WOW! Almost 60,000 people have said NO to Internet Censorship
WOW! We are so inspired! Nearly 60,000 people said NO to the #TPP’s extreme Internet Censorship plan – and that number keeps growing! Thank you to our wonderful community for…
September 2013
Robin & Stewart – Our Veterans
Robin & Stewart – Our Veterans Submitted by Robin and Stewart on Mon, 09/23/2013 – 14:40 “Canadian soldiers bravely put themselves in harm’s way, prepared to sacrifice for their country.…
Why has Canada failed Omar Khadr?
The first responsibility of the state is to protect its citizens, particularly its children. The Canadian state has utterly failed that responsibility in the case of Omar Khadr. Omar was…
Flowers: Amazing animation
Enjoy! Source: Photobucket
Seymour Hersh excoriates American media. Has he not read the National Post? He’d puke.
Or the rest of Postmedia? Or Sun Media? Or CTV News? Next to Canadian media, the US version is the epitome of decorum, balance and solid journalism. We live in…
Sept. 27: news editors – lazy? sloppy? profoundly ignorant? or deliberately all three…
last night, I made a list of stories I felt sure the Irving press would not carry. I acted as if I were news editor for the TandT, selecting those…
Daily Digital Digest for Friday September 27, 2013
Here are your daily news links: The Agenda with Steve Paikin: Standing Up to Telecom Giants (TVO) CRTC issues annual report on the state of the Canadian communication system (CRTC)…
Panel: Climate change ‘extremely likely’ man-made
Dr. Rajendra Pachauri, Chief of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change STOCKHOLM – Scientists can now say with extreme confidence that human activity is the dominant cause of the global…
The new normal
When you see what is going on now in the United States — another debt ceiling fiasco, the Obamacare implementation, and the Republicans going insane and taking the country with…
Harper: Bringing New Levels Of Accountable Government To You
It comes as no surprise that The Harper Government has spent a great deal of time and energy doing its level best to be as unaccountable as possible to voters.…
Sniffer dog searches
R. v. Chehil, 2013 SCC 49 deals with when “reasonable suspicion” exists so as to justify a search by a drug detection dog. The Court holds: The reasonable suspicion threshold…
Money Can’t Buy Happiness
Ask Wild” Willie Seeley of Manahawkin, New Jersey. He is a lotto winner. He wants his life back. Willie Seeley poses for a photo outside his home in Manahawkin, N.J.,…
Campaign capers: Be careful what you wish for, Dean
A few months ago, Dean Del Mastro expressed his impatience with the Elections Canada investigation into his campaign spending. Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s parliamentary secretary is demanding that Elections Canada…
Certainty
Here is the IPCC message: We are as certain that humans are radically changing the planet’s climate as we are that tobacco causes cancer. Peter Gleick
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Jordan Brennan and Jim Stanford put to rest any attempt to minimize the growth of inequality in Canada: (I)ncome inequality has reached a…
140 Law – Legal Headlines for Friday, September 27, 2013
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Friday, September 27, 2013: The Supreme Court’s Hands Aren’t Clean in U.S. National Nightmare Germany charges 93-year-old alleged…
Ban corporate political donations: Dumaresque #nlpoli
Liberal leadership candidate Danny Dumaresque wants to reform the provincial election laws to ban corporate donations, as the Telegram reported on Thursday. “I think in Newfoundland and Labrador, we’ve got…
Plutocrats Feeling Persecuted: What’s Next?
Paul Krugman in The New York Times writes about the Titans of Finance comparing uproar about their huge bonuses to lynching or Nazis invading Poland: “Sometimes the wealthy talk as…
David Gilmour is a self-involved jerk
As I said on Brian Lilley’s program last night. Check it out. I’m on just before the six minute mark.
Review: The Darker Nations
A conventional overview of world history from the early 20th century to the 1970s would likely talk of World Wars, Cold Wars, and proxy wars. It would, to be blunt,…