The Affluenza Judge Seems To Have A Double Standard
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December 2013
No Surprise: Panel finds in favour of Enbridge
Former Enbridge CEO and Northern Gateway champion Patrick Daniel CALGARY – A review panel is recommending that the proposed Northern Gateway pipeline that would connect the Alberta oilsands to tankers…
NEB to announce Enbridge recommendations today
Chiefs of the Tsimshian First Nation speak out against Enrbidge at a 2012 Prince Rupert rally VANCOUVER – Following months of hearings, years of debate and dozens of protests, the…
Taking Care of Yourself As a Long-Term Caregiver – Guest Post
Recently, someone asked me what medications I was on. “Umm…wait. I can tell you my son’s medications and my mother’s too. Gee, I can’t think of my own!” That’s the…
Vancouver Council will apply as intervener for Kinder Morgan pipeline hearing
Read this Dec. 19 story from The Georgia Straight on Vancouver City Council’s vote to apply for intervener status in the upcoming National Energy Board hearings into Kinder Morgan’s recently…
POA failure to appear at trial hence convicted is constitutional
R. v. Jamieson, 2013 ONCA 760 holds that s. 9.1(1) of the Provincial Offences Act, allowing a conviction where an accused has been “issued a notice of the time and…
Saying no to the conjuror’s trick of tax cuts
Tax is Not a Four Letter Word is a collection of essays, published by WLU Press, I co-edited with my son, Jordan, Opinion Editor of The Toronto Star. The CCPA…
BC LNG bigger than Tar Sands? Export licences face Cabinet review
BC LNG applications dwarf oil pipeline proposals and Tar Sands production, but receive only a fraction of the attention. On Monday, the same day the news broke that Kinder Morgan…
Propaganda presented as credible news
Were I a new arrival in Canada who relied on major media, I would believe, as Canadian Press reported, Northern Gateway is a project that, “…will put billions of dollars…
Fixing Cyncial Corporate Media
How to inoculate yourself against cynical corporate media. Corporate news media is not on our side. It is on the side of stoking fear, cynically eroding possibilities of a better,…
SAYING NO TO THE CONJURERS’ TRICK OF TAX CUTS
“Tax is Not a Four Letter Word”, is a collection of essays by various authors which I co-edited with my son Jordan, Opinion Editor for the Toronto Star. The CCPA…
Alberta politics 2013: The NDP Wildrose alliance
TweetPerhaps one of the most unexpected developments in Alberta politics in 2013 was the emergence of the informal alliance between the New Democratic Party and the Wildrose Official Opposition. It…
CBC: Bell Canada’s Northwestel ordered to improve telecom service in the Yukon
The CRTC is demanding that Bell Canada’s northern subsidiary, Northwestel, improve service and reduce Internet rates in the Yukon. Northwestel’s rates may be among the highest in the world —…
Don’t Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas..(Or Do I?)
Rob Ford’s Christmas gift advice: ‘Women love money’ Toronto mayor makes comments on U.S. sports radio show when asked what he plans to get his wife CBC News Posted: Dec…
Dec. 19: the inevitable headline: Snow buries metro again….
Good thing I read the paper before going out. I was planning to go for a stroll in my bathing suit and bare feet. The only story of interest in…
More Grinch remarks from Conservative Cabinet Ministers/Appointees
I said a couple of days ago I thought these guys might clam up leading to the Christmas holidays after the James Moore debacle, but no, they just can’t seem…
Mental Health in London: Losing a job and a friend
LONDON – Five staff at Regional Mental Health London are doing what they can to prepare the last of their 60 remaining clients for the closure of Andrew’s Resource Centre…
Pussy Riot is free!
Yahoo! SFH’s “Free Pussy Riot” tee – which sold out in days. Now a collector’s item!
Coming soon to your living room, more and more: me and Kirbie!
Aren’t you happy?
American belief in evolution is growing: poll
A new Harris poll released this month shows that Americans apparently are losing their belief in miracles and gaining it in science. The recent poll showed that American belief in…