the source in this one: Marc Lemire throws in the towel It was only a matter of time after the Supreme Court unanimously upheld…
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