Gas Plants Questions
For the record, I’m not a supporter of the Ontario Liberals, but I will suggest that a lot of rage has built up about the gas plant issues and rightly…
2013
New column day
Here, following up on Alex Himelfarb and Jordan Himelfarb’s observations about the need to talk about the good we can do with tax revenue by noting the importance of making…
Why do so few Canadians get a flu shot?
That’s the headline for a recent Toronto Star story. It suggests that as few as one third of Canadians get a flu vaccine, and in some place the number may…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Nadir Khan interviews Linda McQuaig about her choice to run for the NDP in Toronto Centre – and confirms that McQuaig’s commitment…
140 Law – Legal Headlines for Thursday, October 10, 2013
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Thursday, October 10, 2013: Australian Law Reform Commission Issues Paper on Serious Invasions of Privacy in the Digital…
Signs of Change
* Now are we ready to stop using our atmosphere as a sewage dump? OECD Calls For a “Big Fat Price On Carbon” In the Fight Against Climate Change *
Happy Dance for Alice Munro’s Nobel
Alice Munro wins the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature, becoming the first Canadian woman to take the award since its launch in 1901. Munro, 82, only the 13th woman given…
Mark Bourrie wants to shut down this web site: the latest
Mark Bourrie is a member of the Parliamentary Press Gallery. Anyone who reads this web site is pretty familiar with him, and the way he behaves. You can read more…
Brad Wall’s Sask Party Gov’t Will Continue To Fund Research To Try And Prove Dr. Zamboni’s Debunked Multiple Sclerosis Theory …
(Sask Health Hon. Minister Dustin Duncan) Sask. health minister says new study doesn’t necessarily debunk MS liberation therapy“Saskatchewan’s health minister says the province won’t be deterred by a new study…
LPC Western Resurgence?
Interesting poll result. Federal Libs are at 32% in Manitoba. That’s still 10% back of the Tories, but I would imagine its enough to pick up a few seats hear…
Oct. 10: the enemy is us…
I am beginning this post on Wednesday evening because I shall be busy tomorrow, starting the first of a series of six classes (How to Understand the News) for Tantramar…
Spying is all about business.
If the Communications Security Establishment Canada (CSEC) was supposed to be secret, they forgot to tell us. After more than 30 years of relaxed access to most aspects of government…
Colour It Beige
Lawrence Martin doesn’t expect much from the upcoming throne speech. He predicts that it will be a pretty bland document: If the leaks are to be believed, this Throne Speech…
Once In A While Their Voice Is Heard
It is a truism to state that the poor have little power to influence the political discussion. Those toiling away at minimum wage jobs, our silent serfs, for want of…
Revised Charter: Less Hypocrisy, More Intolerance
A new report suggests the separatist Government of Quebec is listening to some of the criticisms of its proposed Charter of Values. Supposedly the Parti Quebecois will now include a…
Reactions of selected Canadian politicos…
…upon hearing of Alice Munro winning the Nobel Prize for Literature Pauline Marois – “The Parti Québécois does not recognise this award because her writings are clearly counter to our…
Harper Conservatives continue to rewrite Canadian History
From the government that is still celebrating the 200th anniversary of the War of 1812 (a war fought between Britain and America) and that refused to celebrate the 30th anniversary…
Government Abandons Energy Plan … quietly #nlpoli
These days, you have to hunt around the government website to find the provincial energy plan. That’s despite the claim on the website – once you’ve found it – that…