On Sporadic Blogging And Willful Ignorance
We are hosting our dear friends from Cuba for about the next week, so depending on our sight-seeing schedule, my blogging may not be quite as regular as usual. But…
August 2013
She Probably Ordered The Iced Coffee
ST. CATHARINES, Ont. — A Tim Hortons customer has been arrested and charged with uttering threats after she was unhappy with her order. An account of my own flirtations with…
Misapprehension of evidence
R. v. Vokurka, 2013 NLCA 51: In R. v. MacIsaac, 2013 NLCA 26 (CanLII), 2013 NLCA 26, Rowe J.A. summarized the law relating to misapprehension of evidence: The test for…
Grass crime no! Grain crime yes! The inconsistencies of Prime Minister Harper
Prime Minister Stephen Harper stands with Rick Strankman and some of the other law-breaking farmers the PM pardoned in 2011. (Photo grabbed from the Drumheller Mail.) Below: Mr. Strankman, now…
Fraser Institute Faces Ridicule Over Child Rearing Cost Study
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger The Fraser Institute lives to conduct self serving, right wing studies, analysis and such, generally designed to be instructive to the ears of right wing politicians and…
11 Facts About The Ongoing Fukushima Nuclear Holocaust Too Horrifying To Believe
Richard ‘Hub’ Hughes- Political Blogger Here is a story about one of the world’s biggest environmental disasters ever and you do not hear much about it. We have aging and…
August 24: Where we are; and where we are going
The popular myth is that we are in a democracy in which all are born equal – which suggests that we all have an equal voice in government. That is…
In Sunday’s Sun: the best and worst of Trudeau
The best and worst of the Liberal Party of Canada were on full display in the past week. On the one hand, there was the “race” to be the Liberal…
P3 or No Federal Funding: A Third Option for Regina Wastewater?
The Queen City’s water debate has boiled over since I last blogged about it. City Council decided to build a new wastewater-treatment facility as a public-private partnership (P3), but a…
Financial Questions Loom about Building LNG Export Terminals
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger Our BC politicians have handled the LNG and fracking game badly. The bubble may well be about ready to burst. The Financial Post reports that high costs…
Things Have Changed Somewhat, But Not Enough in Fifty Years
Shortly after I arrived back in in Bloomington, Indiana following the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom 50 years ago next Wednesday, I went to the nearest Western Union…
Lemonade in Paris
Filed under: art
The further confessions of Justin Trudeau.
Liberal leader Justin Trudeau admitted this week to taking a puff of marijuana once since being elected as an MP. He said he did not enjoy it, has not taken…
Is Harper Suppressing Climate Change Information?
Canadians are supposed to receive an annual accounting of our federal government’s efforts and progress on fighting climate change. It’s overdue and Environment Canada won’t say why or when it…
Banking on Neptune
Researchers hope they’ll be able to give Victoria and Vancouver a 30- to 50-second warning in advance of the megaquake when it occurs off Vancouver Island. That doesn’t sound like…
joni, my idol, redux, plus personal update
A few months ago, I wrote about my idol, Joni Mitchell, and posted a number of links to in-depth, lengthy interviews with her. I wasn’t able to listen to them…
Hemispherectomy: Cut My Son’s Brain In Half? No Way …. Unless
I am not a neurologist, neurosurgeon or medical doctor of any kind. I am not a psychologist or a certified behavior analyst. I am a lawyer and a father of…