We get letters: the best of the season!
On Dec 23, 2013, at 9:48 PM, “Tim Reeves” treeves222@rogers.com wrote: Allright Kinsella, You are asshole of the year.My father has had this kind of mail delivery for 8 years…
December 2013
Signing off for the Holiday: See You in the New Year
Barring the unforeseen, I expect to be too busy having fun to doing any posting. So here’s a link to our Christmas blog in the meantime.
Whatever It Takes
You would think that Stephen Harper’s recent troubles might spur a little self examination. Not so. Jeffrey Simpson writes: Instead of rethinking, the Prime Minister has doubled down on his…
Sleigh Ride
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Rob Ford and the Big Ice Storm Power Grab
As Toronto woke up to a scene of devastation with more than a quarter of a million people without power, one man was missing in action.And you can guess who…
Person Of The Year
And now it’s time to make the long awaited announcement! Neath Turcot’s Person Of The Year *gnaws open envelope* And the winner is…for making something artful, for bringing sublime elegance…
Wherein Dusty Takes Down the Whole Damned Mess of Ducks and Their Dynasty
Ordinarily I wouldn’t post a clip with this much vulgarity but that’s what you get from this guy, Dusty, and he does a fine job of plucking the feathers from…
Are You an Eco-Jihadist?
This is a guest post by Kai Nagata, creator of DeepRogueRam and author of KaiNagata.com. I’m not. In fact, I don’t think it’s accurate to call me an “environmentalist”. But…
My view, from where I couch collapsed
Kinsellabration First Nation Christmas vista thingie.
Happy Holidays
Usually Tim sends you these email updates but this week I wanted to take a moment and do it personally. First, I want to take this opportunity to express my…
Duty of disclosure and presiding Justice of the Peace in provincial regulatory matters
R. v. Ul-Rashid, 2013 ONCA 782 grants leave to the Court of Appeal to decide whether the Crown must ensure disclosure have been provided, regardless of request, and the presiding…
Turning Points: Pot and Less Trust in Corporate Media
Turning points. Here are two graphs that show a changing tide. I have already written about trust in corporate media tanking. Now we can see a turned tide in pot…
The Staple Theory @ 50: Index of Contributions
Here for ease of access is a consolidated listing (in order of posting) of the contributions to the special series of commentaries we have posted this autmn marking the 50th…
Joe Stiglitz On a People Stripped of Trust
Nobel laureate economist Joe Stiglitz has a thoughtful op-ed in today’s New York Times about the collapse of trust in contemporary America. Stiglitz paints this as the undoing of social…
Christmas Is Always a Time For Family
Maybe not always, at least if it’s the family of North Korea’s new bad boy, Kim Jong-Un. He recently had his uncle topped for, oh who knows, wearing a better…
The Staple Theory @ 50: Jim Stanford
Winter is now officially upon us, and so it is time to conclude our autumn-long series of special commentaries marking the 50th anniversary of Mel Watkins’ classic article, “A Staple…
Dec. 23: I should add….
to yesterday’s blog that when I suggested we need political parties based on moral principle, I did not mean parties based narrowly on any religion in particular. Churches certainly should…