Video: How Liberal Govt is Bankrupting BC Hydro, Province
On the eve of Premier Christy Clark’s by-election in Kelowna – home of the late premier and BC Hydro founder, WAC Bennett – Damien Gillis exposes the Liberal party’s true…
July 2013
A Court must allow submissions to be made on material issues
R. v. Cook, 2013 ONCA 467 is a good source for the principle that where a material issue is before the Court there must be opportunity given to address that…
in which a storm reaches our basement. through the toilet.
Our basement. Last night. Looks like some Stephen King floating around. That wood was once a piece of floorboard. Now a raft. Toilet opening and shutting itself. Last night more…
Happy Nunavut Day
Nunavut Day, which is annually celebrated on July 9, commemorates passing of two Nunavut acts. The Canadian Parliament passed the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement Act and the Nunavut Act on…
CARPING Department: When Is It Not Rude or Harassment?
Something happened this morning that I’m feeling a little ambivalent about. Went for my usual walk, wearing running shoes, old Bermudas, yesterday’s dirty tee shirts, and the baseball cap from…
Toronto’s electricity grid is “hanging by a thread”
…so says Hydro and others. So, then, why are shops like Mac in Yorkville keeping the doors to their air conditioned premises open in this way? Send along pix of…
Is Shortsightedness Our Tragic Flaw?
Rubber dinghies rescuing flooded train passengers. Cars submerged to their roofs. Raging river torrents. This could easily be a snapshot from India during monsoon season, but no, that was the…
Is Fortress Harper Crumbling?
Thud, thud, thud – that’s the sound of mortally wounded Tories falling from the battlements of Fortress Harper. Duffy, Wallin, Tkachuk, Lebreton, Wright, Perrin, Toews and, by some accounts, they’re…
Two More Books on Kindle, for Those of You Interested
This just in: two more of my books are now available on Kindle. This time they are Green City: People, Nature and Urban Places and The Walkable City: From Haussmann’s…
Politicians in Cowboy Hats: Come Hell or High Water
For a brief history of Stampede fashion, you can read the 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011 round-ups – or last year’s “100 Years of Bad Photo-Ops“ Flood waters…
Rough and rude treatment of travellers by Canada Border Services Agency officers merely reflects the Authoritarian nature of the Harper administration …
Complaints pile up over airport border guards Reports show pattern of rude, disrespectful treatment of travellers by CBSA agents “Dozens of travellers arriving home at Ottawa International Airport have filed…
Troilus and Cressida
I’ve always found Troilus and Cressida a difficult play. The characters all seem jaded, cynical, opportunistic, stuffily sanctimonious, lecherous or simply underhanded. Some are merely unpleasant, others are despicable, reprehensible.…
Harper Gov’ts Fetish with the Crown Has Gone Overboard
Look at these two rank insignias and tell me which of them looks more like it represents Canada: It seems pretty obvious which one represents Canada. Yet for some reason,…
Sleeping black cat
Filed under: art Tagged: Cat, graphite
On Monbiot’s Manifesto
A just world is one in which the labour forces of all nations recognize that they can no longer evade their own problems by demanding the explitation of other people.…
Me on Giambrone
We’re pals, full disclosure, so I am happy to see Adam running. And I meant what I told Global’s Jackson Proskow: the only people who care about most of these…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – George Monbiot rightly challenges the attempt of corporate interests and their political sock-puppets to demonize anybody concerned about our planet’s future: Exotic…
6225…Why I Watch Sponge Bob Square Pants
Thanks Rick Kaulbars on Facebook. WFDS
Wanker of the day
Greg Renouf