140 Law – Legal Headlines for Thursday, September 19, 2013
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Thursday, September 19, 2013: Starbucks CEO to gun rights advocates: ‘Guns are not a part of the Starbucks…
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A Doctor’s Perspective On Quebec’s Proposed Charter
While the proposed Quebec Charter of Values has elicited a variety of strong responses, some decrying it as thinly-veiled racism, others hailing it as a bold blueprint for secularism, there…
Reblog: A Statement of Trans-Inclusive Feminism and Womanism
This is how you decolonize activism. A wide swath of people have demonstrated how to decolonize activism: not with negativity, but with constructivity. The following is being reblogged from Feminists…
Stephen Harper: Love affair with America
He should do the right thing and move to U.S. Maybe George W. will provide him accommodation. And they both can have fun at Dubya’s ranch. After he called Canada…
Back To Where We’ve Been
The Harper government has repeated the same mantra for seven years: We know best how to manage the Canadian economy. But, Edward Greenspon writes, the truth is opposed to the…
Cooking Today, Wine Tasting Tonight
My cousin Mary Lynn Thompson and her husband Mark took us wine tasting in the Walla Walla are when we were there last month. It was a great experience. From…
Foradian Technologies Interview
Questions 1. Please introduce yourself to our readers. I am a researcher for Canada’s National Research Council, the federal government scientific agency. I specialized on online learning, media and collaborative…
Nice catch, JT
A surprise announcement yesterday from Justin Trudeau and the LPC, with a new military adviser on the LPC team, and possibly one that will run for election in 2015: Retired…
Burbocracy Drives North American Politics
The most tangible cornerstone that lies at the heart of the American Dream, at the heart of middle-class life, is the chance to own your own home. (Barack Obama) Before…
Another Reason To Kill The Baby Boomers And Melt Them Down Into Soylent Green
This guy says if you’re a Millennial you are entitled and lazy. But in reality, he is of a generation that is stealing the social safety net so they can…
Politics and the Ethnic Vote #nlpoli
A few people people in Newfoundland and Labrador are getting agitated about the fact there’s a street in Nova Scotia called Newfie Lane. For those who may not know, the…
Mike Duffy’s Mysterious Visit to the Harper PMO
Oh my Satanic Sherlock. This PMO mystery just keeps getting more and more entertaining, in a nightmarish sort of way.Yesterday we found out that although the paper trail was lost,…
PTSD: No Room for Denial
What if NO ONE knows your name? Belonging? It’s pretty important. We don’t always have to go where EVERYone knows our name, but we do need to have people. People…
Strange political bedfellows are conjuring more than entertainment in Alberta
A poster advertising last night’s NDP-Wildrose leaders’ debate at the University of Alberta in Edmonton. Below: Odd couple Brian Mason and Danielle Smith, captured in electrons by Dave Cournoyer of…
Twenty years ago today
Wanna feel old? Read these grafs, from the column I’ve filed for Sunday. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY THE RED BOOK CAME OUT. Holy crap, do I ever feel old. “…So…
Mason vs Smith: Wildrose and NDP leaders on province-wide debate tour
TweetThree years before the next provincial election, a public debate tour might not be where you would expect to find the leaders of two political parties. Breaking convention, Wildrose Party…
A Personal Look Inside W.E.B.
A few weeks back a series of messages were left on the blog detailing one individual's experience with the Calgary-based hate group WEB. Our readers are very well acquainted with…
Tories Handed a Little RoboCall ComeUppance.
The Tories, being the pricks that they are, thought they’d teach the petitioner/plaintiffs a lesson in the Robo-Call case. Not content on skulking away with their small, tactical, “trench warfare”…
Rafe: Farnworth favorite to replace Adrian Dix as LNG hurts Horgan
The BC NDP’s outgoing leader, Adrian Dix (photo: BCGEU) Today’s decision by Adrian Dix to step down as BC NDP leader, pending a leadership election next year, comes as no…