Ontario to roll out Green Bonds in 2014
GO workers wait ahead of announcement from Ontario government about green bonds (Oct. 30, 2013) Ontario made a small splash in the financial world at the end of October when…
December 2013
Ingenuity And Goodwill
Sometimes, seemingly intractable problems can be solved through a combination of ingenuity and goodwill. This story, about a solar lamp that initially seemed out of the financial reach of African…
The Fifth Estate: WikiLeaks through a Hollywood lens
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is a hero, but I didn’t get that from director Bill Condon’s film, The Fifth Estate. Assange is depicted as a stereotypical radical — bossy, arrogant,…
Dec. 7:
Well, let’s start with Jana Giles on p. F3. That’s in Whatever, the high school section. She wonders how sports have become so important in high school and university, and…
Akaash Maharaj – Huffington Post: The True Cost of Political Corruption
Every year, political corruption kills 140 000 children across the world, by depriving them of food, water, and medical care. My GOPAC parliamentary colleagues and I are at the United…
I love flash mobs
▶ The USAF Band Holiday Flash Mob at the National Air and Space Museum 2013 – YouTube: ““ ‘via Blog this’
This could be the last time TPP negotiators meet to decide our digital future
Today is the first day of what may be the last round of ultra-secretive Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) ministerial meetings in Singapore. Although the meetings were initially to be held from…
Tech on the Side: Apple’s tablet upgrade cycle problem
On this blog I like to cover the big issue facing our planet, issues dramatically affecting millions or billions of people: war, conflict, global warming, poverty, economics, rights and freedoms,…
There’s the right way to do things…
… and then there’s the stupid way, such as the tact that Conservative Senator Jean-Guy Dagenais decided to show with an offensively frank reply to his NDP MP’s recent mail…
National Post Letter
Should any readers take a look inside today’s National Post, they might find a letter of mine defending Canada’s United Church and its boycott of goods from Israeli settlements on…
If Nigel Wright is a "Hero" …
According to Christie Blatchford, Canadians apparently should revere Nigel Wright and his actions in the Senate Expenses mess. I don’t believe that Mr. Wright was acting in a knowingly criminal…
Is Premier Wynne a temporary worker?
There seems to be good and bad coming out of Queen’s Park these days. It is nice to see that Labour Minister Yasir Naqvi’s proposed bill protecting temporary workers is…
Texas Fracking Executive Mark Grawe Threatened to Label Residents "Terrorists"
This is a guest post by Eric Moll, originally published on Occupy.com Eagleridge Inc. Chief Operations Officer Mark Grawe brought an armed cop with him to a November 13 Homeowners…
Tim Hudak’s Vacuous Vision
Young Tim’s Mad Face Readers of this blog will know that I have no use for Ontario Progressive Conservative leader Tim Hudak, an acolyte of Mike Harris who learned the…
For The Birds
The irony is of epic proportions. The Jewish National Fund plans to put Stephen Harper’s name on a bird sanctuary. It shall be called The Stephen J. Harper Hula Valley…
Utter threats
R. v. McRae, 2013 SCC 68 clarifies the elements of uttering threats. It is now clear the threats need not be communicated to the person threatened. The actus reus of…
$110k Owen Sound MPP shrugs off 6-year PSW wage freeze, calls for two years more
Bill Walker walked into the room with a big smile but his body language gave away his discomfort of being a Tory MPP in a union hall. He constantly fidgeted…
Saturday At The Movies
Enjoy these sheep dogs sneaking up on each other. LOL.