NDP got hosed in Nova Scotia
With 46% of the vote, the Liberals probably deserved an outright majority in Tuesday’s election. But a landslide majority where they win almost two-thirds of the legislature? I don’t think…
October 2013
Persons Day: The Indigenous Famous Five Contingent
Persons Day, October 18th, is a day when many women’s groups celebrate the efforts of The Famous Five for their role in gaining women’s rights in Canada. In 1927, Emily…
Not So Special, After All?
Unemployed Doctors? 1 in 6 New Specialists Can’t Find Work, Study Says CP | By Helen Branswell, The Canadian PressPosted: 10/10/2013 12:01 am EDT | Updated: 10/10/2013 10:01 am EDT…
Look At It This Way, Tomorrow’s Cold Will Be Today’s Hot
If we continue our rapacious consumption of fossil fuels, tomorrow’s “cold” will resemble today’s “hot.” Researchers at the University of Hawaii conclude that, from roughly 2047 onwards, the coldest years…
Your Daily Digital Digest for Thursday, October 10th, 2013
Your news links for today: Rogers apologizes for country-wide wireless outage, gives customers one day of free service (Financial Post) The wrath of a thousand Canadians is a mighty sight.…
Europe Falling into Economic and Social Decline – Red Cross Blames Austerity
Poverty, mass unemployment, widening inequality, social exclusion and collective despair – those, according to the International Red Cross, are the symptoms of the austerity measures enacted in response to the…
Dr. Tundra versus the flashmob zombies
Dr. Maximilian Tundra had never felt so paranoid. Earlier that day he’d lost his medical license; luckily, he also had a PhD in biochemistry, so he would still get everyone…
More On Duffy and Conservative Corruption
I must admit that while I really don’t much like Mike Duffy and the seemingly endless stream of evidence of corruption with him at the root of it is fatiguing…
Don’t speak. Tell me what you mean.
Yesterday’s image: I regret even adding tags, as any words, any explanation, ruin the thing. Filed under: art
My son’s schoolmate, Jaedan Washington
One of Son One’s schoolmates at St. Mike’s is Jaedan Washington. Jaedan is about as tall as my boy, but heavier and – as you will shortly see – probably…
PTSD Update!
Updates from Kate and Robin and Stewart are below, as they approach the end of their campaigns! Kate’s Long Way Home has passed 1,000 kilometres on her way to Ottawa.…
Gas Plants Questions
For the record, I’m not a supporter of the Ontario Liberals, but I will suggest that a lot of rage has built up about the gas plant issues and rightly…
New column day
Here, following up on Alex Himelfarb and Jordan Himelfarb’s observations about the need to talk about the good we can do with tax revenue by noting the importance of making…
Why do so few Canadians get a flu shot?
That’s the headline for a recent Toronto Star story. It suggests that as few as one third of Canadians get a flu vaccine, and in some place the number may…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Nadir Khan interviews Linda McQuaig about her choice to run for the NDP in Toronto Centre – and confirms that McQuaig’s commitment…
140 Law – Legal Headlines for Thursday, October 10, 2013
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Thursday, October 10, 2013: Australian Law Reform Commission Issues Paper on Serious Invasions of Privacy in the Digital…
Signs of Change
* Now are we ready to stop using our atmosphere as a sewage dump? OECD Calls For a “Big Fat Price On Carbon” In the Fight Against Climate Change *
Happy Dance for Alice Munro’s Nobel
Alice Munro wins the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature, becoming the first Canadian woman to take the award since its launch in 1901. Munro, 82, only the 13th woman given…
Mark Bourrie wants to shut down this web site: the latest
Mark Bourrie is a member of the Parliamentary Press Gallery. Anyone who reads this web site is pretty familiar with him, and the way he behaves. You can read more…
Brad Wall’s Sask Party Gov’t Will Continue To Fund Research To Try And Prove Dr. Zamboni’s Debunked Multiple Sclerosis Theory …
(Sask Health Hon. Minister Dustin Duncan) Sask. health minister says new study doesn’t necessarily debunk MS liberation therapy“Saskatchewan’s health minister says the province won’t be deterred by a new study…