Dagenais illustrates why women avoid politics
“If you can’t stand the heat, etc.” … the usual justification when one politician objects to the boorish behaviour of another. And no doubt MP Charmaine Borg heard a lot…
December 2013
To Strive for Truly Universal Health Care
Our aims are clear: First, everyone should have access to affordable, quality health services. Our commitment is universal, but during the next 755 days until the MDG deadline in December…
My exclusive self-portrait, at the Leafs game
You’re welcome.
Live from the Leafs-Kings game
Text exchange between Son One and me. We Kinsellas are unimpressed by movie stars.
Still Don’t Believe in Pre-Revolutionary America?
Watch this and then ask if you still don’t believe the United States in is a pre-revolutionary period.
If Google Is In Your Computer, the NSA Could Be Also.
Is Google holding the door to your computer open for the NSA? A new disclosure by Edward Snowden suggest that’s exactly what’s happening. The NSA has learned to get into…
Why Stephen Harper will call an early election in spring 2014
George S. Patton I expect the Throne Speech in late January 2014 to be the timing for Prime Minister Stephen Harper to dissolve Parliament and call for an election in…
Post Office To Discontinue Door to Door Service-8000 Workers Slated to be Laid Off!
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger In Scrooge like fashion Canada Post has lowered the boom on 8000 workers and announced an end to door to door urban delivery as we have known…
The Rule in Browne v. Dunn
R. v. Dexter, 2013 ONCA 744: The rule in Browne v. Dunn is not merely a procedural rule; it is a rule of trial fairness. The rule was summarized by…
On Driving Into a Wall
Have you seen Inside Job? It’s a great film about the ins and outs of the mortgage crisis all in layman’s terms so even I could get my head around…
The (Distilled) Politics of the Canada Post Cuts
Stop boo-hooing about the cuts to Canada Post and start putting together a vision for the future.
So are atheists being censored in Vancouver?
Last week I meant to add a note that the Centre for Inquiry Canada has issued a press release about the fact that Pattison Outdoor Advertising had rejected their fairly…
NDP ethics chair Pat MartinAnt denounces ‘black shroud of secrecy’
Inspired by this headline: http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/12/10/ndp-ethics-chair-pat-mart_n_4421940.html
This’ll Sure Teach Him
Won’t it? Recommend this Post
Driving a Nail into the Foot of Tourism
Canada shouldn’t bend to the American desire to insulate the continent from people outside our borders. Stop harming our tourism industry by making travel here even more difficult. If people…
Canada Post phasing out door to door delivery, phasing in nose removal for face spite
Canada Post grand plan pronouncements (especially when there’s bargaining to be done) have a habit of not coming true or being counter-factual, but this latest, about the crown corporation phasing…