From The ongoing climate negotiations in Warsaw Poland: Canada has dropped any remaining pretences of supporting global action on climate change by urging other countries to follow Australia’s example in…
Yesterday, Liberal leader Justin Trudeau spoke with and answered questions from students at a high school in Brandon, Manitoba. One of the students asked him his position on marijuana, and…
Assorted content to end your week. – Murray Dobbin recognizes that there’s more at stake on the federal political scene than merely replacing the Harper Cons – and that the…
New and long-term members of the Profoundly Stupid Club can rejoice: their mascots, Rob and Doug Ford, the darlings of the dimwitted, the bastions of the benighted, the exemplars of…
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Friday, November 15, 2013: Rob Ford’s oral sex comments draw ire of colleagues Canadian Karlheinz Schreiber convicted of…
If you want to be absolutely sure to get rid of the Crackhead Mayor – and 75 per cent of Torontonians do – there’s only one person who can do…
Cumulative punishments are known as consecutive sentences. This only applies to jail sentences, all other sentences run concurrently. All sentences are presumed to be served concurrently. Generally, sentences for offences…
Ideally, a football team would hope to be able to win on its own terms in the playoffs. But that wasn’t to be for the Saskatchewan Roughriders in their semi-final…
Got a friendly bus driver last evening. He apologized profusely, on behalf of the City of Toronto and the TTC itself, for the fact that no less than three (3)…
At the beginning of the last century, the heyday of Progressivism, a new tool was given to voters — the recall election. The Rob Ford saga has many lessons. But…
My Mom lives alone in Kingston. She is an artist, and she is very proper. I’ve never seen her in sweatpants, or go out in public looking even remotely informal.…
For caregivers who are exhausted and lonely, the idea of creating a home celebration can be outlandish. Often, we think, “what is there to celebrate? I’m too tired to take…
There is no better form of bonding between men than fishing. It is a quiet introspective time that you share with a true buddy. And what better buddies could there…
Kevin Logan-Cowichan Conversations Contributor This weekend is a pivotal weekend for the future of British Columbia. The stars seemed to have aligned as overlapping events occur simultaneously all of which…
You may have heard of the saying, “the left hand doesn’t know what the right hand is doing”. That saying may be too charitable for what has just occurred at…
No wonder the Conservatives are smiling a lot these days. Not only have the New Democrats imploded as an effective political force but their leader has decided her job is…
Thank You Suzanne Wright! It was a good week for reality based autism advocacy for two reasons. First, I was very encouraged by Suzanne Wright’s very honest description of the…
I’ve submitted a piece to the Pod Delusion, the partner podcast of the British Humanist Association. It’s a podcast about interesting things. You can find me speaking about the Sunday…
What’s in a name? That which we call a rose, by any other name would smell as sweet. – William Shakespeare Organizations that aim to safeguard assets create effective operational…
More disturbing testimony today at the murder trial of Robert Reitmeier. Yesterday and today the jury heard Tyler Sturrup and Robert Reitmeier conversations between Reitmeier and Tyler Sturrup which appears…
