Here are quotes from statements that Ann Cavoukian, Ontario’s “Information and Privacy Commissioner,” made on June 5: “It is difficult to accept that the routine deletion of emails was not…
We’ve been given a price tag for adapting Canada’s essential infrastructure to climate change – one trillion dollars, give or take a few billion. I’m pretty sure that’s an American…
So as a followup to my last post about the Conservatives hyping up the old British Empire/Commonwealth ties (The War of 1812, ditching the Maple Leaf insignia and going to…
“He who permits himself to tell a lie once,” wrote Thomas Jefferson (in a letter to his nephew, Peter Carr, from Paris, France, 1785), “finds it much easier to do…
Stephen King (no, not that Stephen King), HSBC Chief Economist sees the same conditions emerging in today’s Europe that triggered the 1831 peasants’ uprising against the British aristocracy. In King’s…
If an email is deleted but is still available on the server, was it ever really deleted in the first place? Too bad that Ann Cavoukian didn’t retrieve emails from…
‘Men’s rights’ group behind sexual assault posters Posters mimic well-known ‘Don’t be that guy’ campaign against sexual assault CBC News Posted: Jul 10, 2013 6:59 PM MT Last Updated: Jul…
The one in Kemptville, Ontario, a town about 30 minutes south of Parliament Hill, seems too. Or to. The Cornwall Free News offers the news that “Reports from CBC allege…
It could happen. Gawker.com reports that the former Governor of Alaska told Sean Hannity on his WABC and national radio show that “…she was considering a run against Alaskan Senator…
This week, I watched the premiere of Josh Fox’s documentary film, Gasland II. Very troubling. The story line confirms that America has lost its moorings and has veered off in…
Here, on how the Cons’ abuse of supporters’ donations can only stoke cynicism about the value of participating in politics – but how the limited number of people currently involved…
…that’s a lower category than presstitutes. 1. A reader has informed me that Dr. Cleary, our Chief Medical Officer whose advice those twits in Federicton ignored when she warned about…
A news story the other day said that researchers were surprised to learn that voters are not turned off by the more personal and seamier side of political news. It…
One of the more obvious points of convergence in political thought over the past 70-80 years is the greater appreciation of systemic complexity – the recognition that different decisions by…
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Thursday, July 11, 2013: Single Fathers on Rise Allow Google, Microsoft to disclose national security order data: rights…
The real costs for the average hospital acute care patient are declining. As noted yesterday this is true for both Ontario and Canada, based on data just released from the…
Some days, all I have to do is open my newspaper for my blog post. Today is one of those days. Enjoy. Harper kept public in dark, July 6 When…
And that's how it's done folks.
And that’s how it’s done folks.
And that's how it's done folks.
