Poor Steve Ryan*
Who is Steve Ryan, you might ask? Up until today, he was the nominated candidate for the Progressive Conservative Party in Etobicoke-Lakeshore, for the Aug 1 by-elections here in Ontario.…
July 2013
It’s the Greatest Threat Ever to Confront Canada. Why Can’t Our Leaders Rise to the Challenge?
Rulers are a dime a dozen. Leaders are a rare commodity. In difficult times nations need leaders, not rulers. The greater the difficulties that confront a state, the greater the…
Twin Pandas Born
Xinhua news agency is reporting that the baby pandas were born at Wolong Nature Reserve in Sichuan province to a mom named Haizi. They were born 10 minutes apart on…
New, Better Jobs Building a Green Energy Infrastructure
Let’s go post-carbon and transform Big Carbon jobs into green jobs! We are so addicted to carbon-based energy: oil, gas, coal, LNG plants, fracking, pipelines, tanker spills. It gets so…
Grant Wood’s The Aliens Among Us
This iconic painting is well-known and much parodied, but few have ever divined the true nature of the horrific story behind the canvas. Most art historians agree that Woods used…
Bah humbug! Fireworks Make Too Much Noise…
The Fourth of July holiday has got me thinking about the way we celebrate. I remember the joy surrounding fire works displays in my childhood. There was only one, on…
Contaminated Water, Land Damage, and Earthquakes: The Legacy of Waste Injection Wells
Early scientific analysis predicted that the risks associated with hazardous waste injection wells would be negligible. Unfortunately, experience has indicated that disposing of hazardous waste deep underground has been linked…
The test for granting leave to appeal in CCAA proceedings
Labourers’ Pension Fund of Central and Eastern Canada v. Sino-Forest Corporation, 2013 ONCA 456 holds: The test for granting leave to appeal in CCAA proceedings is well-settled. It is to…
Stephen Harper, Mike Duffy, Rob Ford
In their previous life when they were a little smarter.
Poll: 70% of Canadians think it’s time kick Stephen Harper out
by: Obert Madondo | @Obiemad: Stephen Harper (Photo: Remy Steinegger) An overwhelming majority of Canadians think it’s time to kick Stephen Harper out and elect a new government, according to…
Why Rulers Can’t Govern – See: Morsi, Mohamed
WWPD? What Would Pharaoh Do? Egypt’s first democratically elected president, Mohamed Morsi, is out, deposed by his country’s generals for failing to address the Egyptian people’s unrest. It turns out…
July 4: disappointment (partly) eased…
I won’t waste much time talking about most of today’s Times and Transcript because most of is the usual trivia and propaganda. Note the headliner for section A. “Health officials…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Richard Eskow offers up some ugly facts about corporate wealth accumulation and tax avoidance. – David MacAray writes about the challenge facing…
New column day
Here, marking yet another year of broken Conservative promises when it comes to climate change. For further reading…– CBC reports on the the continued lack of regulations for the oil…
Finding the political middle.
The political middle in Canadian politics is a ghost. Many speak of it but nobody has ever found it. Instead, we are a country that compromises in extremes. It remains…
The CAO Conpsiracies
Collingwood has appointed an interim CAO, John Brown, former city manager of Brantford, St. John’s and Oshawa, to help the town’s administration and governance during the interim while we search…
Resilient Communities for America: City Mayors Prep for Climate Chaos
As international bodies and national governments fail to do anything significant to curb the ever-rising concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, local governments are taking it upon themselves to…