Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your Monday reading. – Nick Pearce offers an interesting discussion of conception of equality that should be placed at the core of social-democratic thinking – with one…
2013
Remembrance Day
On Remembrance Day let’s not celebrate wars but think of those who lost their lives. Let’s not think of producing more deadly weapons of mass destruction but let’s think of…
Tim Hortons And The Gay Coffee, Part VII: Timmys Rolls Out Its Sleeves
Something, as the article notes, that Starbucks did years ago. And so Tim Hortons slowly adopts the manner of the gay, city coffee. Because when I was a lad no…
Today I Remember My Dad
Today I remember my father, James Edward Thomson, who fought in Europe with the Royal Montreal Regiment and won an award for bravery from King George and was mentioned in…
Oh Tim, Why Don’t You Stop Bothering Us?
When considering the political motivations of Ontario Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Hudak, the boy who would be premier, there seem to be only two possibilities: he is either an indefatigable…
140 Law – Legal Headlines for Monday, November 11, 2013
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Monday, November 11, 2013, lest we forget: Texas prosecutor will do 10 days in jail for wrongfully convicting man imprisoned…
Fisheries Act amendments November 25
Fisheries and Ocean Canada has published a new Fisheries Protection Policy, an accompanying Operational Approach for implementing the Fisheries Act changes, and transitional guidance for existing and new authorizations. These…
Remembrance Day
In the news: Veterans plan silent protests of government policies
The Canadian crash of 2016.
It will be former Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s legacy. Forget free trade with Europe. Forget the adulation and fawning over him by the G8. Stephen Harper will be remembered for…
Breaking Faith
Today we honour the dead. And that’s as it should be. “If ye break faith with us who die,” John McCrae wrote, “we shall not rest.” It’s easy to keep…
The attack on peace
Twice this weekend I heard the local Talk Radio station lead their news broadcast with these words: “A handful of university students have hopped aboard the left-wing Rideau Institute’s “white…
Harper health care cuts: $8.2 billion less for Ontario
The Ontario Fall Economic Outlook indicates that 59% of the Ontario health care funding increase this year comes from the annual increase in funding from the federal government via the…
Remembrance Day
Today is Remembrance Day, when we collectively try to appease the ridiculousness of sending people off to war by heralding the sacrifice they made. I want to link quickly to…
Carbon Output Shrinking as Economies Grow
Some odd people think that environmental policies and mandated efficiencies ruin economies, well, now there is another reason why those people are wrong. A report just released will hopefully have…
A remembrance disgrace
I generally don’t get very political on the morning of the eleventh day, but this year I will make an exception. As I was driving Son One to St. Mike’s…
The Staple Theory @ 50: Daniel Poon
We continue our special series of commentaries marking the 50th anniversary of the publication of Mel Watkins’ classic article, “A Staple Theory of Economic Growth,” with the following contribution from…
In remembrance on Remembrance Day
This will be the first Remembrance Day where I will have to remember both of these fine gentlemen/grandparents, as both have passed on – Flying Officer Le Verne Haley on…