He’s Everywhere!
Disclaimer: Despite the fact that this is my third recent posting about him, there is no ‘bromance’ budding between me and Gordon “Dr. Chaps” Klingenschmitt. It’s just that I am…
September 2013
John McCain takes beating at a town hall meeting re: Syrian intervention
McCain’s constituents gave it to him at a town hall meeting in Arizona. Syrian intervention is going to be a hard sell to Americans. I understand 80% Americans are opposed…
Successes We Can Build On
I was recently asked what I thought the current National Board accomplished over this past term, and what I thought the next steps to advance the party should be. Here…
Provincial Trudeaumania?
At least at first blush, that is what it definitely seems like in the four Atlantic Canadian provinces, as noted yesterday by my co-blogger Teddy. The Liberals have moved into…
Last Year’s Wild Weather Tied to Climate Change. Well, Duh!
Another day, another study. A Stanford University study has found that last year’s wild weather, including the heat wave and drought that swept most of the U.S., is now more…
Congressman Alan Grayson on Syria
Democratic Congressman Alan Grayson is opposed to U.S. intervention in Syria. He also says that there is simply not enough votes in the Congress to pass the resolution on the…
Part-Time Growth in a “Hamster Wheel” Job Market
Today, Statistics Canada reported that employment increased in August, although two-thirds of the additional jobs were part-time positions. The part-time rate rose to 19%, its highest level in more than…
Minimum Wage,Fast Food and Finding Something Good to Eat
The New York Times reports this morning on the growing protest among workers at fast food outlets (restaurants is hardly the proper description, I think) for a minimum wage of…
Syrian Rebels Execute Army Officers
Warning: This video contains graphic scenes and maybe offensive to some. Now are these the rebels Obama and America wants to protect from Assad of Syria? Also it is still…
Sentencing a corporation for criminal negligence
R v Metron Construction Corporation 2013 ONCA 541 is a very helpful decision regarding sentencing a corporation for criminal negligence causing death: Para 46: " The sentencing judge commenced his…
Sept. 6: The problem of New Brunswick…
It’s all summed up on page 1. “Support rises for Grits, poll suggests.” New Brunswickers, who kicked out the Liberals in the last provincial election are poised to vote them…
Fixing the World’s problems
I’ve discovered what ‘sardonic’ means. I mean this is a perfectly workable plan isn’t it? And after all, Carbon Dioxide isn’t strictly speaking a chemical weapon or poisonous gas. Plants…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Richard Seymour rightly calls out right-wing lobby groups in the UK for distorting the facts in order to attack social programs: The report…
Well, Trudeau
I can’t believe I am about to say this, but Paul Wells should be read for what he has to say, here, about Justin Trudeau. The short version of it…
Juxtaposition
The Fouge sez: have no fear about corporate abuses or contract manipulation in a privatized wastewater system because…public procurement process! Hamilton Wastewater System – A sewage operation and maintenance contract…
The Shorter Paul Wells
Prime Minister Harper plays Chess; his opponents, a broken Bolivian Armpit Flute. He first wrote this column in 2007, and he’s just changed up the words a bit since.
140 Law – Legal Headlines for Friday, September 6, 2013
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Friday, September 6, 2013: Tim Hortons coin thrower found guilty of assault Japan’s Fukushima region fishery products banned…
Political survival for party leaders.
Reading a political survival strategy for Ontario Conservative Leader Timmy Hudak proposed by Bob Hepburn in the Toronto Star the other day, it seems that what he says applies at…