Canadian blogger Ben Klass talks about the elephant in the room – and no matter how hard Big Telecom executives push out expensive, misleading PR spin to convince us otherwise,…
Canadian veterans’ ombudsman, Guy Parent, says seriously wounded Canadian servicemen are being left to face a life of poverty. “We’re saying it’s an urgent need,” Parent said. “I’m urging the…
Australians may have elected a climate change denier, Tony Abbott, as their prime minister but that’s not going to make their climate change problems go away. The Hong Kong and…
A New Zealand court will hear a refugee-status claim from a Kiribati man who contends he had to flee not persecution but climate change. Kiribati is a low-lying atoll in…
It’s the perfect storm of three factors – scarce groundwater resources, climate change-driven droughts and massive population growth. Put them all together and security analyst Russell Sticklor, writing in the…
Have you been wondering what’s happening on Brian G. Rice’s campaign lately? I thought I’d share this update with you – please feel free to share it with your friends!…
Here are your daily news links: I’ll be doing a long-planned “Ask Me Anything” on Reddit today at 1 pm ET (@ggreenwald) Income levels and the high price of telecom…
It should come as no surprise that Chris Hedges openly and strongly advocates for outright revolt. He believes that laissez-faire capitalism has run its course, leaving blue and white collar…
Fracking protest in New Brunswick (photo: Colin McPhail) HALIFAX – New Brunswick’s minister of energy is urging people participating in a demonstration against exploration for shale gas fracking to obey…
Harper brags his government created 750,000 jobs. But an analysis from the Globe and Mail’s Economy Lab shows this focus on total employment is misplaced. Employment rate Most of the…
The American government has shut down for lack of money – with implications we can only guess at.. Canada’s John Baird gives very strange speech at the UN. An expensive…
“If you don’t want your tax dollars to help the poor, stop saying you want a country based on Christian values. You don’t!” President Jimmy Carter The following article is…
Leaving Newark airport by train to NYC. We have not lost a kid yet. But the day is still young.
R. v. J.S.W., 2013 ONCA 593 deals with silence or a failure categorically to deny an allegation – can that be taken as either agreement or at least a weakness…
Another Harper loyalist is in trouble for claiming expenses she wasn’t entitled to. Is there anyone in there who isn’t?? Also, no one believes it was a mistake, either.
It is the risk of appearing academic or pedantic (book-smart) that usually precludes any discussion of what liberalism is all about. It reminds us of an old friend—a law professor…
I’m prepared to believe that when Tony Clement eliminated the manadatory long census form prior to the 2011 census, he didn’t actually intend to make rural communities in the western…
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Tuesday, October 1, 2013: Maple Lodge Farms guilty of criminal charges after hens freeze to death Tax evasion…
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Jordon Cooper writes about the need to understand poverty in order to discuss and address it as a matter of public policy.…
