Clark & Redford: What their cozy relationship means for BC pipelines
Premier, I’m a simple man who by nature asks simple questions. You and Alberta premier Redford have evidently agreed that there will be a pipeline from her province through ours…
July 2013
We Have to End Police Killings and Brutality.
Indulge me for a minute. Watch closely the video of Saturday night’s killing of a kid aboard a Toronto streetcar. The young man was apparently holding a knife with a…
Weather in Maritimes
It looks that mother nature is very angry. Few days ago we had a lot of thunder and rain storm. It is still cloudy and rains a lot. Some communities…
Profits before quality and safety
From RossK, The Gazetteer, A New Market For A New White Powder “…it has become religion among conservatives to denounce regulation, saying it stifles business and hinders economic growth. But…
The Terrier Trials
Dogs. I love dogs. I’d have a dozen of them, if I could. But dogs are as different in personality as we are. Not all dogs are a good fit…
Corroboration absent and judgment set aside
Anten v. Bhalerao, 2013 ONCA 499 uses the concept of corroboration to set aside a finding of incapacity. The testimony of a witness is said to be corroborated when it…
Halifax: speaking at the International Association of Fire Fighters Conference
I like these guys! They gave me standing O and bought every available copy of Fight The Right! I’m in the mood to run for office, now!
Postmedia: Hiring of Chrystia Freeland validates right wing view of media as "one gigantic anti-Conservative cabal"
Marc Weisblott pens the crux of right-wing paranoia and self-deception when it comes to Canada’s media (emphasis mine). The view that much of Canadian journalism is one gigantic anti-Conservative cabal…
The Red Wings Fiddle While Detroit Burns
The new iconic photo of post-crash Detroit. Listen, can you hear the footsteps of Robocop? We can’t really blame just the Red Wings. We have to blame the Tigers and…
SHAME: Toronto Plaza Hotel disparages striking workers as ‘animals’
The Toronto Plaza Hotel has branded its predominantly visible minority women employees as “animals” for fighting to protect their modest pay and benefits. The post SHAME: Toronto Plaza Hotel disparages…
Coming Soon, Your Eyes on the World
Astronaut Chris Hadfield reconnected countless millions of people to the wonders of space. His space station performance of the David Bowie classic “Space Oddity” has racked up more than 17-million…
What’s Old Is New Again. The Return of the Workhouse.
Stephen Harper has a prison fetish. Despite steady declines in crime rates in Canada over the past four decades, Steve is hell bent on building new prisons. We like to…
Ottawa South PCPO candidate Matt Young anti-choice?
Matt Young has refused to publicly state a position on abortion. When he was questioned on CFRA Young said that abortion is a federal issue and refused to comment. It…
Hell 2.2
Might be time to recap my reasons for writing this series. New readers could get confused about the content in the Hell posts, of which this is the fourth. They’re…
Deference to findings of fact
Barclays Bank PLC v. Devonshire Trust, 2013 ONCA 494: Second, findings of fact by the trial judge attract deference on appeal and are only reviewable by this court if they…
Thank God
I mean it, too: thank God.
What was Former Prime Minister Paul Martin Thinking?
As an Indigenous woman I have been exposed to the atrocities of genocide through sex-discrimination and through the denial of land and resources. I continue to live with these genocidal…
On Liberty and Death
One of the reasons I advocate for restrictions on personal freedom as a means to save our species from extinction is that I need my own behaviours to be externally…