Impressions about Justin Trudeau and Justin Trudeau’s mouth
I read this story, and then I re-read it. It’s one of two possibilities. One, it’s a candid and honest admission by Justin Trudeau about one of Justin Trudeau’s shortcomings,…
December 2013
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Jim Stanford reminds us that even Statistics Canada’s already-galling numbers showing increased inequality in Canada understate the problem, as they fail to reflect…
140 Law – Legal Headlines for Wednesday, December 11, 2013
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Wednesday, December 11, 2013: John McCamus: Ensuring equal justice for all | National Post Ford should apologize to…
Pope Francis: person of the year
Good pick. And here and here and here are some reasons why.
Alberta questions downstream impacts of BC’s Site C Dam proposal
BC Hydro’s proposed Site C Dam (artist’s rendering) by Dene Moore, Canadian Press FORT ST. JOHN, B.C. – The province of Alberta is concerned that a multibillion-dollar hydroelectric dam proposed…
Where’s Justin?
There’s been a lot of talk about Michael Chong’s Reform Act. But, curiously, neither Justin Trudeau nor Tom Mulcair is doing any talking. Lawrence Martin wrote yesterday that: For a…
BC public schools continue to permit Christian Evangelism in classrooms
During my work with the BC Humanist Association last year, we managed to help raise awareness of how the longstanding tradition of Gideon’s distributing Bibles to grade 5 students continued…
Dale vs. Ford: …and Ford wins
Rob Ford, who is the scum of the Earth, this week called Toronto Star reporter Daniel Dale a pedophile. Quite a few of us immediately suggested that Dale needed to…
Texas Fracking Bonanza: How Arlington Fell to the Frackers
Fort Worth was the first major city in America to allow extensive fracking within the city limits — but it wasn’t the last. Arlington, Texas, fell to the frackers next…
Indicia
Cindy Three Hats lived in a small bedroom community called Large Intestine. She had a fondness for cinnamon pain tea, inappropriate neckware, and reading from the Collected Works of Antoine…
The Con War on the Canada Pension Plan
It's my nightmare vision of a Con jungle. A country full of seniors living in poverty and misery. A country where the old and the poor have no present, and…
Gimme Shelter: Bernie Farber On Church Sanctuary
From yesterday’s G&M: How is it possible that in Canada in 2013 “Sanctuary,” a medieval concept of Church protection, is still necessary? As we reflect on today, International Human Rights…
Moments #nlpoli
There’s something perverse about the way politicians these days use a memorial to the dead of two world wars in the last century as a backdrop for their own political…
Ontario Children Waiting Too Long For Access To Autism Programs – Ontario Auditor General Report 2013
News ReleaseFor Immediate Release December 10, 2013 CHILDREN WAITING TOO LONG FOR ACCESS TO AUTISM PROGRAMS, AUDITOR GENERAL SAYS (TORONTO) Screening for autism is often
ConservAntives get break from SenAnt scandal as House adjourns
Inspired by this headline: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/conservatives-get-break-from-senate-scandal-as-house-adjourns-1.2458932
PMO Lickspittles Could Prove Fatal to Harper
Frank Magazine has a habit of separating the wheat from the chaff and getting it right. by Andrew Douglas Unfortunately for Stephen Harper, I don’t think that old chestnut “it’s…
In Wednesday’s Sun: four Prime Ministers, three parachutes on a plane
So, Prime Minister Stephen Harper and former prime ministers Brian Mulroney, Kim Campbell and Jean Chretien took a plane to South Africa to attend the public memorial for Nelson Mandela.…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Contained cats.
Rob Ford: The Con Thug and the Death of Decency
He has shamed us all in the eyes of the world, with his moral corruption, his bloated vulgarity, his bestial behaviour.He stinks of Con Canada, it oozes out of every…