UN Security Council wants Canada to adopt important UN gun crime treaty
At least that’s how we interpret paragraph 17 of the small arms resolution introduced by Australia’s new conservative government and passed without a single no vote.
At least that’s how we interpret paragraph 17 of the small arms resolution introduced by Australia’s new conservative government and passed without a single no vote.
OpenMedia’s Executive Director Steve Anderson has been home sick this week – but when Global TV News called to see if he would speak out on behalf of Canadians and…
Friday, September 27, 2013 The Nobel Prize winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has released the first of 4 reports that make up its 5th Assessment Report. This first…
My view, a ce moment. Wish you were all here. We’d play Ramones stuff on my little acoustic and drink beer by the fire.
If Harper says that he will not take no for an answer from the U.S. on Keystone — a project over its future he ultimately has no real control —…
It’s super embarrassing to have these sorts of puppet, lying people in office, when it’s so critically important for Canada to be making REAL, FACTUAL efforts against climate change. .@leonaaglukkaq…
From The Tweet of God: America, you were settled by the extermination of one race and the enslavement of another. But please, lecture us more about freedom. Hot flashes. Increased…
Political commitments on climate action, to the extent they exist, are usually pitched in terms of targets and timelines. BC, for example, has a legislated target of 33% below 2007…
Government defends security certificate process in high court submission The federal government says suspected terrorists and spies detained under national security certificates do not have a right to full disclosure…
Prime Minister Harper was talking tough about the Keystone XL pipeline this week. On a visit to New York, he told the Canadian American Business Council that he wouldn’t take…
If you followed the election debate in Nova Scotia the other day, as well as some of my comments on Liberal Leader Stephen McNeil’s performance, you may and I definitely…
The worst aspect of the Quebec’s Charter debate is the smug, self-righteous, paternalist, finger wagging of English Canada and the English media in Quebec. Canadians don’t realize that they live…
Every Tuesday in October is #CBAfuturesChat, hosted by Law is Cool alumni Omar Ha-Redeye of Fleet Street Law. The CBA Futures Initative is a project that is reaching out to…
Helena Guergis, Dean Del Mastro. A Tale of Two Tories. The whole Guergis scandal is a bit fuzzy this far on but, as I recall, she was unceremoniously dumped from…
We were reminded last night that Ontario hospitals live in very different realities from each other. When University Health Network CEO Bob Bell has a casual chat with Health Minister…
Planes at Trudeau airport in Dorval/Montreal are an incredible source of noise pollution. So much so that the airport has a curfew. Solution: close Trudeau and make Mirabel Montreal’s 24…
Leaving no doubt; clear; unambiguous. The latest IPCC report concludes that mankind’s influence in driving climate change is beyond doubt, clear and unambiguous. Anthropogenic global warming is here, it’s here…
R. v. Pizzurro, 2013 ONCA 584 holds the Crown does not have to prove whether a hand-held wireless communication device is working or not to get a conviction under the…
When Linda McQuaig, well-known author and Toronto Star columnist, announced that she is vying to be the New Democratic Party candidate in the Toronto Centre byelection, CD contacted her for…
All over the news yesterday was headlines about Dean Del Mastro being charged by Elections Canada for misdeeds in the 2008 election. You’d think I’d be cheering. I’m not. Yes,…