Plausible Deniability?
After watching the Prime Minister’s ongoing repetitive and wholly unconvincing responses to Thomas Mulcair’s incisive questions during Question Period, and after reading the latest details of the RCMP investigation into…
November 2013
Rob Ford’s evil twin Stephen Harper.
It seems appropriate. While the Toronto Police are sniffing around Mayor Rob Ford’s purported dealings with crack houses and drug dealers, the RCM Police are sniffing around Prime Minister Stephen…
New column day
Here, on what Saskatchewan can learn from some significant developments in privacy law in Manitoba and Alberta. For further reading…– Paul Broad and Daniel Michaluk introduce Manitoba’s new private-sector legislation.–…
Cornering The Artful Dodger
The prime minister’s story, Andrew Coyne writes, hangs by a thread: The Prime Minister has hung onto that single thread even as every other part of his story has fallen…
Best Offender and Mandatory Minimum Sentences
R v Lyta, 2013 NUCA 10 deals with the issue of whether only the “best offender” can receive a statutory minimum sentence. The Court, broadly put, does not adopt that…
#Duffy Senate Expense Scandal Explained
Take 15 minutes, and listen to the last 5 years of Canadian politics be summed up off the top of my head. What’s the PM’s next lie? Pretend he was…
Tony Clement asked to be…
… on the the Harper Christmas card too. But his boss said no (wait for it), one rodent is a enough. Budda-bing! (1) Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
Hirsute nostalgia
I’m not sure who this is, Chilliwack, maybe? Or, Jefferson Starship? Anyway, they were a band from the 70s. I encourage you to check out some of my hairy fiction.…
Environment Groups Walk Out Of Warsaw COP19 Climate Change Talks
LEADING global environment and civil society groups have dramatically walked out of the United Nations COP19 climate change talks in Warsaw in an unprecedented move in UNFCCC conference history. The…
The Conservative Party of Canada is run by idiots: a continuing series
On the same day they circulate an unprecedented personal attack on my friend, Brandon-Souris Liberal candidate Rolf Dinsdale, that is written by Stephen Harper himself… …Stephen Harper himself is identified…
2013: The Year Of Autism’s Grand Error, The DSM5 Autism Spectrum Disorder
Photo by Harold L Doherty Edward Ritvo-Susan Swedo Shootout at the IMFAR Corral, Sheraton, Toronto, May 18, 2012 The year 2013 will be remembered as the year the simplified DSM-5…
More gas offshore #nlpoli
In early October, the Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board issued two new significant discovery licenses to Suncor and Statoil, partners in Ballicaters. On November 18, CNLOPB updated its offshore…
Stephen Harper and the Corruption of the Con Regime
It was a scene right out of the last days of the Weimar Republic. A Con regime exposed as rotten to the core. Its leader proclaiming his innocence, and clinging…
U.S. House Republicans Make It Clear That They Hate Renewable Energy
In Washington, D.C., money can buy power. Whether it comes in the form of lobbyists or direct campaign donations is irrelevant – it seems like every elected representative has a…
"The Minutiae of these Matters."
Steve Harper is clinging desperately to the averment by RCMP constable Greg Horton that, “I have seen no evidence to suggest that the prime minister was personally involved in the…
Orthodox economists have failed their own market test | Seumas Milne | Comment is free | The Guardian
Orthodox economists have failed their own market test | Seumas Milne | Comment is free | The Guardian. From any rational point of view, orthodox economics is in serious trouble.…
Any Lawyer Worth His Salt…
What keeps Stephen Harper from a decent night’s sleep right now? No, it’s not Duffy. It’s not Nigel Wright so much either. Six months ago today, just days after CTV…
Ford Nation dumped? Stay tuned for more program changes at Sun News Network
Toronto City Hall. Actual city halls in Canada’s largest city may not appear exactly as illustrated. Below: Rob Ford, Doug Ford, Kory Teneycke and Ezra Levant. Does anyone seriously believe…